Dolphin Team Emulate the Nintendo Wii on Windows

***wraggster*** · July 14th, 2008, 16:30

Jkkdark posted a bit about this last night but this is such major news it deserves a full on newspost with screens.

Ector last night revealed that Dolphin the Gamecube Emulator for Windows has now gone open source and also that Nintendo Wii Emulation has been added with the ability so far to play intro movies and starts zelda, heres his post:

We hereby release the source code of Dolphin and most of its plugins under the GPL 2.0.

You can check out the code using Subversion (we recommend TortoiseSVN), from our new repository at Google Code. .

A few new features are included:

* New OpenGL graphics plugin by zerofrog
* Basic patch/cheat system (no search yet), support for decrypted Action Replay codes
* Much faster JIT in 32-bit, slightly faster in 64-bit
* Basic Wii support (plays a couple of intro movies, starts zelda, no working wiimote)
* Some more I forgot about right now, see them as bonuses..

With the new gfx plugin, the code mostly builds and even runs a bit on Linux, but games don't work yet. There's now a cross platform wxWidgets GUI.

We'll release some new official builds soon, too.

Compatibility has not increased since the last release, but speed has in many cases.

Dolphin is currently not in a super polished state, but we hope that the community can help fix that, and maybe in the long run also add more features and compatibility. If anyone has a new feature or fix and wants SVN write access, just contact us and we'll add you to the project. Or you could just fork the whole thing, but that would probably be annoying

Have fun,

Falcon4ever and Codex Dolphin beta testers posted many screens of game intros and even some ingame footage. heres a few of the screens:

This Version with Wii Support is unreleased at this time but its looking great for Emulation fans again.