soxinthebox
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That looks pretty awful tbh. Don't know what the original looks like but that doesn't mesh well at all.
Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Cave Johnson
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Anybody have a good idea what kind of sensor bar works well for the emulator? I've tried some battery powered 3rd party sensor bar and it doesn't track the Wii mote that well.
Woffls
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Cheers, I'll see how it runs with EFB to RAM, then turn it off for some codecs conversations and see how much it bothers me. Unfortunately I don't like skipping anything in Metal Gear Solid, so that's not a great option
KojiKnight
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Cheers, I'll see how it runs with EFB to RAM, then turn it off for some codecs conversations and see how much it bothers me. Unfortunately I don't like skipping anything in Metal Gear Solid, so that's not a great option
When I say it's a minor issue in codec usage, I mean it's VERY minor. Sometimes backgrounds get 'stuck' in codec calls. It doesn't effect what you see or hear in the codec call itself, only what the background image behind it looks like. No reason to skip it.
Sorry, I don't know of any particular one being better than another. Rule of thumb with Dolphin always seems to go with the latest, so I'd probably grab whatever the latest ishiiruuka version was.
Starwolf_UK
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The Youtube Channel of the emulator posted a new video:
Sometimes the games are the problem
Ever get that feeling you were the first person to ever play a commercial game? Yes, this was verified to happen on console as well.
Sometimes the games are the problem
Ever get that feeling you were the first person to ever play a commercial game? Yes, this was verified to happen on console as well.
So I've been thinking does Dolphin have Occulus Support?
For some reason I can't get the image out of my head of playing Metroid Prime with the wii remote pointer controls to emulate my arm movement with it all hooked up to an occulus rift.
I feel like this would be insane.
For some reason I can't get the image out of my head of playing Metroid Prime with the wii remote pointer controls to emulate my arm movement with it all hooked up to an occulus rift.
I feel like this would be insane.
Not natively (yet), but there's a DolphinVR build floating around which does.
The latest dev build should be perfectly stable. So much so that the official Dolphin website links to it now instead of the latest stable build (which is more than a year old by now). If you have any issues with it, you can easily update to a newer version that fixes it or downgrade to a previous one that doesn't have it.
Also, buy?
Currently, I don't believe the Wii version of Metroid Prime has the "disable object culling" code which allows you to look around without the models being unloaded outside of your view point.
If it does though, then you are in for a hell of an experience.
EarsOfASnake
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I am pretty sure this was fixed recently, I think it popped up in the Occulus thread.
I do know that the code is available for the Gamecube version, but is it also available for the Wii version?
EarsOfASnake
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Ah, that I am not sure of. I should have read your post more carefully.
grandwizard
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Got Dolphin working with my Razer Hydra so I could get the same style of the original controls but not have to deal with the bluetooth or sensor bar and also make some control adjustments (roll mapped to a button for Donkey Kong Country). Heres some vids:
Metroid Prime (Trilogy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vkJEqL3M8
Donkey Kong Country Returns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAdjIDqTAMM
Metroid Prime (Trilogy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vkJEqL3M8
Donkey Kong Country Returns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAdjIDqTAMM
I hate you for bringing this to my attention. Now I need this
Started Metroid PrimeTrilogy earlier using some basic recommended settings I have seen. I have to reconnect the controller when it first loads the save file and get the black bar on the bottom but that doesn't really bother me. Only issue seemed to be minor audio glitches and the music lagging when using the map. I will try the other audio codec or whatever later to see if it works better. Should I even bother with this Ishiiruka thing or what?
If your system can handle it, it's pretty amazing. You do have to setup some special stuff for each game although they are working it automatic. Walking around Ocarina of Time in VR is like stepping into a Nintendo fever dream. It's so crazy when you stare at an NPC and it feels like they are actually life sized. Wind Waker is stunning.
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2r6qy5/what_games_work_in_vr_mode_on_dolphin/cnef0rh
I think this is the most recent version: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2qwuxo/happy_new_dolphin_vr_version/
Set the frame limit in Dolphin to 75, and then in VR options you probably want 'opcode replay' -- this makes for smooth head tracking.
One of my favorite parts of Dolphin in VR is that it feels like looking 'behind the scenes' during a play. You can look away from the game UI and see the stagehands moving things around, by looking in a different spot than the in game camera expects you to be looking.
You can see NPCs being put in place to get ready for a cutscene, popping into existence. Scrolling text is a 20 story tall scrolling tower in your face. Geometry that was never meant to be viewed shows up, it makes even things like static menu screen really crazy, because you are inside them and can look back at the screen and see random things the devs left there.
As an example, this is what a Resident Evil menu looks like in the Oculus:
You can see NPCs being put in place to get ready for a cutscene, popping into existence. Scrolling text is a 20 story tall scrolling tower in your face. Geometry that was never meant to be viewed shows up, it makes even things like static menu screen really crazy, because you are inside them and can look back at the screen and see random things the devs left there.
As an example, this is what a Resident Evil menu looks like in the Oculus:
You know, you can toggle free camera in Dolphin, which allows you to navigate through an environment that's supposed to have a fixed camera (like the Xenoblade Title Screen, or a Tatsunoko vs Capcom stage).
It's pretty crazy.
These aren't working for me.
I still get culling everywhere in Metroid Prime 2
Do I have to do something else I'm not aware of?
EDIT:
Found out what was wrong, I was applying the cheats and loading from a save state. After loading from a Memory Card save it's working correctly, no more culling. Performance still seems the same.
Glorious game
efyu_lemonardo
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It's a great read. Shows how much the project is maturing. What was a broken, stuttering mess two years ago has actually become the most complex and feature rich 3D emulator.
williamracine
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Anyone know why wii remote controller is no longer working on mac ? Is it yosemite related ?
dampflokfreund
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Fantastic! Dolphin is really a amazing emulator. It matured so much in the last few years.
efyu_lemonardo
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The part that really blew my mind in that article was overclocking the emulated CPU to play games supporting Variable Frame Rate at 60 FPS instead of 20-30 fps on the console
Dolphin is literally the best thing to come out of Nintendo's decision to stick with GC hardware for Wii. I believe it's what brought renewed interest to the project. The past two years have definitely been an amazing ride, and with continued improvements to VR and mobile device support it's only going to get better!
The programmers working on this project have done such amazing work I wouldn't be surprised to hear Nintendo offered to hire some of them to help with their upcoming hardware transition.
The part that really blew my mind in that article was overclocking the emulated CPU to play games supporting Variable Frame Rate at 60 FPS instead of 20-30 fps on the console
Dolphin is literally the best thing to come out of Nintendo's decision to stick with GC hardware for Wii. I believe it's what brought renewed interest to the project. The past two years have definitely been an amazing ride, and with continued improvements to VR and mobile device support it's only going to get better!
The programmers working on this project have done such amazing work I wouldn't be surprised to hear Nintendo offered to hire some of them to help with their upcoming hardware transition.
And WiiU
Someday we will have an emulator that manages to play this collective library.
How awesome is that?
So I got my Dolphin Bar this week and I'm finally trying to set it up this morning.
I'm able to use the wiimote as a mouse in Windows so I guess the basic functionality works but when I set it in "Mode 4" and then open Dolphin I can't get it to work.
Anybody have any tricks or guides available? I can't find anything.
EditL NVM! Got it working! This thing is neat.
I'm able to use the wiimote as a mouse in Windows so I guess the basic functionality works but when I set it in "Mode 4" and then open Dolphin I can't get it to work.
Anybody have any tricks or guides available? I can't find anything.
EditL NVM! Got it working! This thing is neat.
Variable framerate.....Spyro the Dragon: Enter the Dragonfly playable at 60 FPS!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvK7GeJMyxY
As someone that was a massive Spyro fan as a kid but couldn't play through Enter the Dragonfly due to how poorly it played....I am so happy right now. And I also wonder if Enter the Dragonfly is the reason traditional Spyro games died.
VivaciousSoul
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What and where is the original of that gif?
Wait so the Dolphin Bar does not work if there's no wii remote synced to it?
I was hoping to be able to use it as just a barebone IR sensor bar while playing on my WiiU (so that way I only have 1 sensor bar on top of my monitor)... I would just resync the controller between the PC and the WiiU as needed.
Any ways to get it to still emit IR when not synced with a controller?
I was hoping to be able to use it as just a barebone IR sensor bar while playing on my WiiU (so that way I only have 1 sensor bar on top of my monitor)... I would just resync the controller between the PC and the WiiU as needed.
Any ways to get it to still emit IR when not synced with a controller?
I don't actually know but googling 'But I'm not a rapper' will give you the gif
Finally changed builds to test Rogue Squadron II:
What build are you using? I stumbled on Fiora's fork today https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thre...squadron-ii-rogue-leader?pid=351991#pid351991
The Oculus fork is the build I was using for Metroid Prime 2 with all culling hacks, works wonders. Little slowdowns here and there, but I'm running at 3x resolution (1920x1584).
I was doing all this research today, trying to find these codes for myself and stumbled on the Oculus Fork that included them, along with various other improvements.
I may try to just go back to the newer dev build of Dolphin and try these out, considering all of the progress that has been merged recently.
Is there a list of all AR culling codes discovered? Paper Mario for example.
Stallion Free
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Just use a current build. Zfreeze has been implemented into it now as the Monthly Update posted a couple posts ago explains.
I think I will go back to the newest Dolphin build for Prime 2 and try out those AR codes, the updates have just been too significant.
Any insight as to why my screenshots have a massive black bar on the bottom?
VivaciousSoul
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Much appreciated
Higgins113
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Kiru
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NYCmetsfan
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It really is. Why don't other emulators have such a good community building cool things like Dolphin. PS2 and PSP are two that have functional emulators but don't have all the cool stuff as this does.
And older systems like dreamcast don't even seem to have support which is sad.
Stallion Free
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First issue on the wiki. The wikis are pretty well run and usually explain any potential issues or settings that should be ticked. I never start a game without reviewing it.
I'm playing Prime 2 with the AR codes posted above in this page
It's flawless and glorious
GC version by the way
Hmm, my performance actually went down after updating to the latest build. Getting some very annoying stutter in Xenoblade resulting from framerate cycling between 28 and 31 fps. Thought it was the UltraHD texture pack at first which when removed did resolve a lot, but it still isn't as smooth as before the update, with framerate dips when going into combat. Which makes it seem a CPU bound problem, although I have a 4690K and a 970 as GPU.
Will investigate more tomorrow.
Will investigate more tomorrow.
Barrow Roll
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Perhaps it's shader caching? I recall hearing that Dolphin has to rebuild the shader cache whenever you switch builds?