Having different controller profiles for different games on Dolphin?

[ModerateNOOB]

Hi there 🙂

So i have experimented a bit with Importing Wii games and wiiware wads into Launchbox, And until now there have been no problems.

But then came configuring my xbox controller in various ways for different games to be played properly (Yikes), So far i have made 3 different kind of setups BUT!!!, How do you use a certain profile for a game without going into Dolphin and change it manually??.

First i thought you could just add another copy or build of Dolphin, And then have different controller profiles on each of them, But it seems they share profiles so that the last used profile will be the one you launch a new game with.

Is there really no clever way without having to manually edit them where they are stored, Or maybe a way to add a hotkey to the controller to switch between them (Just reading the tutorial gave me a headache).

 

Thanks as always for your valuable time.

[Headrush69]

Sure, you just need to make a gameini file for games that need custom controller settings.

Dolphin docs about GAMEINI

 

[ModerateNOOB]

7 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

Sure, you just need to make a gameini file for games that need custom controller settings.

Dolphin docs about GAMEINI

 

He he, That was the tutorial that gave me headache, Having to do this for every single game is insane.

Sorry i didn't understand the tutorial at all, If some kind person would explain this in baby steps i would be very grateful.

Thanks for the response.

[ModerateNOOB]

Ok i might be stupid, Or my English skills might be failing.

Discovered that you could go into options/Hotkey settings/Controller profiles in dolphin and make changes there.

There are 4 wii remote options ranging from 1-4, I copied the profile names from my controller configurations and saved them there.

But adding button commands on wii remote 1 don't do anything. Have i misunderstood the entire concept?.

 

[Headrush69]

1. Do your profiles work using Dolphin directly?  Selecting one in controller options and clicking load should work. Note that the profile also includes the native device it is mapped to, so that has to be right as well.)
2. Right click on a game in the Dolphin gamelist and select properties.
3. Click the Editor tab.
4. In the User Config section, you set your custom controller settings.

Attached is a sample I have for setting a Gamecube game to use my Xbox 360 wireless controllers. 

Note: My Xbox 360 profile is mapped to device Xinput/0/Gamepad

The Wii controllers work the same, just use the WiimoteSource and WiimoteProfile instead.

Edited September 28, 2021 by Headrush69

[ModerateNOOB]

2 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

1. Do your profiles work using Dolphin directly?  Selecting one in controller options and clicking load should work. Note that the profile also includes the native device it is mapped to, so that has to be right as well.)
2. Right click on a game in the Dolphin gamelist and select properties.
3. Click the Editor tab.
4. In the User Config section, you set your custom controller settings.

Attached is a sample I have for setting a Gamecube game to use my Xbox 360 wireless controllers. 

Note: My Xbox 360 profile is mapped to device Xinput/0/Gamepad

The Wii controllers work the same, just use the WiimoteSource and WiimoteProfile instead.

 

2 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

1. Do your profiles work using Dolphin directly?  Selecting one in controller options and clicking load should work. Note that the profile also includes the native device it is mapped to, so that has to be right as well.)
2. Right click on a game in the Dolphin gamelist and select properties.
3. Click the Editor tab.
4. In the User Config section, you set your custom controller settings.

Attached is a sample I have for setting a Gamecube game to use my Xbox 360 wireless controllers. 

Note: My Xbox 360 profile is mapped to device Xinput/0/Gamepad

The Wii controllers work the same, just use the WiimoteSource and WiimoteProfile instead.

Thanks for taking your time, But i just stick with the Options/Hotkey/Controller profile setting in Dolphin.

Turned out i had some of my games set with another version of Dolphin, Confused me as they share the same controller profiles no matter what version of dolphin you open.

😉

[Headrush69]

6 hours ago, ModerateNOOB said:

Turned out i had some of my games set with another version of Dolphin, Confused me as they share the same controller profiles no matter what version of dolphin you open.

😉

Do you have the file portable.txt in the Dolphin folder? If not it saves in system wide save location and why they would be using the same profiles.

[ModerateNOOB]

2 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

Do you have the file portable.txt in the Dolphin folder? If not it saves in system wide save location and why they would be using the same profiles.

Hmmm, I don't think i have any portable text file??? (Not in the main folder at least).

Also just figured out why none of my installed wads was shown in dolphins main window, Turned out that i had not set a folder path to the game folder in Launchbox.

[Headrush69]

Just now, ModerateNOOB said:

Hmmm, I don't think i have any portable text file??? (Not in the main folder at least).

It's just an empty text file exactly named portable.txt. That tells Dolphin to save files in that folder rather than a system shared location.

[ModerateNOOB]

No i can't find it, Not in the document folder either.

Well never mind, I just have to learn setting specific controller profiles for certain games.

So you right click the game in the system menu and choose properties/Gameconfig and then editor. Then you need the title id of the game (Is that the same as the game id??), Then you need to make an ini file with the name of your controller configuration you made in the controller configuration in Dolphin RIGHT???.

Sorry but i simply have to go to bed, Sleep well.

 

[Headrush69]

Just now, ModerateNOOB said:

No i can't find it, Not in the document folder either.

The same folder as the Dolphin.exe is the only place it will be. If it's not there you are used the shared global location. Explained here.

6 minutes ago, ModerateNOOB said:

So you right click the game in the system menu and choose properties/Gameconfig and then editor. Then you need the title id of the game (Is that the same as the game id??), Then you need to make an ini file with the name of your controller configuration you made in the controller configuration in Dolphin RIGHT???.

Just the first line, Once you open the editor you should see that gameID already in the User Config area on the bottom. You add your control information there. Dolphin will create the ini for you automatically. See the picture I posted above. (My example is a Gamecube example, but Wii game is same method.)

[ModerateNOOB]

On 9/29/2021 at 2:13 AM, Headrush69 said:

The same folder as the Dolphin.exe is the only place it will be. If it's not there you are used the shared global location. Explained here.

Just the first line, Once you open the editor you should see that gameID already in the User Config area on the bottom. You add your control information there. Dolphin will create the ini for you automatically. See the picture I posted above. (My example is a Gamecube example, but Wii game is same method.)

Ahh, So all you have to do is typing (controls), And underneath that the name of controller configuration.

 

[ModerateNOOB]

I got it, Somehow i made something quite simple into something complex.

(Controls)

Wiimoteprofile1 = Super Mario Galaxy

That did it, Thanks for your help.

[LHensh]

On 9/28/2021 at 11:26 AM, Headrush69 said:

1. Do your profiles work using Dolphin directly?  Selecting one in controller options and clicking load should work. Note that the profile also includes the native device it is mapped to, so that has to be right as well.)
2. Right click on a game in the Dolphin gamelist and select properties.
3. Click the Editor tab.
4. In the User Config section, you set your custom controller settings.

Attached is a sample I have for setting a Gamecube game to use my Xbox 360 wireless controllers. 

 

Could you advise what the PadType settings refer to please?

I'm assuming where you have "Xbox 360" I would just enter the name of my controller profile?

[Headrush69]

3 hours ago, LHensh said:

Could you advise what the PadType settings refer to please?

I'm assuming where you have "Xbox 360" I would just enter the name of my controller profile?

It's been a while since I looked at this but yes I believe it (XBOX 360) was the name of the profile I used for those controllers.

[Retrogamer4423]

Dolphin için oyuna özel denetleyici ini dosyaları olamaz mı ve biz her oyuna kendi denetleyici dosyasını gösteriyoruz. Bu tür ayarlı hazır ini dosyalarını nerede bulabiliriz? Herkesin yüzlerce oyunu manuel olarak yapılandırması mı gerekiyor? Örneğin donkey kong country ini,  underground ini gibi

Edited May 12 by Retrogamer4423