Oh gotcha, so I just need to buy a bluetooth dongle for my PC and then get any wireless sensor bar.
Yea, the bluetooth is used to connect thecwiimote to the PC. Watch out for cheap off brand ones though I've heard bad things about some of them.
Oh gotcha, so I just need to buy a bluetooth dongle for my PC and then get any wireless sensor bar.
Or you could do both at once, with something that actually works (unlike a vast majority of Bluetooth dongles and crappy sensor bars).
Is this legit? Will it work on Windows 8.1? That's a pretty decent price for a combination bluetooth/sensor device.
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Yeah it's legit. The Dolphin team even did an in-depth review of it: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/08/23/dolphinbar-review/
Sold. My PC tower is right next to my TV so the length hopefully won't be an issue. Prime shipping is just icing on the cake.
I'm pretty excited to start playing Wii games in 1080p!
Two additional questions: can I hook up a GC controller to play games like Smash? I assume there is an add-on I can buy for those? Also I have an Xbox One controller for Windows - can I use that alongside Dolphin as a replacement for a GC controller?
Anyone know if a Wii U support for Dolphin is being worked on?
Anyone know if a Wii U support for Dolphin is being worked on?
It's not and probably never will be.
I don't think a consumer CPU strong enough to emulate a Wii U exists yet.
According to Fiora actually it's not even that different from the Wii in principle.It's not and probably never will be.
Really? Every nintendo console so far has been emulated, is the Wii U different or is it because of the controller?
According to Fiora actually it's not even that different from the Wii in principle.
It would probably require some substantial rework in some areas and more powerful hardware to achieve decent performances, but there's definitely nothing intrinsecally non-emulable about it.
Will Dolphin eventually be able to support the Eii U GameCube controller adapter, or is completely reliant on someone developing custom drivers for Windows?
Will a Core i3 4360 be good enough to run most games full speed when paired with a GeForce 750 Ti, or should I spring for a Core i5 4690?
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It's not and probably never will be.
According to Fiora actually it's not even that different from the Wii in principle.
It would probably require some substantial rework in some areas and more powerful hardware to achieve decent performances, but there's definitely nothing intrinsecally non-emulable about it.
To clarify what I think PGamer is saying - I think they mean WiiU support will never be implemented into Dolphin. When (I do think it is a when) a WiiU emulator begins development it will likely be it's own separate emulator - not one worked into Dolphin.
I've been interested in aspects of Wii U emulation on a strictly theoretical level for some time. To be specific, in the challenge of emulating a multi-core CPU when you already have good single core emulation, and how that would scale with the number of cores and what else needs to be taken into account (such as shared cache, etc)?
I imagine Wii U's GPU will be the bigger challenge to reverse engineer?
I think it'd be better for WiiU emulation to not to be integrated in Dolphin. Dolphin started with GC emulation and Wii got implemented as it was very much like GC.
WiiU however is much more different than the 2 before. BUT: Whoever wants to make a WiiU emulator should start with Dolphin as an emulator as the system itself seems quite stable and they have most of the PPC emulator done already.
If the Wii U GPU is very close to an R700, then no crucial information should be missing.I imagine Wii U's GPU will be the bigger challenge to reverse engineer?
Get the 4690K <-- notice the K.
Then get an aftermarket heatsink and overclock to 4.4Ghz.
So I have a set of Gamecube games that I would like to play in dolphin but I have no way to get them on my PC all I have is a wiiU. Any suggestions on how to rip them?
I think you should be able to use the Wii mode on your WiiU to rip the ISO's.
A good thing it does that instead chocking on the unsupported disc size. You'll need to borrow a Wii for ripping GC discs.I tried, the system immediately spits out the disc upon insertion.
So I have a set of Gamecube games that I would like to play in dolphin but I have no way to get them on my PC all I have is a wiiU. Any suggestions on how to rip them?
I bought one of the compatible LG drives. You can get them fairly cheap on ebay.
I bought one off of Amazon. It didn't work I emailed the company that I got it from and got a response along the lines of "it's not the exact drive you ordered but it should be compatible with the PC" I ended up returning it and decided against trying again.
You're giving up trying this method because a company pulled a bait-and-switch on you?
What you describe is why I was careful when I ordered on ebay. I made sure it was an individual sale with photos where I could double check that model numbers were correct before bidding for it. The only difficulty I had with this drive (GDR-8164B) was that I needed to find an IDE cable for it (my desktop is old enough to still have an IDE port.)
Compared with spending $40 on a Dreamcast SD card adapter a few months ago, this $3 DVD drive was a godsend for backing up my old console games.
I setup dolphin and have played Xenoblade and The Last Story, both look amazing. I've tried to play Skyward Sword but I cant past the point wiimote to the middle of the screen part.
I put on my Wii U to use for the sensor bar, but I see no cursor on the Dolphin emulator screen.
OK so I've been doing some reading and it turns out that I shouldn't be experiencing any input lag when using a Wiimote with Dolphin. Clearly my settings are messed up somehow because I had a noticeable amount of lag when I was playing Twilight Princess yesterday. Any tips on how to fix this?
Also I just learned that texture packs are a thing, specifically for Twilight Princess. How do I install these? Do I just copy them to the Dolphin folder?
Twilight princess is notorious for running really bad. To install a texture pack download the pack put the files in dolphin's texture pack folder under the game's codename (it's a random assortment of numbers and characters) and then turn on "load custom textures" in the graphics settings.
So should I just expect to always have input lag while playing Twilight Princess?
Also how do I find the game's codename?
Yes the other is probably for the GC versionAlright so I installed two texture packs for twilight princess but they have different code names... Should I drop them both into the folder with the code name of my version of the game?
Yes the other is probably for the GC version
Yep that's normal.Oh OK, cool. And is it normal for a texture folder to have named subfolders (e.g., Trees) within it? Will dolphin know to access textures within the subfolders? Or should I be copy/pasting all the images into the main folder for each game?
Yep that's normal.
Oh man, the Dolphinbar is amazing. Highly recommended.
Looks like it has its own Bluetooth dongle. Will this cause interference if you already have one installed?
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Game isn't perfect yet, but that's great progress over what it was before, this being not being able to boot at all.