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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Always-honest
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Drkirby said:
i have no idea. But i fucking hope so
It's an interesting question. The first instinct would be to say no way, but it does have the advantage that Cell and Broadway are both Power architecture chips. So it may be possible to do some more efficient CPU emulation than on x86 PCs. I still doubt it will amount to much.
Always-honest
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Kenka said:
http://exophase.com/20025/dolphin-emulator-coming-to-ps3/
Let's hope this is real and works out well..
Always-honest
Banned
dunno.. don't you still need to buy the games?Kenka said:
Always-honest said:
Yes. But
my Wii is lost
I was reluctant to buy a HD console this gen, even though there were many games that looked awesome on both PS3 and X360. But now in my situation there is no reason to hesitate.
Gosh, it currently is the best reason to buy Move.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
Compatibility probably won't be that great, so I wouldn't get too excited.
Minsc
Gold Member
Charred Greyface said:
Well if it had native Move support, and gave you access to PS3 games (as a PS3 tends to do), that'd be a pretty decent factor for some of people. Now that I see the system's been hacked, my only concern would be that dolphin tends to need fast CPUs for some games, and all the extra cores of the PS3 won't do squat (past 2), but that's probably just a matter of optimization / time. Eventually it shouldn't be a problem.
If only the PS3 drive could natively read Wii discs, then with this you could make the SD Wii completely a thing of the past.
PS3 is nowhere near powerful enough, in my opinion. The Power cores inside the PS3 are quite different in architecture than the G4-style CPU in the Wii. Like comparing an x86 chip to Itanium or something like that. Whether the instruction sets would correlate you'd have to ask somebody who's worked on both chips.
If an i5 has trouble (which handily smokes the cell) you'd better belive it'll take some talented programming.
If an i5 has trouble (which handily smokes the cell) you'd better belive it'll take some talented programming.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
:lol
Don't get your hopes up people. In fact don't expect anything at all.
Don't get your hopes up people. In fact don't expect anything at all.
Prime Blue
Member
Have yourself some RE4 lava room!
Hard to believe this was released six years ago.
Hard to believe this was released six years ago.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Damn, I need to go wrap up my Dolphin playthrough of that. I was like half-way through the castle.Prime Blue said:
Cow Mengde
Banned
Drkirby said:
Considering PC's many times more powerful than PS3 is need to get some games running smoothly, I'd say no.
Found this googling.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Hey it's PS3 fantasy time on Gaf, cut them some slack. First a thread wondering why games aren't actually 1080p on PS3 and now Wii games emulated on a PS3 in a playable form :lol
I wonder what will be dreamed up next.
(I do own a PS3).
I wonder what will be dreamed up next.
(I do own a PS3).
Stallion Free said:
You'd have an easier time directly running X360 games on the PS3 than you would emulating the Wii. At least the main cores of the 360 are pretty much the same a the main core on the PS3.
This project is a non-starter by the sound of it, I'm not even sure why it was suggested in that original link.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Prime Blue said:
BTW, are you using any high resolution texture hacks for this game? I saw one a few weeks ago and even posted pictures of it here.
Someone should really load up those hacks and show us what RE4 looks like on Dolphin.
I wonder if anyone here actually believed the 4D 1080p 120fps stuff back in 2006.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
What problems does RE4 have and how does it run?
UncleSporky
Member
Right, it's not like Wii code would ever reference any internal hardware in a specific, assumptive way. You can just stick a Wii disc in and go.pcostabel said:
VivaciousSoul
Member
Speaking of PS3 I finally got the dual shock to work with the emulator. Still not sure which bluetooth dongle to go for (one that won't give me problems) so the DS3 is certainly less awkward than the keyboard in the meanwhile.
One thing I won't be able to reconcile is how on PlayStation controllers the bottom button (X) is the accept button. On Nintendo controllers the right button (A) is the accept button. When I have a PlayStation controller in my hand, it just feels like if I want to accept I must press the bottom button. While with a Nintendo controller (classic controller pro) my thumb automatically targets A.
Jailbreak is interesting but I'm not too interested in using PS3 for Dolphin. Can't help but feeling that what I can do with it would be compromised. Enhanced Wii emulating is what I have the Core i7 for. And I'm just recently getting into Dolphin. Dolphin wasn't on my mind when I bought it.
I echo the sentiment that the real HD of the emulator does have something on the almost HD in a lot of cases of 360/PS3
Finally I hope this gets to the point where I can buy Wii games, rip them to my hard drive and almost never open the case again.
Edit: Actually it kind of already is that way already with USB loading. NMH2, MH3, TvC, SMG2, M:OM, have not seen the Wii's drive but once or twice. I like it this way.
One thing I won't be able to reconcile is how on PlayStation controllers the bottom button (X) is the accept button. On Nintendo controllers the right button (A) is the accept button. When I have a PlayStation controller in my hand, it just feels like if I want to accept I must press the bottom button. While with a Nintendo controller (classic controller pro) my thumb automatically targets A.
Jailbreak is interesting but I'm not too interested in using PS3 for Dolphin. Can't help but feeling that what I can do with it would be compromised. Enhanced Wii emulating is what I have the Core i7 for. And I'm just recently getting into Dolphin. Dolphin wasn't on my mind when I bought it.
I echo the sentiment that the real HD of the emulator does have something on the almost HD in a lot of cases of 360/PS3
Finally I hope this gets to the point where I can buy Wii games, rip them to my hard drive and almost never open the case again.
Edit: Actually it kind of already is that way already with USB loading. NMH2, MH3, TvC, SMG2, M:OM, have not seen the Wii's drive but once or twice. I like it this way.
Prime Blue
Member
No, it's the original. I don't like replaced textures, they may be sharper but they hardly ever make the environments look right.Cow Mengde said:
Starwolf_UK
Member
Unless you have some stupidly obscure model of LG drive you're going to have to dump them..using a Wii...follow the links in the first post of this topic.TheOGB said:
And sometimes the solution is a completely different thing to what you initially imagined...sad thing is it was really fast and easy too :lolStarwolf_UK said:
So, Bit.Trip Runner. (using r6206...yes that must be an ancient build by now...) Sound feels a big lagged...and my hopes of abusing savestates (weaksauce I know) are dashed by the fact reloading them likes to randomly lock up the remote most of the time (as in you'll press a button but it'll be held down and the emulator refuses to accept any other input). 2 screenshots:
Yes its a fucking PNG but its only 178kb
I also tried Bit.Trip void (nice and clean, scales well, I think the whole series will be like this), Icarian (crashed after making save :lol solution?*) and And Yet it moves (yeah...to make the game 40MB graphics did get sacrificed so it looks nowhere as good as the PC version at 1080p, also refused to create saves claiming something was corrupt...I'm guessing importing a save is a way round this*).
*-
Try upgrading from loldionsaur dolphin bulid?
jediyoshi
Member
John said:
Right click the input box for Up so the Configure Control window pops up. Make sure Keyboard Mouse is selected for the Device.
Scroll to the very bottom and select Cursor Y-, hit the Select button, and then the Set button. Repeat for the rest, here's the binds for reference
Up = Cursor Y-
Down = Cursor Y+
Left = Cursor X-
Right = Cursor X+
You might also want to raise the actual sensitivity for the mouse as on rails shooters can get your hand tired pretty quick.
Wii CPU is a modified G3. As for ISA compatibility - the PowerPC parts of it are compliant - customized stuff obviously isn't.StevieP said:
That said I recall Pentiums around ~1.5ghz being enough to emulate 600-700mhz PPCs (and that was half a decade ago), so I doubt CPU emulation would be the major issue - but that's really just a small part of emulation.
Architecturally Wii on PS3 would be easier then say, PS2, but from perspective of porting PC emulator codebases I wouldn't have my hopes up for any of them.
Fuck that's hot! How are Phenoms when it comes to dolphin? I'm building a new pc and it'd be great to be able run my Wii games at a higher res!Starwolf_UK said:Unless you have some stupidly obscure model of LG drive you're going to have to dump them..using a Wii...follow the links in the first post of this topic.
And sometimes the solution is a completely different thing to what you initially imagined...sad thing is it was really fast and easy too :lol
So, Bit.Trip Runner. (using r6206...yes that must be an ancient build by now...) Sound feels a big lagged...and my hopes of abusing savestates (weaksauce I know) are dashed by the fact reloading them likes to randomly lock up the remote most of the time (as in you'll press a button but it'll be held down and the emulator refuses to accept any other input). 2 screenshots:
Yes its a fucking PNG but its only 178kb
I also tried Bit.Trip void (nice and clean, scales well, I think the whole series will be like this), Icarian (crashed after making save :lol solution?*) and And Yet it moves (yeah...to make the game 40MB graphics did get sacrificed so it looks nowhere as good as the PC version at 1080p, also refused to create saves claiming something was corrupt...I'm guessing importing a save is a way round this*).
*-Try upgrading from loldionsaur dolphin bulid?
brochiller
Member
This is kind of off topic but these screens are so amazing I have to know. Will it be possible (and if so, probable) for Nintendo to make the Wii HD or whatever it will be called so that it can upscale Wii games like emulation can? Because that would be awesome.
UtadaBarkley
Member
brochiller said:
It seems like some 3rd party could release some sort of box to sit between your Wii and your TV, and do the conversion...but I guess that's easier said than done. I wish such a device existed.