dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (by dolphin-emu)
yuzu
Nintendo Switch emulator (by yuzu-emu)
| dolphin | yuzu | |
|---|---|---|
| 388 | 562 | |
| 13,626 | 38,792 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
- Dolphin: Open-Source GameCube and Wii Emulator with Enhanced PC Play
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Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409
Dolphin is a GPLv2+ application, and the runtime is under a proprietary license. We currently rely on the "system libraries" exception in the GPL to allow linking with the runtime in the first place. If we ship the runtime with Dolphin, it might not be considered a "system library" anymore.
There's some past discussion in this PR, where we made a change to automatically install the runtime DLLs but ended up reverting it: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/11068
(this is based off my own recollection of what others have told me, it might be out of date or wrong)
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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.
yuzu
Posts with mentions or reviews of yuzu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
- Yuzu Emulator Taken Down
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Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Yuzu is free software, so its source code is already available: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
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SMT:V - Random game crashes,
This issue seems to not be exactly new as seen here: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/7338
- RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Yuzu (Nintendo Switch) Emulator: https://yuzu-emu.org/
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Current EA version is probably the least experimental in a while.
What about this PR? It was approved on Jul 11, and looks to be performance boost to some extent. https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/10996. Is it already included in the EA 3754 release?
- If Nintendo would release their games on other platforms :(
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Accurate barriers for RDNA3 fix in Zelda Totk?
the bug in Yuzu looks similiar, but from what I understand it's caused by the way RDNA3 handles anisotropic filtering. here is the original issue report: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/10228
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yuzu - Progress Report June 2023
First time I hear it, I wonder if it could just be shader stuttering. Open a ticket in GitHub about it, and if possible I Claude s video. https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/new/choose
- Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE | 60fps mod
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dolphin and yuzu you can also consider the following projects:
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Cemu - Cemu - Wii U emulator
xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
Skyline - Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!