Rpcs3: Does not handle Skylanders portal disconnections/reconnections

Created on 13 Oct 2020 · 5Comments · Source: RPCS3/rpcs3

Quick summary

RPCS3 does not correctly handle unplugging and replugging the Skylanders Portal of Power.

Details

If you have a physical portal connected (so that the portal emulator isn't used instead) and start one of the Skylanders games, everything works fine at first. However, if you disconnect the portal, the game does not "notice" this and carries on as if the portal is still connected.

You may well ask why is this a problem! My use case is that I am using a Skylanders figure editor to modify figures and see how things change in game. This requires the portal to be logically disconnected from RPCS3 and connected to the other app, then reconnected to RPCS3.

This works fine in Dolphin, for example. It may be that RPCS3's portal emulator (which Dolphin does not have) is interfering here..? If there was a way to disable the portal emulator (I couldn't see one), that might help?

1. Please attach RPCS3's log.

RPCS3.log.gz

4. Please provide comparison with real PS3.

On a real PS3, disconnecting a portal is noticed by the game and the user is prompted to reconnect the portal.

5. Please provide your system configuration:

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 64-bit
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8
GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 4000 and Radeon 8750M

Input

Source

JohnVeness

All 5 comments

USB hotplugging is not supported, this applies to other devices as well.

MSuih on 13 Oct 2020

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Ah OK, thanks.

JohnVeness on 13 Oct 2020

As a side note you know there is a portal emulator builtin, that loads figures from files? If you want to test editing stuff that's probably the way to go.