Emulated Portal issues

[Frozenreflex]

1. Trap Team expects Traptanium Portal
Skylanders: Trap Team expects the Traptanium Portal, and does not work with other variants of the Portal (SA/Giants, SwapForce/Imaginators, and likely SuperChargers/second Imaginators portals). As such, trying to play Trap Team with the emulated Portal leads to getting stuck on the screen saying to use the Traptanium Portal instead of one of the older ones. SuperChargers also has different effects with older portals, as using an older Portal, putting no Skylanders on it, and pressing a certain button on the controller spawns an exclusive character and vehicle (Instant Spitfire and Instant Hot Streak). If implemented, it'd be best to be able to switch between all of the different Portal variants. Fixed by #10061
2. Support for multiple figures at once
8144 already mentions this, but each portal has 3 slots for normal figures, generally 2 for characters and one for magic items, and for the Traptanium and standard SuperChargers portal, an extra slot for traps.
3. Support for "Swap Force" characters
Sorta linked to number 2, but I am unsure if the characters with swappable tops and bottoms use some sort of special protocol to load them through the portal (I haven't tried to use two sets of swappable characters at once).
4. Imaginators character creation
Figures originating from Imaginators have special "identifier" blocks of data that the games use to see if the figure is genuine. Dumps retain these blocks, and work fine, but the character creator does not have the ability to generate them, so created characters will get stuck in an infinite loop of repairing. Will either need to be reverse-engineered, but I haven't found information on how these blocks work anywhere, or someone needs to make a game patch to disable the check.

[JohnVeness]

I can see there is academic interest in seeing the effects of different portals on different games, but for someone just wishing to play the games with minimum hassle, I suggest emulating the Traptanium Portal by default - it works with all the games with no issues.

[Kirizuky]

hi i tried the emulated portal in skylanders imaginator and with other skylanders work perfectly but with the new ones of the imaginator series will gives an infinite error and ask to repair it but if you repair nothing appens and with skylanders supercharges everything works exept the special ones like Donkey Kong and bowser. is there some fix?
ps. skylanders imaginator still don`t recognize but if you plug the real one it works

[Frozenreflex]

DK, Bowser, and their cars will not work because they are exclusive to Nintendo systems. Imaginators figures store extra identifier data that isn't on other figures and that hasn't been replicated yet in the character creator, but dumps and figures will work fine as you've said.

[Kirizuky]

i see thanks.
and for the new skylanders imaginator there is some fix? i have an infinite error po-up and when i say repair still nothing change.Because with the old ones in skylanders imaginators works only the new series gives the error to repair the toy.
Btw if i can help with skylanders trap team i have the real traptanium portal.
again sry to bother and thx again.

[SuperSaienBlueYT]

has this been fixed yet?

[saculll]

Having both the problem with the emulated portal being recognized as the wrong portal on trap team and the problem with the newest skylanders not working on skylanders imaginators via the emulated portal. Wondering if there's any fix for either of these problems currently? Literally going crazy from wanting to play through my childhood right now.

[Desterly]

I opened a pull request to change to the traptanium portal which is universal across all games

#10061

[Kirizuky]

hi, i`m playing skylanders trap team with the recentrly new update of the portal of power, and i wanted to report that i am encountering some bugs, when i put in the emulated portal the Traptanium Crystal Traps, many times it gets stuck saying to put the skylander back as if it didn't see it and the trap doesn't work, but if I put the trap and then in the skylanders academy (the home where you upgrade the skylander) and then I go to put the monster I choose inside it works but still gives problems disconnecting the skylander and redoing the animation of when I put the skylanders.
Probably is some fixed needed for the Traptanium Crystal Traps that have special interaction.
thanks for the work you guys are doing.

[GiacomoMaresca]

hello I'm using skylanders imaginators and I would like to use the sensei but I can not and I do not know how to solve more I saw that using the emulator of the portal I do not even find the creation crystals can you help me?

[KR4ZY2002]

Can't use Ignitor S1/S2, when putting in the emulated portal on Skylanders Giants tried on Skylanders Swap force and they work perfectly, when i tried in Giants the fire element icon keeps searching and then the game freezes and crashes the only Ignitor that works is the Legendary variant. hope you could help.

[Twisted321]

If you load an actual dump, the Imaginators will work.