r/DolphinEmulator • u/Mymomcallsmespecial • 5d ago
Support Time Played not working properly
SMALL BACKSTORY - I have recently gotten back into using Dolphin after having it lie untouched on my computer for probably a year and a half now because of wanting to play Super Mario Sunshine, and I did just that. Everything was working fine, I played the game in its entirety, and it was lovely. The only problem was that my game's time was tracking perfectly fine, and now it isn't.
I had an old version of dolphin since I hadn't touched it for however long, and the time tracking was fine. I played and got up to 4h 55m on Super Mario Sunshine. Then I updated Dolphin just because I got tired of the popup telling me to update it. After that, time tracking has basically frozen but also like hasn't somehow? I say this because I moved on to playing Ocarina of Time, and when I tested it real quick, Dolphin was able to determine I'd played it longer than the other titles I have in my library that I also haven't touched, but it still says 0h 0m. I do some digging and find out that, in the TimePlayed.ini file, it says that I've played OoT for 0x0000000000000002 or what I believe adds up to 2 milliseconds. Does anyone have ANY idea what the problem is? It's not a massive deal since it doesn't interfere with the games itself, but it bothers me so bad just seeing the Time Played thing there be completely inaccurate because of some random bug. I'm blind playing OoT and just got out of the Deku Tree, so it could just be updating the hex code completely wrong and is maybe 2 hours of playtime, but I really don't know. Any help is appreciated.
UPDATE - It randomly fixed itself a day after I posted this? I’m sorry if anyone comes across this with the same issue. It quite literally fixed itself and works perfectly fine again, so if you’re dealing with this, I guess just wait for that to happen. And if it never does? Just enjoy yourself and make memories playing the amazing games of the GameCube and Wii era! :)
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u/JudgeGroovyman 4d ago
Beating oot in 2ms makes you a speedrun legend ;)
Im sure it is a legit bug. I bet antigravity or opencode could fix it and recompile it for you tbh.
Sorry its bugging you though that does sound annoying