It’s exciting news for retro gamers that the GameCube now has its full library playable via the Dolphin emulator, according to a report by Eurogamer. Now the Dolphin team has announced that it has finally emulated the licensed game, and have competed the back-catalogue.
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“It’s bittersweet in a way, while it is a momentous occasion to get the last GameCube game booting, it also denotes that there aren’t many huge mysteries remaining”. Unfortunately, it can change those on the fly in mid-game, crashing the emulator.
You may have heard of Dolphin before – it’s been around for years, and has steadily grown to support nearly every title in the GameCube (and later, Wii) library.
This gist of it, though, is that in their attempts to get The Clone Wars to run properly, the Dolphin emulator is now far more accurate and crashes far less often with normal GameCube games.
That’s not something that many emulators created to work with consoles released sine 2000 can say, making Dolphin Emulator the most impressive technical accomplishment on the emulator scene in some time. However, Polygon does note that Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Trial Edition, Army Men: Sarge’s War and the Game Boy Player still don’t load beyond the menu screen while using the emulator.
There’s a full and very detailed blog post on the evolution of Dolphin, explaining how it has overcome several significant technical hurdles over the years.
And, it’s worth stating, none of this work has been done officially.
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Keep in mind that all of this work is absent any support from Nintendo, as Dolphin uses all its own emulation code.
