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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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ss_lemonade
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AFAIK, wind waker was not 16:9. Are these shots just with the forced widescreen option enabled? Doesn't that cause glitches at the sides?
Theonik
Member
Widescreen hack, yes. It normally breaks some games but for the Wind Waker at least it doesn't cause any significant glitches. I just use 4:3 for Gamecube games typically because it's usually less hassle and i prefer it for these games. Put it on 16:9 just for the purpose of this shot.georaldc said:
Diprosalic
Banned
i have a GTX460, i5 2500k, 4Gigs of RAM.
can i expect to run any of those games at a good FPS?
can i expect to run any of those games at a good FPS?
VivaciousSoul
Member
I wish it was possible to go online for MH3. I can't play this too long or else it will ruin the Wii version for me. I see details that I didn't even know were there, particularly in the background.
VivaciousSoul
Member
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No, it's not. The jump from 640x480 to 1920x1080 is extremely significant as is the addition of anti-aliasing. The Wii isn't even remotely capable of delivering that. It doesn't have the memory or fillrate for 1080p. The PS3 and 360 are both around 4 billion pixels per second and feature a lot of additional memory yet they both struggle to deliver games at 1080p.nincompoop said:
Mario Galaxy does look very nice, but again, it's really just smart art direction. There aren't a lot of complex shaders or texture passes going on, it's all very simple stuff that is just really well designed. Mario Galaxy looks great in the same way that something like Silent Hill 3 still looks great on PS2 (the character models still best many modern games).
nincompoop
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1920x1080x60 ~= 120 million pixels per second, which is well below Hollywood's fillrate limit. I'm not claiming that the Wii is capable of rendering a game as complex as Super Mario Galaxy at such a high resolution, only that that number of pixels would not cause the Wii GPU to melt, as the other poster claimed. If the Wii wasn't limited by its tiny frame buffer then there's no reason it wouldn't be able to output an average looking last gen game in 720p or 1080i, as was the case with the original Xbox.dark10x said:
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Man does Tri look awful without the bloom or what. Its nice smooth natural environments just turn into a LOOK HOW SHITTY MY TEXTURES REALLY ARE festival. Yuck. Wish they'd fix the bloom on Dolphin so that you can have the high res and also all the clever tricks that hid some flaws on Wii.
Diprosalic
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dani_dc said:
what is this "overclocked" you speak off? and how would one "overclock" his CPU?
Diprosalic said:
Most of the newer 1155 motherboards have software or a bios utility that will literally "automatically" overclock it for you. Not the the sapping extreme that doing it yourself would, but the "overclock" buttons on most of the newest modern boards do a great job. My Asus board took my 2500k to 4.5ghz automatically (on the stock air cooler) using the built-in software (or the "overclock" button in the BIOS) and I was only able to take it up to 4.8 stable in the manual enthusiast fashion without investing in another cooler.
jediyoshi
Member
Shepard said:
Why not just use the builds from the official site?
http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/download.html
It's increasing the clock rate of a compoment (in this case the CPU) to get higher perfomance.Diprosalic said:
StevieP already pointed to the easiest way to overclock it, but if you're curious about it or decide to overclock I recommend you give a look to the PC thread.
It is however not necessary to overclock it, the i5-2500k should run most games pretty well even without overclocking.
Hey guys, I was going to come in here to ask how the new PC I'm going to build would run Dolphin, but I see everyone is already saying the 2500k is great, so that's good news. This is what I'll be using:
Sapphire HD6970 2GB GDDR5 256Bit GDDR5 PCIE 2*DVI HDMI 2*MiniDSP DX11
Intel CORE i5 2500K/3.30GHz/6MB CACHE/LGA1155
G.SKILL Ripjaws-X 8GB (4GB x 2) PC3 12800 (DDR3-1600)
Should be good to go, right?
Sapphire HD6970 2GB GDDR5 256Bit GDDR5 PCIE 2*DVI HDMI 2*MiniDSP DX11
Intel CORE i5 2500K/3.30GHz/6MB CACHE/LGA1155
G.SKILL Ripjaws-X 8GB (4GB x 2) PC3 12800 (DDR3-1600)
Should be good to go, right?
BlackBeetleKing
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nincompoop
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STOP RAPING MY EYES WITH UR STRETCHED GRAPHICS
Go to graphics configuration, find the option for widescreen hack, enable it!
Go to graphics configuration, find the option for widescreen hack, enable it!
zephervack
Member
I have been wanting to post these for a while, since i got my Dolphin working correctly thanks to you guys, these are taking using Eyefinity resolution with the widescreen hack @ 5760 * 1200.
nincompoop
Banned
I never said it could, I was only clarifying for people who seem to be under the impression that being in HD magically adds detail that wasn't already being processed by the Wii in the first place. There's a reason that games on PCSX2, NullDC etc don't look nearly as good running in HD resolutions as Mario Galaxy.dark10x said:
Chuckpebble
Member
I have a request from some screen shots of some end game content from a few games. I'll spoiler tag the exact items, but basically, I find myself wanting to view these things up close because the detail seems to be there.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
No More Heroes 2 - this one is quite infuriating
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
the dioramas that are unlocked
No More Heroes 2 - this one is quite infuriating
basically, there's a shelf in Travis' room that fills up with little souvenirs from each assassin that you kill. There's no way to view them at all, except from afar with the fixed camera, and up close very briefly while the camera moves into position for selecting clothing items.
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Dioramas again. These ones can actually be viewed much closer than the ones in Prime 3, but still, I think they look nice and high res images, blah blah blah.
Horsemama1956
Member
Any glitches with Soul Calibur 2? I can pick it up around the corner for $5, and I have access to a modded Wii.
Yup, should be able to. My overclocked i3 540 does 50-60 on SMG2 with LLE.Nabs said:
BlackBeetleKing
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Stallion Free
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Clearly he doesn't give a fuck.Gvaz said:
Stallion Free said:
<Avatar quote> Or something's wrong with his eye sight. Posting the name of the game wouldn't hurt either.
Anyway, been messing around with Dolphin a bit. I know it's been asked before, but I haven't gotten a straight answer yet. Is there a way to get proper sound and no slow downs in Super Mario Galaxy 2? I've seen mentions of LLE, is that an extra plugin?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
LLE is a drop down option in the aduio settings and wants a pretty hefty processor.Roarer said:
I too have absolutely no idea what game that is either.
Wolf Akela
Member
Which Dolphin version are you using? I can't emulate my copy properly on the latest version (a month or so ago). It hangs up if I set English, and works fine otherwise but the bloom is all messed up. Some older version fixed the bloom but it runs extremely slow.
Here's an example of the bloom problem although this was back with the demo I have:
I just managed to get my wiimote to work with my pc, gotta say its really awesome. Mario Galaxy is stunning and full speed. But I have a problem, I searched a bit about it but found nothing that worked.
-After 3-5 minutes there is no background music, well I can live with it but the soundtrack is so great, I'd like to make it work.
I tried many things to make Sin & Punishment 2 work properly but I never succeeded. Most cutscene runs at 30FPS (and the voices sounds normal, so big lipsync fail) when they're suposed to run at 60 and the game overall is lagging. Sad for this one, since I was so hyped to play it in HD with a wiimote for a full WiiHD experience.
My specs:
ASUS P8P67
Intel I5 2500k OC 4Ghz
Geforce GTX 460SE
4Go DDR3 RAM
Sure I could play those one on my Wii, but I already did, a lot of times actually. Dolphin give those games a brand new life imo. The results are so beautiful, its astonishing. I'm only having problems with these two and Tales of Symphonia (with the music too) but I know this one has no real solution. Anyway, I'm really satisfied with Dolphin so far, it can only get better with time.
-After 3-5 minutes there is no background music, well I can live with it but the soundtrack is so great, I'd like to make it work.
I tried many things to make Sin & Punishment 2 work properly but I never succeeded. Most cutscene runs at 30FPS (and the voices sounds normal, so big lipsync fail) when they're suposed to run at 60 and the game overall is lagging. Sad for this one, since I was so hyped to play it in HD with a wiimote for a full WiiHD experience.
My specs:
ASUS P8P67
Intel I5 2500k OC 4Ghz
Geforce GTX 460SE
4Go DDR3 RAM
Sure I could play those one on my Wii, but I already did, a lot of times actually. Dolphin give those games a brand new life imo. The results are so beautiful, its astonishing. I'm only having problems with these two and Tales of Symphonia (with the music too) but I know this one has no real solution. Anyway, I'm really satisfied with Dolphin so far, it can only get better with time.
Nabs
Member
S&P shouldn't be a problem, but I haven't tested it with the latest build. I wonder if anyone else has it so they can try it out.
As for the SMG music problem, I think that's fixed by using the LLE plugin. It requires the use of two files from your Wii/GC ("dsp_rom.bin" and "dsp_coef.bin"), but I can't help you with that. It was some weird process that I can't remember.
As for the SMG music problem, I think that's fixed by using the LLE plugin. It requires the use of two files from your Wii/GC ("dsp_rom.bin" and "dsp_coef.bin"), but I can't help you with that. It was some weird process that I can't remember.
ss_lemonade
Member
Use LLE to fix the music problem in Mario Galaxy. It hurts performance but you should still be good to go with your rig. As for Sin & Punishment 2, if you're using the latest dolphin build, uncheck ram under Hacks - EFB in Graphics Properties (if anyone knows how to do this per game, it would be really grateful). Should give you full speed emulation, but a small portion at the upper left of your screen may be bugged. Don't know if this has been fixed already or notSeik said:I just managed to get my wiimote to work with my pc, gotta say its really awesome. Mario Galaxy is stunning and full speed. But I have a problem, I searched a bit about it but found nothing that worked.
-After 3-5 minutes there is no background music, well I can live with it but the soundtrack is so great, I'd like to make it work.
I tried many things to make Sin & Punishment 2 work properly but I never succeeded. Most cutscene runs at 30FPS (and the voices sounds normal, so big lipsync fail) when they're suposed to run at 60 and the game overall is lagging. Sad for this one, since I was so hyped to play it in HD with a wiimote for a full WiiHD experience.
My specs:
ASUS P8P67
Intel I5 2500k OC 4Ghz
Geforce GTX 460SE
4Go DDR3 RAM
Sure I could play those one on my Wii, but I already did, a lot of times actually. Dolphin give those games a brand new life imo. The results are so beautiful, its astonishing. I'm only having problems with these two and Tales of Symphonia (with the music too) but I know this one has no real solution. Anyway, I'm really satisfied with Dolphin so far, it can only get better with time.
LLE might also fix your tales of symphonia issue, but I'm not sure.