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May 21

The Feb, March, and April 2023 Dolphin Progress Report is up! This time, we provide documents, are Infinity based, kill renderer, let bosses mock us, add Sharp Bilinear, rebuild Android input, and see the return of the Ascii Art Shader!

Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2023

It's been a hectic past few months for the project. In addition to the upcoming release on Steam, a lot of focus has gone into other major features. While not everything has landed yet, two very...

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May 27

Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed

It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin's...

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Apr 2

We hope you had a happy April Fools, everyone.

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Apr 1

We've read many of your comments regarding the Steam release of Dolphin. And there's one feature many of you have been asking about... Prepare yourself for Steam Achievements for Dolphin! Hand-crafted to show off your best emulator skills. dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/04/0

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Mar 28

Coming Soon: Dolphin on Steam!

We are pleased to announce our great experiment - Dolphin is coming to Steam! Our store page is now live, and you can visit it with the handy widget below. However, due to how Steam works, you won't...

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Feb 12

The Jan 22 and Dec 23 Progress Report is up! This time, we have toy generation, CPU Vertex Culling, Sonic gets crisp, CTGP-R works, we finally get AIs to stop bugging us, and VBI Skip - one of the best performance hacks ever found!

Dolphin Progress Report: December 2022 and January 2023

We've got a lot of exciting news and features packed into this Progress Report. On top of the normal emulator development, Dolphin's infrastructure has seen a massive overhaul. While most of the work...

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Jan 30

Dolphin Android users: if you want to live on the bleeding edge, you can now join our open testing program on the Play Store and get the latest development changes for the emulator early! Join via play.google.com/apps/testing/o or via the Dolphin Play Store page on your Android phone.

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Jan 7

After much consideration, the Community Dolphin Discord is now the Official Dolphin Discord Server! For the full story and what this means for our community, click through the article below.

Announcing the Official Dolphin Discord

Over the past four years, the Community Dolphin Discord Server, which was unaffiliated with the project itself, has become a fantastic community that has been providing support and a hub for Dolphin...

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Dec 21, 2022

The Sept, Oct, and Nov 2022 Progress Report is up! This time we have a better FPS counter, our Android GUI has been overhauled, ubershaders is now more uber on modern APIs, android says no, we support WiiConnect24 at last, and more!

Dolphin Progress Report: September, October, and November 2022

As we hit the holiday season, our Progress Report might be considered a bit late. A two month report became a three month report as we realized just how much work we had to catch up on. While the...

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Dec 18, 2022

Our Twitter account is in violation of Twitter's new social media promotion rules. We are not planning to address this. As previously mentioned, you can follow us at social.dolphin-emu.org/@dolphin on the Fediverse / Mastodon if this account gets suspended. twitter.com/TwitterSupport

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Nov 20, 2022

You can now also follow us on the Fediverse / Mastodon: @dolphin@dolphin-emu.org (or social.dolphin-emu.org/@dolphin) (We do not have plans to deprecate this Twitter account at the moment. Expect similar content on both sides.)

social.dolphin-emu.org

31 Posts, 18 Following, 4.25K Followers · The GameCube/Wii emulator of your choice!

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Oct 21, 2022

Our logo is on actual real cars that are driving around right now! Of all cases where our logo has been borrowed, this is one of our favorites.

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Sep 13, 2022

The July and Aug 2022 Progress Report is up! This time, a major performance regression was fixed and it wasn't us, SDL has returned, we remembered to EFB flush, BBA HLE and Android BBA are here, we have an all new Metal Graphics Backend, and more!

Dolphin Progress Report: July and August 2022

The Summer tends to consistently be one of the busiest times for Dolphin's development. While sometimes the question is what do we put into the Progress Report, during the summer months it's usually...

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Aug 30, 2022

Dolphin is such an IPC focused load that we're used for benchmarking! In the Zen 4 announcement, we were shown as a leading example of its IPC improvements.

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

Aug 22, 2022

More information in the following article from

@patrickklepek

vice.com

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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Aug 22, 2022

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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keffals

@keffals

Aug 22, 2022

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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@dev_console

Aug 12, 2022

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.

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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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back view of the RVA-001. from left to right, it sports the more familiar-looking Wii power connectors, two RCA plugs for audio, a DE-15 video port (likely JVS-compliant), two USB ports of which the rightmost one (USB1) is covered by white plastic, a JST BS10P-SHF-1AA (NH) connector labeled "SERIAL (1) (2)", and finally a JST BS4P-SHF-1AA (NH) connector labeled "EXT-PWR".

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the RVA-001 box with the top lid off, revealing its main board. markings confirm it was manufactured by Nintendo, labeled as "RVA-CPU-X2". it seems to contain a mix of standard Wii components (some below a heatsink) and some extras to deal with the arcade I/O, including a Xilinx Spartan 3 (XC3S200) FPGA. unlike the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom RVA-001, this one seems to have some headers left unsoldered...

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Jul 7, 2022

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, 2022

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

Jun 16, 2022

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

Jun 15, 2022

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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Jun 9, 2022

Windows 7 was a fantastic and beloved operating system. But time has moved on, and now after supporting it for 13 years, Dolphin has moved on too. Click through for the full reasoning and analysis.

Leaving a Legend: Saying Goodbye to Windows 7

Windows 7 had a hell of a run. After the wide rejection of Windows Vista, Windows 7 set the bar for all Windows versions to come. It continued the technical advancements from Vista while righting...

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May 17, 2022

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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Dolphin Emulator (@dolphin@dolphin-emu.org) Retweeted

Zoid Kirsch

@ZoidCTF

Apr 5, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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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Jun 6, 2021

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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Apr 24, 2021

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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