emulating a gamecube on my laptop

[garrendesares]

in short, if i do end up putting a gamecube emulator on my laptop to play games (it emulates the graphics card), would it be able to run it? and what is the config i would need?

[Zorlon]

we will need a lot more information than you have given us

But you do need a reasonably high end machine to emulate Wii and GameCube so my best guess would be no, it will not be perfect, some games may run, very few will run close to full speed (It's the same emulator for both systems)

Anyway http://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/ has the info you are looking for under system requirements

[garrendesares]

intel centrino, windows 7, mobile chipset 4, 4 gigs of ram, says not recomended for intel chipsets.

[ndsplayer19576]

intel centrino, windows 7, mobile chipset 4, 4 gigs of ram, says not recomended for intel chipsets.

It says that Intel ones aren't recommended because they're too weak anyway (they can only give you around the native resolution of a Wii/GCN without too much slowdown). Dolphin seems to like Radeon over Nvidia slightly but they're both fine

Dolphin isn't efficient enough (yet) at decoding stuff since you still need an i5/7/AMD Equivalent (whatever that is), but it's getting there. My PC's too weak for it but in later revisions I get a bit of extra speed out of it (e.g. for Sonic Heroes NTSC-U, I got about 45 fps on 3.0, 50-4 fps on 3.5).

It's not much but they've changed the HLE for any GCN games; speed's important to avoid choppy but accurate sound.

[garrendesares]

so basicly, if the ps4 gets hacked, we could use it to play gc on it lol but thanks for the help

[Zorlon]

so basicly, if the ps4 gets hacked, we could use it to play gc on it lol but thanks for the help

I wouldn't even say that to be honest

You know you can just get a GC compatible Wii mod it and play GC and Wii games from a HDD

[garrendesares]

yeah that would be my best bet. but since i have an actual gamecube, i will just buy what few games i want when i get another job.

[Zorlon]

There is a soft mod for the GameCube but it's not the best some games will lag due to disc speed of DVD-/+R vs Retail discs is slower not all games lag though the mod uses GCoS there are several ways of running that my fav was via the Max Drive Pro because that made it very easy to run there is also an Action Replay method that does work but is a lil more tricky to work

[keno411]

im having the exact same problem here. I want to play the Zelda games for the gamecube but if I have to walk through the entire game at 50% fps, then its going to be too frustrating for me cuz I tend to die a lot. I read somewhere that the issue here is that emulating a system requires a lot more processing power than the system itself uses. so, even though your specs seem like they ought to blow the gamecube into outer space, the emulation still lags. there is a youtube video I watched where a seemingly computer-savvy child taught me how to configure my Dolphin emulator for optimum performance, and it did increase my fps by about 125-150%, depending on what was happening on the screen, that still only got me to about 50% fps, and the fact that it speeds up and slows down depending on how much it has to render is still one of the more aggravating issues. im wondering if anyone has made versions of the Zelda games that decompile directly to windows, but im a bit cautious about downloading exe files anyway (you should've seen all the filth that was included in a MS DOS games torrent that I downloaded).

[garrendesares]

There is a soft mod for the GameCube but it's not the best some games will lag due to disc speed of DVD-/+R vs Retail discs is slower not all games lag though the mod uses GCoS there are several ways of running that my fav was via the Max Drive Pro because that made it very easy to run there is also an Action Replay method that does work but is a lil more tricky to work

i wasnt aware they made discs that small, and i know of that mod but i dont have the means to try it (no discs and no ar for the gamecube)

im having the exact same problem here. I want to play the Zelda games for the gamecube but if I have to walk through the entire game at 50% fps, then its going to be too frustrating for me cuz I tend to die a lot. I read somewhere that the issue here is that emulating a system requires a lot more processing power than the system itself uses. so, even though your specs seem like they ought to blow the gamecube into outer space, the emulation still lags. there is a youtube video I watched where a seemingly computer-savvy child taught me how to configure my Dolphin emulator for optimum performance, and it did increase my fps by about 125-150%, depending on what was happening on the screen, that still only got me to about 50% fps, and the fact that it speeds up and slows down depending on how much it has to render is still one of the more aggravating issues. im wondering if anyone has made versions of the Zelda games that decompile directly to windows, but im a bit cautious about downloading exe files anyway (you should've seen all the filth that was included in a MS DOS games torrent that I downloaded).

its not a problem it was something i was wondering as i have a low quality laptop. and yeah, to emulate something your computer needs to be alot powerful than the thing its emulating, which is why we only now have a working ps2 emulator and we still dont have a ps3 emulator yet. and when your dealing with games, stay away from torrents or that will happen, and as far as i know, there arnt any zelda games developed for the pc.

[keno411]

garrendesares, it sounds like your laptop is nearly the same as mine, except yours has an intel chipset and mine has amd. our cpus should be plenty up to par, even though extra cores don't have as much to do with gaming as clock speeds. this is mostly a graphics card/texture rendering issue...im fairly certain. when I bought my laptop, my main goal was to not have an intel graphics card because ive always had/seen trouble with them attempting to do anything productive. but since my main purposes for the laptop were business computing and watching Netflix, I really didn't do a ton of research and just bought the only quad core they had on sale with a non-intel gfx card. in this whole vid game pursuit, that has come back to bite me in one big way. my laptop is, by and large, non-upgradable. if id have just gone one step up in the series, id have gotten the upgradable motherboard. IF your laptop doesn't suffer from the same problem as mine, then your fix should be as simple as upgrading your graphics card....he said as he waited for the more computer savvy members to swoop in and pick apart his diatribe

as far as the torrents go, they've usually been very good to me. ive never copped a virus from an audio, video, or iso file that ive torrented. exe files are a whole different ball game. I don't trust them from anywhere. and since the popularity of isos has risen, I find very little need to dl a game in exe format anyway. when it comes to the smaller games, I adore this site for the complete packages they put together. when it comes to the larger games, I always see what I can torrent really quickly first, then I go to doperoms, which has a slightly less comprehensive list (plus they have to be un-ecm'ed), then whatever I still don't have I get here. I don't pretend to be savvy enough to know why the exe files are so much more dangerous, I just know that video game exe files are the only files ive ever gotten a virus from. either way though, a virus matters very little to me. the only thing I store on my internal hard drive is my OS. everything else is stored and run from external hard drives. so if something on my comp is particularly irritating me, I just reformat and go about my business in about 30 minutes

[Zorlon]

i wasnt aware they made discs that small, and i know of that mod but i dont have the means to try it (no discs and no ar for the gamecube)



its not a problem it was something i was wondering as i have a low quality laptop. and yeah, to emulate something your computer needs to be alot powerful than the thing its emulating, which is why we only now have a working ps2 emulator and we still dont have a ps3 emulator yet. and when your dealing with games, stay away from torrents or that will happen, and as far as i know, there arnt any zelda games developed for the pc.

I use torrents a lot but I am on safe severs for that and never had a dump that was not what it was ment to be or any sort of virus

I can't see PS3 being emulated any time soon not even the xbox is emulated to a playable state (so although there are xbox emulators they do not play anything)

As it happens there are Zelda games for PC but these are home brew and are unofficial (can't say I have seen any 3D ones though)


As for the discs yeah you can get them that small, they got used in camcorders before they got used by the GameCube, you can also get a case mod so you can use normal sized DVD's as well, still easier to get a Wii and have the advantage of Wii software as well as GameCube software plus no lagging issues (there are still GC problems running software from USB/SD on the Wii though, some sound streaming is not working as of yet, this has only affects a handful of games, I can give details if needs be

[garrendesares]

yeah my laptop is from back in 09 maybe 10 so its not upgradeable (actually, the series i have is now discontinued) and i just had a bad experiance with torrnets as they would take forever (even with enough seeds). and not at this moment since i dont have a wii (went with a gamecube as the only wii game i would probly have gotten would have been the second tales of symphina, but they messed that game up horribly from what i seen)

[Zorlon]

Public torrents are a nightmare I avoid them when possible

I recently got the entire Dreamcast NTSC-U and PAL collection with in 1 wk that is over 300GB via torrents (that is every release of every game, for a project to help find the best dumps and show the bad dumps and none self boot dumps, that's still in WIP though)

As it happens the torrent site I was using for Wii games has gone now but GameCube I can get any game still

For your Laptop though stick to PSX, Dreamcast at a push, Saturn should be good, N64 should be OK for a lot of games as well PS2 and GameCube to Wii I wouldn't bother with, xbox isn't even emulated to any playable state.
DS might be ok for some games, GBA will be good.
Arcade should run ok to a point, a lot of the newer 3D arcade games will not play so well though
Amiga and Atari ST should work well for you
Anything older than the above should work as well

There are plenty of good Wii games out there, well over 500 good games out of well over 1000 games, like with any system there are a bunch of naff games as well as the good ones plus the advantage of Virtual Console games and a few good WiiWare games and GameCube backwards compat and the homebrew scene has plenty to offer as well in emulators for the Wii and Ports of game engines like Doom and ScummVM, oh ScummVM should run ok for most games on your system also if you happen to have GC pads you can use those with some Wii games instead of the Wii Mote+Nunchuck (depends on the game, but to name a few that can Resident Evil 4, Mario Kart and Smash Brothers)

A bonus for emulation though is that the light gun games for 16 bit and 8 bit consoles is emulated via the Wii Mote, this is good because you can't use a light gun on today's TV sets, but the wii Mote can act just like a light gun, apart from that you can use anything to control the games GC pad, WiiMote, WiiMote+Nunchuck or a Classic Controller

[keno411]

zorlon, if you know of any place that is similar for psx torrents, I wouldn't mind a link

and actually, the Saturn iso torrent link would keep me from humping your bandwidth so much these 5th gen console games are getting pretty big and id like to knock out the last remaining 300gb of this hard drive and get this over with.