Dolphin (emulator)

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Dolphin is a Nintendo GameCube emulator for Windows.

Dolphin was the first Gamecube emulator to successfully run commercial games. It can run quite a few, albeit very slowly, on a standard PC with a modern graphics card (needs support for Pixel Shader 2.0 functionality) but the emulation is far from perfect. Sound emulation is basically non-existent, and only a place holder plugin comes with Dolphin for the time being. Dolphin's team promises better performance in the near future. Dolphin is now able to use mouse/keyboard and joypad/joystick.

The latest release is Dolphin Final 1.03 BETA. After years of inactivity, a new version is currently being developed . This new version will be optimized for 64-bit computers and computers with dual-core processors. It will be capable to run most games at a maximum of 30 frames per second, provided someone has a 64-bit version of Windows XP.