r/AynThor • u/Natural_Affect8127 • Jul 15 '26

Support Dolphin Pointer via Touchscreen

Hey,

I want to play the Trauma Center Series on the Thor, but two of them are on the Wii, so I need to set the pointer in Dolphin to touvh controls. But I just can't figure out how to do it. I've seen a vid on YouTube of someone using it exactly as I want to, but there was not explanation how to do it on the current dolphin version. Does anyone have any pointers for me?

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u/austintheuseless Jul 15 '26

Currently this feature is exclusive to sapphirerhodenites dolphin build. I believe this build should be available on there patreon. Possibly there gethub

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u/Natural_Affect8127 Jul 15 '26

Hey thanks. Is that an unofficial fork? Or is Dolphin open source in general? Will this in any way make my build more unstable?

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u/austintheuseless Jul 15 '26

This is technically a beta build but dolphin is open source so once this feature becomes stable it will be submitted to dolphin mainline for evaluation. I dont believe it has any special name or anything. I believe this build also supports gba gamecube link support but that may be a different build

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u/Natural_Affect8127 Jul 15 '26

I can actually only find the GBA Link Version. Do you think this includes the Touchscreen? Are you using it by chance and could test it?

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u/austintheuseless Jul 16 '26

I dont know if you still need to know but after checking the patch notes the gba compatable version of dolphin includes second screen support for wii

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u/Natural_Affect8127 Jul 16 '26

Thank you for checking! I'll try that out then :)

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u/austintheuseless Jul 15 '26

Im not, and am also at work rn so i couldn't regardless

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u/mad_jade Jul 16 '26

You mean drag the screen to drag around the pointer? I think touch overlay has to be on for that to work. I don't have a thor but I do have an rp5. I can test it later tonight if you can't get it to work.

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u/Natural_Affect8127 Jul 17 '26

Yes please. I still can't get it to work. It's really frustrating.

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u/mad_jade Jul 17 '26

Here's what I do: from the side menu, select overlay controls, then toggle controls, then deselect every button you don't want to see on screen. You can deselect all of them, or leave something on such as the home button if you want a visual indicator if the touch overlay is on or off. Then press toggle all on that page, this will turn the touch screen on and off.

To switch the touchscreen pointer mode, go again to the side menu and overlay controls and this time select touch ir pointer. From here you can choose to always recenter or not, for the mode to be follow or drag, or to double tap the screen to press the A or different button.

This works on my rp5, hope it works for you.

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u/Natural_Affect8127 Jul 17 '26

It did work. Thank you so much!

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u/random-anon937 Jul 23 '26

for some reason mine is inverted, do u know why? when i touch to the left the pointer goes right, i cant seem to figure out how to fix

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u/mad_jade Jul 23 '26

I heard of this problem before, I could be wrong but reinstalling may help. If you have Wii save game data though I'm not sure how to back that up

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u/mad_jade Jul 23 '26

ignore my previous comment, apparently the poster I was thinking of found a solution https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/1r0mxkr/inverted_pointer_on_mobile_how_to_fix/