Question about Custom Textures

[LunaMoo]

@nomorevideos what exactly is easier in Dolphin from what it is in PPSSPP?

As far as I can tell it does exactly same thing, seeing here while it potentially doesn't suffer from 1 issue we do have(palleted textures) if anything it's more robust and complex, no wonder as it's simply more mature. Hell it even had a complete format change in the past which certainly would add to confusion to new/returning users.

Texture replacement, in any emulator that does it - essentially ends up a 3 step process:
- dumping textures ~ which means selecting an option in emulator(in ppsspp case under tools>developer tools) and playing the game,
- editing/creating images,
- replacing them ~ which is all about organizing the files/moving them to correct folder(in PPSSPP this means "memstick\PSP\TEXTURES\gameID\" unless manually assigned otherwise) and selecting the option in emulator which is actually activated by default. Optionally also changing stuff in separate ini file, which I think Dolphin also has, through maybe for other things.

The hardest and most time consuming part will always be the middle one which is requires image editing software which no emulator will ever aspire to be with lots of great, free and multi-platform options already existing, meaning most of the work will never be related to emulator features in the first place:].


When using someone elses work(aka the thing lazy people will probably care about) it would end up as just extracting stuff to correct folder. Can't really be simpler without hosting them somewhere and allow download via option in ppsspp which will probably never happen as most people reuse copyrighted textures instead of their original work which could lead to all sorts of legal issues that nobody wants, I don't think Dolphin would support anything like that either and as far as I can tell, it doesn't.