Temporarily cache the fact that the game doesnt have achievments available for faster loading

[Domiiniik]

What should happen

Temporarily (weekly for instance) Cache the fact that the game doesnt have any achievements so next time you start the game that doesnt have them RetroAchievements won't try to connect to its servers anymore and thus slowing down game startup if your internet connection is slower. And the reason for cache to be temporarily and refreshed once a week or so is because someone can be adding unofficial achievements to the game.

Who would this benefit

People with slower Connection

Platform (if relevant)

None

Games this would be useful in

All

Other emulators or software with a similar feature

No response

Checklist

• Check the latest git build in case it's already implemented.
• Search for other requests of the same feature.

[hrydgard]

This is a reasonable idea, although if you really have a slow connection you can manually disable retroachievements as a workaround.

Might implement something like this in the future - and also cache the positive result, so we can show little cute RA icon on top of game icons, similar to the gear wheel icon for custom settings etc.

[Domiiniik]

Yeah, sounds really cool!

[hrydgard]

So, started sketching on this, and realized it's not super simple - achievement support may have been added since you last tried, so we must expire these cached entries. Which means we need to decide and store a cache expiry time. What may be appropriate that's short enough that it's not annoying if you know a game just got achievements, but also long enough that it's actually worthwhile?

(Though, the little icon idea might still make it worthwhile without the caching benefit)..

[Rezdj]

I know it might be stupid as I have no shred of a knowledge, but why not make a button to manually check new achievement's with "Verify new RetroAcheivements " on the main menu (for example just left of the ppsspp logo) if the cache hasn't expired?

[hrydgard]

It doesn't seem worth the trouble if you need a manual step (and the UI clutter that adds)

[Rezdj]

I have no other ideas then (except maybe as an alternative (for the ones that want the most up-to-date achievements) in the retroachievement menu in the option?).

Good luck !