Dolphin (emulator)

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Dolphin

Developed by	F\|RES / ector
Latest release	1.03.2 Beta3 / August 21, 2007
OS	Windows
Genre	Emulator
Website	http://www.dolphin-emu.com

Dolphin is a Nintendo GameCube emulator for Windows. Its name is derived from the original code name for the GameCube "Dolphin".

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 not fully implemented, and is missing a lot of sound effects and music. 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 1.03.2 x64 BETA 3 [1] . The new version was announced in late 2006, showing screenshots of various games running at 15-30 frames per second [2] . This new version is only compatible with 64-bit computers and is optimized to work with dual-core processors (It still works with single-core processors as well). It is capable of running most games at well over 30 frames per second, provided one is running it on a 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista. A speed-limiter will be implemented in the next version of Dolphin, and it will be released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.