The extremely popular and amazing Wii and Gamecube emulator Dolphin which enabled users on Windows, Mac and Linux to enjoy Gamecube and Wii games in 1080p HD (upscaled) is now available on Android.
The Dolphin Emulator team has recently shared a new statement to clarify the situation. The software is unfortunately not releasing on Steam.
Well, they wouldn't risk it.
Sure they could try to bury Dolphin in legal shenanigans, but they always run the risk of losing like previous lawsuits against this kind of software. And the ramifications of that would be disastrous for a company like Nintendo. That said, Dolphin not pushing their luck is also a smart direction.
I really wish we adjusted our laws that if a product is off the retail market for 5+ years, it gets put into open emulation arena to maintain the content. And Disney shouldn't be allowed to vault content away from the world as well.
Who am I kidding? These people run the world. What we see is decided by them.
I'm not surprised, especially when you know how blood thirsty Nintendo's lawyers are, then again, for anyone who wants the emulator, they can probably add it with extra steps to Steam's Retro Arch or Steam Deck anyway.
Someone want to explain the down votes? It doesn't make sense when I've only spoken facts.
Why would anyone need Steam to run Dolphin anyway? It works fine as a standalone download.
Because it would open Dolphin up for easy access for all SteamDeck users, and Steam users will allow online multiplayer mods to be easily implemented for a larger community.
Using PS4 Linux and the AMDGPU-PRO driver Hector Martin has managed to get Vulkan software running on a PS4.
Yes but it's not like it will have any benefits this way, it's just an exploit, not an actual feature.
Replies(1)Pretty cool but it's like making your PS4 useless as a console and only a decent Linux machine.
No, pretty sure you have to modify to the firmware in some way, not on the HDD alone.
decent???More like pitiful.Just tell me when the ps4 can Photoshop,create websites or 3D editing.
And knowing sony. They will just send a update to remove it. We all remember what happened with Other OS
I don't own a ps4 nor will i ever buy one. So it doesn't bother me if they do. Just pointing out a fact.
Other OS was Sony's wasn't it? This is a hack and obviously not supported by Sony. Either way, you're hindering your PS4 console to play some Gamecube games? It's just a tinkerers toy, nothing really useful is going to come out of it that would make it worth it.. Just get a Linux machine for cripes sake.
Don't you think people should be able to do what they want? I get that they don't want piracy, but I bought the Damm console and should be able.to install whatever I want.
I bought my PS4 and PS4 Pro to play games designed for it, if I wanted to play gamecube games or run linux programs, I have machines for that...
vega,
I don't own a ps4 nor will i ever buy one. So it doesn't bother me if they do. Just pointing out a fact.
your loss
"only I matter" Also, what happened when they did that? Yup. Just recently Sony settled for the very thing you're speaking about.
Providing you have proof of purchase and can provide a written statement that you did use the "Other OS" feature you can get $55 USD. If you can also provide proof that you purchased the PS3 with one the reasons to be able to use the "Other OS" feature you can get $9 USD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Somehow I doubt that Sony will be paying much money for removing the "Other OS" feature. Of course, you will always get diehards but most people who genuinely use Linux at home and/or at work don't care.
Contrary to what some people may say removing the "Other OS" feature was the only thing that was ever removed from the original PS3 and it was optional, no other features were ever removed.
I still have my original PS3 and it works fine since it can play PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. After all, that is what I got for anyway.
I would be curious to know how many people actually used the "Other OS" feature since if you did install Linux it really made a very poor Linux machine. I personally never used the feature since you could run Linux on just about computer such as my 10-year-old HP dv6000 laptop which even now runs the latest release of Fedora 25 Linux. In fact I actually run Linux on all my computers including the Desktop I am currently using.
Correct, knowing company _______, they will update their product to close anything deemed a security hole.
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Yeah, uh, wanting to play old games has nothing to do with wanting or not wanting to buy new games. I buy new games, I also still play MS-DOS and Sega Genesis games.
Why would I go buy random $20 AAA games that I don't care about anyways (or I'd already have them) when I could go play Skies of Arcadia, Fallout or Contra Hard Corps?
That's awesome!
I mean, I have my Wii U modded and it runs all my GameCube and Wii from SD card. Best of all they run natively, and native Wiimote support for the Wii games.
I do uses Dolphin on my PC though. Which is probably more powerful than my PS4 Pro (though not by much, it's kind of geared towards emulation with less cores but higher clock speed)
Dolphin is a file browser which runs on Linux distributions that are running the KDE desktop environment. In my case, I run Fedora 25 with a KDE desktop. https://www.kde.org/applica...
For those who are interested here is a comparison between Dolphin and Nautilus which are two of the many graphical file managers that are available for different Linux based desktops http://www.makeuseof.com/ta...
Of course, you can always use the command line under all Linux distributions. Dolphin has a feature where you can easily bring up a command window or an integrated command line window which gives you the best of all worlds since sometimes a command line is appropriate and other times a graphical display is a more efficient solution.
For the longest time Star Wars Clone Wars was the only game to receive a 1 star rating for Dolphin Emulator compatibility. The recent version (5.0-540) has completely eliminated this issue.
lol B2 ain't even that good. Wait for B3 that comes with B2 on Scorpio and Neo.
It's not. They've outright stated they aren't doing a WiiU emulator (they only added a Wii because it's basically the same thing as the Gamecube) and the only functional WiiU emulator I'm aware of (Cemu) is a long ways off. It will run some of the popular games at full speed sometimes if you have a super beefy computer so don't expect full or even mostly full compatibility for 2+ years.
Love the Dolphin emulator. Can't wait for when there is a stable release for the Wii U emulator.
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Good luck playing super smash bro's melee with a touch screen...
Ouya? If so, I will definitely buy one. I have the Dolphin emulator on my PC and it's fantastic, but to have my Gamecube games so easily portable to take over to my friend's houses, that would be awesome.
I can't imagine this works very well. It's pretty spotty, even on PC.
Cool, need to try it out.
If they manage to improve the code, and optimize it, if it can run on full speed on Ouya without upscale maybe, then it's worth it.
One more reason to buy that thing.