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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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Looks like Twilight Princess now runs full speed without the "Hyrule Field" patch active, so saw an immediate improvement there. Skyward Sword ran a little better, but it still tends to stutter when new sounds are activated. (So I will still use a special 4.x build for that one)
 
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I think I might finally try it out! great video.
so dolphin is not "just" a GC/Wii emulator, but also does NES/SNES and GBA?
 
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naddel81 said:
I think I might finally try it out! great video.
so dolphin is not "just" a GC/Wii emulator, but also does NES/SNES and GBA?
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Are you not aware of virtual console? That is how nes, snes games are played, and no, gba uses a emulator to connect like the chao garden in sonic advance and sonic adventure 2 battle
 
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Sonic Angel Knight said:
Are you not aware of virtual console? That is how nes, snes games are played, and no, gba uses a emulator to connect like the chao garden in sonic advance and sonic adventure 2 battle
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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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