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How to Run Wii and GameCube Games on Your PC Using Dolphin |
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2nd of April 2009, 06:43 GMT | By Catalin Ivan
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Some time ago, I wrote a guide on how to run PlayStation 2 games on your computer using a console emulator. This time, I’m planning a tutorial un how to emulate GameCube games (PS2 rival) at decent speeds on your computer. This emulator is rumored to also play Nintendo Wii games, but I’ll make an update regarding that rumor as soon as I can confirm it.
Now, for those of you that don’t know exactly what the GameCube is, you should know that the GC is a sixth generation console and direct competitor of the PlayStation 2. Titles such as Resident Evil Zero or Resident Evil 1 remake made the GameCube a sought after console by gamers around the world. In these next few lines, I will be teaching you how to configure your emulator so that you’ll be playing lots of GameCube games on your computer in no time. First of all, download the latest x86 version of the game. After downloading it, extract the emulator (it usually comes inside a .rar or .zip archive) into a folder of your choice. WARNING: after hours of attempts, only the x86 version allowed me to play GC games. The x64 version was slower and presented serious graphical artifacts. So, even if you have x64 Windows or just an x64 processor, go for the x86 version. After extracting the emulator, it’s time to start configuring it (you’ll notice it’s much simpler than the PCSX2). First of all, enter the folder in which you extracted the Dolphin Emulator and double click the DolphinIL.exe file. The normal Dolphin.exe offers a lot less speed and compatibility. The main window of the Emulator has appeared. From the OPTIONS tab, choose CONFIGURE. There, you will only have to make sure you’ve ticked the Enable Dual Core, all the Advanced settings, the Use Panic Handlers option and setting Hide Cursor on Auto . You will find all these in the GENERAL tab. Going back to the OPTIONS tab, you will select GRAPHICS SETTINGS. From the GENERAL tab, make sure you’ve checked Auto Scale 1024 x 768 for both Fullscreen Mode and Window Mode, 4x Anisotropic filter and 4x Antialias (MSAA). Force bi/trilinear filtering also needs to be ticked. On the Graphics Settings ADVANCED tab, make sure only Overlay FPS, EFB Copy With hotkey E, Copy EFB to GL texture and Use Safe Texture cache are ticked. Last but not least, go to the DSP settings (accessible via the OPTIONS tab). Since currently there are only three DSP settings, make sure you have Enable DTK Music unticked. Believe it or not my friends, you are done, since PAD Settings and Wiimote Settings handle the keymapping of your virtual controller (which buttons to press) and do not affect a game’s playability or framerate in any way. You won’t need a Bios; just an image of your favorite game that you can get through faster (though illegal) means or legally by dumping an image of your owned GameCube game onto your Hard Drive. Browse to the game’s folder or load the image up with Daemon Tools or Alcohol and you’re set. Like I’ve said, Wii games are also reported to work with the emulator but since I don’t currently have any Wii game, I cannot confirm that. But I promise that, as soon as I get a few Wii games, I’ll write an article update. The emulator has worked on two low to medium-end PCs: an Intel Core 2Duo CPU E7200 2.53GHz, 2046 DDR2RAM with GeForce 8600 GTS 512VRAM AND an AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.1 GHz, 2046 DDR3 RAM with GeForce 8500 GT 512 VRAM/ATI Radeon X1300 with 512VRAM.
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| Comment #1 by: XxSupaDupaxX on 04 Apr 2009, 17:14 GMT | reply to this comment | when i finished all the steps,it says that i am missing some opengl extensions, and that i cannot create an opengl renderer |
| Comment #2 by: AlexCA on 05 Apr 2009, 18:22 GMT | reply to this comment | Worked for me! SupaDupa, you should make sure you have your plug ins set up properly. Some games need a little bit more in-depth tweaking by the way. |
| Comment #3 by: Ma on 10 Apr 2009, 19:20 GMT | reply to this comment | ok so do you download the game. or what do you do next. |
| Comment #4 by: Catalin Ivan on 13 Apr 2009, 12:25 GMT | reply to this comment | As you probably know downloading the games (though possible) is illegal. You can however make an image of the game you own using one of the many tools found on the internet (such as ISO Buster) since Gamecube games are stored on CDs. |
| Comment #5 by: skiver on 04 May 2009, 13:36 GMT | reply to this comment | thank you so much.it work for me.super!!
after seems i lost my hope to play GC (on many tries,u know)at my pc, you juzt make my day! |
| Comment #6 by: Catalin Ivan on 04 May 2009, 14:35 GMT | reply to this comment | I'm glad it worked. Just know that a lot of games still need some heavy tweaking. As soon as a better (tweak-less) version comes along, I'll be sure to update. Happy gaming!
P.S. I'm still doing a playthrough of the Resident Evil Remake. That game is huge... and my daily time is limited! |
| Comment #7 by: skiver on 05 May 2009, 22:58 GMT | reply to this comment | anyone now why my res evil remake running slow?
if i disable audio throttle, it wil become too fast!
pliz tell me optimum setup to run re remake normally..
thanx for any replies! |
| Comment #8 by: Catalin Ivan on 06 May 2009, 06:01 GMT | reply to this comment | @skiver: optimum settings depend on what hardware configuration you have, chipset manufacturer, windows version, installed codecs, a whole lot of impossible to predict variables. I gave you the optimum setup for two different (but pretty similar at the same time) computers.
From that you have to build on your own. It's like configuring Crysis: never the same on two PCs.
P.S: The best way to optimize your emulator is trial and error. Hope it helped! |
| Comment #9 by: 3x0t1c m4n on 11 May 2009, 14:42 GMT | reply to this comment | thank you, it run on my PC (CPU = core 2 duo @3 Ghz, RAM 4 Gb Dual Channel, ATI Radeon HD 512 mb)
but I suggest to turn off "Enable Dual Core", because it's just slowing down your framerate and the result is the video and audio is not sync.
I still need to configure to get better framerate, it's going down to about 12 fps when in a scene... |
| Comment #10 by: Snake on 13 May 2009, 16:19 GMT | reply to this comment | Thank you for this tutorial but did you already tested a wii game? |
| Comment #11 by: Catalin Ivan on 14 May 2009, 06:12 GMT | reply to this comment | Regarding Wii games: running Wii games IS possible however it depends on your computer's configuration, the game etc. If i said it once i will say it a thousand times again: I gave you the tools, the configuration on two separate machines so you have a base from which you can start... the rest is up to you. In order for the Emulator to work 100% i would have to physically come and install/configure it on your computers... which is impossible since "beem me up Scotty" is still a Sci-Fi catchphrase! |
| Comment #12 by: Severii on 25 May 2009, 00:47 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi there, does anyone know where I can Download the Resident Evil 1 Remake, i'm having a really tough time finding a reliable download
Thanks |
| Comment #13 by: paul on 04 Jun 2009, 08:31 GMT | reply to this comment | hey I tried playing Fire emblem-path of radiance..its playing to a certain extent but later its saying some error and says now dolphin might hang up or enjoy!...but its coming like a million times in 1 chap..and then its closing!..How should i fix this problem?? |
| Comment #14 by: herbert on 11 Jul 2009, 11:48 GMT | reply to this comment | @paul: where did u get fire emblem? i cant find it... |
| Comment #15 by: Catalin Ivan on 13 Jul 2009, 05:55 GMT | reply to this comment | @Severii: Google and ye shall find!
@Paul: There is a newer (beta/unsupported) version of Dolphin that will probably fix your problem. Search the Dolphin webpage: http://www.dolphin-emu.com/news.php
@herbert: same advice i gave Severii |
| Comment #16 by: James on 19 Jul 2009, 12:47 GMT | reply to this comment | I had the Dolphin program a while ago and got Fire Emblem working(It was Dutch tho :( )
I'm not certain my current pc would be able to run it now however.
I have a Celeron 2.6Ghz Processor
756MB Ram
128Mb GeForce FX5200
I will give it ago sometime soon and let you all know. |
| Comment #17 by: Sander Hanson on 01 Aug 2009, 22:10 GMT | reply to this comment | when i did all the steps and i loaded the iso file this happens
Failed to grab 1 gb of contiguous memory!
do you hav an antivirus program or any other program
that injects itself into every process,consuming address space?
or simply bad graqics driver?
dolphin will handle this better in the future by falling back to slow memory emulation.
for now, sorry, but it won't work. Try the 64-bit build if you can.
i have a good graqics card and drivers
someone please help me and quick |
| Comment #18 by: Sander Hanson on 01 Aug 2009, 22:22 GMT | reply to this comment | ok it works now but when i start its very fast when i choose a character it crashs someonebody help me :( |
| Comment #19 by: Sander Hanson on 01 Aug 2009, 22:45 GMT | reply to this comment | ok i fixed everything now when i choose a character it sais invalid op -error flattening 80000828 op 10264253 |
| Comment #20 by: kentbot on 07 Aug 2009, 02:42 GMT | reply to this comment | i did what you said and it works for my gamecube and wii games but the config of the controller for my wii controller a little slow on reaction . i will give it a 7 out of 10 |
| Comment #21 by: Catalin Ivan on 07 Aug 2009, 06:03 GMT | reply to this comment | I am pretty sure you can work something out by fiddling with the sensitivity controls. I hate repeating myself but here it goes again: the tutorial is meant to be the basis onto which you "trial and error" your own configuration.
There are loads of computer configurations out there, i can't make a tutorial for all of them. Glad it worked out for you to some extent though I would recommend you try to fiddle with the configuration of the emulator a bit more. Especially where the controls are concerned.
Let me stress my point yet again: here I gave you the foundation, it is you who has to build a fully compatible solution based on it. |
| Comment #22 by: Milan Shrestha on 10 Aug 2009, 04:18 GMT | reply to this comment | yeah your guide is awesome. But next time please give a guide about how to run commercial psp games using psp console in pc. |
| Comment #23 by: Catalin Ivan on 10 Aug 2009, 06:17 GMT | reply to this comment | Well unfortunately i am not aware of any working emulator (there are two that I know of but not extremely advanced in that they do not run commercial PSP games) for the PSP. As soon as i catch wind of anything running commercial PSP games at a good framerate I promise I will be writing a tutorial.
In the meantime thanks for the kind thoughts! |
| Comment #24 by: ICrash n BurnI on 14 Aug 2009, 01:56 GMT | reply to this comment | when u said tick dual core well wat if u dont hav dual core? |
| Comment #25 by: Catalin Ivan on 14 Aug 2009, 05:59 GMT | reply to this comment | Well don't tick dual core then :) Though single core will probably not help you run things very smoothly. |
| Comment #26 by: Matt on 09 Dec 2009, 23:28 GMT | reply to this comment | I already had Dolphin, and wanted to get it faster then found this guide... but alas, I think it's my PC. I have single core and a recently updated graphics card, though the latter's probably not the main problem. I doubt you could help me, thanks for the guide though. I just wanted to be lazy and play wii and GC games on my PC (wii does work btw, just painfully slowly...). |
| Comment #27 by: anon on 20 Dec 2009, 18:13 GMT | reply to this comment | i think this is a great program it's much easier the pscx2
There's is another way to play these games. if you have a gamecube or wii game put it in your dvd drive and download dvd decryptor. when it is installed click mode then iso and read. it will detect the dvd and you see where you want to save the file it will then finish reading. then go to mode iso and write find that iso file. put any empty dvd in the drive and click write. it will finish . then put that empty dvd in the drive. open dolphin click file say boot from dvd drive and you have the game.i hope this helps for people who don't have that much memory n their computer |
| Comment #28 by: Taliyuna on 22 Dec 2009, 20:45 GMT | reply to this comment | I'm trying to play this on a laptop...
I have an Acer Aspire (8530)
AMD Turion X2 running on 2.10 GHz.
4 GB DDR2 RAM
Ati Mobility Radeon HD 3650 with 1GB V-RAM
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 (x86)
With this guide all i get is 15 fps...(like really slow..no zombie can kill cause i predict it's movement :))))))
If turn off anti alias and anisotrophy and all those nice things
and play on native resolution it's just a few frames better...
I tried the newest Dolphin (4225) and i don't see the people in-game...
I tried the 3661 version and it's slow...
Maybe this one should work from the guide but it's rather old....
what i wanna know...is CPU too slow for this or what???
i don't think so...
The Dual Core option should be it's alibi or not ???
if anyone does gaming on a laptop let me know...
thanx gaming dudes !!! |
| Comment #29 by: RJ on 30 Dec 2009, 03:01 GMT | reply to this comment | how did you even get this to emulate.. ? i have the same laptop as you but i cannot get pass the ... "cant find 1 continuous gb of memory..." popup |
| Comment #30 by: prashanna pun magar on 09 Jan 2010, 19:07 GMT | reply to this comment | when i finished all the steps,it says that i am missing some opengl extensions, and that i cannot create an opengl renderer
what should i do |
| Comment #31 by: v1ncc on 18 Jan 2010, 04:39 GMT | reply to this comment | It seems that this emulator uses OpenGL as a graphic plugin. But as maybe a lot of people have experienced, it lags so much that the game becomes unplayable! Is there any way to make the emulator use DirectX? Because all games we buy for Windows are made to work with DirectX... And most of the graphics cards too... |
| Comment #32 by: Gery on 24 Feb 2010, 17:11 GMT | reply to this comment | where do you save games, because i can start the game, but it'll just get past showing the controls then it'll say 'an error has occured when accessing the wii system memory' help me plz |
| Comment #33 by: Suiseiseki on 25 Feb 2010, 14:53 GMT | reply to this comment | I did everything you said and I got an error:
Failed to grab 1 gb of contiguous memory!
do you hav an antivirus program or any other program
that injects itself into every process,consuming address space?
or simply bad graqics driver?
dolphin will handle this better in the future by falling back to slow memory emulation.
for now, sorry, but it won't work. Try the 64-bit build if you can.
Another poster had the same problem, but he failed to mention how he fixed them. I have an AMD Athlon X2 4400+ processor, 3.5GB of RAM, GeForce9600, on Windows XP 32-bit. |
| Comment #34 by: deidara on 01 Mar 2010, 14:18 GMT | reply to this comment | what the hell? .. i have a problemm in naruto gikitou ninja taisen 4.. after i unlock other character.. the error message appeared.. zero OP.. flattering BLAH BLAH BLAH.. how to fix dis one..?? plsss help me.. T_T |
| Comment #35 by: Shadowryas on 26 Mar 2010, 03:36 GMT | reply to this comment | I did everythign you said but it says I can not open PasSimpleEvnt.dll has a missing function, and it says i can not open any PAD plugins can you please help me? |
| Comment #36 by: Shadowryas on 26 Mar 2010, 03:39 GMT | reply to this comment | Ok, I changed the PAD thing but its really slow like its at 0.16 fps is there a way to make it a bit faster? |
| Comment #37 by: manoblack on 18 Apr 2010, 17:00 GMT | reply to this comment | Eu fiz tudo que você disse e eu tenho um erro:
Falha ao pegar 1 gb de memória contígua!
você hav um programa antivírus ou qualquer outro programa
que injeta-se em cada processo, consumindo espaço de endereço?
ou simplesmente mau condutor graqics?
golfinho irá lidar com isso melhor no futuro, caindo para trás para retardar a emulação de memória.
por agora, me desculpe, mas não vai funcionar. Experimente o de 64 bits, se você pode construir.
se alguem conseguiu resolver esse errome ajude! meu email é.
manoblackjack@hotmail.com
desde ja agradesso. |
| Comment #38 by: Kasy on 22 Apr 2010, 12:49 GMT | reply to this comment | I did all what you said .. and all I got is these sintence :
* Error Loading Plugins/Plugin_PadSimple.dll: can't red info.
* Can't init any PAD Plugins
* Couldn't init the core .. Check your configuration
and It doesn't work .... Please help me ;( |
| Comment #39 by: joey on 28 Apr 2010, 08:11 GMT | reply to this comment | ok i finished but i dont know how to get games plz tell me what to do |
| Comment #41 by: inspector gadget on 14 Jun 2010, 22:38 GMT | reply to this comment | when i download gamecube games it not going in the dolphin program.what to do |
| Comment #42 by: pigpig on 11 Jul 2010, 12:51 GMT | reply to this comment | when i click the graphics it says cant find plugin plugins/plugin_VideoOGL.dll what do i do??!!?? |
| Comment #43 by: sohrab on 06 Aug 2010, 00:08 GMT | reply to this comment | Holy crap, I'm trying to play that game too! I try to run it, but it says 'cant init and PAD plugins', and then 'Can't init the core, check you configuration'. How did you get it to even work? Any input would be appreciated. |
| Comment #44 by: blazikenz on 10 Aug 2010, 11:42 GMT | reply to this comment | Im trying to play Pokemon xd but cant start emulation keeps saying (cant create opengl renderer you might be missing some opengl extensions.) How do i fix this? |
| Comment #45 by: Shadeus on 09 Sep 2010, 00:57 GMT | reply to this comment | It worked! Thanks so much. Now is there a way to get Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem to work in Dolphin? Or should I keep with the Game Cube for that? |
| Comment #46 by: DBZ FAN on 18 Sep 2010, 16:10 GMT | reply to this comment | Guyz will DBZ Sagas work on the following PC Configuration:
512 MB Ram
2.6 GHz Processor
128 mb Graphics Card |
| Comment #47 by: Kimi on 20 Sep 2010, 01:12 GMT | reply to this comment | WOW! Thanks so much for this. It works better than any of the other versions ive tried.It runs faster and is way better. |
| Comment #48 by: michyuzumakihime on 26 Oct 2010, 17:22 GMT | reply to this comment | umm is it true u can run disks with this emulation? |
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