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Dolphin-emu - The Gamecube / Wii Emulator
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Dolphin - A Gamecube / Triforce / Wii Emulator
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Homesite: http://dolphin-emu.org/
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Project Site: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu
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Dolphin-emu is a emulator for Gamecube, Wii, Triforce that lets
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you run Wii/GCN/Tri games on your Windows/Linux/Mac PC system.
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Open Source Release under GPL 2
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Project Leaders: F|RES, ector
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Dolphin is an emulator for running Gamecube, Triforce and Wii games on
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Windows/Linux/OS X systems and recent Android devices. It's licensed under
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the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
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Team members: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/people/
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Please read the FAQ before use:
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Please read the FAQ before use: http://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/
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http://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/
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System Requirements:
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* OS: Microsoft Windows (XP/Vista or higher) or Linux or Apple Mac OS X (10.6 or higher).
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[System Requirements]
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* OS: Microsoft Windows (XP/Vista or higher) or Linux or Apple Mac OS X (10.7 or higher).
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Windows XP x64 is NOT supported.
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* Processor: Fast CPU with SSE2 supported (recommended at least 2Ghz).
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Dual Core for speed boost.
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* Graphics: Any reasonably modern graphics card (Direct3D9/OpenGL 2.1, shader model 3.0).
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Unix like systems other than Linux might work but are not officially supported.
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* Processor: A CPU with SSE2 support
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A modern CPU (3 GHz and Dual Core, not older than 2008) is highly recommended.
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* Graphics: A reasonably modern graphics card (Direct3D 10.0 / OpenGL 3.0).
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Direct3D 11 / OpenGL 4.4 recommended.
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[Installation on Windows]
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Use the solution file Source/dolphin-emu.sln to build Dolphin on Windows.
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Visual Studio 2013 is a hard requirement since previous versions don't support
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many C++ features that we use. Other compilers might be able to build Dolphin
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on Windows but have not been tested and are not recommended to be used.
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An installer can be created by using the Installer_win32.nsi and
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Installer_x64.nsi scripts in the Installer directory. This will require the
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Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) to be installed. Creating an
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installer is not necessary to run Dolphin since the Build directory contains
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a working Dolphin distribution.
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[Installation on Linux/OS X]
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Dolphin requires CMake for systems other than Windows. Many libraries are
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bundled with Dolphin and used if they're not installed on your system. CMake
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will inform you if a bundled library is used or if you need to install any
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missing packages yourself.
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Build steps:
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mkdir Build
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cd Build
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cmake ..
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make
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On OS X, an application bundle will be created in ./Binaries.
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On Linux, it's strongly recommended to perform a global installation via
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"sudo make install".
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[Uninstalling]
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When Dolphin has been installed with the NSIS installer, you can uninstall
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Dolphin like any other Windows application.
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Linux users can run "cat install_manifest | xargs -d '\n' rm" from the build directory
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to uninstall Dolphin from their system.
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OS X users can simply delete Dolphin.app to uninstall it.
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Additionally, you'll want to remove the global user directory (see below to
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see where it's stored) if you don't plan to reinstall Dolphin.
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[Command line usage]
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Usage: Dolphin [-h] [-d] [-l] [-e <str>] [-b] [-V <str>] [-A <str>]
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-l, --logger Opens the logger
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-e, --exec=<str> Loads the specified file (DOL,ELF,WAD,GCM,ISO)
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-b, --batch Exit Dolphin with emulator
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-V, --video_backend=<str> Specify a video plugin
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-V, --video_backend=<str> Specify a video backend
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-A, --audio_emulation=<str> Low level (LLE) or high level (HLE) audio
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[Libraries]
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Cg: Cg Shading API (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html)
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*.pdb = Program Debug Database (use these symbols with a program debugger)
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Available DSP emulation engines are HLE (High Level Emulation) and
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LLE (Low Level Emulation). HLE is fast but often less accurate while LLE is
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slow but close to perfect. Note that LLE has two submodes (Interpreter and
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Recompiler), which cannot be selected from the command line.
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[DSP Emulator Engines]
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HLE: High Level DSP Emulation
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LLE: Low Level DSP Emulation (requires DSP dumps)
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Recompiler is faster than interpreter but may be buggy.
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[Video Backends]
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Direct3D9: Render with Direct3D 9
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Direct3D11: Render with Direct3D 11
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OpenGL: Render with OpenGL + Cg Shader Language
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Software Renderer: Render using the CPU only (for devs only)
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Available video backends are "D3D" (only available on Windows Vista or higher),
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"OGL". There's also "Software Renderer", which uses the CPU for rendering and
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is intended for debugging purposes, only.
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[Sys Files]
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totaldb.dsy: Database of symbols (for devs only)
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font_ansi.bin/font_sjis.bin: font dumps
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setting-usa/jpn/usa.txt: config files for Wii
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GC/font_ansi.bin: font dumps
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GC/font_sjis.bin: font dumps
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GC/dsp_coef.bin: DSP dumps
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GC/dsp_rom.bin: DSP dumps
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[Support Folders]
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Cache: used to cache the ISO list
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Config: emulator configuration files
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Dump: anything dumped from dolphin will go here
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GameConfig: holds the INI game config files
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GC: Gamecube memory cards
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Load: custom textures
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Logs: logs go here
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Maps: symbol tables go here (dev only)
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The DSP dumps included with Dolphin have been written from scratch and do not
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contain any copyrighted material. They should work for most purposes, however
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some games implement copy protection by checksumming the dumps. You will need
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to dump the DSP files from a console and replace the default dumps if you want
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to fix those issues.
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[Folder structure]
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These folders are installed read-only and should not be changed.
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GameSettings: per-game default settings database
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GC: DSP and font dumps
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Maps: symbol tables (dev only)
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OpenCL: OpenCL code
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ScreenShots: screenshots are saved here
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Shaders: post-processing shaders
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StateSaves: save states are stored here
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Wii: Wii saves and config is stored here
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Themes: icon themes for GUI
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Wii: default Wii NAND contents
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[User folder structure]
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A number of user writeable directories are created for caching purposes or for
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allowing the user to edit their contents. On OS X and Linux these folders are
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stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Dolphin/ and ~/.dolphin-emu
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respectively. On Windows the user directory is stored in the "My Documents"
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folder by default, but there are various way to override this behavior:
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- Creating a file called "portable.txt" next to the Dolphin executable will
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store the user directory in a local directory called "User" next to the
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Dolphin executable.
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- If the registry string value "LocalUserConfig" exists in
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"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Dolphin Emulator" and has the value "1", Dolphin will
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always start in portable mode.
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- If the registry string value "UserConfigPath" exists in
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"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Dolphin Emulator", the user folders will be stored in the
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directory given by that string. The other two methods will be prioritized
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over this setting.
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List of user folders:
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Cache: used to cache the ISO list
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Config: configuration files
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Dump: anything dumped from dolphin
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GameConfig: additional settings to be applied per-game
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GC: memory cards
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Load: custom textures
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Logs: logs, if enabled
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ScreenShots: screenshots taken via Dolphin
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StateSaves: save states
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Wii: Wii NAND contents
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[Custom textures]
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Custom textures have to be placed in the user directory under
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Load/Textures/<GameID>/. You can find the Game ID by right-clicking a game
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in the ISO list and selecting "ISO Properties".
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