dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (by dolphin-emu)
rpcs3
PS3 emulator/debugger (by RPCS3)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dolphin
Posts with mentions or reviews of dolphin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
Dolphin ships with a bunch of keys in the source code[0]. So do almost every other emulators for any console from 6/7th gen consoles (ps3, xbox360, gamecube), see delroth's post on the matter here[1]. It's really not that simple - jurisdiction matters a lot, and also Nintendo's own priorities.
[0]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...
[1]: https://delroth.net/posts/emulation-crypto-keys-copyright-dm...
- Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
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Replay old video games
GameCube/Wii: Dolphin is the best GameCube/Wii emulator in my opinion: Download Dolphin
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How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
Dolphin has actually had this for their macOS builds for over a year now.
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Dolphin (GameCube/Wii) Emulator: https://dolphin-emu.org/
- Dolphin: Emulator for two Nintendo video game consoles – GameCube and Wii
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Rokid Max Review and Many Tips
Though these consoles did not support stereoscopy originally, the Dolphin emulator can add it and output SBS. My experience was a bit mixed. Your mileage may vary.
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Am I the only one tired of the remakes?
You install Dolphin emulator, go into settings and make a folder for your games where it says "directory", and then you just stick your game in the folder. That's pretty much all there is to it, that's why I think Dolphin is the best emulator.
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[TP] Can you give me reasons to buy twilight princess?
Dolphin
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Local Co-op Action RPGs on PC
Platform: Gamecube. The remaster scrapped the local co-op entirely (booo). This one is a bit tricky but works perfectly once setup properly in Dolphin.
rpcs3
Posts with mentions or reviews of rpcs3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-26.
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Idk if anyone's done a one-handed hitless run of the game or anything crazy like that, and this is 100% not that (i get hit A LOT on these runs) but Im still pretty proud of this.
The emulator: https://rpcs3.net/ The rom: https://vimm.net/vault/24833 I forget if you need anything else but finding a video on YouTube is not very hard for rpcs3, a bit complicated, sorry I can't remember how to do it all, it's been a while.
- Metal Gear Solid 4: How do I downgrade RCPS3 on steamdeck?
- Metal Gear Solid 4: How do I downgrade RCPS3?
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A Comprehensive Guide to Methods for Playing the Sly Cooper Games
What you'll need: A PC with a decent CPU (RPCS3 tierlist of CPUs), a legally obtained copy of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (eBay link for physical; getting your own digital copies of PS3 games is a bit more complex and requires jailbreaking your PS3, I recommend MrMario2011's channel for any PS3 jailbreaking you need to do... or Google), and a PS3 emulator for PC (RPCS3 is the only one you should look at). Note that you can also run RPCS3 on Linux and macOS but I have no experience with that so any system requirements will have to be found by you). You also need a DualShock 4 (PlayStation Store link), a DualSense (PlayStation Store link), or another controller that has gyro functionality. There are other methods for bypassing gyro, such as emulating gyro (GitHub link for DualShock 4 emulator) or modifying your saves to skip past mandatory gyro sections of the game (PasteBin link for a tutorial). Also check out the RPCS3 wiki page for the game for any potential fixes.
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
RPCS3 (PlayStation 3) Emulator: https://rpcs3.net/
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RPCS3 Flickering on Black Ops I M1
it's the same issue as here: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/issues/13031
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Rokid Max Review and Many Tips
Finally, there is a sizeable catalog of PlayStation 3 games that support 3D, which you can output in SBS using the RPCS3 emulator. Their resolution is quite low but the stereo effect can still be impressive. Note that normally only half SBS is supported, but some games might have a community patch for widescreen resolutions, in which case full SBS might be possible. Make sure to set Configuration -> GPU -> 3D to "Side-by-side" before starting a game. This will tell the game that you are connected to a 3D display, in which case it would have an in-game option to enable stereoscopic 3D. You might also need to set the aspect ratio to 4:3. I can confirm that Prince of Persia Trilogy 3D works nicely. Note that you need a fairly beefy gaming rig to emulate PlayStation 3 well!
- RPCS3 – The Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dolphin and rpcs3 you can also consider the following projects:
yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator
xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
Ishiiruka
xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
cheat-engine - Cheat Engine. A development environment focused on modding
Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator
pkg2zip - Decrypts PlayStation Vita pkg file and packages to zip archive