Dolphin 5.0 Officially Released




Dolphin Emulator, the most popular (and pretty much only good) GC and Wii emulator has reached their latest milestone, 5.0! It's been ~3 years since the release of 4.0, and during that time there have been thousands and thousands of fixes for games of all kinds. Dolphin 5.0 re-adds support for stereoscopic output, official zFreeze support, official ES_Launch support (so you can play those lovely, lovely masterpieces on Super Smash Bros Brawl!), improved Netplay and more!

With this new release, the requirements have changed:
  • 64-bit CPUs and Operating Systems are required.
  • Windows XP is no longer supported. Windows Vista is no longer officially supported.
  • Direct3D10/OpenGL3 Required. This means AMD Radeon 4xxx, NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx, or Intel HD 2xxx minimum! Anything older than that will most likely not work or will have significant glitches
You can check out the full-ish "changelog" here, and as always you can grab the emulator itself at Dolphin Emu's official website.


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I was getting somewhere around 50 fps on the title screen of that glitchy mess (which is usually a rarity for basically any Gamecube game running on my computer), so maybe I'll get atleast some mediorce results...? But hey, I'm pretty sure we'd both take a much lower framerate over seizure inducing graphics any day.

Your CPU and other specs unfortunately don't meet the minimum requirements, you would have to upgrade somehow.
 
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Can probably just extract the ROMs from the VC file and then run them off their respective PC emulator
 

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Can probably just extract the ROMs from the VC file and then run them off their respective PC emulator

It's not as simple as extracting, I don't even know if that can be done unless one knew the exact offsets on where the ROM began and where it ended, top that off that they'd have to be converted to ELF format, typically. That there requires one having the Wii/Wii U SDK tools to convert RPX to ELF, and knowing which offset on where the ROM began and ended. Nintendo doesn't make it user friendly at all :P

>Using cpuboss
Your computer knowledge is low.

Well, that user's CPU isn't anywhere near the requirements for Dolphin, a Haswell/Skylake Core i5 or equivalent is plenty for his needs.
 
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>Using cpuboss
Your computer knowledge is low.
It gives a basic understanding of the CPUs. I knew before looking at CPUboss that it was much worse, so needed some kind of statistics to prove it, and cpuboss was ok. Also it doesn't take much knowledge to know that a cheap APU released in 2011 can't run Dolphin at reasonable framerates.
 
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How does one do that?

You need to dump the VC games with DDD first, convert the RPX to ELF using the rpl2elf program (thankfully, it's doesn't require the Wii U SDK as I accidentally said), a hex editor like HxD, finding out where the ROM begins and ends, and then extracting it? I never tried that, the process it quite tedious but I only injected ROMs into VC games, so I don't know. Summed up, it's probably better to just use standalone emulators for games as running emulators in emulators isn't all it's cracked up to be TBH.
 

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You need to dump the VC games with DDD first, convert the RPX to ELF using the rpl2elf program (thankfully, it's doesn't require the Wii U SDK as I accidentally said), a hex editor like HxD, finding out where the ROM begins and ends, and then extracting it? I never tried that, the process it quite tedious but I only injected ROMs into VC games, so I don't know. Summed up, it's probably better to just use standalone emulators for games as running emulators in emulators isn't all it's cracked up to be TBH.
I think they was talking about WII VC not WII U VC the one that work in dolphin, the wad files. :unsure:
 
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I think they was talking about WII VC not WII U VC the one that work in dolphin, the wad files. :unsure:

The process would still be similar, you'd have to somehow dump the WAD, get a hex editor and find out which offsets the ROM began and ended, and try to extract a selection or a block of code from those two offsets. Either way, Nintendo doesn't make it easy.
 

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I was getting somewhere around 50 fps on the title screen of that glitchy mess (which is usually a rarity for basically any Gamecube game running on my computer), so maybe I'll get atleast some mediorce results...? But hey, I'm pretty sure we'd both take a much lower framerate over seizure inducing graphics any day.

Lol, I don't know how old is your pc but my samsung laptop is 5 years old that was salvage from an electronic dumpster can still run circles around yours. If my 5 year old laptop can run dolphin smoothly, it's about time you buy or build a new pc. That old piece of shit of yours, just install Linux and turn it into a torrent slave.
 
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I3 3220 dual core, 720p full speed most games. Im thinking of getting the new i5 6500 skylake, alternative i could try to get e3 xeon 1231v3. Even though they did a very very good job and the dx12 for sure helped as well.
If only pcsx2 used dx12 or vulkan to improve fps.
 

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I3 3220 dual core, 720p full speed most games. Im thinking of getting the new i5 6500 skylake, alternative i could try to get e3 xeon 1231v3. Even though they did a very very good job and the dx12 for sure helped as well.
If only pcsx2 used dx12 or vulkan to improve fps.
I have i7 5500U, it's pretty good
 

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Still cant run Super Mario Sunshine on a steady framerate even on Native res and no AA turned on. Also followed the configuration settings and still no luck.

Heres my system specs. (dont have a GPU right now)

Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.5 GHz | ASUS Z87-DELUXE | G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB + Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache | CORSAIR TX850M 850W | Cooler Master HAF 932 | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
You need a gpu ofc xD
 

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