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Dolphin 4.0 Released
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Incitemaybe
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Holy Order Sol
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F-Zero GX seems to run significantly better now, too bad it still crashes at random. Just using default settings though.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I've been thinking of doing a fresh run of Skyward Sword in Dolphin. How's performance/issues? From memory, the Wii build ran at 30fps, so as long as I'm getting that I'd be happy.
EatinOlives
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Was hoping this would (somehow) fix the audio stopping 5 minutes into Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 when using HLE...nope
Can corroborate. Music still stops completely after ~1 song loop when using HLE on SMG1 and 2.
If memory serves, you have a 2500K @ 4.5GHz correct?
The game runs great and shouldn't have any big issues. You'll have a constant 30FPS with that setup.
Yes, this hasn't been fixed yet. You'll still have to use LLE for Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.
Nice. I guess I should update. But one of the issues I have with the emulator is mapping things to the 360 controller. The version I have doesn't make "A/B/X/Y/RT/LT/RB/LB" designations but "button 1, button 2, button 3" which is confusing as all hell in mapping all the stuff.
argh, i always end up taking a long enough time figuring this out to make me feel like i'm missing part of my brain
Astral/H3X
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
2500K @ 4.3Ghz. Happy with 30fps. 1080p would be nice too. I'm pretty sure the Wii build didn't run at 60fps. Can someone clarify for me?
Yeah, you'll be fine. You have a good GPU too iirc so you should be able to run it at over 1080p easily. And yes, it's a 30FPS game.
Not even console level "optimization" (lol sorry) a can make 1.7ghz gen 1 i7 strong enough to emulate it to a playable state.
EatChildren - the only time my skyward sword disc touched my Wii was to get ripped. I played through the entire game pretty much on your setup at your clock rate and outside a couple locks and a couple frame drops here and there it was smooth and gorgeous
The setting has been removed for the Mac builds. It should use the desktop resolution, so you don't need to configure it anymore.
Wowfunhappy
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The addition of support for official Nintendo WFC online play is super cool, but does anyone else feel like they're treading in very unethical territory?
Let's be honest here, in a majority of cases, the people who play games in emulators don't actually buy the games. Power to you if you do, but you're in the minority.
That's already unethical, but at least it isn't directly costing Nintendo money. Yeah, you may be causing them to miss out on potential revenue, but that's a bit different than actually taking money. Online play servers, however, actually cost money to maintain. By using them, you are directly taking money from Nintendo.
Of course, if people steal games, that isn't Dolphin's fault... but even if you DID buy the game, I kind of feel like you shouldn't be using Nintendo's servers unless you paid for the console as well. Again, directly costing money and all that...
Let's be honest here, in a majority of cases, the people who play games in emulators don't actually buy the games. Power to you if you do, but you're in the minority.
That's already unethical, but at least it isn't directly costing Nintendo money. Yeah, you may be causing them to miss out on potential revenue, but that's a bit different than actually taking money. Online play servers, however, actually cost money to maintain. By using them, you are directly taking money from Nintendo.
Of course, if people steal games, that isn't Dolphin's fault... but even if you DID buy the game, I kind of feel like you shouldn't be using Nintendo's servers unless you paid for the console as well. Again, directly costing money and all that...
Treechopper
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Was hoping this would (somehow) fix the audio stopping 5 minutes into Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 when using HLE...nope
Boooo!!! You guys are doing awesome work though Garteal
Valkyri von Thanatos
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Excellent, now that I'm nearly done with Tales of Xillia, maybe I'll get back to Xenoblade! My main issue though, is how do I configure my DS3's to be able to work with my computer. I've tried Better DS3, but I feel like it's a bad idea to have to install MotionInJoy for the drivers. I tried installing just the drivers manually, but I don't think I can have a DS3 driver at the same time as I have a WiiMote compatible driver installed on a single Bluetooth adapter. I actually have two Bluetooth adapters, one built in one that comes out from the back of my motherboard, and a USB adapter that I bought to be placed on a forward facing location, because the other one wasn't good enough for proper WiiMote gameplay.
So I tried uninstalling the drivers, then "clean" installing the drivers through MotionInJoy, and then deleting MotionInJoy to be replaced with Better DS3. I would install the MotionInJoy drivers to the built in one, that is not suited to WiiMote play, but the menu for installing drivers is empty, nothing is there. Is this because the drivers are already detected by MotionInJoy? Would a Bluetooth adapter too slow for a Wiimote really work fine for a regular controller like DS3 in the first place? Even before I uninstalled DS3 drivers, Better DS3 had issues detecting my controller with just Bluetooth, and I had to plug it in with USB, which isn't really convenient. It also had issues even playing after that, and that was when I was using the forward facing USB adapter. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
So I tried uninstalling the drivers, then "clean" installing the drivers through MotionInJoy, and then deleting MotionInJoy to be replaced with Better DS3. I would install the MotionInJoy drivers to the built in one, that is not suited to WiiMote play, but the menu for installing drivers is empty, nothing is there. Is this because the drivers are already detected by MotionInJoy? Would a Bluetooth adapter too slow for a Wiimote really work fine for a regular controller like DS3 in the first place? Even before I uninstalled DS3 drivers, Better DS3 had issues detecting my controller with just Bluetooth, and I had to plug it in with USB, which isn't really convenient. It also had issues even playing after that, and that was when I was using the forward facing USB adapter. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Yes, the default location is My Documents/Dolphin Emulator, but you can easily change it to whatever directory you want. See the guide for more details.
MotionInJoy and SCP both override the Bluetooth device drivers. You can only use it for the DS3 when you install either of them.
There's nothing wrong with installing MotionInJoy for the drivers and never opening it again. Use BetterDS3 for the rest.
You should try the SCP Drivers over MotionInJoy though. (Even if SCP is less customizable). Install instructions are on the page.
Incitemaybe
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Holy Order Sol
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If you're not accusing anyone here, then you aren't talking to anyone here.
Ingueferroque
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Great to see OSX get so much love.
Valkerionseven
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Going to have to give this emu another chance then. Tried playing TvC on it and it worked well aside from the random studder when using a move for the first time. That and I never did beat Baiten Kaitos 2... and for w/e reason I cannot get my Gamecube to look decent on my TV, all my other pre-HD consoles look mostly ok, but GC looks a mess.
I know this is slightly off-topic, but could you post a comparison picture of Skyward Sword, one running as is on Wii (480p) compared to a 1080p Dolphin shot please?
(I can't run Dolphin, but I'd like to see what it looks like).
Valkyri von Thanatos
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Thanks, can I specify which Bluetooth adapter to install to? And if so, do you think my computer's built in Bluetooth adapter would do the trick? Like I said, it faces the opposite direction that it should, and is right next to a wooden wall. Again, thank you for the help.
Arxisz
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3.0-845-dirty is the best build for Xenoblade if you have a CPU that is less than 4GHz and has not so great single-core performance.
My AMD FX CPU has no problems, I get a constant 30fps at 1080p
InsertCredit
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Holy crap. This release completely fixes my audio issue with XC.
Impressive update.
Impressive update.
Kamina
Golden Boy
GC WW on Dolphin lacks 16:9 (though there is a hack but it isnt the same really), and also has problems with some effects like fire.
So no, its not even close.
Look on youtube, plenty of people posted 1080 o videos of SS.
Dolphin with SweetFX.
Wii
It doesn't matter if it's on the back of your motherboard. It should have enough range. You should check if that one is a v2 device with EDR support.
Best would be to temporarily disable the built-in driver via device manager and then installing it, or remove the other Bluetooth stick. Whichever one you want to use for DS3. You should check which Bluetooth device is supported on SCP before you go ahead with the installation though. If it's not supported, you can easily add it to the 'known' list.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Valkyri von Thanatos
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And I assume SCP works with Better DS3?
both have been fixed with AR codes