This is not my work by any means but can’t believe it hasn’t been posted here yet. As I see it, the more people can test and more can report bugs to improve this emulator.
I'm sure it will be posted here after the official release. But yes, in my tests, it also performs much better than other Dolphin alternatives we have for the Switch.
The primary selling point from the readme:
"It features a hand-written Deko3D backend to give the Switch as much of a fighting chance as possible of reaching the goal of mostly fullspeed GameCube at stock handheld clockspeeds."
Sounds nice. Also fyi the name means "harbour dolphin"
The primary selling point from the readme:
"It features a hand-written Deko3D backend to give the Switch as much of a fighting chance as possible of reaching the goal of mostly fullspeed GameCube at stock handheld clockspeeds."
Sounds nice. Also fyi the name means "harbour dolphin"
I played through to getting onboard Tetras ship in a modified Wind Waker Gamecube ( hd + dpad mod/ patch https://gamebanana.com/mods/715287 ) and it ran a solid 30fps using the deko3d driver and even bumped up the resolution to 720p. I was impressed, next I'll try Soul Calibur 2 and Rogue squadron II.
I wasn't happy with the perofmance unfortunatelly. In most games, I couldn't run them at double the resolution, and even without increasing the resolution, many gamecube games barely run. With PalindromicBreadLoafs port, that's actually possible. Overall, though, Nagaas dolphin port is still impressiv.
I played through to getting onboard Tetras ship in a modified Wind Waker Gamecube ( hd + dpad mod/ patch https://gamebanana.com/mods/715287 ) and it ran a solid 30fps using the deko3d driver and even bumped up the resolution to 720p. I was impressed, next I'll try Soul Calibur 2 and Rogue squadron II.
Finaly the best !! Thanks, i have tested and super perf and no overclock !!!!
Ssx 3 good! but ssx tricky lagy
soulcalibur 2 : game freezes.
Nba street 1 / 2 : Great
NBA street 3 : Lagy
Burnout 1 / Burnout 2 : Great
NFS Hot Pursuit 2 : Great
Crash nitro Kart: Great
Freekstyle : Great
007 : Great
MKDD: Works well but a bit slow.
Mario Pary 4 - 5- 6 - 7 :Great
Virtua striker 3 : Slow Lag
Beach Spikers : slow
Tested with nro Deko3D
Vulkan Not tested
Finaly the best !! Thanks, i have tested and super perf and no overclock !!!!
Ssx 3 good! but ssx tricky lagy
soulcalibur 2 : game freezes.
Nba street 1 / 2 : Great
NBA street 3 : Lagy
Burnout 1 / Burnout 2 : Great
NFS Hot Pursuit 2 : Great
Crash nitro Kart: Great
Freekstyle : Great
007 : Great
MKDD: Works well but a bit slow.
Mario Pary 4 - 5- 6 - 7 :Great
Virtua striker 3 : Slow Lag
Beach Spikers : slow
Tested with nro Deko3D
Vulkan Not tested
If you do moderate CPU OC MKDD is fullspeed. Same with Beach Spikers, fullpeed for majority of the time. There’s slowdowns in certain places but gameplay stays at or near fullspeed all the time.
Naga port is horrible, i did some betatesting for this one and it's almost ~5x faster.
proves why the "vulkan impressive" is bad
because vulkan on switch is inherently broken and not suited for architecture
Depends on the game, settings, and Switch model, I think.
One notable example is Sonic Adventure DX. On Naga's Dolphin, I was getting around 25–40 FPS even at 1785 MHz/460 MHz/1600 MHz. Meanwhile, with this version, I can run it at full speed most of the time, with occasional dips to 50–55 FPS and even rarer drops to around 40 FPS, using the same clock speeds.
I used the default emulator settings for both versions, and my Switch is a V1.
Soul Calibur II ran great, but I had to disable FASTMEM or it would crash. 1224mhz didnt run great but above 1785mhz it did better. 1996mhz was perfect with 60fps, even bumped the resolution up one notch. It definitely ran 10 C cooler than nagas Dolphin. Rogue Squadron II ran better too, but I didnt adjust any of the settings. I remember using 16:9 cheat codes provided better performance than using the dolphin widescreen hack. Something to do with requiring less cpu cycles that way.
Wii Games I tested with v1 overclock and 2x resolution:
Mario Kart Wii: fullspeed with 30fps cheat enabled and hybrid ubershaders to counteract missing textures.
ExiteBots: fullspeed.
ExiteTruck: fullspeed with VBI Frequency Override 50% (acts like a 30fps cheat).
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