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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Do you have any pictures?
wow......thats pretty badass
Haven't ran dolphin since I sold my old tower and built a new one. New tower has a weaker CPU its a little better than a 2500k but its skylake the 6100, better ram DDR4 and now a 1060 vs my 970. Should be ok still with Xenoblade Chronicles though up-rezzed ok though even with the CPU drop from a 3770k right?
Nabs
Member
I've been playing the Trilogy version and it's been great. I switched over to this custom build of Dolphin, and it's been smooth ever since.
stan423321
Member
But there was supposed to be an Action Replay cheat that makes it 60fps. (On Dolphin. Real Wii is too slow.)
Awesome, thank you. I'll give the first game a shot.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Eh? Depends on how good the gyroscope is, no? I mean you can use the mouse for IR controls just fine and you can use the Steam Controllers gyro controls as a replacement for mouse controls just fine
Yeah, shame it drops to 30 FPS whenever I destroy something big unless I run it in DX12. It does Dolphin a lot better than my old E8500 did, that's for certain.
How do you run it in DX12? W10 user here.
NM, figured it out.
Yup!
...turns out I didn't have cheats enabled in Dolphin's Config <_< Oops! Got it running now, damn what a treat the game is at this smooth pace
Ishiiruka just gives me worse performance over all, once the stutters start to settle down regular Dolphin is a constant 60 while Ishiiruka is all over the place with the same settings
Barrow Roll
Member
Did you have the Async Shader Compilation setting on when using Ishiiruka?Ishiiruka just gives me worse performance over all, once the stutters start to settle down regular Dolphin is a constant 60 while Ishiiruka is all over the place with the same settings
Yes. The stutter is almost completely eliminated but in turn Ishiiruka gives me worse framerates, it dips to 40 in some areas, it's awful
. Prime 1 is just fine though, but 2 doesn't play nice. Makes no difference between OpenGL, DX11 or DX12Lunarwhale
Member
Hey guys, I'm having a strange issue in Dolphin. Both Ishiikura and standard, when playing Metroid Prime Trilogy, I can't point the cursor all the way up. It maxes out at about 2/3rds from the top of the screen. I'm using my mouse to do IR inputs, but I seem to remember having this issue with the Dolphin bar as well. Any tips?
Something must be odd with the Ishiiruka build I have, just charging the beam in Prime 2 brings the framerate down from 60 to 45, quite weird. Same settings as regular Dolphin with the exception being async shaders.
Does Dolphin have the same toggle as the Wii where you specify whether the sensor bar is above or below the screen? Could be related to that, if you're out of "range"?
Does Dolphin have the same toggle as the Wii where you specify whether the sensor bar is above or below the screen? Could be related to that, if you're out of "range"?
There is a "range" option for an emulated Wiimote, but a real Wiimote should just work. There is a sensor bar above/below option in the controller settings, though.
Nabs
Member
Can you post your settings? I haven't played much Prime 2 on Dolphin, so I don't know how certain areas will perform, but I have no problems with the regular charge beam. Everything seems smooth so far (30 minutes in).
Thanks, I'll have a look and try there.
It happens in save rooms too, so it's not related to a specific room, I use the standard settings recommended by the emulator, regular Dolphin it's fine apart from the stutters.
Hey guys, first time using Dolphin since I got a new PC that's not junk. It's an Intel Core i5-6200U CPU @ 2.3 - 2.4 GHz, An Intel 520 GPU and 8GB of RAM.
Either way, tried F-Zero set at 1080p and it stuttered a by in the menú sections but the races ran smoothly, but the audio was all garbled up. Would love any tips as to how to tinker with Dolphin to get the best experience. I am using 5.0
Also, how do you guys set the face buttons for Wii U Pro Controller / Xbox controller? I was setting it to be the same as the GC where A is south, B is west, X is east and Y is north, but inmediatly I realized I couldn't boost like that. I switched boost to the B button in the game's settings but things like Metroid Prime would make Super Missiles impossible. So I'm wondering how do you guys set it up.
Either way, tried F-Zero set at 1080p and it stuttered a by in the menú sections but the races ran smoothly, but the audio was all garbled up. Would love any tips as to how to tinker with Dolphin to get the best experience. I am using 5.0
Also, how do you guys set the face buttons for Wii U Pro Controller / Xbox controller? I was setting it to be the same as the GC where A is south, B is west, X is east and Y is north, but inmediatly I realized I couldn't boost like that. I switched boost to the B button in the game's settings but things like Metroid Prime would make Super Missiles impossible. So I'm wondering how do you guys set it up.
Diablohead
Member
I find that the game stutters when it tries to load stuff, or it's the shader cache issue going on not sure. Have you tried playing in DX12 mode?
Stone Ocean
Member
I use the setting you mentioned on a 360 controller to mimic a GC controller's layout. I don't really have issues with it, Charge Combos in Metroid are a tad awkward but certainly doable.
Greatest Ever
Member
I'll try this when I'm at home, but at 3K, max AA and other effects DX12 my 980ti is mostly 60 FPS with occasionally annoying dips to the mid 40s. Would DX11 help? Any effects to turn down that help without losing image quality? Any settings I can change for better FPS?
New Dolphin video: Sometimes It's the Game: Tales of Symphonia Edition
mikezilla2
Member
what blu tooth dongle would you guys recommend if you were doing 2 or 4 player split screen with DS3s/4s?
What game are you playing? What do you mean by 3K, 3x IR or 1440p (4x IR)?
JustSomeone
Member
I'm playing baten kaitos on dolphin 5.0, and the game runs fine except when entering battle - the game slows down during the transition to the battle screen and it takes a few seconds to enter the battle. Anyone knows a way to fix this(or how to handle slowdowns in general)?
fabricated backlash
Member
Strangely enough Dolphin 5 now works almost flawlessly for me. I'm halfway through Goldeneye and all Call of Duty games now actually run, unlike a week ago... yeah weird.
Also, FZero starts running quite well now.
I recorded some footage, but unfortunately it's only in 30fps since I currently can only use the MS DVR feature that limits recording to 30 fps. Bummer. Also the IQ is trash. Any recommendations for a good free recording software?
Still, they still show the average experience I get from Dolphin now.
Goldeneye
Metroid
Also, FZero starts running quite well now.
I recorded some footage, but unfortunately it's only in 30fps since I currently can only use the MS DVR feature that limits recording to 30 fps. Bummer. Also the IQ is trash. Any recommendations for a good free recording software?
Still, they still show the average experience I get from Dolphin now.
Goldeneye
Metroid
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
MSI Afterburner, OBS, Shadowplay if you have an Nvidia GPU.
fabricated backlash
Member
I will check out MSI Afterburner. Thanks a lot.
DonMigs85
Member
Can't remember 100% for sure but I think you need to turn on the hardware video encoding feature under Afterburner's settings
New article: Dolphin Progress Report: August 2016
Peterthumpa
Member
How playable is the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Dolphin and can I use a controller instead of the Wiimote?
BRSxIgnition
Member
Completely random reoccurring thought I've been having recently, but if someone could unpack, modify, and repack game files/textures for a wii game, would it be possible to take a mostly 2D game like Trauma Center or Traume Team, uprez the character sprites, text boxes, and other 2D assets like textures using something like Waifu 2x Caffe or similar, and replace them into the game?
Would it require much more work than that? (I'm assuming so, but it's always sad when a game like Trauma Team is locked/limited to its hardware and as a result, eventually ages, even with Emulation.)
Would it require much more work than that? (I'm assuming so, but it's always sad when a game like Trauma Team is locked/limited to its hardware and as a result, eventually ages, even with Emulation.)
DonMigs85
Member
Good question. Luckily at least some other games like DKC Returns actually seemed to have overdesigned 2D assets which scale well to 1080p and beyond.
Dolphin has official support for custom texture packs. No need to repack the game, just put HD textures into a special folder, and Dolphin will load those textures automatically.
See: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Forum-hd-texture-projects
BRSxIgnition
Member
Very cool - though I don't have the time or knowhow to find, upconvert, and rename all the textures and 2D assets for the game.
Though I hope a fan with the expertise and time does come along one day.
Metroid Prime 3 is designed around a Wii Remote, and the versions of Prime and Prime 2 included in the trilogy have no controller support. I think if you want to use a controller, you're better off playing the GameCube versions of the first two games.
You can probably configure it to use a mouse instead of Wii remote, and map the pointer as a cursor.
Maybe it's possible to map a controller to use in Prime 3, but I can't imagine it would be a very good experience.
jediyoshi
Member
Most of it would be pretty simple if you were planning to bulk upres everything. Textures dump as you play in the correct format with the correct name to be custom loaded. As long as you had a method to automate the conversion process, it'd be more of a time thing of making sure you could access every texture in game.
Nabs
Member
I've tried the first two in Trilogy and they're great with the ishiiruka custom dolphin build. I can't imagine it being very playable with a conventional x1/ps4 controller, but it's wonderful with a steam controller since you can map the pointer to your mouse cursor.
StrategyFan
Member
i like xenoblade in 3d
i started playing metroid prime. the game looks great, but the hud is 2d.
the only annoying part is the crosshair so i modded it out, but i don't know if it's realistic to play through the whole game without a crosshair
i think anything without fixed-size 2D stuff trying to be shown at an exact position in a 3D game world should generally work fine
StrategyFan
Member
Well, the advantage is that you can finish the game in half the time. Not bad for a relatively long RPG.
F-Zero GX is really fun in 3D. Also Burnout 2.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Was this posted: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/09/06/booting-the-final-gc-game/
Story about getting the last Gamecube game to boot, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Story about getting the last Gamecube game to boot, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.