Dolphin Emulator 4.0 Released For GameCube, Wii

[RealNC]

how the hell is an ARM platform going to be able to play this effectively?

The performance isn't the problem, actually. ARM is advancing quick enough; I think it surpassed 2GHz already and we're up to something like 8 cores.

The real problem is how on earth are you going to play console games that were designed for gamepads and/or the Wiimote on a touchscreen...

[schmidtbag]

I always found the Dolphin project to be very impressive. One of the best console emulators out there, even compared to some of the old school console emulators. Does get me to wonder though - how the hell is an ARM platform going to be able to play this effectively? Maybe the OGL rewrite made it perform better but I remember when I tried dolphin maybe 2 or 3 years ago, there were moments it was at 10fps playing a gamecube game on a system that could easily outperform any ARM platform today. I guess ARM being RISC might help a little bit.

[RealNC]

Aren't there PPAs for Dolphin by other users?

[dee.]

https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a .deb in this link? It may not support Debian (might be too old), but recent Ubuntu/Mint/Derv's should be fine.

It's 64-bit only. It also runs on Ubuntu 13.04 only, not on 12.04.

[dh04000]

Too bad it is not packaged in Debian (and hence not Ubuntu and any other derivatives).

https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a .deb in this link? It may not support Debian (might be too old), but recent Ubuntu/Mint/Derv's should be fine.

[dee.]

I'm trying to build it from source right now. The site only provides 64-bit packages...

[wargames]

Too bad it is not packaged in Debian (and hence not Ubuntu and any other derivatives).

In Arch it is already available.

[uid313]

Packaged

Too bad it is not packaged in Debian (and hence not Ubuntu and any other derivatives).

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dolphin Emulator 4.0 Released For GameCube, Wii

Version 4.0 of the Dolphin Emulator has been released for running GameCube and Wii games on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ2NzE