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What I Learned From Near, an Emulation Legend and Real Person

Aug 22

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@patrickklepek

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Over several weeks of reporting, I came to know a person of immense talent who was also in constant, undeniable pain at the hands of the internet.

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TW: suicide Near was the author of groundbreaking emulators: bsnes, higan, ares. They were an inspiration for many of us in the emulation scene. Last year they committed suicide after suffering from online harassment for too long.

@Cloudflare

, put a stop to this. #dropkiwifarms

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This is one of the last things that Near said before taking their own life after intense harassment from Kiwifarms. Evil trumphs when good men do nothing and @eastdakota, CEO of @Cloudflare, has the ability to do something. #cloudflareprotectsterrorists #dropkiwifarms twitter.com/near_koukai/st…

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Shiz

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got something interesting in the mail: a custom arcade Wii manufactured by Nintendo seemingly exclusively for Capcom, the RVA-001! the only known game released for it so far is Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, but this system seems to contain something else? 👀

a big, tall and deep, chunky industrial-looking metal box with a plethora of odd connectors on the front, as well as some 8P*C jacks, RCA red/white pairs, and a DE-9 cable sticking out. mounted at the bottom is a smaller metal box, the RVA-001 itself.

front view of the RVA-001, a smaller but still industrial-looking metal box. on the top is a sticker with the text "MP8(SF)", possibly a reference to some Mario Party 8-based it may contain? from left to right on the front are two test menu buttons, a bank of 6 DIP switches, an SD card slot, an LED, a small fan grill and finally on the far right a reset button.

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The May and June 2022 Progress Report is live! This time, we have HLE audio support for homebrew, popup fixes, improved Action Replay support, a whole new way to modify game visuals, and a tester slowing eaten alive by QTEs.

Dolphin Progress Report: May and June 2022

It's been a very hectic two months. Dolphin's development builds officially dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 in 5.0-16393 when the Windows buildbots were updated to use Qt6....

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Jun 16

The issue should now be resolved. Thank you all for your patience!

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Jun 16

Netplay is also impacted if using the Server Browser or the Traversal Server mode. Direct Connection netplay sessions should still be available.

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Due to a technical issue most of the Dolphin builds will be unavailable for download for the next few hours. The latest beta build should stay available in the meantime.

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The Feb, March, and April Progress Report is up! This time, we implemented WGI, Factor 5 showed us how it's done, we facepalmed at a mobile driver, the Disney Trio of Destruction stopped exploding, and more!

Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2022

After a long wait, the Progress Report is back! This time it wasn't so much from a lack of content, but from a lack of content creators. The past three months had illnesses hit one of our writers and...

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Zoid Kirsch

@ZoidCTF

Apr 5

Twenty years later I'm playing #MetroidPrime, the game I helped make via emulation on Linux on a Steam Deck. It plays extremely well. It's been years since I've played it so it might be time to play through it again. Too bad I can't play it on my Switch!

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RiiConnect24

@RiiConnect24

Mar 25

Fun Fact: For some reason, a lot of people have stolen Dolphin Emulator’s logo to use as their own.

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Feb 8

The Nov, Dec, and Jan Progress Report is up! This time, we have a pink game getting muted, fixed VP6, Kirby removes their blindfold, Rygar, macOS Notarizing, everyone's favorite - CHARTS! (with performance improvements if you are into that), and more!

Dolphin Progress Report: November and December 2021, January 2022

This year, we've hit an important milestone that's been in the works for nearly a decade. In late 2012, Sonicadvance1 began work on Dolphin's ARM JIT. Back then, there weren't any devices that had...

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Nov 13, 2021

The Sept and Octo Progress Report is live! This time, we have flickering colors, cheat GUI on Android, slow descent into madness with texture cache, HLE Riivolution support, an exploration and fix for the "Sonic 06 of the GameCube", and more!

Dolphin Progress Report: September and October 2021

It's the beginning of the month and time for another Dolphin Progress Report! ...That line doesn't exactly work when it's midway through the month, huh? This Progress Report ended up being a very...

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Sep 7, 2021

The August Progress Report is up! This month we had too much progress to roll into a bi-monthly report, spurred on by gaming communities teaming up with Dolphin to help push things forward. dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/09/0

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Jul 21, 2021

Introducing the Integrated GBA! Check out our latest article, where we detail our new Integrated GBA emulator powered by mGBA and the history of GBA <-> GCN connectivity emulation. And yes, you can use it on netplay! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/07/2

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Jun 28, 2021

Every single person involved/aware did their best to save Near's life at every point in time given the information they had access to at the time. We failed.

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Jun 28, 2021

I have spoken to the police department in charge of the investigation, and they have confirmed that Near passed away yesterday, June 27th 2021. In respect of their privacy, I will not be seeking out any further information. Please don't ask.

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At 11:45 on Sunday, I was on a phone call with Near. They’d just taken a large overdose of codeine and guanfancine. I saw a photo of the noose. 30 minutes into the call, Les Voyages De L'âme by...

Hector Martin

@marcan42

Jun 27, 2021

A message about Near from a mutual friend.

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The April and May Dolphin Progress Report is up! We're not even going to try to summarize this one. Sit down, relax, grab a beverage, and enjoy the largest Dolphin Progress Report EVER. dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/06/0

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May 24, 2021

Sometimes you have to give into temptation. Dolphin now runs natively on Apple's new M1 Macs. dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/05/2

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Scott Hanselman

@shanselman

Apr 25, 2021

The Linux build of the Dolphin Emulator runs under WSLg on Windows 10 on my laptop using OpenGL at 60fps

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Sometimes it's good to play on the little screen. mGBA can now connect to Dolphin and has brought several fixes to GBA <-> GCN connectivity! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/04/2

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Apr 5, 2021

The Feb and March Progress Report is up! This months, we have improved the Software Renderer, added not one but two hacks to Android, improved Free Look, and we made VC games slower! (it's for randomizers) dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/04/0

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Feb 11, 2021

The Dec and Jan Progress Report is up! These months, we have better simulated tilting, worse Android storage (not our fault), Driver roadblocks, Resident Evil 2/3 fixed, tons of technical rambling, and more! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/02/1

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Feb 10, 2021

The Progress Report should be ready to launch within the next 24 hours. There's no way anything can go wrong at this point. ....right?

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Feb 5, 2021

The Dolphin Progress Report will be late this month. We're doing our best and hopefully it will be done soon!

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Dec 9, 2020

The Oct and Nov Project Report is live! This time, we have an ascii farewell, disappeared cubes, virtual notches, finally shortening a very tall window with very complex yet powerful means, Dynamic Input Textures, and more! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/12/1

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Dec 4, 2020

This upcoming Progress Report will be a little late. Our developers just keep making cool new features and fixes, so we have a lot to cover this report! But we're doing our best, and it should be ready in a few days. Here's a little teaser.

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on desktop? Haha, try Dolphin on Honda Pilot 2016, how about that

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The July, Aug, and Sept Progress Report is up! These months, we have... way too much. An Android UX overhaul, stuttering fixes, better emulated Wii Remote pointer emulation, GC Pokémon patches to work around save protection, and way way WAY more! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/10/0

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Sep 4, 2020

No Progress Report this month. We'll be having a merge party and be back with a huge report at the end of September!

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archivist

@KrvaviAbadas

Jul 22, 2020

The recent Wii releases of Shakedown Hawaii and Retro City Rampage DX+ are currently getting shipped out. Of course, i ended up acquiring a copy. and i can confirm that the games DO, unsurprisingly, run on

@dolphin_emu

. Just make sure to set "Texture Cache Accuracy" to safe.

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The May and June Dolphin Progress Report is up! This month, we point at the right window, fix the sun, support Xlink Kai, add a thermal hack, go wide, introduce a new compressed disc format optimized for Dolphin, and more! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/07/0

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CrunchBite

@TXcrunchbite

Jun 28, 2020

One of the biggest new features in XLink Kai 7.4.37 is support for

for GameCube LAN titles! Check out the guide: teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Dolphin_G

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May 5, 2020

The April Progress Report is up! This month, we have renaming folders, fixed homebrew on netplay, better dumb high res monitor support, fix a flat crash, lots of android fixes, and support for the Metroid Prime 3 E3 2006 beta in master! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/05/0

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Apr 5, 2020

The Feb and March Progress Report is live! This months, we go dark, allow even -more- input shenanigans, go dark again, and add a new way to use Wii Remotes! dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/04/0

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