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Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by thebruce87m »

bspammer wrote: post #16

> All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players. Knowing there's people out that who have such absurd levels of dedication makes me so happy.

Imagine what humanity could achieve if we worked together. If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing.

Such a shame that it’ll probably just mean more inequality, at least in the short term.

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by iso-logi »

bspammer wrote: post #16

> All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players. Knowing there's people out that who have such absurd levels of dedication makes me so happy.

It is imperative for game preservation though.

If the game is fully or even partially unplayable due to an a bug in the emulator, this really impacts the ability for future generations to experience these games, or these modes in these games.

As you said, its fantastic that people care this much.

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by CrossVR »

thebruce87m wrote: post #51
bspammer wrote: post #16

> All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players. Knowing there's people out that who have such absurd levels of dedication makes me so happy.

Imagine what humanity could achieve if we worked together. If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing. Such a shame that it’ll probably just mean more inequality, at least in the short term.

> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing.

If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to humans so we can earn enough money to pay rent.

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by alex-robbins »

CrossVR wrote: post #53
thebruce87m wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine what humanity could achieve if we worked together. If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing. Such a shame that it’ll probably just mean more inequality, at least in the short term.

> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing. If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to humans so we can earn enough money to pay rent.

No, that's an example of robots/AI not working out. Yes, this means that "making robots/AI work out" is a political and economic problem, not just a technical one.

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by zelphirkalt »

Dolphin is a rare example for really smart development. Instead of it becoming ever bigger and also slower, it moved from using all 4 cores of an old machine of mine to run Metroid Prime, to using 25% of the cores, for the same game a few years later, just by being smarter (much smarter) about JIT and emulation. The efficiency improvement was an outstanding achievement. Whenever I read about emulators, I am reminded of this.

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by delroth »

agoodusername63 wrote: post #37
Meneth wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wise. I've seen many a fine volonteer project become enshittified because they started optimizing for financial income rather than for having fun.

It's also a smart legal strategy. Nintendo's lawsuits they won against emulator projects in the past had donation systems as one of, if not the sole main point they drove to win the case.

FWIW, while Dolphin doesn't accept donations, the non-profit foundation behind it has been collecting money for almost 15 years via ads and referrals. All of the financials are transparent: https://opencollective.com/dolphin-emu

Re: Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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Post by armada651 »

alex-robbins wrote: post #54
CrossVR wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing. If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to humans so we can earn enough money to pay rent.

No, that's an example of robots/AI not working out. Yes, this means that "making robots/AI work out" is a political and economic problem, not just a technical one.

It's really unfortunate that the people who run the biggest AI companies don't share your definition of success.
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