Dolphin for iOS in the works

WiiUBricker

WiiUBricker

News Police
OP
Banned
Level 18
Joined
Sep 19, 2009
Messages
7,828
Trophies
0
Location
Espresso
XP
7,438
Country
Argentina
gc4ios.png

A developer named William Cobb is currently working on a Dolphin build for iOS, dubbed GC4iOS. An alpha build can be compiled directly from source and apparently it already can run some games at 3 to 20FPS. It requires a 64 bit device, iOS 8.1 and up and runs on both jailbroken and jailed phones. This is what the readme currently says:

Currently GC4iOS uses Dolphin's' PowerPC Interpreter and an OpenGL backend. Most games can be loaded and run between 3 and 20 fps.

Only devices with 2GB of ram have been tested (iPhone 6s, ect). Devices with 1GB may work but have not been tested.

Please note this is an early alpha version. Without JIT, the emulator will not be fast enough to play any games at a playable speed.
Click to expand...
A changelog to a commit from July 1st says:

JIT now working on all jailbroken and jailed phones

The JIT recompiled now works perfectly but the CPU is only running at
1/3 speed.
Click to expand...

I think this is pretty interesting once JIT is 100% restored as iOS devices usually have much better SoCs than Android devices, achieving better scores on benchmarks with just a clockrate of half of the Android competition. The A10 chip, coming up later this year as well as the A10X chip likely will again set the bar very high for mobile SoCs. Lets hope that the JIT problem introduced with iOS 9 will be solved soon.

:arrow: Source: GC4iOS Github, Twitter
 
Last edited by WiiUBricker,
  • Like
Reactions: I pwned U!, Chary, Deleted User and 2 others
osm70

osm70

Well-Known Member
Member
Level 11
Joined
Apr 17, 2011
Messages
1,233
Trophies
1
XP
2,474
Country
Czech Republic
azoreseuropa said:
However, the above said jailbroken and didn't say anything about non-jailbroken in the list.
Click to expand...
WiiUBricker said:

A developer named William Cobb is currently working on a Dolphin build for iOS, dubbed GC4iOS. An alpha build can be compiled directly from source and apparently it already can run some games at 3 to 20FPS. It requires a 64 bit device, iOS 8.1 and up and runs on both jailbroken and jailed phones. This is what the readme currently says:


A changelog to a commit from July 1st says:



I think this is pretty interesting once JIT is 100% restored as iOS devices usually have much better SoCs than Android devices, achieving better scores on benchmarks with just a clockrate of half of the Android competition. The A10 chip, coming up later this year as well as the A10X chip likely will again set the bar very high for mobile SoCs. Lets hope that the JIT problem introduced with iOS 9 will be solved soon.

:arrow: Source: GC4iOS Github, Twitter
Click to expand...
azoreseuropa said:
Yes, I have a Mac. :creep:
Click to expand...
Open Xcode, paste the source code in that, connect your device and install it.
 
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    That sums it up right.
  • Megadriver94 @ Megadriver94:
    I am not it the loop on this, why take it so personally, though? Its just a video game and a work of fiction, at the end of the day.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    I'm sure the devs don't mind refunding my .torrent for it
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    @Megadriver94, because these devs take child hood movies and make them look like shit expecting to profit off it
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Lol
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @K3N1, That's what happens to every movie franchise.
  • Megadriver94 @ Megadriver94:
    Oh alright then, I can see what you are getting at.
  • Sonic Angel Knight @ Sonic Angel Knight:
    Sunday.... sunday dessert night :ninja:
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    With unreal engine their should be no excuse to make any animated figure look like complete shit whent hey have rights to it
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    The voice actor sounds like he didn't get casted for a tim Burton movie
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    but you got to pay for the elvish voices
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    and emotes... in a singleplayer game...
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...-for-the-game-being-very-bad/?sh=fe75c733c872
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Damn the rights to LOTR is like all over the place lol
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Deserved
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    At least we can point and laugh to an indie game that is not worth playing.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Last I read Amazon owns some rights you'd think a billion dollar company could fork more over for a decent game but their last game bricked GPUs so theirs that
     +1
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    Be an e-commerce. Build a game that destroy the GPUs. Sell new GPUs. PROFITS!
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @linuxares, Lol
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Don't forget your 4090 we promise the next LOTR MMO will make it work for more than a year
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Yay for user end replacement parts
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    If your graphics card doesn't work with your game then don't blame us for shitty game performance.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    At least @AncientBoi can run games released in his childhood
     +2
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Marbles and pick up sticks 10/10
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @K3N1, DOOM
    SylverReZ @ SylverReZ: @K3N1, DOOM