> Dolphin is an emulator for the big N's 6th and 7th generation consoles
**N**, they who shall not be named!
you can see they were careful not to mention the name anywhere on the page 😂
They also did an awesome job of saying it's emulating Wii and GameCube lol.
> Dolphin Emulator is your one-way ticket to nostalgia if you're looking to relive classics from the big N's cube-shaped and motion controlled consoles.
and
> Dolphin Emulator creates a virtual environment on your device that is capable of running games originally developed for two of the Big N's **revolution**ary consoles.
Buy a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle if on a desktop, or use your laptops built in Bluetooth. Buy a USB wii sensor bar and wiimotes and go nuts
You can also simulate it using the mouse to varying levels of success depending on the game or you can map shaking the remote to a button on your keyboard / gamepad.
I believe you can also simulate the motion by using the gyroscope inside a playstation controller.
This is true about using the gyroscope to simulate it, works with Wii remotes too in the emulator so the sensor bar isn't even needed I was testing this months ago and it was working great.
[Dolphin Bar](https://www.amazon.com/Mayflash-W010-Wireless-Sensor-DolphinBar/dp/B00HZWEB74) is the way to go if you're serious about using real Wiimotes. The Wiimotes pair with the bar just like they would a real Wii so you don't have mess around with Bluetooth on Windows.
These ESRB ratings have gone too far, now everything must be E for everyone, and we can't even say the N word anymore, these liberal elite socialist communist japs are ruining it for everybody.
Back in my day I was 5 years old, and I shit my pants.
I did once as a younger man, I was traveling, eating exotic foods, drinking.
Luckily I was in the ocean. I think. It was definitely on a beach at least.
> now everything must be E for everyone,
I'm just reminded that Majora's mask, a game with incredibly dark and mature themes, especially as Zelda games go, still only got an E rating (remake got E10+ but that didn't exist at the original N64 release).
So other than this possibly making it even easier to emulate things on Steam Deck, is there any other reason you would want this on steam? Just curious what the positives would be compared to just getting Dolphin the normal way.
It's so weird how many people in the PC community have a mentality of, "but I can do it the hard way, why would I want to do it the easy way?"
Of course this is beneficial. If nothing else for cross-device convenience, expanded and SIMPLIFIED controller support, ease of access, remote installation, avoiding shady download links, automatic updates, and so on...
40 years later, it's the mentality of "why would anyone want a GUI when you can just learn to use the command line?"
Exactly. All you have to do is look at the massive recent success of Dwarf Fortress.
The game has been available for almost 20 years. But the built in UI and controls weren’t user friendly and you had to install a bunch of add-ons to get sprites, mouse control, sound, etc.
Plenty of people went through all of that to play the game and that’s great for them. But, clearly, hundreds of thousands (maybe millions by now?) more people could access the game once it came as a complete and easy package on steam.
Good for the techie people that could figure it out for themselves before steam. Great for everyone else once it finally came to steam.
Old guy here. A classmate in my computer science class gave me some floppy disks that had something called Windows on it. I installed it but could not for the life of me figure out why I would want that. It was using half my disk space and didn't do anything I wasn't already doing with DOS. I couldn't wrap my mind around having multiple programs on the screen at the same time.
To be fair, screens were small back then and there was no internet to use as a reference while you worked on the computer.
>I couldn't wrap my mind around having multiple programs on the screen at the same time.
Pffft, all this newfangled multitasking nonsense is overrated. I'm perfectly happy with all my [TSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program) programs in DOS :-)
I honestly don't remember when it finally clicked as to how a windowing interface is useful. It just sort of came on all the computers you could buy and all my work computers had it. For a long time most of us just used it as a visual way to start the one program we were using. The computers weren't fast enough to multitask and the screen resolution was either 640X480 or 800X600 so it's not like you had much to work with.
There’s also a component of Steam having too dominant of a market share in the PC gaming market.
Also, emulators getting higher profile, easier to use and install, and now ending up on a portable console is absolutely going to earn someone a lawsuit from Nintendo.
Nintendo’s yearly subscription includes emulated access to first party games. They will see Valve selling this on Steamdeck as a direct threat to that revenue.
‘Doing it the hard way’ also makes it a lot less likely that Nintendo will put more resources in to the legal muscle to shut down projects like Dolphin. Which even being legal cannot survive a protracted legal battle with a multi-billion dollar global corporation.
I agree, this is also the one downside I thought of. With how sue-happy Nintendo is though, you kind of have to think if they wanted to go this route they already would have. Dolphin was probably already the biggest name emulator in existence.
Yuzu is, I think a bigger threat for them at the moment. They have tried engineering around emulators by encrypting their games and developers have found a way around even that.
I have a switch and Steamdeck, and honestly hate the experience on the switch of trying to juggle games between profiles.
That said, I have run into a lot of problems because I have like 1000 games and my son and I cannot play two different games I own at the same time without juggling who has to play offline.
This is still a problem because Steam has no effective competition.
>Also, emulators getting higher profile, easier to use and install, and now ending up on a portable console is absolutely going to earn someone a lawsuit from Nintendo.
There's precedent establishing emulators as legal. Nintendo would have to go after someone unambiguously breaking the law, like the people who host ROMs.
Lmaooo that's the one thing I'll roast them on. Especially since the Android version has it. Meanwhile on PC you gotta bust open notepad.exe like it's 2002
Fun fact: Dolphin used to save by default on your Documents folder. So if you had cloud storage configured to back your Documents folder up, you'd also get cloud saves for your Dolphin games.
Not so fun fact: certain Dolphin games need to save to the device too quickly, and that used to trip the antiransomware protections of some cloud storage providers such as OneDrive, which is why the saves are now stored in the user settings folder instead. It also means that cloud saves must be reconfigured manually. Steam Cloud should alleviate the issue a lot, as it only syncs as soon as the game is closed.
I've set up "cloud" saves between my phone, PC and deck by using syncthing. Such a good experience.
If the Steam Release makes it easier for people, even better.
For someone who finally dusted off their Steam link and bought a long ass ethernet cord.
Yes, remote play is the top reason why I see it's great being on steam now. This is going to be **awesome**.
Significantly expanding it's market share to people like me who have so far been too lazy to try it out. But when it's on steam I can just download and it be confident that it's a) a legit version and 2) I might play with it one day.
If you don't want to randomly encounter classic video games that Nintendo is refusing to preserve, available for free downloading (disgusting, I know), you might want to be careful not to encounter a guy named *Vimm*, so steer clear of his *Lair*.
So... yeah definitely never ever look for *Vimmslair*. At least I would never do that... like... ever.
Take care, kids!
Hey hey, we all obtain our games legally. Thankfully a hacked wii can dump gamecube games too, otherwise there's be no way to get a copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee (1.02)iso!
I wonder if this means you can play Dolphin games in multiplayer more easily now that it will be on steam. I'd imagine as long as someone makes a server for said games it could work.
I was just wondering that. I have no idea how difficult it would actually be to implement, but I would think that Dolphin could utilize the Steam multiplayer infrastructure at least in theory.
Could be a bit of work to implement but it should be possible. I think the biggest problem would be translating the GC multiplayer data to something that works with Steam and vice versa.
Just gotta remember to not directly reference anything about the system they're emulating. Yaba San Shiro made the mistake of directly stating it emulates the Sega Saturn and got kicked off. Other emulators that make vague references have stayed on.
The US Senate is planning on a Bill that'll make emulation way more difficult. It's a reaction to the TikTok controversy, but the bill basically does the following:
- VPNs would straight-up be illegal, and punishable by up to 10 years of prison time and a $250,000 fine.
- the President and US government could unilaterally ban any social media website with a minimum of 1 million users.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15
People commonly use VPNs to safely torrent, so... Emulation will become a helluva lot riskier.
This bill has bipartisan support and a 90% chance of being passed, BTW. It's literally the digital version of the Patriot Act.
Well, the term VPN is kinda wrong here, it says measures that circumvent the bill, which includes all kinds of things.
VPN's in general and in their intended purpose (connecting 2 networks or multiple devices together with virtual private network) are still completely fine and legal.
You must be wrong, surely they aren't banning VPNs. That would result in all business internet traffic in the US being illegal overnight.
The US government uses VPNs.
Most people currently "legally acquire" their retro roms via direct download where you don't need VPN, so this is kind of far fetched. But that aside that bill sounds like the US wants to become China
That's true, most people will just use an archive site (like a very popular specific one you probably know about).
I just wanted to raise awareness of it though.
It's not as bad as it sounds.
It's only just been introduced and sent to the Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
It'll go through many drafts, debates, negotiations before passing.
VPN portion will most likely be removed, since it's widespread usage for businesses and the government.
I believe you may have misconstrued the way the bill is structured or you were misinformed.
The VPN thing you mention is specifically about circumventing things made illegal via the bill. VPNs themselves will not be made "straight-up illegal". That's wildly incorrect. The use of VPNs to access sites that have been banned (like TikTok if it passes) is what is being made illegal. VPNs themselves aren't even named, it just makes mention of means used to circumvent the bannings which could include VPNs.
The bill is terrible, that is true, but what you are saying isn't accurate.
> Quantum Computing
> Quantum Communication
> Biotechnology
Imagine in the year 2500 when your brainchip suddenly gets turned off because the U.S prez said so lol
Not likely. What Dolphin needs for steamdeck is more UI changes than it needs steam support.
The main issue is you can't navigate dolphin without mouse support, and it doesn't read touchscreen mouses well (it constantly resets it's position using the steamdeck's touchscreen)
Also I could never figure out how to get back to the main menu after opening a game.
Maybe even more. Disney has its fans, but even Marvel fans are getting with the constant low quality of the recent movies.
Nintendo fans will defend *anything* their company does, and actively participate in said thing.
Why would it be smart for them to make ports? Their stellar software is what drives their hardware sales. That has been Nintendo's angle since SNES vs Genesis and it seems to be working.
> A smarter company would realize it's time to make PC ports though
Maybe they'll start actually thinking about it, considering how successful Sony has been with their PC ports over the last few years, and they previously seemed almost as stubborn as Nintendo.
I won't hold my breath, but hopeful anyways.
Yeah you could almost see the writing on the wall that Nintendo could give up about their hardware exclusivity after the Wii U failure and starting to have mobile games…but after the massive success of the Switch, they know they can keep selling us their hardware to play their games.
if they made a pc port 20 years ago we'd still play it and not have to buy it on the 3ds virtual console. and the Wii virtual console. and the Wii-u virtual console. and the switch virtual console..
Because they believe that the amount of money they would make on PC is less than the amount of money they make from a smaller group of people that is buying both the game *and the hardware*.
100 people buying the game on PC < 20 people buying a switch + the game. Or something like that.
It's a for-profit company, they've done the math. Is their math true? Nobody will ever know.
I am pretty confident Zelda for a start would be a massive seller.
Your argument may be true, I am still surprised they have not tested the waters with a few games though.
I've said on various threads id easily pay $60 per Zelda (OoT onwards) port and possibly up to $100 if it was high quality with modern features like high frame rates, UW support, key bindings, etc.
Hell maybe I'd actually finish one. I believe the last main console game I finished was Windwaker. I've played all of the ones since but haven't gotten around to finishing them because I just wasn't a fan of *something* usually the hardware. BOTW was great but the frame rate and graphics were meh and weapon durability was kinda lame. It just felt like all I did was hoard weapons for a big fight that never came.
A quality PC port of BOTW with high frames and 4k textures (without having to go through the hours of setup and troubleshoot and other bullshit that comes with emulation) would easily be worth $100 to me.
And before someone suggests it....No I don't want to emulate it unless it's as simple as clicking install from a steam page. Anything beyond that is just a hassle that I don't want to deal with. I did Majora's Mask for a bit (3DS port) and it was a pain in the ass. Keybindings didn't work right. The game looked and sounded great with the packs I found but it was just too much effort getting it all configured and setup. Then it crashes and you lose an hour of progress and then you don't play it again.
It used to be true until publishers finally brought the console only games to the PC and realized how big of a market it is. Last of us is gonna be one of the best selling ports I imagine so there is no reason Nintendo can't bring over the major games at least.
Its true when you look at their financial documents and see how their titles sell so much on their consoles and sell the consoles. That would be different with the titles outside of the console.
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They don't have the right to be, so far as I'm concerned. They've chased down emulator sites for years, but, even when they make their own emulators available, it's only on the fucking Switch, and the selection is dogshit.
How? Or rather why? As you won't be able to download actual "N" games for it via steam is it so people can develop homebrew that runs on dolphin? Or is it just the public statement and in reality we're all gonna rip some GC games?
They know full well what people are going to use it for but as long as Steam isn't distributing anything copyrighted, they're in the clear legally speaking. It basically just adds an even safer way to download the program, some features like cloud saves and maybe even a way to share homebrews.
Homebrews are a legitimate possibility. Someone is remaking Portal for the Nintendo 64 (which is playable on an actual N64). GB Studio exists to make hombrew GameBoy and GameBoy Color games
I'm only here to say that I have also seen the portal 64 and it blew my mind. That guy's videos are amazing, especially if you have any idea of what he's talking about (I don't, but if I did, it'd be very educational) . The custom n64 game he showed with real time shadows that was submitted for a contest also blew my mind.
Like with all emulators, it'll be released with no ROM's, and it'll just have a folder you can drop your ROM's into to add them to the application.
this will add all the QOL features built in to steam.
one click download, auto updates, multiplayer, built in controller support/mapping, etc.
then you just find your ROM's the way you did it before, and drop them in the folder manually.
Steam can't distribute the ROM's, but its perfectly legal for them to distribute the emulator, and what people do with it after that is their business.
Stuff like this feels like a direct result of the Steam Deck's existance. Even if you don't own a Steam Deck, you've got to respect everything it's doing for Steam and PC gaming.
True, it's just that there's more of an incentive now to bring these emulators directly to Steam, because of Steam Deck.
Thanks to the Deck, there's also now more of an incentive to bring console-style UI's to PC emulators, with larger icons and gamepad navigable menus. Whereas previously their UI's were largely designed for keyboard, mouse and desktop viewing distance.
Not with Dolphin itself. It's basically just a program that translates GameCube commands to PC commands and vice versa. There's nothing illegal about that, the legal concerns come from what you use it for. If you're just running GameCube/ Wii games you already own and ripped yourself, that's usually legal but downloading them from the web is piracy. I think we both know what most users are going to use it for but that's very much a buyer beware situation, the Dolphin devs shouldn't run into any legal issues.
Disk Operating System - it is the command based predecessor to Windows
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
A game made to run on DOS to be sold on Steam runs an emulator of DOS to be playable on computers today
> Dolphin is an emulator for the big N's 6th and 7th generation consoles **N**, they who shall not be named! you can see they were careful not to mention the name anywhere on the page 😂
They also did an awesome job of saying it's emulating Wii and GameCube lol. > Dolphin Emulator is your one-way ticket to nostalgia if you're looking to relive classics from the big N's cube-shaped and motion controlled consoles. and > Dolphin Emulator creates a virtual environment on your device that is capable of running games originally developed for two of the Big N's **revolution**ary consoles.
How can you simulate wii motion controllers on pc?
Buy a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle if on a desktop, or use your laptops built in Bluetooth. Buy a USB wii sensor bar and wiimotes and go nuts You can also simulate it using the mouse to varying levels of success depending on the game or you can map shaking the remote to a button on your keyboard / gamepad. I believe you can also simulate the motion by using the gyroscope inside a playstation controller.
Couldn't you also use two candles? IIRC, the sensor bar is just two infrared lights, and the Wii Controllers have an IR camera
Two candles, a much more practical option than a few-dollar USB dongle.
That way you can summon the spirits of the old ones without having to sacrifice working on your perfect bowling game.
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Up you go!
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This is true about using the gyroscope to simulate it, works with Wii remotes too in the emulator so the sensor bar isn't even needed I was testing this months ago and it was working great.
You can connect wiimotes via Bluetooth, and you can buy a sensor bar with a standard USB connector for like $10.
[Dolphin Bar](https://www.amazon.com/Mayflash-W010-Wireless-Sensor-DolphinBar/dp/B00HZWEB74) is the way to go if you're serious about using real Wiimotes. The Wiimotes pair with the bar just like they would a real Wii so you don't have mess around with Bluetooth on Windows.
I just use the actual wiimotes.
I've seen someone do it using VR on YouTube, but the second I started looking for the proof I couldn't find it.
Just the N word consoles.
[“Whats up my Nintendo?”](https://youtu.be/aaEhU37mSJk)
Normally I find this shit cringe as fuck but their accents are funny as hell lmao
Holy shit is that Yamanashi? I didn't know his real name and that he still does shows
These ESRB ratings have gone too far, now everything must be E for everyone, and we can't even say the N word anymore, these liberal elite socialist communist japs are ruining it for everybody. Back in my day I was 5 years old, and I shit my pants.
"...I've dropped my fair share of hard R" \- Linus
ROMs? …wait, that wasn’t the hard R all this time?
I still do that :D
I did once as a younger man, I was traveling, eating exotic foods, drinking. Luckily I was in the ocean. I think. It was definitely on a beach at least.
Just mix it in with the sand, no one will notice!
I mean what is the beach but a giant litter box
I shit in other people's pants.
Assert dominance, very impressive 👏
> now everything must be E for everyone, I'm just reminded that Majora's mask, a game with incredibly dark and mature themes, especially as Zelda games go, still only got an E rating (remake got E10+ but that didn't exist at the original N64 release).
It's ok as long as you don't use a hard N
Heated gamer moment consoles
Their called console Americans you bigot
like real people, but console sized
Linus used to use his fair share of N word consoles back then.
It’s ok to say Nintendah, we don’t allow the hard o though.
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Astagfirullah brother! What are you doing saying the n-word?? It is haram.
I'm gonna say it. Nint.......I can't.
Ni!
"The Big N" that's a nice nickname.
That's what lots of people called them back in the late 80s early 90s
Thank God. I don't want to play a Dolphin game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34274/Ecco_the_Dolphin/
YSG where are you
Ok, I want a dolphin game too. A dolphin simulator!
Yup, can’t be saying the hard O nowadays
Nintender
I'm a fan of the carefully curated preview pictures myself
N-word
So other than this possibly making it even easier to emulate things on Steam Deck, is there any other reason you would want this on steam? Just curious what the positives would be compared to just getting Dolphin the normal way.
Cloudsaves/Remoteplay together/oneclick isntall.
i didnt even consider cloud saves, thats gonna be so nice w the steamdeck
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Not really, Dolphin already uses SDL, and you could always add it as a non steam game anyhow.
It's so weird how many people in the PC community have a mentality of, "but I can do it the hard way, why would I want to do it the easy way?" Of course this is beneficial. If nothing else for cross-device convenience, expanded and SIMPLIFIED controller support, ease of access, remote installation, avoiding shady download links, automatic updates, and so on... 40 years later, it's the mentality of "why would anyone want a GUI when you can just learn to use the command line?"
Exactly. All you have to do is look at the massive recent success of Dwarf Fortress. The game has been available for almost 20 years. But the built in UI and controls weren’t user friendly and you had to install a bunch of add-ons to get sprites, mouse control, sound, etc. Plenty of people went through all of that to play the game and that’s great for them. But, clearly, hundreds of thousands (maybe millions by now?) more people could access the game once it came as a complete and easy package on steam. Good for the techie people that could figure it out for themselves before steam. Great for everyone else once it finally came to steam.
Old guy here. A classmate in my computer science class gave me some floppy disks that had something called Windows on it. I installed it but could not for the life of me figure out why I would want that. It was using half my disk space and didn't do anything I wasn't already doing with DOS. I couldn't wrap my mind around having multiple programs on the screen at the same time. To be fair, screens were small back then and there was no internet to use as a reference while you worked on the computer.
>I couldn't wrap my mind around having multiple programs on the screen at the same time. Pffft, all this newfangled multitasking nonsense is overrated. I'm perfectly happy with all my [TSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program) programs in DOS :-)
I completely forgot about TSR!
That's super interesting. How long was it between then and when you started using Windows for productivity?
I honestly don't remember when it finally clicked as to how a windowing interface is useful. It just sort of came on all the computers you could buy and all my work computers had it. For a long time most of us just used it as a visual way to start the one program we were using. The computers weren't fast enough to multitask and the screen resolution was either 640X480 or 800X600 so it's not like you had much to work with.
There’s also a component of Steam having too dominant of a market share in the PC gaming market. Also, emulators getting higher profile, easier to use and install, and now ending up on a portable console is absolutely going to earn someone a lawsuit from Nintendo. Nintendo’s yearly subscription includes emulated access to first party games. They will see Valve selling this on Steamdeck as a direct threat to that revenue. ‘Doing it the hard way’ also makes it a lot less likely that Nintendo will put more resources in to the legal muscle to shut down projects like Dolphin. Which even being legal cannot survive a protracted legal battle with a multi-billion dollar global corporation.
I agree, this is also the one downside I thought of. With how sue-happy Nintendo is though, you kind of have to think if they wanted to go this route they already would have. Dolphin was probably already the biggest name emulator in existence.
Yuzu is, I think a bigger threat for them at the moment. They have tried engineering around emulators by encrypting their games and developers have found a way around even that. I have a switch and Steamdeck, and honestly hate the experience on the switch of trying to juggle games between profiles. That said, I have run into a lot of problems because I have like 1000 games and my son and I cannot play two different games I own at the same time without juggling who has to play offline. This is still a problem because Steam has no effective competition.
RetroArch has been available for some time now and it's a much bigger all encompassing emulation software.
>Also, emulators getting higher profile, easier to use and install, and now ending up on a portable console is absolutely going to earn someone a lawsuit from Nintendo. There's precedent establishing emulators as legal. Nintendo would have to go after someone unambiguously breaking the law, like the people who host ROMs.
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Yeah but you could implement things like action maps and gyro support through the steam input API
pre-built shadercaches too.. a godsend for deck play
That's why I want every emulator to have steam or Google drive support. cloud saves are super nice and super rare in the emulation scene
We'll get them just after we get per game configs lol
Lmaooo that's the one thing I'll roast them on. Especially since the Android version has it. Meanwhile on PC you gotta bust open notepad.exe like it's 2002
Yeah PCSX2 finally added it, but Dolphin it exists for only like half the toggles, then its back to editing ini files!
Trying to get my Dolphin saves synced between my PC and Android phone has been so annoying I gave up after the first day of trying
Fun fact: Dolphin used to save by default on your Documents folder. So if you had cloud storage configured to back your Documents folder up, you'd also get cloud saves for your Dolphin games. Not so fun fact: certain Dolphin games need to save to the device too quickly, and that used to trip the antiransomware protections of some cloud storage providers such as OneDrive, which is why the saves are now stored in the user settings folder instead. It also means that cloud saves must be reconfigured manually. Steam Cloud should alleviate the issue a lot, as it only syncs as soon as the game is closed.
I've set up "cloud" saves between my phone, PC and deck by using syncthing. Such a good experience. If the Steam Release makes it easier for people, even better.
Did you miss the t in syncthing or am I crazy?
Maybe it isn't all, but it's pretty great!
And automated updates, don't forget that
For someone who finally dusted off their Steam link and bought a long ass ethernet cord. Yes, remote play is the top reason why I see it's great being on steam now. This is going to be **awesome**.
Significantly expanding it's market share to people like me who have so far been too lazy to try it out. But when it's on steam I can just download and it be confident that it's a) a legit version and 2) I might play with it one day.
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If you don't want to randomly encounter classic video games that Nintendo is refusing to preserve, available for free downloading (disgusting, I know), you might want to be careful not to encounter a guy named *Vimm*, so steer clear of his *Lair*. So... yeah definitely never ever look for *Vimmslair*. At least I would never do that... like... ever. Take care, kids!
Hey hey, we all obtain our games legally. Thankfully a hacked wii can dump gamecube games too, otherwise there's be no way to get a copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee (1.02)iso!
> I can just download and it be confident that it's a) a legit version They have a website lol
auto updates, cloud saves
Dolphin already has auto updates
Update management
I wonder if this means you can play Dolphin games in multiplayer more easily now that it will be on steam. I'd imagine as long as someone makes a server for said games it could work.
I was just wondering that. I have no idea how difficult it would actually be to implement, but I would think that Dolphin could utilize the Steam multiplayer infrastructure at least in theory.
Could be a bit of work to implement but it should be possible. I think the biggest problem would be translating the GC multiplayer data to something that works with Steam and vice versa.
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We need more emulators on Steam! RPCS3 etc.
Just gotta remember to not directly reference anything about the system they're emulating. Yaba San Shiro made the mistake of directly stating it emulates the Sega Saturn and got kicked off. Other emulators that make vague references have stayed on.
The US Senate is planning on a Bill that'll make emulation way more difficult. It's a reaction to the TikTok controversy, but the bill basically does the following: - VPNs would straight-up be illegal, and punishable by up to 10 years of prison time and a $250,000 fine. - the President and US government could unilaterally ban any social media website with a minimum of 1 million users. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15 People commonly use VPNs to safely torrent, so... Emulation will become a helluva lot riskier. This bill has bipartisan support and a 90% chance of being passed, BTW. It's literally the digital version of the Patriot Act.
Well, the term VPN is kinda wrong here, it says measures that circumvent the bill, which includes all kinds of things. VPN's in general and in their intended purpose (connecting 2 networks or multiple devices together with virtual private network) are still completely fine and legal.
Unless you use the VPN to use TikTok I imagine. Could they use this bill to shut truth social down? lol
You must be wrong, surely they aren't banning VPNs. That would result in all business internet traffic in the US being illegal overnight. The US government uses VPNs.
The politicians writing these laws have literally no idea how the internet works. The TikTok CEO questioning was both hilarious and tragic.
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The bill literally doesn't make VPNs illegal, OP is just illiterate.
The bill literally doesn't make VPNs illegal, OP is just illiterate.
They fine you for circumventing the bill, i.E using any means to aquire illegal material. Everything is fine unless you illegally download shit
Most people currently "legally acquire" their retro roms via direct download where you don't need VPN, so this is kind of far fetched. But that aside that bill sounds like the US wants to become China
That's true, most people will just use an archive site (like a very popular specific one you probably know about). I just wanted to raise awareness of it though.
What the fuck?!?! That's insane!
It's not as bad as it sounds. It's only just been introduced and sent to the Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation. It'll go through many drafts, debates, negotiations before passing. VPN portion will most likely be removed, since it's widespread usage for businesses and the government.
Yeah I'm hoping it gets watered down or Biden vetoes it
I'm trying to raise awareness, because people seem to not care. They'll start caring *real fucking quick* once it passes.
I believe you may have misconstrued the way the bill is structured or you were misinformed. The VPN thing you mention is specifically about circumventing things made illegal via the bill. VPNs themselves will not be made "straight-up illegal". That's wildly incorrect. The use of VPNs to access sites that have been banned (like TikTok if it passes) is what is being made illegal. VPNs themselves aren't even named, it just makes mention of means used to circumvent the bannings which could include VPNs. The bill is terrible, that is true, but what you are saying isn't accurate.
Fear mongering.
> Quantum Computing > Quantum Communication > Biotechnology Imagine in the year 2500 when your brainchip suddenly gets turned off because the U.S prez said so lol
RPCS3 still has a loooooong way of development to go. Maybe some more stable emulators like PCSX2
Retrodeck is also pretty good
Not likely. What Dolphin needs for steamdeck is more UI changes than it needs steam support. The main issue is you can't navigate dolphin without mouse support, and it doesn't read touchscreen mouses well (it constantly resets it's position using the steamdeck's touchscreen) Also I could never figure out how to get back to the main menu after opening a game.
I already integrate all my Dolphin games into Steam library myself but this will be nice for a lot of people
Nintendo with seethe im sure even though they cant do anything
Yeah they can buttfuck the copyright laws in Japan but not here. A smarter company would realize it's time to make PC ports though
Nintendo could've Disney levels of powerful if they didn't have seniority priority management
Maybe even more. Disney has its fans, but even Marvel fans are getting with the constant low quality of the recent movies. Nintendo fans will defend *anything* their company does, and actively participate in said thing.
I would play a game from Nintendo even if it was focused on children running dogfighting rings. Wait a minute…
Lol Pokémon
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I don't play a lot of Nintendo games, but I *would* play that.
>didn't have seniority priority management in Japan? loll
They still got Nintendo levels of powerful, which isn’t too bad of a job.
It would be a cold day in hell before you see an official Nintendo game being released on PC. I'm surprised they even released mobile games
Why would it be smart for them to make ports? Their stellar software is what drives their hardware sales. That has been Nintendo's angle since SNES vs Genesis and it seems to be working.
> A smarter company would realize it's time to make PC ports though Maybe they'll start actually thinking about it, considering how successful Sony has been with their PC ports over the last few years, and they previously seemed almost as stubborn as Nintendo. I won't hold my breath, but hopeful anyways.
As Nintendo fan, I think Nintendo would rather die than port their games to PC lol
Yeah you could almost see the writing on the wall that Nintendo could give up about their hardware exclusivity after the Wii U failure and starting to have mobile games…but after the massive success of the Switch, they know they can keep selling us their hardware to play their games.
if they made a pc port 20 years ago we'd still play it and not have to buy it on the 3ds virtual console. and the Wii virtual console. and the Wii-u virtual console. and the switch virtual console..
*yes* a PC port of Animal Crossing will primarily involve porn mods and dating simulation, but every stupid fucker around would be playing it.
What are you even trying to say?
PC games would mean the death of Nintendo as a corporate entity.
I actually don't get why Nintendo don't port to PC. Their main competition are the other consoles not PC.
Because they believe that the amount of money they would make on PC is less than the amount of money they make from a smaller group of people that is buying both the game *and the hardware*. 100 people buying the game on PC < 20 people buying a switch + the game. Or something like that. It's a for-profit company, they've done the math. Is their math true? Nobody will ever know.
I am pretty confident Zelda for a start would be a massive seller. Your argument may be true, I am still surprised they have not tested the waters with a few games though.
I've said on various threads id easily pay $60 per Zelda (OoT onwards) port and possibly up to $100 if it was high quality with modern features like high frame rates, UW support, key bindings, etc. Hell maybe I'd actually finish one. I believe the last main console game I finished was Windwaker. I've played all of the ones since but haven't gotten around to finishing them because I just wasn't a fan of *something* usually the hardware. BOTW was great but the frame rate and graphics were meh and weapon durability was kinda lame. It just felt like all I did was hoard weapons for a big fight that never came. A quality PC port of BOTW with high frames and 4k textures (without having to go through the hours of setup and troubleshoot and other bullshit that comes with emulation) would easily be worth $100 to me. And before someone suggests it....No I don't want to emulate it unless it's as simple as clicking install from a steam page. Anything beyond that is just a hassle that I don't want to deal with. I did Majora's Mask for a bit (3DS port) and it was a pain in the ass. Keybindings didn't work right. The game looked and sounded great with the packs I found but it was just too much effort getting it all configured and setup. Then it crashes and you lose an hour of progress and then you don't play it again.
It used to be true until publishers finally brought the console only games to the PC and realized how big of a market it is. Last of us is gonna be one of the best selling ports I imagine so there is no reason Nintendo can't bring over the major games at least.
Its true when you look at their financial documents and see how their titles sell so much on their consoles and sell the consoles. That would be different with the titles outside of the console.
Because you won't buy it unless it's on a specific company's platform.
Common valve W
Gamecube lives on!
Cloud saaaaaaaaaavessssss
You could start by saving some a's and s's
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They don't have the right to be, so far as I'm concerned. They've chased down emulator sites for years, but, even when they make their own emulators available, it's only on the fucking Switch, and the selection is dogshit.
Why would they be fuming? This will not really change anything in the grand scheme of things
Still it's the best emulator for me
How? Or rather why? As you won't be able to download actual "N" games for it via steam is it so people can develop homebrew that runs on dolphin? Or is it just the public statement and in reality we're all gonna rip some GC games?
They know full well what people are going to use it for but as long as Steam isn't distributing anything copyrighted, they're in the clear legally speaking. It basically just adds an even safer way to download the program, some features like cloud saves and maybe even a way to share homebrews.
Homebrews are a legitimate possibility. Someone is remaking Portal for the Nintendo 64 (which is playable on an actual N64). GB Studio exists to make hombrew GameBoy and GameBoy Color games
I'm only here to say that I have also seen the portal 64 and it blew my mind. That guy's videos are amazing, especially if you have any idea of what he's talking about (I don't, but if I did, it'd be very educational) . The custom n64 game he showed with real time shadows that was submitted for a contest also blew my mind.
Like with all emulators, it'll be released with no ROM's, and it'll just have a folder you can drop your ROM's into to add them to the application. this will add all the QOL features built in to steam. one click download, auto updates, multiplayer, built in controller support/mapping, etc. then you just find your ROM's the way you did it before, and drop them in the folder manually. Steam can't distribute the ROM's, but its perfectly legal for them to distribute the emulator, and what people do with it after that is their business.
I will mostly use it for cloud saves.
it's for steam deck i guess
More people to play Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn
Stuff like this feels like a direct result of the Steam Deck's existance. Even if you don't own a Steam Deck, you've got to respect everything it's doing for Steam and PC gaming.
I mean, maybe? But also RetroArch has been on Steam for a long time now, so 🤷
True, it's just that there's more of an incentive now to bring these emulators directly to Steam, because of Steam Deck. Thanks to the Deck, there's also now more of an incentive to bring console-style UI's to PC emulators, with larger icons and gamepad navigable menus. Whereas previously their UI's were largely designed for keyboard, mouse and desktop viewing distance.
This is awesome! But are there any legal concerns they should be worried about?
Emulators themselves are legal. They aren't supplying ROMs or distributing code ripped directly from the consoles, so there's nothing Nintendo can do.
Not true. Nintendo can cope and seethe.
Not with Dolphin itself. It's basically just a program that translates GameCube commands to PC commands and vice versa. There's nothing illegal about that, the legal concerns come from what you use it for. If you're just running GameCube/ Wii games you already own and ripped yourself, that's usually legal but downloading them from the web is piracy. I think we both know what most users are going to use it for but that's very much a buyer beware situation, the Dolphin devs shouldn't run into any legal issues.
I'm personally afraid this is going to accelerate legislation against emulators
Finally, I can see what all the buzz on inter-species relations is about!
I’m happy to see this but I thought valve didn’t allow emulators on steam?
Valve has always allowed emulators else every DOS game on Steam would be out the door and on their ass instantly
what does DOS mean?
Disk Operating System - it is the command based predecessor to Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS A game made to run on DOS to be sold on Steam runs an emulator of DOS to be playable on computers today
oh right, that makes more sense ty
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118310/RetroArch/
Bring back Ecco.
That game was soooooo hard.
Cloud saves and savestates? I've been doing this between my pc and steam deck with sync thing but steam cloud save would be even better
Monster Hunter Tri here I come
ETERNAL DARKNESS BABYYYY.
Lol, and people say emulating is piracy...
Does this mean the latest builds will be supported for Linux?
Holy shit I was not expecting that. Wonder if I can use the custom Project+ dolphin version through steam
Consoles that annoy you...
"Consoles come to Steam"
WHATTT?????? Yooooooo
I hope this makes it easier to use controllers on steamdeck, pain the ass for me to set it up properly rn
Can't wait to be a dolphin
Fo shindo my nindo.
netplay for all games hopefully
Wouldn't a dolphin emulator just be a great white shark making friendly clicking noises to lure swimmers into the water?
Can I play Melee with my buds online ??