Dolphin Emulator (recent progress)

[Rakehellion]

I "acquired" Mario Galaxy 2 (I don't feel guilty, since I do own the game)

It's perfectly legal if you own the game. Regardless of Nintendo's protests, backup copies are a right protected by the federal government.

 

[werepossum]

Every time I see this thread, I'm envisioning an aquatic version of Goat Simulator.

 

[tential]

First of all, the emulator developers recommend Haswell CPUs, since Dolphin gets almost 25% improvements in speed over Ivy Bridge at the same clocks. This was true as early as Dolphin 3.0, long before any of the recent performance optimizations. Even with Haswell though, the recommended CPU is i5-4670 or better.

Second, two of the developers, comex and Fiora, have been on a tear recently. Star War Rogue Leader has a doubling of speed thanks to Fiora, for example. comex has made smaller improvements, around 10-16%, but they affect all games, not just MMU games like Rogue Leader.

Third, you probably did use too much AA, I do it all the time, .


Just the August and September optimizations have yielded a minimum 40% improvements to most games and as high as 110%.

Here is the September changelog for Dolphin. Some hyperbole in the descriptions but you get the picture.
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/09/30/dolphin-progress-report-september-2014/

The first of all I knew and is why I recommend Haswell. I almost always say "And Dolphin Emulator works" although before I used to say it worked but was hit or miss and now I guess I can say with confidence it's pretty sweet.

Reading the changelog ya, it's crazy how fast things have progressed I'm quite happy. My Sensorbar came today, I'm going to try it tomorrow. Would try it to night but I know I'll be too loud and wake the kids.

I wish I could figure out a decent way to use my Sensorbar in my bedroom with my new projector. I'll have to figure it out soon, Wii games in bed, as well as the abillity to use the wiimote in PC mode (although getting up to switch it there kind of sucks, if it was a wireless way to change the mode that'd be amazing) basically means I'll be bed confined for awhile lol.

 

[Sword-of-Kings]

Buuuut then I discovered you need to download the actual games off of torrent sites and that part seems shady to me.

Not gonna do it.

You can install the homebrew channel and use a program to rip the discs instead of downloading them from the Internet.