dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (by dolphin-emu)
xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development) (by xemu-project)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
xemu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xemu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
- Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator
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Replay old video games
Xbox: Xemu is the best Xbox Emulator according to the emulation wiki: Download Xemu
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Xemu (Original Xbox) Emulator: https://xemu.app/
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Local Co-op Action RPGs on PC
Black Stone: Magic & Steel / 4 players / Xbox: Plays great on Xemu.
- Why does it seem like Xbox emulation is so far behind the times
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Is it possible to play burned original Xbox games with Xbox One X?
xemu is another option, if you have a Windows rig with sufficient power. Beats me as to how well Coast2Coast runs exactly, but the site boasts it to be playable at least.
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Bloodwake (and likely others) Physics Speed Issue Resolution
I think they is an option to fix this within the emulator. Check out the GitHub page, it does have some details.
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Found this at my grandparents house, can I play them on PC?
DVD-drive and https://xemu.app/
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EON Announces the XBHD, a Plug-and-Play HDMI Adapter for Original Xbox
Xemu is the best current XB emulator, it comes complete with Insignia (Xbox Live 1.0 reimplementation) support, with a little tinkering.
- I tested a bunch of Xemu (og xbox) games on Steam Deck so you don't have to
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dolphin and xemu you can also consider the following projects:
yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator
Cxbx-Reloaded - Xbox (Original) Emulator
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
Ishiiruka
pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
extract-xiso - Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
xqemu - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux
Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator
rpcs3 - PS3 emulator/debugger