Dolphin Wii emulator works for real now

[MCD]

New version is out: http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-3-5-release-announcement?pid=254860

3.5 version Changelog:

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•Gamecube BBA support: Gamecube games supporting online mode using Nintendo's BBA (ethernet adapter) can now be played online on Dolphin. This includes Mario Kart: Double Dash 8 players mode support, as well as Phantasy Star Online.

•Gamecube microphone support: The 6 Gamecube games using a microphone (Mario Party 5/6 for example) can now use your system configured microphone to get audio input.

•WBFS support: If you dumped your games as WBFS files in order to play your dumps on a real Wii, you can now use the same WBFS files on Dolphin. WBFS includes features such as compression and splitted files (to avoid the FAT32 4GB file size limit).

•Free replacement for the DSP LLE ROMs: DSP LLE normally requires you to dump ROMs from your real Wii. This free replacement, while working only with some Mario and Zelda games, removes this requirement.

•Wiimote support on OS X Mountain Lion: The latest version of Mac OS X brings several Bluetooth changes, breaking Wiimote support with Dolphin 3.0. Dolphin 3.5 supports real Wiimotes, including MotionPlus addon, on OS X 10.8.

•TAS and recording improvements: Read only mode, better determinism, more checks to avoid using wrong settings or wrong version of a game when playing back a movie, bongo recording support.

•FreeBSD support: Rather theoretical than anything else, but worth a note. OpenGL backend may or may not work for you.

•UI refinements: New wiimote configuration dialog, improvements to the game list sorting, minor changes to simplify usage.

•Wii disc integrity checking: Use Dolphin to check if your dumped Wii game is corrupted.

•Improvements to the custom textures feature: Improved stability, added support for custom mipmaps, removed texture size limit.

•Shader cache optimizations: Reduced stuttering to a point where Red Steel 2 got playable with full FPS.

•A lot of minor emulation fixes: Texture preloading implementation, better FIFO emulation, HLE audio fixes, more accurate DSI/FPU exceptions, ...

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No more audio clicks whenever framerate drops here and there:



And no more blurry/glitchy graphics with Zelda Skyward. Yup, shit just works now.

Overclocking to 4ghz or a bit more (in my case 4.2ghz on my AMD Phenom X6) is still recommended and a must in some games.

[Joe Molotov]

Nice, I'll have to bust it back out. It was still janky as hell when I used it to play Xenoblade.

[MCD]

I tried it just now with Xenoblade. Enable that option I pictured there and audio won't get all fucked up by the game sudden framerate changes.

It played nice even without overclocking.

Of course this was only the intro because we all know emulators are just for testing shit.

[Don Flamenco]

sweet.  i wanna play REmake and xeno on it eventually

[Great Rumbler]

I could get Xenoblade and The Last Story to work with the old version, but the former had audio problems and the latter had weird graphical problems. Both of those problems could be side-stepped, but that being done automatically is something that is good.

[Sho Nuff]

I got a real Wii for Christmas :'(

GHOST SQUAD

[Momo]

So what, I can play PSO gamecube online now?

[Don Flamenco]

REmake Wii edition ran fine

Double Dash ran fine


but i think they were okay before as well.

[Big Barry Jazz]

sweet.  i wanna play REmake and xeno on it eventually

REmake looked pretty bad last time I gave it a go since dolphin can't help with the backgrounds.

[Flannel Boy]

I got a real Wii for Christmas :'(

Do you live in Canada now.

Dell has a wii-mini and SMG bundle for $99. Game itself is worth the $99.

[Sho Nuff]

I would really like a wii eventually for haxor fun, but I refuse to spend money on one

[iconoclast]

Great, I just got a sensor bar & blue tooth adapter to play Mario and Sin & Punishment. Hopefully they'll work fine, otherwise I've wasted my fight money.

[Don Flamenco]

[Great Rumbler]

Best Christmas ever.

[Joe Molotov]

*pic*

Resident Evil 7 is looking pretty good.

[Momo]

Is there some special way I need to dump my gamecube and Wii games? I cant be arsed to download isos.

[Joe Molotov]

It's easier to download ISOs. Nintendo uses weird-ass formats that can't be read in normal drives.

[Momo]

Eh, I guess I'll just queue some isos and play tomorrow then

[Positive Touch]

bleh, xenoblade still runs like poo on my comp. even with the audio limiter option i still get constant "ghosting" on the sound effects. framerate holds up just fine, but all the stuttering sound effects keep the game unplayable for me

[Don Flamenco]

don't stand in a room for too long in REmake or the thunder sound effects will glitch out and destroy your ears  :'(

[benjipwns]

Is there some special way I need to dump my gamecube and Wii games? I cant be arsed to download isos.

If you have a modded Wii you can use CleanRip to dump them on a USB drive. USB loader will rip Wii ones but not GameCube, IIRC, but that may have changed.

[bork]

You can rip n' dump Game Cube games now, but I don't know if the hard drive has to be reformatted for them.