SoraanTribal
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Do the new versions of Dolphin work well with Xenoblade? I remember there were was a certain older version that was made for Xenoblade specifically that I used a while back.
Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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The Red Wizard
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I'm using 4.0-2492 and it runs very well with custom textures and 1.5X resolution at 1080p on my stock 3570K*. I should really go back to it
*Shame on me
Sentenza
Member
I never played more than a few hours of Xenoblade because it just bores me to tears, but for what I can tell it runs essentially perfectly as far as I've tried it.
You can disable HUD elements in-game so that it isn't a block in the center of your screen.
blainethemono
Member
Was just playing Xenoblade and ran into this during a cutscene:
unlocked free look and panned down a little bit:
Only happens in DirectX, this is what it looks like in opengl:
Not too terrible but kind of annoying. I don't remember this ever happening until this point in the game so i'm not sure if it's worth playing in opengl instead just in case
OGL in most cases gets better performance. Why have you stuck with DX?
I have a question: Will the dolphin emulator work with Wii games only or will it work with gamecube games as well? and if so...
How exactly do I play gamecube games in an emulator? Will a standard dvd-rom read a gamecube disc if I insert it, and there won't be any issue because of the disc being small?
How exactly do I play gamecube games in an emulator? Will a standard dvd-rom read a gamecube disc if I insert it, and there won't be any issue because of the disc being small?
blainethemono
Member
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that DX was better now? Might have been this thread actually. I was using OGL until I decided to pick the game back up a few days ago.
It will work with both.
Standard DVD drives will not read GameCube discs. You play them by ripping them (typically with a modded Wii) and then loading the disc image in the emulator.
It goes back and forth. I know somewhat recently the new exclusive fullscreen mode was DX only. I'm not sure if that's still the case or not.
blainethemono
Member
Yeah, it seems like I get the least amount of stuttering right now with exclusive fullscreen in DX, but I haven't tested it much
Woffls
Member
Just started running Dolphin stuff on my PC. Galaxy 2, Twin Snakes and Wind Waker all run fine, but F-Zero GX freezes on the logo screen.
I've done some searching and I have no idea what MMU is, changing graphics APIs does nothing, and neither does disabling dual core.
Any ideas? Using 4.0.2 on Win 8.1 x64.
i7 5820K, 750 Ti SC.
[edit] Found MMU... changing it does nothing.
I've done some searching and I have no idea what MMU is, changing graphics APIs does nothing, and neither does disabling dual core.
Any ideas? Using 4.0.2 on Win 8.1 x64.
i7 5820K, 750 Ti SC.
[edit] Found MMU... changing it does nothing.
Yup. Works just fine. I already had profiles set up for my 360 controller, and I use DS4Windows, so it picks it up without any issue.
Have the links?
You should really try out a nightly build, 4.0.2 is 10 months old now and there have been tons of fixes since then.
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/
To enable the MMU speed hack, you have to right click the game in the dophin home screen list -> properties, and make a checkmark next to the MMU hack. You need this to boot the NTSC-J ISO according to the wiki.
Upgrade to the latest development version of Dolphin (this is almost always a good idea) and then try again.
Also, F-zero is notorious for looping on the logo a few times before actually getting into game. If nothing fixes it you may have done a bad ISO rip, try and get another one.
I checked the thread out last night, it's gone now but there were some interesting WebM's. Most of it seemed really hacky though, not sure how well it worked in practice.
Should I be able to run Super Mario Galaxy 1/2, Xenoblade, Skyward Sword, The Last Story, etc. with a rather old PC from 2008?
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.00 GHz
4gb RAM
GeForce 9800 GT (512mb)
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
Running an SSD as well, for whatever that's worth
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.00 GHz
4gb RAM
GeForce 9800 GT (512mb)
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
Running an SSD as well, for whatever that's worth
Xenoblade, probably OK with the correct build. Everything else? Not a chance.
Really? I would have imagined Xenoblade would have been one of the more demanding ones. Interesting.
I might just fucking play everything on my Wii U, and be thankful that it ups the IQ a little bit going through HDMI.
I'm not gonna buy a new PC just for this.
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
hey guys, how can i use dual shock 3 for the tilting motions? would be awesome to play mario with ds3
The Red Wizard
Member
Really? I would have imagined Xenoblade would have been one of the more demanding ones. Interesting.
I might just fucking play everything on my Wii U, and be thankful that it ups the IQ a little bit going through HDMI.
I'm not gonna buy a new PC just for this.
It's worth doing, especially if you're a PC gamer. I can't explain how wonderful Dolphin makes some games. Twilight Princess looks unbelievable, especially when you consider that it's 8 years old.
stick with DirectX
Why not try both and see which gives you better results?
I intend to, but I felt like I'd ask anyway. The Wolfenstein New Order PC performance thread wasn't kind to AMD owners.
I've been playing Xenoblade with no issues using D3D on my Nvidia card. I remember reading OGL was actually better a while back, but that was before the implementation of Exclusive Fullscreen support on D3D, so I figured D3D might be better now. I'd switch if someone could argue otherwise, but the performance is perfect so far and changing to OGL will introduce all the occasional stutter back until the shader db is built for it again.
What hardware do I use
Dolphin Progress Report: September 2014 has been published today.
Expect better performance with the optimizations made by FioraAeterna over the last two months.
Expect better performance with the optimizations made by FioraAeterna over the last two months.
- Dolphin POV-Ray Benchmark: 62% faster
- Sonic Colors: 39% faster
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader: 103% faster
- F-Zero GX: 110% faster
- The Last Story: 38% faster
- Xenoblade Chronicles: 40% faster
Improvement on Rogue Squadron? holy ****. One day...one day.
Xenoblade is definitely improved from the 4.0.2 days (or even from development builds from a couple months ago). My girlfriend can run Xenoblade on her Lenovo Y50 laptop (with a Core i7-4710HQ, cores at 2.5GHz), and maintain 30fps continuously as long as she keeps to no more than 1x native resolution. If you run the game unthrottled it's obvious that there's not much margin to spare (maybe 10-15% at best), but it's a great overall experience. All of the previous sound skipping issues are entirely gone, and the game has run for hours without a single freeze or crash.
(For comparison, I did most of my first playthrough of Xenoblade on a dev version released between 3.5 and 4.0. I had to use LLE sound emulation to avoid skipping, and the game was just barely playable on an overclocked Core i7-2600K@4.3GHz, 3x native resolution. I imagine my current specs would run Last Story comfortably now; it was kind of iffy back then.)
Ingueferroque
Banned
Nice to see this is still being developed.. Great to hear about the performance boosts in F Zero.
What!, the game doesnt even run correctly whats the point of boasting that the game runs faster?
Those performance gains are nuts.
rockmanjoe
Member
Amazing, the rate at which this emulator progresses blows my mind. If only PCSX2 and Yabause had this much dev support...
Holy Order Sol
Member
This emulator is on some Kaioken shit.
It will be soon for all once this and a couple of other fixes get merged to the master branch.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I'm going to like take the day off when I can finally play Rogue Squadron 2 in HD.
JumpJeff84
Member
So, I need a Wii to run Dolphin? Didn't know that.
I have a WiiU but no Wii. I was hoping to buy Xenoblade and run it on Dolphin, but I guess that ain't gonna happen unless I get a Wii.
I have a WiiU but no Wii. I was hoping to buy Xenoblade and run it on Dolphin, but I guess that ain't gonna happen unless I get a Wii.
ArcticDonkey
Member
So is The Last Story in a playable state?
Gonna give it a try right now
No you don't. Dolphin doesn't require a BIOS of the system(s) and it does not require a DSP for LLE as it has been reverse engineered completely and is distributed with Dolphin. If you were referring to dumping the games, yes, the Wii would be the easiest option. If you have a friend with one, dump your games there. You can also try and get a DVD-drive that can read the discs, but they might be hard to find now.
It always has been playable if you had a decent PC. The freeze issues should be fixed as of 3.5-646 and if you're referring to it being demanding, little by little, as posted above, less powerful configurations can play the game at a decent speed.
ArcticDonkey
Member
Thanks for the replies, I'm new to Dolphin and I don't really have an idea of what my PC can handle emulation wise.
My rig is AMD based which I've been told isn't great for emulation.
CPU - 6350 @3.9 GHZ
GPU - R9 270x
I'm gonna tinker with some games over the weekend. Shooting for 1080p 60fps ideally but will settle for a stable 30fps on most anything.
My rig is AMD based which I've been told isn't great for emulation.
CPU - 6350 @3.9 GHZ
GPU - R9 270x
I'm gonna tinker with some games over the weekend. Shooting for 1080p 60fps ideally but will settle for a stable 30fps on most anything.
Really? You'd think a i5-3570k/760GTX/8GB ram pc would be enough, but the game runs like shit for me. A bit surprising tbh.