WLAN Switch

[dlanor]

(10-11-2013 03:39 PM)daxtsu Wrote:  This is why there's not even a dummy switch yet. Games go the whole hog once you tell them the switch is on.

Yes, I assumed that some games would do so, but apparently not all of them, according to the original poster of this thread.

In any case, if all of the API calls are documented then it should be possible to create dummy stubs for them which simpy return a non-crashing error code, telling the calling routine that the function has failed (all networking functions need such error code handling anyway).

This way PPSSPP will not crash even if some game goes wild with the network API calls. The game may crash, of course, but not the emulator.
And even this should only happen once per game and user, since the user will then learn not to activate this feature for a game that can't tolerate it. (Obviously such a dummy WLAN feature needs an enabling option in the settings.)

And this kind of implementation would make those games that the original poster referred to allow the user access to subquests that required the WLAN switch ON, even though they never use any networking.

Again, I'm NOT lobbying for this to be implemented, but merely clarifying how it could be done, without any harmful effects.

But whether it's worthwhile to invest development effort in something like this is another question entirely. (One I'm not delving into here.)

Best regards: dlanor