Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

roboyoshi•about 2 hours ago

Always a joy to read those and the fact that the emulator keeps on improving. You can run it on SteamDeck nicely and play Gamecube games better than Switch 2. It's a shame nintendo has only released about 5 games thus far.. Great work Dolphin Devs! I still need to give RetroAchievements a try.

matsemann•28 minutes ago

I've never even used it and still I read every changelog posted here. So interesting and good writeups.

spwa4•about 2 hours ago

It runs on android phones! And on any snapdragon: very well (some are <200 second hand now). Steam decks are what now, 750 for the worst version?

dormento•4 minutes ago

> It runs on android phones!

Whats even more interesting IMHO is that according to TFA the most popular platform in terms of usage is Android. This is probably related to the large amount of dedicated Android gaming devices like the Ayn Thor and similar.

InsideOutSanta•about 2 hours ago

Dolphin is one of my absolutely favorite software projects. The kind of polish they put into absolutely everything, including these announcements, is incredible. And as somebody who spent many a relaxing day playing Super Monkey Ball against my fellow comp sci students in the early 2000s, this holds a special place in my heart.

sedawkgrep•about 2 hours ago

> The kind of polish they put into absolutely everything, including these announcements, is incredible.

100%. They're easily the gold standard for emulation and open-source gaming...and possibly open-source projects in general.

The effort they put into the announcements is frankly amazing and shows what a labor of love this project is.

xbar•42 minutes ago

"We imagine that Nintendo chose to use actual Game Boy hardware because of the difficulty of making a general-purpose software emulator. "

Dolphin Team, you are amazing and hilarious.

x______________•44 minutes ago

Very cool update overall, great work!

> It was clear that something had to change. Bunny

When this issue was brought up in one of our chats, a former Dolphin developer suggested that we should give Bunny a try.

Another mention of bunny [0] gives them good exposure, and not just because they're an European company!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657030

thisisauserid•about 1 hour ago

Still doesn't emulate dolphins.

throwatdem12311•29 minutes ago

False. You can play Endless Ocean which has dolphins in it. Hence, dolphins are being emulated. QED

nickpeterson•31 minutes ago

It’s ridiculous get your money back

stavros•about 2 hours ago

Hmm wasn't Dolphin taken down by Nintendo or something? I seem to remember being sad at the loss.

TheMode•about 1 hour ago

They planned to release on steam but Nintendo prevented it. The project however still exist standalone.

bspammer•about 2 hours ago

You're likely thinking of Yuzu which was a switch emulator. Nintendo probably targeted them because they were about to launch the switch 2 and wanted to send a message.

hecifato•about 1 hour ago

It being a Switch emulator certainly didn't help. However, the primary reason Nintendo went after Yuzu was that Yuzu devs were openly accepting payment for special updates to run Tears of the Kingdom. TOTK was, at the time, only available because of a leak and had not officially released.

sedawkgrep•about 2 hours ago

The switch emulators Yuzu or Ryujinx perhaps?

stavros•about 2 hours ago

Ahh yes, it might have been Yuzu, thanks!

poly2it•about 2 hours ago

I think that was Citra emulator. Protect Dolphin at all costs!

Nintendo (among other creative corporations) do not seem to realise that invite to play creates an attachment to the product that is deeper than a license agreement, which is our shared cultural filament.

frankzero•about 1 hour ago

It is a Good thing "He who shall not be named" doesn't care about Gamecube games as much as the Switch or Switch 2 games.

ChrisRR•42 minutes ago

Voldemort?

eesmith•7 minutes ago

The legendary mummy Imhotep? - https://archive.org/details/mummynovel0000coll/page/232/mode...

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

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