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Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

31 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 5 stories, 26 comments · first 2014-11-13 · latest 2026-03-12

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  1. …* https://gist.github.com/hthh/502ae16db55612f64d3966769a154c3... * https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/4447
    comment by 0x0 · 2026-03-12 · in Dolphin Progress Release 2603
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    Dolphin PR: Add policy on LLM contributions
    story by flykespice · 2026-03-12 · 0 comments
  3. …curious, the cross-platform IPC library they’re considering is ZeroMQ. Draft pull request here: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/14046
    comment by SandmanDP · 2025-12-29 · in Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512
  4. It doesn't work on Dolphin—probably won't for quite a while https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/12426
    comment by unleaded · 2025-03-04 · in Windows NT for GameCube/Wii
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    Dolphin: Play GameCube and Wii Games on PC with Enhanced Performance
    story by Chrono_Slash · 2024-10-03 · 0 comments
  6. …PR, where we made a change to automatically install the runtime DLLs but ended up reverting it: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/11068 (this is based off my own recollection of what others have told me, it might be out of date…
    comment by OatmealDome · 2024-09-04 · in Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409
  7. …It's really not that simple - jurisdiction matters a lot, and also Nintendo's own priorities. [0]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a... [1]: https://delroth.net/posts/emulation-crypto-keys-copyright-dm...
    comment by roblabla · 2024-04-07 · in Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
  8. …been working hard to get rid of game specific overrides. They still have a gazillion tho, see here: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/master/Data/Sys/...
    comment by rolltrunhert · 2024-01-17 · in Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
  9. My repo suggestions : https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin https://gitlab.inria.fr/mpfr/mpfr
    comment by erwan577 · 2024-01-09 · in Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
  10. Dolphin has actually had this for their macOS builds for over a year now. https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
    comment by Klonoar · 2023-08-28 · in How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
  11. It has. But this is not about emulation, this is about dolphin shipping encryption keys. https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...
    comment by trollied · 2023-05-27 · in Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
  12. …Wii games are digitally signed and encrypted. This specific line of code contains the illegal key: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a... As the developer of Citra (above) noted, big no-no. The emulator is legally…
    comment by gjsman-1000 · 2023-05-27 · in Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
  13. …losing battle, you would have to attack the DMCA at its core in order to come out on top here. [0] https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Co... [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
    comment by Jasper_ · 2023-05-27 · in Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
  14. …/www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/ This issue didn't only affect Mono e.g. dolphin ( https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/4204 ) and ppsspp ( https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/pull/8965 ) had been hitting the same…
    comment by masklinn · 2022-05-15 · in Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake
  15. …need mutexes ( https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/362 ), or lock the wrong mutex ( https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/10540 ), or only lock on writes but not reads, or the set of possible states is a confusing muddled…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-04-02 · in Why Rust mutexes look like they do
  16. …which describes what we collect in a bit more details, see https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/privacy/ https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Co... is the actual code which collects most of the information. We do multiple…
    comment by delroth · 2021-09-30 · in Minecraft to add telemetry
  17. …mechanism where the emulator reports weird edge cases that happen very rarely. Current list: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Co... , example usage: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/ffdc8538a162b1ca... .…
    comment by delroth · 2021-09-30 · in Minecraft to add telemetry
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    Dolphin Emulator Gets Apple M1 Support for macOS
    story by batterylow · 2021-02-07 · 0 comments
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    Dolphin (Nintendo Wii/GameCube Emulator) gains native M1 support, 30-50% speedup
    story by tosh · 2021-01-14 · 0 comments
  20. …where I actually implemented it to see if it would work (though I suggested it to Dolphin earlier: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/8492#issuecommen... ). Since I ended writing essentially the same thing for PPSSPP (…
    comment by saagarjha · 2020-02-24 · in Jailed Just-in-Time Compilation on iOS
  21. …read. The Dolphin code base [1] is also fun to read. Thanks for all the enjoyable reads! [1] https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
    comment by photonios · 2020-02-08 · in Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
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    GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms
    story by axiomdata316 · 2019-11-28 · 0 comments
  23. …is sometimes also very FP sensitive. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwuz2U1JV8 fixed by https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/390 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEbmrwnYaXs has a few more examples we've documented.
    comment by delroth · 2019-03-21 · in Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction
  24. …(ARM/x86 encoding, basic optimizations, etc.) can be found in JITting emulators, like Dolphin: ( https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin ) 2) Web browser Javascript engines, like ( https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src ). And of course…
    comment by vardump · 2018-07-24 · in Uefi-jitfuck – A JIT Brainfuck compiler running on x86_64 UEFI
  25. …the README provided instructions for how to build and run the emulator. Here is some inspiration: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
    comment by styfle · 2017-12-30 · in Show HN: Simple Gameboy Emulator
  26. Interpreter seems to be somewhat dynamically generated based on host system: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Co... Found some flaky documentation: http://amnoid.de/gc/tev.html edit: phire posted an example…
    comment by __s · 2017-07-30 · in Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
  27. https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
    comment by desdiv · 2017-07-08 · in Ask HN: Name good examples of Modern C++ usage
  28. …that I know of, the Dolphin emulator[1] generally makes good use of modern C++ features. [1]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
    comment by mmebane · 2017-05-26 · in Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++
  29. …example https://github.com/servo/servo/pulls , https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pulls , and https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pulls . Each PR will have a link to the corresponding review in its description. Let me know if you…
    comment by piotrkaminski · 2016-04-05 · in Ask HN: How do you review code?
  30. …is unfortunately not working for Windows 7 due to a bug in the Windows HID Class Driver [1]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/3245 [2]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/3245#issuecommen...
    comment by mmebane · 2015-12-31 · in Dolphin Emulator Wiimote can speak now
  31. Dolphin indeed has a JIT ( https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/master/Source/Co... ). Fiora has also done her magic in the past few months to make the JIT better and faster than ever.
    comment by Jasper_ · 2014-11-13 · in Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio