Dolphin Gamecube/Wii emulator

[Demon Cleaner]

I know my hardware is rather old (see my sig)

You don't have a sig

[Harrison]

The Gamecube is a much more complex system that the PSX was by quite some margin. Emulating its 128bit 485MHz CPU is going to be quite taxing alone, plus the ATI graphics chip, and then for sound you then have to factor in its 64 channel 16bit DSP that supported Dolby, DTS and AC3.

It is a surpise they have managed to emulate the Gamecube and Wii at all.

I think the speed of the emulation is more down to the graphics card you have as well as the cpu and ram.

[Shoonay]

I know my hardware is rather old (see my sig)

You don't have a sig

Yes I do, a graphical one just like your but mine is 'clickable' and actually leads somewhere ;p

The Gamecube is a much more complex system that the PSX was...

Yes, I do realize that, but... DAMN, couldn't they improve the emulation (at least the sound) after all these years? Same goes for PS2...
You guys remember when they told emulating PSX or N64 was impossible back then? I remember one day (a few months after Gran Turismo came out) grabbing my newest monthly issue of PSX Extreme magazine and they've introduced a 100% working PSX emulator (showing Gran Turismo) and a N64 one (showing Mario 64).
Now that was a shocker.

[Demon Cleaner]

I don't see your sig??

[Harrison]

I can see his sig. Maybe you have some adblocking software running?

I remember UltraHLE suddenly appearing in 1998 and being blown away by how well it could emulate the N64. And I had a Voodoo II card at the time as well so it was fully supported.

And the early PSX emulation was impressive too. Especially with how it could improve the texture quality. Although N64 emulation was more impressive because it shows how N64 games were not fixed to one resolution. I ran Mario 64 in 1024x768 at the time and it looked so much better than on a real N64. The horrid full screen smudgy anti-aliasing completely gone.

I just haven't seen the same level of interest in people wanting to emulate the xbox or PS2. The hardware is really cheap these days, and the original xbox faily easy to softmod, and the PS2 easy to chip or use a mod swap disc, so it isn't so important I suppose.

[Shoonay]

I don't see your sig??

Guess something blocks www.xfire.com stuff for you... NoScript?

I just haven't seen the same level of interest in people wanting to emulate the xbox or PS2. The hardware is really cheap these days, and the original xbox faily easy to softmod, and the PS2 easy to chip or use a mod swap disc, so it isn't so important I suppose.

Yup, that must be it... still, I somehow don't feel that way with getting any newer consoles since Dreamcast came out... these days I don't even play that much... :/
Oh well, maybe one day. (Whatever it will be, a 100% working emulator or a real console )

[J T]

What are the controls like? The wiimote isn't that complicated, but trying to mimic it (without actually using it) must be a bit tricky, no?

That being said, the wiimote is just a bluetooth device isn't it? So I supose getting an actual wiimote to work might not be that hard after all.... hmmmm.....

I can't remember the last time I used the wii. Maybe I should get it chipped.

[Demon Cleaner]

Guess something blocks www.xfire.com stuff for you... NoScript?

Nope, not NoScript, but when I click on the link, it's websensed, so in one way it is blocked.

I can't remember the last time I used the wii. Maybe I should get it chipped.

Do it like me, I softmodded two Wii's in the past week and they both work fine. Wanted to chip one first too, but Harrison mentioned the softmod again and I did it that way, a lot cheaper