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Dolphin can now emulate every GameCube game
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purseowner
Member
The Dolphin project is a truly stunning feat. Bravo.
User123456
Member
Another win for game preservation. My hat's off to every Dolphin contributor.
Robot Pants
Member
Siiiiiick
KZXcellent
Member
The best emulator around. So good.
Dreamwriter
Member
I wouldn't consider being able to boot a game emulating it. If you can't play the game, it isn't emulated.
Seems to be running fine in the YT video.
Did you bother simply entering the link? The game's playable.
KojiKnight
Member
Still illegal, still dumb to ask.
Buy a cheap used wii, it's so easy to dump wii/gcn games these days.
If you have a Wii it is pretty easy to rip Gamecube discs to an iso on an SD card/USB.
Guide here.
Edit: I actually think it's possible on a Gamecube itself, but you need the network adapter (preferably the broadband one) and a way of launching homebrew. It's way easier on a Wii.
ProfessorLobo
Banned
Nice, that game is underrated. Surprisingly fun split screen coop
DangerMouse
Member
This emulator is so damned good.
Sevenfold
Member
I'm not sure I agree about the illegal part and thanks for the insult. Your input is welcome.
Got a WiiU but no Wii. I'll have a look at the guide, cheers.
Edit: I don't have the network adapter for the GC.
I have a friend with a Wii. I think that will be best.
KojiKnight
Member
Surprisingly well, better than it used to, but still on the higher end of gcn due to how they abuse the GameCube's arch. So expect slow downs on moderate hardware.
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, and you can disagree if you like, but nearly every country's law that deals with copying software state that it has to be a copy of your software, not some random person on the internet.
Forever Changes
Banned
Do what you want, bro.
Whether you think it's unethical or not is your opinion, but it is, technically, objectively illegal.
Platinum Mad
Banned
It has improved tremendously over the last couple of years. I could barely run it a few years ago and now I can have 4K Skyward Sword run perfectly.
Possibly the best emulator to exist.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
In some countries it at least makes no difference, in Germany for instance, breaking a(n effective) copyright is a violation of law. However, I'm not aware of any judgment of a case where someone downloaded or ripped a software he owned legally for play (and nothing else). I could imagine that this would not be such a clear-cut case.
Don't do this here. People already have reservations about emulation as a grey moral line without you bringing blatant illegality into the conversation.
If you want to steal games for free, do it on your own
potatohead
Member
Incredibly well, especially with the CPU underclock feature.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Hats off to the developers.
Excellent. I still own copy of those and always wanted to play them in HD.
soxinthebox
Member
It's great the level of attention the emulator gets
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Of all the games, Clone Wars was the hardest to emulate? Heh. I've actually been meaning to pick up a copy forever too. Fun game, even if it's not exact the best Star Wars game ever.
Sevenfold
Member
OK, not trying to shit up the thread, and not gonna die on this hill.
The disk is in good shape, SD card it is.
You can overclock the emulated CPU to improve performance. Some games that ran at a varying 30-60 fps on the console can run at a locked 60 on Dolphin. Beyond Good & Evil is one game in particular that really benefits.
SoulUnison
Banned
Can Dolphin play straight from GC mini-DVDs if you have an optical drive that can take that size?
Dolphin is a truly stunning technical achievement, already one of the best emulators ever created, and still with a very active and dedicated development community.
I wish all other retro systems had an emulator as good as Dolphin was a year ago, never mind the marvel it will be in a years time.
I wish all other retro systems had an emulator as good as Dolphin was a year ago, never mind the marvel it will be in a years time.
No. Very, very few PC drives can actually read GCN or Wii Discs and the chances of you coincidentally having one is close to none.
The best way to play your games is to rip them onto a USB drive using a soft modded Wii.
Bet Wario World still runs like shit
The title of this topic is a bit misleading. Dolphin can boot every single GameCube game. Saying that it can emulate them gives the impression that they can run well enough, which is not the case for every single game.
That being said, it's a massive achievement. Congrats to the team for making Dolphin such a beast of an emulator!
The same goes here. The article clearly says "booting", not "emulate perfectly". Also, what "emulation" really is can be up for debate. Do you consider ZSNES a good SNES emulator because you can play games on it? Or do you need it to be as accurate as Higan for it being proper emulation? Either way, this is not what the thread is about. If you had read the article you would have known...
Yeah I had to read the OP at first to understand that not every game runs flawlessly. Still, it's a very impressive feat, and expecting every GameCube game known to mankind to run perfectly accurate on Dolphin is a pipedream anyway.
User123456
Member
Retro systems usually have far better emulators than dolphin, though. Speaking about pre-GC systems, all the gameboys, NES, SNES, SMS, MegaDrive + addons and PS1 all work pretty much flawlessly.
bSnes, Mednafen PSX and Genesis GX Plus are ridiculously accurate.
This is fucking amazing.
But now I wonder... Is Dolphin open source? Could it theoretically be ported over to some Hyperkin type retro/emulation console? Using a custom linux OS.
I'd kill for a SegaCD/PS1/Saturn/PS2/GameCube disc based console. I'd add Dreamcast as well but, well, you'd need a GD-Rom drive for that.
But now I wonder... Is Dolphin open source? Could it theoretically be ported over to some Hyperkin type retro/emulation console? Using a custom linux OS.
I'd kill for a SegaCD/PS1/Saturn/PS2/GameCube disc based console. I'd add Dreamcast as well but, well, you'd need a GD-Rom drive for that.
As amazing as Dolphin is, I think PPSSPP is actually the most amazing emulator ever created. Rerendering psp games in higher resolution makes them look better than most early ps3 games imo. And it works on my ancient craptop, and on Android, unlike Dolphin, and has the best GUI of any emulator ever, plus I can use my actual psp as a controller for 1:1 HD PSP experience if I want (though who would want to use the psp as a controller lol)
But I think PPSSPP is made by the same devs as dolphin so it makes sense why its so awesome.
But I think PPSSPP is made by the same devs as dolphin so it makes sense why its so awesome.
It's less amazing because of user features and more because of the tech side IMO.
I'm currently playing Dracula X Chronicles on my Vita and then i saw emulated PPSSPP footage. Holy fuck!
MetalSlug
Member
I got my old Wii all set up and did that with Resident Evil 3. I managed to load it up on Dolphin, but I couldn't get past a screen stating something about a memory card region or something.
Not tried any of my other games yet.