Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio
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Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio
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#2All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
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#3All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
This is about the same thing that the Internet Archive is about: Preserving culture. That is also why the developers prefer accuracy over anything else.
At some point in the future the actual machines that run these games, along with the data stores for these games, will all be broken or otherwise incapable of functioning. However as long as there is machinery that can run these emulators, or emulate an OS that can run these, they will be preserved.
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#4All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
This is about the same thing that the Internet Archive is about: Preserving culture. That is also why the developers prefer accuracy over anything else. At some point in the future the actual machines that run these games, along with the data stores for these games, will all be broken or otherwise incapable of functioning. However as long as there is machinery that can run these emulators, or emulate an OS that can r…
TBH for most people I would say it's more about the technical challenge than preserving culture. It's a fun side project that is difficult enough without being impossible. Lots of these small bugs require tens of hours of intensive debugging and reverse engineering to root cause.
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#5All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
Dolphin is a wii emulator too.
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#6I recently tried running Dolphin on my Macbook after a long hiatus, and was shocked to discover that my games were now running at a buttery 60fps. What's more, there are practically no glitches to be seen or heard anymore. When I last tried booting up my games about a year ago, all I could get was about 45fps at 1x resolution. Now I can have my Wii games with me wherever I go. It's stunning how quickly the Dolphin team is jumping over these technical hurdles. I find it almost impossible to visualize how a bunch of young, eager amateurs (at the time) took an insanely complicated black box and created an almost perfect software version of it!
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#7All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
This is about the same thing that the Internet Archive is about: Preserving culture. That is also why the developers prefer accuracy over anything else. At some point in the future the actual machines that run these games, along with the data stores for these games, will all be broken or otherwise incapable of functioning. However as long as there is machinery that can run these emulators, or emulate an OS that can r…
It's not just that they might all break, but that most people don't currently have access to one. Now everyone can see those games and systems.
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#8All this is about fixing a bug in some emulator for an 2001-vintage video game console.
This is about the same thing that the Internet Archive is about: Preserving culture. That is also why the developers prefer accuracy over anything else. At some point in the future the actual machines that run these games, along with the data stores for these games, will all be broken or otherwise incapable of functioning. However as long as there is machinery that can run these emulators, or emulate an OS that can r…
I'm a longtime emulator fanatic, but have seriously never considered this idea that emulation ensures future generations can experience a part of culture.
So insightful. Thanks for sharing.
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#9Amazing writeup as always. The quality of Dolphin's blog posts is really impressive. Now I want to go play some Wind Waker.
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#10I recently tried running Dolphin on my Macbook after a long hiatus, and was shocked to discover that my games were now running at a buttery 60fps. What's more, there are practically no glitches to be seen or heard anymore. When I last tried booting up my games about a year ago, all I could get was about 45fps at 1x resolution. Now I can have my Wii games with me wherever I go. It's stunning how quickly the Dolphin te…
If you follow the (extremely well written) monthly progress updates on the blog, Dolphin has been seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month in some of the past few months. Pretty incredible.