Dolphin (emulator)

Dolphin

Dolphin 5.0 running on Windows 10
Original author(s) F|RES, Henrik Rydgård (ector)[1][2]
Developer(s) Dolphin Emulator Project
Initial release 22 September 2003 (2003-09-22)
Stable release
5.0 / 24 June 2016 (2016-06-24)[3]
Repository github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
Development status Active
Written in C++, C, Objective-C++[4]
Operating system Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.10 or later, Linux, Android 5.0 or later
Platform
Available in 24 languages[7]
Type Video game console emulator
License GNU General Public License version 2+[8][9]
Website dolphin-emu.org
System requirements
Minimum Recommended
Personal Computer[10]
Operating system
CPU x86-64[5] Intel Core i5-4670K or equivalent
Memory 2 GB RAM or more
Graphics hardware Pixel Shader 3.0, and DirectX 10 or OpenGL 3 support Modern DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.4, or Vulkan GPU
Input device(s) Any PC input device – mouse and keyboard by default[11] Original Nintendo GameCube controller with Smash Bros. Wii U USB adapter[12]

Original Nintendo Wii Remote via DolphinBar[13]

Android
Operating system Android 5.0[14]
CPU AArch64[6] Snapdragon 835 or equivalent[15][16]
Memory 1 GB RAM 2 GB RAM
Graphics hardware OpenGL ES 3.0[17] Adreno 540 or equivalent[15][16] with OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan support[18]

Dolphin is a video game console emulator for the GameCube and Wii[19] that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.[20][21]

It had its inaugural release in 2003 as freeware for Windows. Dolphin was the first GameCube emulator to successfully run commercial games. After troubled development in the first years, Dolphin became free and open-source software and subsequently gained support for Wii as well and the emulator got ported to Linux[22] and later macOS.[23] As mobile hardware got more powerful over the years, running Dolphin on Android became a viable option.

Dolphin received critical acclaim in the IT and video gaming media for its high compatibility, steady development progress, and the amount of available features – most notably the ability to play games with graphical improvements over the original consoles.

Development

Origins (2003–2007)

Dolphin was first released in September 2003[24] by programmers Henrik Rydgård (ector) and F|RES[1][2] as an experimental Nintendo GameCube emulator that could boot up and run commercial games. Audio was not yet emulated, and there were performance issues. Many games crashed on start up or barely ran at all; average speed was from 2 to 20 frames per second (FPS). Its name refers to the development code name for the GameCube.[25]

Dolphin was officially temporarily discontinued in 2004, with the developers releasing version 1.01 as the final version of the emulator.[26] The developers decided to revive the project in 2005.[27]

Open source, Wii emulation, and 2.0 release (2008–2010)

Dolphin became an open-source project on 13 July 2008[22][28] when the developers released the source code publicly on a SVN repository on Google Code under the GPLv2.[22] At this point, the emulator had basic Wii emulation implemented, limited Linux compatibility and a new GUI using wxWidgets.[22] Upon its open sourcing, various developers were attracted, and development on the emulator has been continuous since, with regular releases of SVN builds. The preview builds and unofficial SVN builds were released with their revision number (e.g., RXXXX) rather than version numbers (e.g., 1.03).[29][30] As with previous builds, differences between consecutive builds are typically minor.[31]

Dolphin's Wii emulation reached a milestone in February 2009 when it successfully booted and ran the official Wii System Menu v1.0. Shortly after, almost all versions of the Wii system software became bootable.[32]

By April 2009, most commercial games, GameCube and Wii alike, could be fully played albeit with a few minor problems and errors, with a large number of games running with virtually no defect. Improvements to the emulator had allowed users to play select games at full speed for the first time, audio had dramatically improved, and the graphics capabilities were fairly consistent except for a few minor problems.[33]

By late October 2009, new features were incorporated into the emulator such as automatic frame-skipping, which increased the performance of the emulator as well as increased stability of the emulator overall.[34] Also improved was the NetPlay feature of the emulator, which allowed players to play multiplayer GameCube and Wii games online with friends, as long as the game does not require a Wii remote. The GUI was reworked to make it more user-friendly. The DirectX plug-in also received further work.[35]

On 12 April 2010 Dolphin 2.0 was released.[36][20]

3.0 and 3.5 releases (2010–2012)

By the end of November 2010, the developers fixed most of the sound issues (such as crackling), added compatibility with more games, and increased the overall emulation speed and accuracy.

In June 2011, version 3.0 was released.[37] Strange user interface behavior, crashes, graphical glitches and other problems were fixed. The release notes state that “Most games run perfectly or with minor bugs.”[37] The release features redesigned configuration windows, a vastly improved LLE sound engine, new translations, added support for the Wii Remote speaker, EFB format change emulation, graphics debugger, audio dumping, and many others. The 3.0 release removed the plug-in interface because “this architecture allows for a much better integration with the other parts of Dolphin.” The developers also added a Direct3D 11 video back-end and an XAudio2 audio back-end.[37]

On 25 December 2012 version 3.5 was released, featuring support for emulating GameCube Broadband Adapter and Microphone. It introduced a FreeBSD port, free replacement for the DSP firmware, and the WBFS file format.[38][39]

Port to Android and 4.0 release (2013)

On 6 April 2013, the emulator team released the first builds for Google's Android mobile operating system.[21][40] As of September 2013, only a handful of devices have the hardware to support OpenGL ES 3.0, with Google officially supporting the standard in software since July 2013 with the introduction of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Games run at an average of 1 FPS. The developer has cited the Samsung Galaxy S4 as one of the first phones capable of playing games at higher speeds, but even it will have considerable performance limitations.[21]

On 22 September 2013, version 4.0 was released, featuring back-end improvements to OpenGL rendering and OpenAL audio, broader controller support, networking enhancements, and performance tweaks for macOS and Linux builds.[41][42] However, some critical bugs slipped through the release, leading to bugfix releases 4.0.1[43][44] and 4.0.2.[45][46]

Drop of legacy technologies, accuracy improvements, and 5.0 release (2013–2016)

In 12 October 2013 (4.0-155), Direct3D 9 support was removed from the project, leaving Direct3D 11 and OpenGL as the two remaining video back-ends. The Dolphin Team stated that "D3D9 is inherently flawed, and working around its problems wasted time and slowed development."[47]

On 19 May 2014, the Dolphin Team announced that 32-bit support for Microsoft Windows and Linux was being dropped.[5] The Dolphin Team stated that it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the 32-bit builds, and that the 32-bit releases simply offered an inferior experience compared to their 64-bit counterparts. Furthermore, the vast majority of their users were already using 64-bit CPUs, and most users of 32-bit builds were 64-bit compatible yet were using 32-bit by mistake. The combination of these factors made 32-bit support unnecessary. 32-bit Android builds suffered from similar issues,[21] but ARMv7 support[48] remained for another year until the AArch64 JIT was ready and devices were available.[6]

Game Boy Advance–GameCube linking was among the features emulated by Dolphin 5.0

Throughout 2014, there was great progress with accuracy in mind, implementing features such as disc loading emulation, native support for GameCube controllers,[12] near perfect audio emulation,[49] and bug fixes for problems present since its earliest days.[50][51][52] Memory management unit (MMU) improvements allow many games to boot and work properly for the first time.[50] Development on Android devices has also been promising; as of December 2014, Dolphin can run on its most powerful devices, such as those using Nvidia Tegra processors, albeit with some difficulty.[53][54]

In coordination with the developers of the VBA-M Game Boy Advance emulator, support for linking GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles landed in March 2015.[54]

On 25 May 2015 – the Dolphin project announced that they successfully re-licensed the code base from "GPLv2 only" to "GPLv2 or any later" to improve license compatibility with other FOSS projects to be able to share and exchange code with them.[8][9][19]

In August 2015 the Dolphin developers announced further improvements with audio[55][56] and during December 2015 the Dolphin project fixed some audio issues on TR Wii Remotes.[57] Two months later, in February 2016, a DirectX 12 back-end was mainlined after months of development.[58]

On 24 June 2016, version 5.0 was released, featuring various fixes and additions.[3]

Post-5.0 developments (ongoing)

Development of a Vulkan-based graphics renderer began in June 2016.[9] After a month the developer announced is “Now feature-complete, time for clean-ups/bug-fixing/performance work.“[59] Development of that renderer was still done in a dedicated branch for the next months until the code was finally merged in October 2016.[60]

In September 2016, Dolphin's developers announced the emulator was now able to boot all official GameCube titles. The last title to be supported for boot-up, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, had been particularly difficult to emulate due to the game's use of the memory management unit.[61][62] Also they announced that they removed Triforce emulation, because of no maintenance in the Triforce emulation's code.[63]

Six months after the Clone Wars milestone, Dolphin reached another one by becoming compatible with the Wii Shop Channel.[64]

Two experimental features, that never reached maturity, were removed in May 2017: The DirectX 12 renderer – which found a suitable replacement in the Vulkan back-end – and the alternative CPU emulator JIT IL.[65][66]

Continuing this year’s earlier work on graphics performance-related matters, Dolphin developers implemented a solution for the long-standing problem known as shader compilation stuttering.[67] The stuttering problem was one of the reasons for the unofficial Dolphin variant Ishiiruka which tackled it earlier[68] albeit in a very different way. The stuttering is caused by the emulator waiting for the graphics driver to compile shaders required for new environments or objects. The solution that the so-called Ubershaders – in development since 2015[69] – present to the problem was to emulate the Wii’s and GameCube’s rendering pipeline by way of an interpreter running on the host system’s graphics processor itself until a specialized shader has been compiled and can be used for future frames, at a lower cost to performance.[67]

Features

Features of Dolphin include the ability start games regardless of region, record tool-assisted speedruns,[70][71][72] and cheating with Action Replay and Gecko codes. Dolphin supports real GameCube controllers via USB adapter[73][12] and Wii Remotes via Bluetooth.[11] Its expansions, such as MotionPlus adapter, Nunchuk, Classic controller, Guitar, Drums, and Turntable, are also supported.[74]

Dolphin allows to map functions of the original GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes – with or without expansions – to PC controllers.[75][76]

Two kinds of network play are supported by Dolphin: Emulated local multiplayer[77] and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.[78] The first only works among Dolphin users. It applies to games that by default have no online option. The second kind is for online gameplay for WFC supported Wii games with other Dolphin users as well as real Wii users.[41][79][78]

Game progress can be saved on virtual GameCube Memory Cards, emulated Wii flash memory, and save states. Dolphin features a Memory Card Manager which allows transfer of save files to and from virtual GameCube memory cards.[80]

In conjunction with the VBA-M Game Boy Advance emulator, Dolphin supports linking GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles.[54]

Graphical improvements

Demonstration of anti-aliasing using simple shapes

Like many other console emulators on PC, Dolphin supports arbitrary resolutions,[52][81][82] whereas the GameCube and Wii only support up to 480p.[83] The ability for high resolution graphics has been widely lauded by the gaming community and has received features on numerous gaming networks, as the emulator has surpassed the limits of the original console.[84]

Dolphin can load customized texture maps.[19] These can also be of higher resolution than the original textures.[85] The emulator also has ability to export a game’s textures in order that graphic artists can modify them.

Dolphin can output stereoscopic 3D graphics on any platform Dolphin runs. Special hardware such as Nvidia 3D Vision is also supported. The ability to play games in stereoscopic 3D is a feature the original consoles never had,[86] although Nintendo did originally plan to release stereoscopic 3D add-on screen for the GameCube.[87]

Additional features to further enhance the graphics quality are also available. Dolphin supports spatial anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, post-processing pixel shaders, and a widescreen hack for forcing widescreen output on games that do not support it natively.[88] Games can also achieve higher-than-intended frames per second.[89]

Reception

Dolphin has received widespread critical acclaim from various independent gaming sites. In October 2014 PC Gamer editor Wes Fenlon wrote: “Over the past few years, Dolphin has become one of the easiest-to-use emulators ever made, and it’s also one of the only emulators to make many games better. You haven’t played Super Mario Galaxy until you’ve played it at 1440p.” He went on to say that “Dolphin keeps making major, sometimes huge improvements to compatibility and performance”.[28]

Other media such as Eurogamer, Wololo.net, and 1UP.com echoed the sentiment about its high compatibility[90] and the ability to play games in high-definition.[81][82][91]

As of March 2017 Dolphin has at least 50000 daily active users, according to Dolphin’s opt-in analytics.[19]

ArsTechnica noted how Dolphin can serve as tool to mitigate shortcomings a gamer would usually face, like missing gender selection in Wind Waker[92] or how Dolphin’s netplay feature is an alternative to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection which was shut down.[78]

Variants

Dolphin Triforce

A version of Dolphin emulating the Triforce arcade system was in development by the Dolphin team themselves but eventually was disabled after development priorities shifted and that feature became unmaintained.[63] Nonetheless certain games such as Mario Kart Arcade GP are playable.[93] Downloads of Dolphin Triforce are still available from the website[94] and the source code is available from GitHub in a dedicated repository.[95]

Dolphin VR

Dolphin VR is a third party project aimed to extend Dolphin with the ability to play games “in Virtual Reality with accurate life-size scale, full FOV [field of view], a 3D HUD, independent aiming, and the ability to look around.”[96] HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are supported.[97]

PC Gamer tested a few games with Dolphin VR. Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX received especially high praise with one editor feeling “childlike wonder when playing Metroid Prime in VR” and another stating that “F-Zero [is] the thing that sold me on Dolphin VR”.[97]

The latest release is 5.0[98] and the source code is hosted on GitHub.[99]

Ishiiruka

Logo for Ishiiruka

In reaction to the removal of DirectX 9 support Dolphin developer Tino created an unofficial fork called Ishiiruka on 18 October 2013.[100] The name is Japanese for Dall's porpoise.[101] Although the focus is Windows with DirectX 9 and 11 support,[102] Linux versions also exist.[103][104]

The fork attempts to remedy performance problems present in Dolphin such as microstuttering due to shader compilation.[68] Ishiiruka serves as base for the canonical client of the Super Smash Brothers Melee netplay communities Faster Melee[105] and SmashLadder.[106]

John Linneman of Eurogamer talks in the October 2016 Metroid Prime episode of their Digital Foundry Retro video series about Ishiiruka. He compares playing Metroid Prime via Ishiiruka to playing it on original hardware, Wii and GameCube, and upstream Dolphin. Linneman argues that “the benefits [of emulation] kind of outweigh any of the smaller issues that you might encounter”. He continues to point out unique features of Ishiiruka that “allow you to push the visuals beyond what you can achieve using standard Dolphin. For instance, you can add lots of cool additional enhancements like depth of field, ambient occlusion, various types of color correction and a whole lot more […]. It's also worth noting that this version of Dolphin helps avoid the shader compilation stutters that plagued the official release of the emulator and it leads to a much more fluid experience.”[68]

As with Dolphin, development is hosted on GitHub.[107]

See also

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