wraggster
December 2nd, 2013, 00:04
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A new version of the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Triforce emulator Dolphin (http://dolphin-emu.org/) has been been released.
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One month after the 4.0.1 release we´re releasing the maintenance release 4.0.2. It turned out that some critical regressions had slipped into the 4.0 release due to the major changes linked to the wii-network branch and the global user directory changes.
In particular, one of the fixed issues (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6721) was related to incorrect usage of wxWidgets and caused various problems with general Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) usage on Windows systems with Unicode characters in their user name (e.g. "François" or "あいうえお").
Some rather technical issues caused multiple games to stop booting or to freeze randomly. We´ve had multiple (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6577)issue (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6781)reports (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=4688) on this bug, so it´s great to see that we were able to fix this properly.
As for the binary release packages, we unfortunately can only provide Windows builds at the moment. As usual, OS X and Linux users can compile the source themselves by checking out the source from the 4.0.2 git tag. The Windows installers can be found on our downloads page, https://dolphin-emu.org/download/. We hope to be able to provide binaries for other systems in the future, though.
If you´re a Windows user and still were using Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) 4.0.0, you should uninstall Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) before installing the update due to some changes to the installer which happened in the 4.0.1 release. All future Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) versions will be installed into "Program Files/Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/)", whereas the 4.0.0 release still used "Program Files/Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) 4.0". Your settings and game saves will survive a deinstallation, so you don´t need to worry about having to back them up. If your currently installed Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) version is already 4.0.1, you can safely ignore this notice.
Of course, if you want to test the most recent improvements which are happening in Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/), you can also use the development versions (https://dolphin-emu.org/download/list/master/1/). They are distributed as plain .7z archives, so you test them safely without damaging an existing installation of a stable release. Keep in mind that they´re less simple to install and might have little flaws every now and then. However, we will do our best to make the Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) experience for the next stable release even more awesome than it is currently, of course!
You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article.
A new version of the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Triforce emulator Dolphin (http://dolphin-emu.org/) has been been released.
Quote:
One month after the 4.0.1 release we´re releasing the maintenance release 4.0.2. It turned out that some critical regressions had slipped into the 4.0 release due to the major changes linked to the wii-network branch and the global user directory changes.
In particular, one of the fixed issues (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6721) was related to incorrect usage of wxWidgets and caused various problems with general Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) usage on Windows systems with Unicode characters in their user name (e.g. "François" or "あいうえお").
Some rather technical issues caused multiple games to stop booting or to freeze randomly. We´ve had multiple (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6577)issue (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6781)reports (http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=4688) on this bug, so it´s great to see that we were able to fix this properly.
As for the binary release packages, we unfortunately can only provide Windows builds at the moment. As usual, OS X and Linux users can compile the source themselves by checking out the source from the 4.0.2 git tag. The Windows installers can be found on our downloads page, https://dolphin-emu.org/download/. We hope to be able to provide binaries for other systems in the future, though.
If you´re a Windows user and still were using Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) 4.0.0, you should uninstall Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) before installing the update due to some changes to the installer which happened in the 4.0.1 release. All future Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) versions will be installed into "Program Files/Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/)", whereas the 4.0.0 release still used "Program Files/Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) 4.0". Your settings and game saves will survive a deinstallation, so you don´t need to worry about having to back them up. If your currently installed Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) version is already 4.0.1, you can safely ignore this notice.
Of course, if you want to test the most recent improvements which are happening in Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/), you can also use the development versions (https://dolphin-emu.org/download/list/master/1/). They are distributed as plain .7z archives, so you test them safely without damaging an existing installation of a stable release. Keep in mind that they´re less simple to install and might have little flaws every now and then. However, we will do our best to make the Dolphin (http://www.dolphin-emu.com/) experience for the next stable release even more awesome than it is currently, of course!
You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article.