BigTnaples
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Thanks for the input. Far enough into TP on my Wii that I'll just finish it out there, but I'll def shoot for playing Skyward Sword through Dolphin on my 55". Should be nice.
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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Thanks for the input. Far enough into TP on my Wii that I'll just finish it out there, but I'll def shoot for playing Skyward Sword through Dolphin on my 55". Should be nice.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
More Epic Mickey 2
Game occasionally crashes when transitioning between zones, some sound crackling with HLE but overall nothing serious.
Game occasionally crashes when transitioning between zones, some sound crackling with HLE but overall nothing serious.
I don't but TP should be super simple to configure on a controller. Skyward Sword shouldn't be configurable on a controller since you are required to have the Wii Motion Plus to play the game.
Yup. And I've personally experienced issues with newer models of the Wii Motion Plus not being compatible with Dolphin. FYI the Gold WMP that came with SS works.
Hmmm...I've been following this thread for a while and I don't recall any posts about that. Plus you can't get past the WMP detection screen in SS unless the game detects a WMP. It would be nice though.
Sax Russel
Banned
Regarding Motion Plus emulation, there were a few modded builds that supported it, I've been using the build and controller profile linked here and it works well enough. Further down that page there's also a handy guide for performing various actions that aren't immediately obvious based on the mapping.
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-zelda-skyward-sword-emulated-controls-unnoficial-thread
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-zelda-skyward-sword-emulated-controls-unnoficial-thread
That's nice. What do you mean by "well enough"? What are the draw backs?
Sax Russel
Banned
GravityMan
Member
When I ripped my larger games into chunks w/ CleanRip, i was able to recombine them easily enough with HJSplit.
http://www.hjsplit.org/
HJSplit requires that the filename of each part be named a certain way so that the joining will go smoothly. Before beginning the join process, I had to append file extension ".001" to the first file part, ".002" to the second file part and so on. And then I renamed the file names so that they're all the same (i.e. took out the "part0", "part1", etc.). For Xenoblade (NA version), the renamed file parts would be "SX4E01.iso.001", "SX4E01.iso.002", etc. and the final merged file is "SX4E01.iso".
As a side note for the future...if the device you're ripping to is NTFS-formatted then you can rip the entire game as one ISO...no need to worry about splitting/joining.
I tried the NTFS first and it got to about 50% then it just quits out. I Will give it another go tonight. Cheers
I just want to say it's absolutely absurd how much better Dolphin runs than PCSX2. I played Soul Calibur II on both emulators...PCSX2 runs at full speed 95% of the time but I still get moments of slowdown. The Gamecube version on Dolphin is smooth as silk, butter, a baby's bum, etc.
Why is this?
Why is this?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
More effort has been put into Dolphin/picking apart Nintendo's machines has been easier.
KojiKnight
Member
PowerPC processor is a well known, well documented, and "easy" to emulate because of it. Also, the GPU is very close to modern PC GPUs. Similarity in design makes it both easier to write code to emulate, and makes it faster to emulate.
PS2 has a very poorly documented processor and a pair of VPU (instead of a single GPU) that don't work very similarly to PC at all. In fact, the VPU are so unlike modern GPUs, nearly everything about it has to be done via your CPU... Only the final render pass is done on your GPU.
Simply put, the PS2 is just harder to emulate even though it's "weaker" than the GCN/Wii.
Sanctuary
Member
So how do you actually get the 360 controller to function with the Wii emulation? It's working just fine for the Gamecube emulation, but anytime I load up a Wii game, it just sits on the Wiimote screen dialogue screen for a while, until it finally says either the connection with the Wiimote was lost, or a Wiimote is not connected. I've tried using Emulated Wiimote and None, but neither seem to work.
Worked brilliantly, thanks man
Have you configured the 360 controller as a classic controller (attached to an emulated Wiimote)?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I think GC/Wii games are less glitched graphically, so visual fidelity is great on most games on Dolphin. While on PCSX2 lots og games has visual problems ranging for low to big.
But I get better performance on PCSX2 thanks to speedhacks and tweaks. If your CPU can't handle a game on Dolphin, is mostly useless try to get decent framerates. Also stretching sound algorithm makes PCSX2 superior when you can't get perfect framerates.
Sanctuary
Member
No, all I did was set it up to work as the GC controller, then I tried changing the Emulated Wiimote to work similarly. I actually didn't find anything for the Nunchuck at first glance, and was wondering where the Z and C were supposed to be.
jediyoshi
Member
They're different dialogue screens. On the dolphin toolbar hit the Wiimote button. Next to Wiimote 1, select Emulated Wiimote on the dropdown and hit the configure button. Under device, select your gamepad and binding is the same as the gamecube window.
You select what would be connected to the wiimote under the Extension section
KojiKnight
Member
Sound stretching sounds awful if you can't hit 100% speed. Better option is setting ASYNC, this makes the audio play full speed no matter how the game is rendering. In rare instances this can cause glitches or break games, but of all the games I've tried I'd say 95%+ work just fine.
Depends on the game...for me,SSX 3 runs far better in PCSX2 than Dolphin, also for every crash in PCSX2, I must get 3 or 4 in Dolphin.
Randam_Hajile
Member
Total noob here when it comes to CleanRip. I've got a 32 gig USB stick formatted FAT, I'm currently ripping SSBB (which is taking 30 minutes), and I have no clue as to what all the settings mean. I chose...
Dual layer: Yes
Chunk size: Max
New device per chunk: No
Anything I should be doing differently?
Dual layer: Yes
Chunk size: Max
New device per chunk: No
Anything I should be doing differently?
Randam_Hajile
Member
Scratch that. Just got to 50% and errored out. How should I correctly rip my games? Also, should I format my stick to NTFS?
edit: Tried reformatting to NTFS and the Wii wouldn't read it.
edit: Tried reformatting to NTFS and the Wii wouldn't read it.
Yeah mine wouldnt either.
Format to Fat32
for ssbb
Dual layer: Yes
Chunk size: 3gb
New devicxe per chunk: No
Have you updated the Dat files also? that caused me a few problems.
Combine the files with HJSplit. Gravity man gives a good explanation further up the page.
Cant get either Mario Galaxy or Galaxy 2 to run. Mario Galaxy just flashes up as a white screen for a split second then quits out. And its saying Mario galaxy 2 isn't a valid iso.
Both Twilight princess and wind waker look amazing though and so does the wii version of REmake
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Anyone know how Sengoku Basara 3 runs on this thing, and if it requires really beefy hardware? Kind of want to play the game but cba to hook up the Wii (but if I only had to hook it up once to rip the game and play on PC that'd be okay)...
The rechargeable batteries I've been using for the Wiimote have also run out of juice for good, a full charge depletes in a day even if I don't really use them much at all, and they're 2650mAh...
Was looking for a hack and slash fix after watching the new Rising videos and I don't think I'd enjoy a DMC4 replay.
The rechargeable batteries I've been using for the Wiimote have also run out of juice for good, a full charge depletes in a day even if I don't really use them much at all, and they're 2650mAh...
Was looking for a hack and slash fix after watching the new Rising videos and I don't think I'd enjoy a DMC4 replay.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Yes it was introduced in the main branch. When I played RE4 music still would cut sometimes and there's a delay before the music loops, but at least is not totally broken like before.
yes but you need to rebuild the set of key-movement on your pad.
Yes, I played Project Zero 2 with a config by a neogaf user. You can also just set it up yourself
Kelegacy
XBOX - RECORD ME LOVING DOWN MY WOMAN GOOD
Grr. I'm not sure what happened but suddenly Twilight Princess runs like crap. (GC version but Wii also is slow) Trying to do all of the fixes and nothing working. ENB to RAM seems to slow the system down to 5fps. Whenever I tried it out before it seemed to work fine. Today though, it is not running like I thought it did before. I'm still at the beginning of the game at the starting screens, but I've grabbed Epona before and not had the same issues.
I have an i5 2500k, ATI 6850, 12GB RAM. Not sure why this suddenly started happening. I even upgraded Dolphin. Oh well.
I have an i5 2500k, ATI 6850, 12GB RAM. Not sure why this suddenly started happening. I even upgraded Dolphin. Oh well.
I've heard that the wiimotes with the motion+ built in have a lot of troubles connecting with dolphin/bluetooth. Is this true? I would like to purchase one at a local store to play Skyward Sword with, but I'm worried about its connectivity. I don't think stores near me sell the individual motion+ addons anymore.
Shadow of the BEAST
Banned
have they made a mod/patch wich unwaggles the game? which let you play the game with a normal controller.
-bakalhau-
Member
Damn... From a GTX 285 to a 660ti, in PCSX 2 I've gone from 60fps in Burnout 3 at native resolution and with slowdowns to 2048x2048 at 60fps locked.
Huge difference right?
Not so much in Dolphin. I'm using an older build since Dolphin 3 made games slower, yet the video card upgrade meant nothing. Same speed in Mario Galaxy. I know emulators are more dependent on CPU (and CPU speed) but c'mon.. Not even a small change! It ain't normal either right? A better GPU should still yield an improvement in framerates...
How are the newer builds in speed? Comparable to pre-v3.0?
Huge difference right?
Not so much in Dolphin. I'm using an older build since Dolphin 3 made games slower, yet the video card upgrade meant nothing. Same speed in Mario Galaxy. I know emulators are more dependent on CPU (and CPU speed) but c'mon.. Not even a small change! It ain't normal either right? A better GPU should still yield an improvement in framerates...
How are the newer builds in speed? Comparable to pre-v3.0?
Skyfireblaze
Member
Well what CPU are you using? Dolphin is more CPU demanding than pcsx2 in my experience.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Grr. I'm not sure what happened but suddenly Twilight Princess runs like crap. (GC version but Wii also is slow) Trying to do all of the fixes and nothing working. ENB to RAM seems to slow the system down to 5fps. Whenever I tried it out before it seemed to work fine. Today though, it is not running like I thought it did before. I'm still at the beginning of the game at the starting screens, but I've grabbed Epona before and not had the same issues.
I have an i5 2500k, ATI 6850, 12GB RAM. Not sure why this suddenly started happening. I even upgraded Dolphin. Oh well.
OpenGL plugin is faster in TP, you could try that.