Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend

wojtek88

Quoting: wojtek88That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?

Have You got dolphin running through emulation station? If so what did you put in the command section of the config file.

In the case of Wii / GC, etc... I would just reccomend using the GC or Wii DVD if you have a DVD drive and are worried about not knowing.

Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the case of Wii / GC, etc... I would just reccomend using the GC or Wii DVD if you have a DVD drive and are worried about not knowing.

Dolphin can't read Wii or Gamecube discs. You have to dump a disc image using original Nintendo hardware or a PC with a special optical drive like the GDR8082N.

QuoteSee the github work-in-progress pull request for the Vulkan work here.

A pull request that adds 30k lines (and is far from done). I'm glad I'm not the person who has to review this.

(mirv, your xoreos OpenGL renderer rewrite will not take 30k lines, right? :))

If I lived in a place where creating my own roms (from games I legally purchased) was an illegal activity, I likely wouldn't follow that law, as it would be an unjust one.

I am however, completely against piracy, and wouldn't ever just download and use roms from elsewhere. I think that's completely different. Emulation doesn't have to be about "sticking it to the man" by refusing to pay the developer or a reseller money. Man, I need to invest in a retrode.

Anyways, I'm excited about any Dolphin developments, but what I'm really excited for is Cemu, the Wii U emulator, to eventually come to Linux.


Last edited by mulletdeath on 28 June 2016 at 12:22 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweEdit: The main thing is, I don't want to read comments about people talking highly about how they pirate, that's the main issue. Simply discussing it reasonably I have zero issues with.

Yes, this seems reasonable. Thanks for explaining it.

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionScrew the legality. If Nintendo is too shortsighted to recognize me as a customer then they deserve every potential loss of sale that my ROMs have caused. Console manufacturers often enter into contractual agreements with game developers to only develop a game for their consoles, explicitly disallowing its release for PC, to force consumers to buy their consoles in order to play those games. Their whole purpose is to lock consumers into a closed ecosystem and restrict their freedom. This allows console manufacturers to fix prices artificially for their games and peripherals.

1) Games and Hardwares' ownerships are designeted by their own license. So violating these licenses is a bitching.
2) Piracy is a big shit on developers and customers. (less income less quality and games from same source)
3) You dont have to buy hardware and software also at the first place you agreed all EULAS when you did buy that Hardware and software.
4) Everyone needs to take care of her/his family and him/her-self unless someone bitching with their property.
5) There is noting left to us unless to protest non-free and copyrights in harmless ways as in all manners.
6) You can even go a square and tell people about their bullshitting lock-in ecosystem and marketing games.


Last edited by Kuduzkehpan on 28 June 2016 at 1:09 am UTC

Good! I was worried when Dolphin got a DX12 backend and the developers didn't seem to give one sixteenth of a damn about Vulkan.

Quoting: Kuduzkehpan1) Games and Hardwares' ownerships are designeted by their own license. So violating these licenses is a bitching.
2) Piracy is a big shit on developers and customers. (less income less quality and games from same source)
3) You dont have to buy hardware and software also at the first place you agreed all EULAS when you did buy that Hardware and software.
4) Everyone needs to take care of her/his family and him/her-self unless someone bitching with their property.
5) There is noting left to us unless to protest non-free and copyrights in harmless ways as in all manners.
6) You can even go a square and tell people about their bullshitting lock-in ecosystem and marketing games.

I would love to address your statements but we should probably only do so in a place where disfavored ideas are welcomed. You can always find me on Voat, a site which encourages unrestricted discourse and frowns upon moderation that attempts to influence opinions. It became popular after Reddit started to become censorious and authoritative.

Quoting: ProfessorKaos64

Quoting: wojtek88That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?

Not exactly. You must buy the game and dump the ROM yourself. However, some Steam game collections actually diatribe the ROM file to make playing possible.

Dump the ROM myself? What hardware do I can use to dump games from SNES? Little bit to much effort from my point of view to play 1 or 2 classic games, but ok, nobody told that this is work for everyone.

Quoting: Saulsecsiramirez wojtek88

Quoting: wojtek88That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?

Have You got dolphin running through emulation station? If so what did you put in the command section of the config file.

No, I was using only SNES emulator. But it was also pain in the *** to setup this, I've spent one day on it before I was able to run the single game.

Anyway, I'm still confused with the ROMs and legallity, so I'm not going to follow that direction, but it's nice that such a software exists and has Vulkan support.

Regarding piracy - it's hard for me to understand that in this days piracy exists. Especially on PC, where you can have so much great titles for such a reasonable prices. Just to be fair - as a kid, back in 90s I was playing games that were bought on the market and those were not official CDs. I'm not proud of it. As a student I used to download not legal content from University network (ashamed as well). But today, I can say that I haven't played game that I didn't buy for about 4 years. And 4 years ago I played one classic Blizzard game that I don't own through Wine just to see how it runs (and it did run well). Except that I guess "I'm clean" for about 6 years.

And if I would hear for example that someone downloaded illegal version of XCOM: EU, the game that was so many times available on Steam for 4.99 euro, and had so many other great deals, I would say that such a person is either pig or something worse. Of course - there are situations that someone bought PC, but does not have money for games. But if you have a car but do not have money for gasoline, do you steal it?