Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games

Medalion said:
Mario Sunshine was a beautiful game, but it was kinda boring to play.
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Nintendo should re-release the Sunshine "Secret of..." levels and just go crazy adding more levels. Even though I felt like a masochist playing those levels, no other mario game provides that kind of hardcore platforming bliss out of the box.
 
Just got a new 13 inch macbook pro and was wondering if there is any chance of emulating wii games on it? honestly i would be happy with running games at the normal resolution. I have a few wii games started that i wouldnt mind finishing.
 
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Wait, R:Racing is good?

I bought it for pacman VS (which is fucking godly with all 4 players), never put more than a few hours into R:Racing.
 
Yes, it was actually a very good racing game that was unfairly mauled by reviewers. Think of it as a more serious take on Ridge Racer with a strange but enjoyable story mode and some unique features that sadly never made their way into other racing games.
 
Azure Phoenix said:
Yes, it was actually a very good racing game that was unfairly mauled by reviewers. Think of it as a more serious take on Ridge Racer with a strange but enjoyable story mode and some unique features that sadly never made their way into other racing games.
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...dammit. One more game in my backlog.
 
If I wanted to run say NSMBW or what not, would I be better off going for a Core i5 CPU or would a high frequency i3 be sufficient?

Me E8400 (stock @ 3ghz) was being maxed out at 100% at 720p (20~25fps) and I've read around on here of folks being able to run it at or near full speed ...so figured time to up the CPU...running a GTS 250 for video.
 
SappYoda said:
Holy shit at Resident Evil, that's HL2 quality.
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Err, Half-Life 2 is a game from 2004 and existed on the original XBOX.

Darkside Chronicles is also a rail shooter and lacks the same level of physics and pixel shaders as HL2 in addition to running at 640x480x16. It's a great looking Wii game, but it's not really a feat for the system. It's the kind of stuff we should have expected from the Wii to begin with.
 
rykomatsu said:
If I wanted to run say NSMBW or what not, would I be better off going for a Core i5 CPU or would a high frequency i3 be sufficient?

Me E8400 (stock @ 3ghz) was being maxed out at 100% at 720p (20~25fps) and I've read around on here of folks being able to run it at or near full speed ...so figured time to up the CPU...running a GTS 250 for video.
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What else does your PC have? RAM? 64-bit OS? What sort of settings are you using?

Granted, it really depends on the game, but most Wii games run 60fps for me at 1680x1050 4xssaa and my setup is not quite as high as some of the others in here.
 
dark10x said:
Err, Half-Life 2 is a game from 2004 and existed on the original XBOX.

Darkside Chronicles is also a rail shooter and lacks the same level of physics and pixel shaders as HL2 in addition to running at 640x480x16. It's a great looking Wii game, but it's not really a feat for the system. It's the kind of stuff we should have expected from the Wii to begin with.
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It's what I expected at the outset at least.

Developers stopped me from believing they'd ever try though.:lol
 
hikarutilmitt said:
What else does your PC have? RAM? 64-bit OS? What sort of settings are you using?

Granted, it really depends on the game, but most Wii games run 60fps for me at 1680x1050 4xssaa and my setup is not quite as high as some of the others in here.
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CPU: E8400 (stock @ 3ghz)
Video: EVGA GeForce 250 GTS (512mb)
Mobo: P35 chipset based (XPC SP35P2)
Memory: 2gbx2 DDR2 PC6400 (5-5-5-12 I think)
OS: Win7 x64

My mobo crapped out last night so can't check settings or SVN I'm using...I believe it was one of the newer OpenCL enabled ones, however.
 
dark10x said:
Err, Half-Life 2 is a game from 2004 and existed on the original XBOX.

Darkside Chronicles is also a rail shooter and lacks the same level of physics and pixel shaders as HL2 in addition to running at 640x480x16. It's a great looking Wii game, but it's not really a feat for the system. It's the kind of stuff we should have expected from the Wii to begin with.
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I heard the Xbox port of HL2 ran like crap and had most of it's effects and bump maps removed. That said, developers aren't exactly making visually amazing games on the Wii save for a few.
 
rykomatsu said:
CPU: E8400 (stock @ 3ghz)
Video: EVGA GeForce 250 GTS (512mb)
Mobo: P35 chipset based (XPC SP35P2)
Memory: 2gbx2 DDR2 PC6400 (5-5-5-12 I think)
OS: Win7 x64

My mobo crapped out last night so can't check settings or SVN I'm using...I believe it was one of the newer OpenCL enabled ones, however.
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Something to see is which gfx plugin you're using, since the DX9 one still seems to give me the best results even though my 4850 can run DX10/11.

Q6600 2.4GHz
Radeon HD4850
4GB DDR2 1066
Win7 64-bit

That's my setup (none of it overclocked) for the important stuff and the only games that run poorly for me are SMG and a handful of "problem" games that seem to crash anyway. It definitely seems like you're being held back by your settings moreso than your CPU.

EDIT: Just noticed it said 2gbx2 and not just 2gb. My bad.
 
hikarutilmitt said:
You could probably stand to double your RAM, at least. Another thing is to see which gfx plugin you're using, since the DX9 one still seems to give me the best results even though my 4850 can run DX10/11.

Q6600 2.4GHz
Radeon HD4850
4GB DDR2 1066
Win7 64-bit

That's my setup (none of it overclocked) for the important stuff and the only games that run poorly for me are SMG and a handful of "problem" games that seem to crash anyway. It definitely seems like you're being held back by RAM and/or your settings moreso than your CPU.
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Nothing wrong with his setup, in fact it's quite a bit better than yours. He also has more than enough RAM.

The only improvement he could make is to OC his CPU, pretty much nothing else he could do to his PC that would give him a large boost in performance for this emulator, even an i7 wouldn't be that much faster if run at the same clock speeds.
 
Mr_Brit said:
Nothing wrong with his setup, in fact it's quite a bit better than yours. He also has more than enough RAM.

The only improvement he could make is to OC his CPU, pretty much nothing else he could do to his PC that would give him a large boost in performance for this emulator, even an i7 wouldn't be that much faster if run at the same clock speeds.
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That's really what concerned me more. There's not much reason for his setup to run it slower than mine (particularly at a lower resolution).
 
Mr_Brit said:
Nothing wrong with his setup, in fact it's quite a bit better than yours. He also has more than enough RAM.

The only improvement he could make is to OC his CPU, pretty much nothing else he could do to his PC that would give him a large boost in performance for this emulator, even an i7 wouldn't be that much faster if run at the same clock speeds.
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Except my mobo is fried, and since it's an XPC (ie. proprietary mobo design in proprietary case) I figured I should upgrade since XPC barebones for the C2D is about the same price as a low~mid-end Core i3/i5 with mobo and 4gb DDR3 memory and a cheapo mATX case.

Also, part of the reasoning for considering an i3/i5 was that whole turbo boost thing on the i5. I've gotten a little tired of the whole overclocking optimization process :P

I was getting a full 60fps on Muramasa, but was choking a bit on Tales of Graces and NSMBW was at 20~25 or so...

edit: I played around with settings for ToG to no avail, but I don't think I did much with NSMB...
 
dark10x said:
Err, Half-Life 2 is a game from 2004 and existed on the original XBOX.

Darkside Chronicles is also a rail shooter and lacks the same level of physics and pixel shaders as HL2 in addition to running at 640x480x16. It's a great looking Wii game, but it's not really a feat for the system. It's the kind of stuff we should have expected from the Wii to begin with.
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HL2 on the xbox looks like shit
 
I got a new PC and finally wanted to try out dolphin emulation. The thing is: My360 pad isn´t recognized ingame at all... I followed the instructions on page 1, but in the config menu under plugins there is GCPad Plugin option missing entirely and there was no gcpad.ini in my config folder to begin with...

Anyone with tips or similar problems in here? I´m using the Dolphin SVN R 5983 beta.
 
rykomatsu said:
CPU: E8400 (stock @ 3ghz)
Video: EVGA GeForce 250 GTS (512mb)
Mobo: P35 chipset based (XPC SP35P2)
Memory: 2gbx2 DDR2 PC6400 (5-5-5-12 I think)
OS: Win7 x64

My mobo crapped out last night so can't check settings or SVN I'm using...I believe it was one of the newer OpenCL enabled ones, however.
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Your current chip will manage full speed emulation just fine if you OC it. A hyper 212+ is much cheaper than a new CPU.
 
Cow Mengde said:
I heard the Xbox port of HL2 ran like crap and had most of it's effects and bump maps removed. That said, developers aren't exactly making visually amazing games on the Wii save for a few.
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Well most of the effects remained (at DX8.1 quality obviously) but the texture resolution was ridiculously low (much worse than "low" on PC), the framerate was super terrible and the load times were super frequent and very long. Kinda ruined the game, really. Nothing like the PC release.
 
I rarely play any games on my computer, but now I'm really interested to try some Gamecube games after reading this thread. The question is, do I have to upgrade my computer, if I want to play Wind Waker on Dolphin emulator? I know my GPU sucks, because my computer is only meant for video editing.

Specs:

CPU: I7 930
Video card: GeForce 250 GTS (1GB)
Motherboard: Asus something, I don't remember
Memory: 24gb ddr3
Win7 x64
 
-TK- said:
I rarely play any games on my computer, but now I'm really interested to try some Gamecube games after reading this thread. The question is, do I have to upgrade my computer, if I want to play Wind Waker on Dolphin emulator? I know my GPU sucks, because my computer is only meant for video editing.

Specs:

CPU: I7 930
Video card: GeForce 250 GTS (1GB)
Motherboard: Asus something, I don't remember
Memory: 24gb ddr3
Win7 x64
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Your setup is more than enough, GPU and RAM are easily enough for any game although you may need to OC your CPU for some of the harder to emulate games.
 
xyla said:
but in the config menu under plugins there is GCPad Plugin option missing entirely and there was no gcpad.ini in my config folder to begin with...
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What happens when you hit the GCPad button on the toolbar?
 
Overclocked my i7 920 from 2.6 to 3.5 since I got my new water cooler for the CPU (Corsair H50 closed circuit thing) Very nice cooling, at 3.5GHz The temps are the same as what they were on the stock cooling (30-40 idle 50-60 under a quite a bit of stress and 60-70 under 100% CPU load after around 20 mins)

Been playing Fzero in 3D (using R4865) and it's been running at full speed at 1680x1050 with 2xMSAA and 16x AF.
 
iamaustrian said:
wouldn't that only be possible via piracy?
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I feel the only way to answer your question is with another question: How do you think the Pirates get those games up for distribution in the first place?
 
plagiarize said:
i'm pretty sure you can buy them, and then copy them off the system to the PC.

no more piracy than ripping a disc.
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This was my assumption. I'm a Dolphin and Homebrew newb, so I'm not even sure if it's possible.
 
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