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[SOLDIER]

The Super Best Friends' LP on Mega Man X Command Mission made me curious: what are the most impressive looking Gamecube and Wii games when given their respective graphical settings on Dolphin? Which ones pull off the widescreen hack, texture upressing and 3D?

Pics and/or vids recommended.

 

[tkscz]

I'm at work so I can't post pics but holy shit does Mario Sunshine look amazing on Dolphin.

 

[gngf123]

Skyward Sword looks amazing in Dolphin.

 

[dukie85]

I only played a bit, but Galaxy looks ridiculous on Dolphin

 

[sixteen-bit]

Soul Calibur 2 looks great at 4K

 

[Vortex566]

Soul Calibur 2 looks great at 4K

What's your spec to run it at 4K?

 

[Deleted member 465307]

Skyward Sword looks amazing in Dolphin.

I only played a bit, but Galaxy looks ridiculous on Dolphin

These are the two that come to mind for me. When I see these games played in HD, I think they hold up extremely well and think they wouldn't require much work for an HD remaster (SS perhaps more than SMG because SMG had a few rough textures I remember).

Another one I see is Wind Waker. Basically, the more the artstyle was stylized and not attempting anything close to realism, the better they appear to me in Dolphin.

EDIT: Oh yeah, just remembered Xenoblade. Seems like other people did, too.

 

[Talax]

xenoblade is sublime on it.

 

[daemonic]

Xenoblade - the level of detail on the character costumes and weapons is completely lost on the Wii. The game is by no means a graphical masterpiece but it looks fantastic on Dolphin if you can get it running.

Also both Mario Galaxies without a doubt.

 

[Iceternal]

Xenoblade - the level of detail on the character costumes and weapons is completely lost on the Wii. The game is by no means a graphical masterpiece but it looks fantastic on Dolphin if you can get it running.

Also both Mario Galaxies without a doubt.

Game is unplayable to me though. Too much stuttering.

 

[Tigerfog]

Killer 7 looks stunning on Dolphin.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167410431&postcount=144

 

[petran79]

Tatsunoko vs Capcom, also due to 60 fps. Much better art direction than MVC3.

Sonic Colors looks even better than the newer Sonic Generations. If it only run higher than 30fps.

 

[Gai Murakumo]

F-Zero GX on Dolphin looks phenomenal.

 

[Adam_Roman]

I prefer the look of Wind Waker in Dolphin to Wind Waker HD.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Mario Galaxy
Skyward Sword
Kirby's Epic Yarn
F-Zero GX
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wind Waker (I actually prefer this to the HD version)

These come to mind immediately. I'll take screenshots in a bit if I'm not distracted by something else.

 

[Nerrel]

My favorites to play in Dolphin:

Resident Evil 4. Aside from the abysmal texture resolutions, it still looks impressive:

Metroid Prime Trilogy. Some of the best art design in gaming history, it really deserves to be seen in HD. I've even gotten ambient occlusion working well in Ishikura:

Other M (it looks amazing, deal with it):

Skyward Sword:

The Mario Galaxy games are also mind-blowing.

Xenoblade can also be pretty stunning from a distance:

Basically everything made by Nintendo looks amazing in Dolphin.

 

[RAWRferal]

Wind waker plus the HD texture pack looks like it was released yesterday, mostly. Absolutely beautiful, must get a dolphin bar so I can check out some Wii titles too.

 

[Nostremitus]

Game is unplayable to me though. Too much stuttering.

Have you tried it since the DX12 back end was added?

What's your setup?

 

[SOLDIER]

What's the quickie guide to getting these games looking their best with a 1920x1080 resolution, on Windows 10 64 bit?

 

[Greatest Ever]

Super Mario Galaxy, both of them

 

[Dereck]

GTX 1080 4K Super Mario Galaxy 2 60FPS

 

[jediyoshi]

Mario Galaxy has aged like fine wine

 

[Rudiano]

 

[dhonk]

Mario Galaxy has aged like fine wine

that 2nd one

f u c k

 

[RockmanBN]

Have you tried it since the DX12 back end was added?

What's your setup?

Not that person but I've had the same problem as well even with DX12. I've been able to run other Wii games but Xenoblade always gives me stuttering issues. Though it's probably my laptops gtx 860m fault.

 

[Zoloft Sonic]

Good lord some of these shots. This is the crux of why I love-hate Nintendo. They make some of the world's best-designed game, right down to every inidividual asset, then they release it once on Fisher Price hardware that can't do it justice.

Limiting games like the Galaxy series to SD is like if Disney had produced 'Fantasia', and released it only on VHS. The source material is so good, the format is actually doing it disservice.

 

[Nostremitus]

Not that person but I've had the same problem as well even with DX12. I've been able to run other Wii games but Xenoblade always gives me stuttering issues. Though it's probably my laptops gtx 860m fault.

Ah... Probably...

I can play it at 4k with an overclocked 2500k and a 290x.

 

[Dmax3901]

Will post some pics when I get home in the next 40 mins or so.

 

[breakfuss]

GTX 1080 4K Super Mario Galaxy 2 60FPS

This is porn. Like..my god.

 

[mjp2417]

Galaxy 1 and 2 are two of the most breathtaking looking games on PC, period.

 

[MattKeil]

Endless Ocean 2 looks pretty great on Dolphin.

Galaxy 1 and 2 are two of the most breathtaking looking games on PC, period.

Maybe if you're comparing them to games around the time they came out. I mean they look great compared to being gimped on the underpowered Wii hardware, but they're not particularly amazing beyond "Wow, so that's what they could have looked like."

 

[Battlechili]

Fragile Dreams: Farewell, Ruins of the Moon looks gorgeous in HD in Dolphin.
I'd post pics but...How do I post images so that they only look big if you click on them? I don't actually know how to do this.

EDIT:

 

[Sora the Cat]

Mario Galaxy blew my mind when I tried it a while ago on 1080p.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Galaxy games just look phenomenal. Dolphin is the best

 

[Dusk Golem]

Fragile Dreams: Farewell, Ruins of the Moon looks gorgeous in HD in Dolphin.
I'd post pics but...How do I post images so that they only look big if you click on them? I don't actually know how to do this.

You beat me to it, Fragile Dreams looks great through Dolphin.

(and you use quotation tags around the images for your question)

Generally games that had good art directions look good in Dolphin, the shots I posted aren't even close to the best looking parts of the game, just easy to find images.

I actually think Fatal Frame 4 & 2 Wii Remake translate surprisingly well on Dolphin.

 

[Kuosi]

Wind waker plus the HD texture pack looks like it was released yesterday, mostly. Absolutely beautiful, must get a dolphin bar so I can check out some Wii titles too.

so much this, it's stunning

 

[mjp2417]

Endless Ocean 2 looks pretty great on Dolphin.



Maybe if you're comparing them to games around the time they came out. I mean they look great compared to being gimped on the underpowered Wii hardware, but they're not particularly amazing beyond "Wow, so that's what they could have looked like."

Sure, I wasn't talking about technical grunt or anything like that. But I'm genuinely struggling to think of games that give me more pleasure to simply look at in motion.

 

[Ogawa-san]

Not much of a technical showcase, but being > 480p does wonders for Punch Out's cel shading.

 

[poodaddy]

I'm gonna have to subscribe to this thread. I've been enjoying Dolphin a good bit but I'd enjoy seeing other's tips and impressions as I've had issues with a select few games. For example, I couldn't get Luigi's Mansion or Melee running well and apparently those games are emulated wonderfully on Dolphin. I also get odd texture glitches in Luigi's Mansion as well. It's a bummer, but yeah Mega man X Command Mission looks absolutely wonderful and runs like a dream on my 965m and i7 laptop, (forget the particular CPU at this moment) and I love that game so much that it alone has been worth the amount of time I spent tinkering.

 

[JustSomeone]

Baten kaitos looks amazing

 

[Call Me A Hero]

Not best but Xenoblade Chronicles with HD textures looks really good.

Without HD texutres:

With HD texutres:

 

[Phazon_Chaos]

Not even to page 2 yet and this thread has already convinced me I'll have to try out Dolphin for my next playthroughs of a bunch of these games (specifically looking at Skyward Sword, the Galaxy games, and Fragile Dreams).

 

[Iceternal]

Have you tried it since the DX12 back end was added?

What's your setup?

I have a 980Ti, 4790K 16GB Ram setup.

Though I admit I haven't tried it since a year ago.

 

[Vitacat]

Tatsunoko vs Capcom, also due to 60 fps. Much better art direction than .

How do you get it to run without stutters? I have a pretty powerful PC (6700k, GTX 1080) but that game still stutters.

 

[Hidden One]

It's time for me to give Dolphin a try..

 

[longnosedgoblin]

I have been playing Muramasa and that looks awesome, haven't even tried it with the texture packs yet.

 

[HazySaiyan]

F-Zero GX and Wind Waker are the first games that come to mind. Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

GTX 1080 4K Super Mario Galaxy 2 60FPS

Amazing.

 

[Easy_D]

Pretty much any and all Nintendo games, they scale incredibly well to high resolutions. Dolphin itself is an incredible emulator too, a majority of games I own run at full speed even on my FX6300, one exception being Rebel Strike .

Edit: You probably don't need a beast like a 1080p to reach 4K 60, when you run Dolphin, the majority of the work is done on the CPU so the GPU is free to do high res rendering, SSAA and all the good stuff. I run most games in downsampled 2K on my 280X.

How do you get it to run without stutters? I have a pretty powerful PC (6700k, GTX 1080) but that game still stutters.

Stutters will be a thing until they implement their new shader generation, until then you'll have to use the Ishiiruka build, since it doesn't pause the game when it generates shaders, it just displays graphics wrong for a split second instead.

 

[Nostremitus]

I have a 980Ti, 4790K 16GB Ram setup.

Though I admit I haven't tried it since a year ago.

Yeah... The DX12 back end did wonders for the CPU emulation. It lets more threads work on emulating the PowerPC.