Dolphin Releases Announcement
dolphin-emu.org
On the 24th of June, 2016, Dolphin 5.0 was released. The product of a long and hard transition period, the fundamental inaccuracies that plagued Dolphin for over a decade had successfully been undone, and Dolphin was now free of its burdens to swim forward into a new era of accuracy…
  • Icalasari@fedia.io
    81·
    5 months ago

    Makes sense, with how Nintendo has been especially bad lately, may as well keep constantly updating before the inevitable C&D comes

    • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      As i understand it emulator software is largely viewed as legal are long as they don’t ship other people’s IP (decryption keys, bios, etc).

      I don’t think dolphin is doing that so they should be in the clear.

      • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        If Nintendo can show that you knowingly promoted piracy, you are still screwed. If I recall correctly they were able to do this with yuzu because they were adding support for games that were only available through piracy, as they weren’t even publicly released yet. Dolphin obviously doesn’t have to worry about that specifically though.

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Dolphin may have uh a certain strong in there that correlates pretty close to a decryption key (legally of course)

  • Marin_Rider@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    I’m only enough to remember the game cube was known as Project Dolphin before it was officially revealed. I like the name stuck for this project

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
    62·
    5 months ago

    What is Dolphin? Dolphin is a GameCube and Wii emulator with high compatibility across the majority of titles for both platforms. It was first developed as closed source in 2003, and as open source since 2008.

    I had to look it up.