RandoBogus

Quick question - is it possible to use the new backend API while still using ui-console? I'm guessing sooner or later mupen64plus-ae would stop using ui-console, but just wondering if...

Obviously not as typesafe, but much easier to maintain/expand during all the refactorings. Sounds good to me. We can always make typesafe CoreSetFooBackend() later once the dust settles, if there...

> Quick question - is it possible to use the new backend API while still using ui-console? I'm guessing sooner or later mupen64plus-ae would stop using ui-console, but just wondering...

I am a bit wary about relying on extensions in critical code, when standard gles flags can be used. I have not looked at your refactoring branch in awhile, but...

> > I am a bit wary about relying on extensions in critical code, when standard gles flags can be used. > > No they can't without change the fragment...

Before going too far down this path, perhaps a second confirmation is wise. Which specific commit(s) should I test in mupen64plus-ae? Between this and bsmiles32's work I'm starting to lose...

@Narann @twinaphex @richard42 So I started looking at this last night. You probably noticed, boost is only being used for its filesystem library, for just a handful of features: -...

Thanks for the feedback. I'll remove the boost dependency and unicode support and try to get a PR out soon.

I understand about not wanting to expose yet another config param to, say, a Linux user. But that commit was actually the lynch-pin that allowed mupen64plus-ae to converge with upstream....

Also, I think you are only looking at the tip of the iceberg in the [Dolphin code](https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Core/VideoCommon/DriverDetails.h). Enumerating a bunch of values and hacks is the easy part (that's [what...