Gamecube & Wii emulator Dolphin 5.0 released
The popular Gamecube and Wii emulator Dolphin has been updated to 5.0 and was released earlier today.
Wii emulator – What is Dolphin?
Dolphin is a GameCube and Wii emulator with high compatibility across the majority of titles for both platforms. It was first developed as closed source in 2003, and as open source since 2008.Dolphin is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Android.
Dolphin 5.0 Wii Emulator changelog
The new version of Dolphin is the result of almost a year of bug fixes and improvements, and brings the following major changes, according to the official changelog:
Texture environment fixes, zFreeze support, better and faster CPU emulation, 3DS stereoscopic output, Full ES_Launch support, improved Netplay, Improved Audio support, better native controller support (using the adapter), video output improvements (aspect ratio, resolution, etc…), improved video and audio dumping, and more.
The dolphin team even created a video to announce the release:
Reception for this new release has been overall extremely positive so far, with @MasterPCRace half-jokingly stating “There’s basically no reason to keep using your Wii or Gamecube”, and many users on the emu scene saying the emulator “looks incredible” and congratulating excellent work from the team of developers behind the open source emulator.
Other users are praising the many improvements since Dolphin 4.0, even though nothing’s ever perfect, and frame drops still happen on low configurations. Dolphin 5.0 will require a fast computer to run everything at full speed.
Dolphin 5.0 Download
Dolphin 5.0 can be downloaded from the official site here
Source: dolphin
Yay!
Dude, this is awesome! I’ve tried dolphin only once before and that might have been about 4 years ago when i had a crappy laptop.
I’d have to say the biggest feature for me is using Wiimotes without Toshiba BT stack!
If only they added support for Emulated Nunchuck and Wiimote Plus, that would be great, cause what I want to play is Skyward Sword.
I think so
This was added years ago. I used to play Skyward Sword on my desktop in 1080p with AA on when the game came out, with my nunchuck and Wiimote Plus. It just works even better now, even though it was perfect before.
Buy A Wii and the game then -_-
you can play skyward sword with wiimotion plus with an unofficial build
This is great! I wish i had some money so I could send it to them. The amount of things fixed is super impressive.
where is ps3 emalator ?
dose it have any progress ?
just buy a ps3, they are cheap for crying out loud
“just buy a wii, they are cheap for crying out loud”
Is what you could say about Dolphin too, but bearing in mind the PS3 came out at a similar time to the Wii it’s not unreasonable to expect a PS3 emulator to have made some advances from a novice point of view.
A wii cant do hd, and ps3 is vastoy superior to the point where there wont be an emulator anytime soon
Cars 2 still crashes on start.
3DS stereoscopic ??????????
Why 3DS? Not 3D only? rsrs
Typo
I like this idea because there’s plenty of great titles available – some very underrated – for both the GameCube and Wii, but not having used Dolphin before I wonder if it’d be as easy a buying a cheap Wii/HDMI converter/GC controller and using ModMii to do all the heavy lifting and if the emulation quality (i.e. framerate, graphical accuracy) would be comparable to the real thing.
Emulator works great. Thanks to all people involved.
But Wii Games are “hard to play” because of the controller setup. Do you guys use an original wiimote/nunchuk/lightbar on your PC? Any other solutions?
Greets from Germany
Yes, best to just use a real wiimote. Emulated wii controls will never be very good – just the nature of the games.
Im playing zelda twilight Princess with 360 Controller. Works fine. Had Some trouble getting the fish in game but i figured it out.
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