BlackBeetleKing
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Tales of Graces
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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Train of Midnight
Banned
Dang, son. That's some good looking moe.
Looking really good to me. Can't wait til it's finished and out.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
I second this!
I heard some people were working on a translation patch for Tales of Graces, any progress?
I'll import it as soon as I'll hear its done.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UAAX60/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I'll import it as soon as I'll hear its done.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UAAX60/?tag=neogaf0e-20
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
It was discontinued once the localization for the PS3 version was announced.
TheCongressman1
Member
There is, but I have absolutely no idea how to set it up. If someone can figure it out, I'd love to give it a try.
Train of Midnight
Banned
In general, does Dolphin perform better on AMD or Nvidia cards? Likewise, is there any noticeable bias concerning AMD vs Intel processors?
BlackBeetleKing
Neo Member
Intel are generally better for emulation I believe. The GPU could be either or.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
General concept is that Intel CPU are better, since seems like the performance per core on the bulldozer arquitecture is shit. At least that is what I saw on their forums, don't know if its true.
Regarding of GPU I think it dosn't really matter, any mid range GPU should suffice since Dolphin relies way more on the CPU. Any decent GPU can give you a high boost on IQ.
There is a huge fucking difference in and amd Intel cpus.
Gpus not as much
FastRedPonyCar
Banned
Just now trying out dolphin. Re-started Windwaker as my gamecube is packed up.
all I can say is WOW. The game is simply stunning to see without all the blur and low res GC rendering.
I've got everything maxed out in settings. Will play around with nvidia inspector tonight.
Only real issue with the game aside from the pictobox not working is that the heat refractions like in the dragon roost island dungeon, the screen is all choppy looking and there's a wierd graphical glitch looking at stuff next to smoke/torches.
I've also got twilight princess and I'm seeing a lot of stuff about that here in this thread but I'm wondering if it can be played without a wii mote connected? I remmember reading something about using a gamecube controller but when I load up the rom, it stays at the wii-mote screen :/
all I can say is WOW. The game is simply stunning to see without all the blur and low res GC rendering.
I've got everything maxed out in settings. Will play around with nvidia inspector tonight.
Only real issue with the game aside from the pictobox not working is that the heat refractions like in the dragon roost island dungeon, the screen is all choppy looking and there's a wierd graphical glitch looking at stuff next to smoke/torches.
I've also got twilight princess and I'm seeing a lot of stuff about that here in this thread but I'm wondering if it can be played without a wii mote connected? I remmember reading something about using a gamecube controller but when I load up the rom, it stays at the wii-mote screen :/
ur doing it wrong
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Just now trying out dolphin. Re-started Windwaker as my gamecube is packed up.
all I can say is WOW. The game is simply stunning to see without all the blur and low res GC rendering.
I've got everything maxed out in settings. Will play around with nvidia inspector tonight.
Only real issue with the game aside from the pictobox not working is that the heat refractions like in the dragon roost island dungeon, the screen is all choppy looking and there's a wierd graphical glitch looking at stuff next to smoke/torches.
Heat effects are broken in Dolphin , I think you can disable them altogether. Also your pic is stretched, you're forcing 16:9 but to get true widescreen you hace to check the box in Graphics -> Advanced -> Widescreen hack
KojiKnight
Member
This. Wii and PS2 emulation only need a recent mid-level card... They don't use a lot of shader effects or anything. For example, I can get GCN games (Mario Sunshine for example) running full speed at native res on my laptop's built in 4250...
The games are MUCH more CPU limiting... but even then, if you get a top of the line AMD or Intel system, both will play games full speed (with overclocking at least).
Relaxed Muscle: Heat effects work fine, you just have to change some settings (enabling framebuffer effects if I remember right, though it runs a little slow and is off by default) and turn off any sort off widescreen hack if you have it on (causes weird issues as well)
FastRedPonyCar
Banned
Ah. thanks for that. I'll check that out after work. I knew it was stretched but thought it was my only option. ..must have missed the widescreen hack option.
KojiKnight
Member
Phenom 2 is a three year old chip, and you're comparing it to a 3 month old chip at higher clock rates.
If you got the latest AMD chipset (Vishera based, not Zambezi) which are clocked at 4ghz and can overclock to 5ghz+ you won't have any problems playing games on dolphin either
I'm not saying that the latest intel hardware wouldn't still be better, but either one will get just about every game playable (and any that don't probably won't play full speed on either)
Fastredponycar: As I said, the fire graphics aren't broken, they just require a tweak of settings that MAY cause some slowdown if your PC isn't up to it, it also doesn't work with the widescreen hack because it's a framebuffer effect that outputs at a fixed 4:3 width (and resolution)
The architecture is what really matters here though, and AMD has always been behind and pushing weird shit. Even now, this is the case with intel vs amd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLnsNPQcls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLnsNPQcls
Just now trying out dolphin. Re-started Windwaker as my gamecube is packed up.
all I can say is WOW. The game is simply stunning to see without all the blur and low res GC rendering.
I've got everything maxed out in settings. Will play around with nvidia inspector tonight.
Only real issue with the game aside from the pictobox not working is that the heat refractions like in the dragon roost island dungeon, the screen is all choppy looking and there's a wierd graphical glitch looking at stuff next to smoke/torches.
I've also got twilight princess and I'm seeing a lot of stuff about that here in this thread but I'm wondering if it can be played without a wii mote connected? I remmember reading something about using a gamecube controller but when I load up the rom, it stays at the wii-mote screen :/
Something is off in that image.
Shadow Hog
Member
It's a 4:3 view stretched to 16:9, that's what's wrong.
Did you previously unlock your X3? How was the performance compared to your new i5?
my motherboard didn't have that option to unlock any cores.
I was running an AM3 cpu on a AM2+ mobo, lol
Unlocking another core wouldn't have helped Dolphin anyway, because it only ever uses two afaik.
I still am. Switched to a Phenom II 965 a few months ago. You really notice the additional core in some games (Battlefield 3, for instance).
The game's low res DoF is still activated.
Great to see how popular Dolphin still is
Just here to say that Dolphin's official homepage is now www.dolphin-emu.org. For annoying historical reasons the team hasn't had control over the other one.
So please update any links, thanks!
/ector - co-founder of Dolphin
Just here to say that Dolphin's official homepage is now www.dolphin-emu.org. For annoying historical reasons the team hasn't had control over the other one.
So please update any links, thanks!
/ector - co-founder of Dolphin
jediyoshi
Member
Great to see how popular Dolphin still is
Just here to say that Dolphin's official homepage is now www.dolphin-emu.org. For annoying historical reasons the team hasn't had control over the other one.
So please update any links, thanks!
/ector - co-founder of Dolphin
What's going to happen to the wiki? I've got some updating to do on my site ]: Probably serves me right for manually writing out my album pages
edit: ah i see, just a domain change
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Great to see how popular Dolphin still is
Just here to say that Dolphin's official homepage is now www.dolphin-emu.org. For annoying historical reasons the team hasn't had control over the other one.
So please update any links, thanks!
/ector - co-founder of Dolphin
Thanks for the heads up, I changed the URL. Amazing work over the years BTW.
For those interested, it's a new video, it'll show the differences between original and textures pack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuVSzWTln0
Since you asked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuVSzWTln0
Since you asked
KojiKnight
Member
Not true... Go to video plugin settings, go to hacks, enable "OpenMP Texture Decoder". This enabled an extra core for helping decode textures. It's not a massive boost, but it's still an extra 10-15% in most games. It's off be default because it CAN cause problems, but I've yet to see a game that's reacted badly (played all the zeldas, Mario galaxy, Mario sunshine, Kirby RTD, etc all with no problems at all).
You can also put audio on a seperate thread, but the cost to timing is so great that it's a terrible idea to do so.
(edit)Tess: Actually, for cost the latest AMD Visherna based processors are back to beating intel's in a lot of tests. Intel still wins single thread tests most times but AMD is getting to be a little less pathetic
BlackBeetleKing
Neo Member
more tog
ThanksVision
Member
Just now trying out dolphin. Re-started Windwaker as my gamecube is packed up.
all I can say is WOW. The game is simply stunning to see without all the blur and low res GC rendering.
I've got everything maxed out in settings. Will play around with nvidia inspector tonight.
Only real issue with the game aside from the pictobox not working is that the heat refractions like in the dragon roost island dungeon, the screen is all choppy looking and there's a wierd graphical glitch looking at stuff next to smoke/torches.
I've also got twilight princess and I'm seeing a lot of stuff about that here in this thread but I'm wondering if it can be played without a wii mote connected? I remmember reading something about using a gamecube controller but when I load up the rom, it stays at the wii-mote screen :/
half of the bro's head is missing
He has a blue hat on
Still trying to get Xenoblade working perfectly, would be able to get it if I just stuck too it instead of trying for an hour once a week, I end up forgetting what I've tried before when it comes to tweaks.
Cuban Legend
Member
For those interested, it's a new video, it'll show the differences between original and textures pack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuVSzWTln0
Since you asked
you're the best
Still painful that Rogue squadron GCN games aren't emulated. I ended up buying one today just to play them. They would look so good in 1080p. I was looking at the GC component cable but it's like $100 and I doubt it would make a big difference on my plasma. I may hook it up to an old 4x3 tv.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Is it a No-No to ask if there's a way to play this game in english on dolphin?
I'd consider importing if that was possible.
jediyoshi
Member
Updated my gallery site for the first time in forever. Onechanbara and Xenoblade
http://dolphinsnacks.com/screenshots/
http://dolphinsnacks.com/screenshots/
Jawmuncher
Member
Got a new computer and I can't wait to play some wii games on Dolphin.
Especially Xenoblade which I imported before I knew it was coming to America.
Especially Xenoblade which I imported before I knew it was coming to America.