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Dolphin 5.0 Officially Released


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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
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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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naddel81 said:
ok, so I have to load the .wad (VC games) for NES/SNES and such, right? why won't I use the standalone NES/SNES emulators? what is the advantage of dolphin NES/SNES VC emulation?
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I don't know to be honest, there some vc games that are released offically in more countries than the original ones, also some also feature offical patches and bug fixes by the publisher, like phantasy star using asm patches to fix some things in the game, or Pulseman being available in the usa while only being japan exclusive on genesis.

Games like sin and punishment on n64 is translated and controller mapped to function better with the fact the orinial game was never released outside japan.
 
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Sonic Angel Knight said:
I don't know to be honest, there some vc games that are released offically in more countries than the original ones, also some also feature offical patches and bug fixes by the publisher, like phantasy star using asm patches to fix some things in the game, or Pulseman being available in the usa while only being japan exclusive on genesis.

Games like sin and punishment on n64 is translated and controller mapped to function better with the fact the orinial game was never released outside japan.
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so one final question remains: how do I connect my bongos to dolphin?
 
Went and gave it a try, but only with one game so far. I still have a few more to test, but MadWorld seems to run a bit nicer, although I'll have to import my save and see if one of the stages' extreme lag was fixed. One of the early levels lags hardcore, dropping the game from 30FPS to single digits and I can't seem to find a reason for it yet.
 
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Sonic Angel Knight said:
I don't know to be honest, there some vc games that are released offically in more countries than the original ones, also some also feature offical patches and bug fixes by the publisher, like phantasy star using asm patches to fix some things in the game, or Pulseman being available in the usa while only being japan exclusive on genesis.

Games like sin and punishment on n64 is translated and controller mapped to function better with the fact the orinial game was never released outside japan.
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Well, to be honest, Nintendo's own Snes emulation isn't all that accurate, to be blunt, they don't even get the N64 RSP emulated as good as unofficial emulators, not to mention the Snes S-SMP isn't super accurate either. Chrono Trigger has off sounds, to name a few things. There's no real major advantage to running an emulator on an emulator IMHO.
 
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quite amazing to see what have changed and fixed, tested some games were the sound was so bugged, that it got annoying but it seems that they fixed all of them.
 
the_randomizer said:
Well, to be honest, Nintendo's own Snes emulation isn't all that accurate, to be blunt, they don't even get the N64 RSP emulated as good as unofficial emulators, not to mention the Snes S-SMP isn't super accurate either. Chrono Trigger has off sounds, to name a few things. There's no real major advantage to running an emulator on an emulator IMHO.
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Yeah, i know that, the idea of using a emulator to run a emulator seem silly but that wasn't the point i was making, the point i was making is that there are unique features tol the vc games like the patches and possible translations like sin and punishment, or phantasy star asm patches. I personally wouldn't use vc emulation on a emulator unless necessary. But then, always good go have options to make it useable for the individual.:)
 
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
 

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