Over eight years and nearly 22,000 commits since the release of Dolphin 5.0 in June of 2016, Dolphin has evolved to become a stable and accurate emulator of both the Nintendo Wii and GameCube. It currently boasts impressive title support and a range of enhancements and features that elevate the emulation experience. In a big change forward, Dolphin is now moving to a rolling release model starting with version 2407 (for July 2024).

This new approach includes frequent updates with changelogs, hotfixes, and date-based versioning, eliminating the need for the previous stable release scheme. The new release strategy aims to provide continuous improvement without long development pauses, that should enhance both infrastructure and user experience.

Here are the details of the new rolling release scheme:

• The first two digits are the year, and the second two are the month. 2407 codifies a release from July 2024.
• All subsequent dev builds after a release will be numbers added on to it. For example, 144 commits after 2409 would result in dev build 2409-144.
• Our next release will be 240X. Yes, it will be in just a few months from now!
• Hotfix releases will have the addition of a suffix. For example, a single hotfix to Dolphin 2409 would be "Dolphin 2409a".
• Beta builds are being replaced by releases. All users in the beta update track will be moved to the new release track.

If you are already using the latest beta or dev releases, not much should change, however if you are still using the previous 5.0 stable release you should head over to the site now and upgrade to the latest version to take advantage of the incredible work done by the team. This 2407 release is available for download immediately for Windows x86-64, Windows ARM64, macOS, and Android.

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[Retrojunkies]

Yet it still lacks one of the very basic features.

Per Game Config.

Annoying when you have to keep remembering each games tweaks such as fixing the blue/green codec background when playing MGS TS.

When one may fix something in one game, can then cause issues for another.

Would also be handy if its cheat feature could be teaked so you don't have to keep cloning a code in order to edit it and have the cheat finder/memory viewer as its own window so you can keep it open and running along side your game rather than having to keep using the top menu and navigate to it again.

 

[Quore]

Cool
When Port for Anerbnic RG35XX SP?

WTF

 

[raxadian]

Seems the most up to date version in Linux, unless you install the binaries yourself is the unofficial flatpak one that's also lagy cause flatpak -_-

 

[hamohamo]

Tbqh, I think Dolphin devs should maybe conclude the project. It's already open source and they've been working on it for like 7 centuries and it works perfect.

 

[4d1xlaan]

Yet it still lacks one of the very basic features.

Per Game Config.

Is this 2012? This has been a thing for like... ever

 

[jacobias13]

My heart dropped for a second until I realized it was a good announcement and not a bad one.

 

[Deleted member 476408]

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[hamohamo]

It wouldn't be in a good state if they concluded development, still a lot more to go!

It wouldn’t be in a good state if they concluded it 10 years ago. Now it’s in a perfect state and there’s not much they can add upon it.

 

[Deleted member 476408]

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[Subtle Demise]

Yeah Dolphin's been around forever, so why would Nintendo just now sue them? They don't care about emulators unless it's for the Switch or a console that's still supported.

Dolphin was playing commercial games at full speed or close to it while both the Gamecube and Wii were current, so that's not the reason either.

 

[SaulFabre]

Nice work as always, Dolphin team. Long life to the emulation of GameCube and Wii

 

[LoggerMan]

Wonder if Nintendo could use Dolphin to run games they could sell on Steam and such one day. Not that they ever would, but would be nice to legally pay for old games. Not that I would.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Wonder if Nintendo could use Dolphin to run games they could sell on Steam and such one day. Not that they ever would, but would be nice to legally pay for old games. Not that I would.

highly doubtful since they already dmca dolphin on steam!

 

[Tofu_mommy]

Wonder if Nintendo could use Dolphin to run games they could sell on Steam and such one day. Not that they ever would, but would be nice to legally pay for old games. Not that I would.

They tend to roll their own emulators, even if they exhibit awfully similar issues to Dolphin. I don't think they have any PC-related plans these days, but I assume wherever they want to bring GC/Wii games, they'd just have NERD whip up something, especially to avoid all the parts of GPL they might not be fond of, like giving out the source code to any changes they've made.

 

[impeeza]

Yet it still lacks one of the very basic features.

Per Game Config.

Annoying when you have to keep remembering each games tweaks such as fixing the blue/green codec background when playing MGS TS.

When one may fix something in one game, can then cause issues for another.

Would also be handy if its cheat feature could be teaked so you don't have to keep cloning a code in order to edit it and have the cheat finder/memory viewer as its own window so you can keep it open and running along side your game rather than having to keep using the top menu and navigate to it again.

Have you open a issue asking for that features to be added? They will be great additions

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They tend to roll their own emulators, even if they exhibit awfully similar issues to Dolphin. I don't think they have any PC-related plans these days, but I assume wherever they want to bring GC/Wii games, they'd just have NERD whip up something, especially to avoid all the parts of GPL they might not be fond of, like giving out the source code to any changes they've made.

Some old myth tell a emulation on the wii had code stolen from Nesticle, even visible in the binaries

 

[SylverReZ]

I thought this announcement was the end of Dolphin.

 

[urbanman2004]

I've always preferred development builds of Dolphin which debut all the new features prior to them being integrated into the stable version so when Dolphin transitioned to 2407 after version 5.0, it wasn't that significant of an announcement for me IMHO.

 

[Axtinxalt]

love dolphin

 

[impeeza]

love dolphin

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