PS2 and Gamecube Emulation

[FinFish77]

I was just wondering about PS2 and Gamecube emulation. Is it any good?? The last I checked, most of the emulators were just for custom games and couldnt even run commercial ones. The ones that did run commercial ones were slow and sketchy. However, I have seen many people asking for PS2 and Gamecube Isos in the Trading Zone. Does this mean that there are better emulators out that I have missed, or that people just dont care that the emulators are slow?? If there are new emulators, could someone please post a link to one of them here.

[woodman]

PS2 emulation is not at a useable state yet. And even when it is, you'll need a fairly hefty PC to get anywhere near full speed.
Gamecube emulation, I have never tried, so I have no real idea as to it's current state.

Most people who DL PS2 & GC ISO's have hacked system, ie they modded their systems to some degree to allow them to play backup games.

[geohound]

I don't know about PS2 emulators, but I have seen gamecube emulators. I don't use them myself, but there's one called Dolphin or something similar, I know people have made changes to it without the author's permission, making it work plenty good, but due to legal reasons I'm not going to post the site/sites. Making your own's the best way to go, despite the fact that it takes blithering ages.......

[woodman]

I don't know about PS2 emulators, but I have seen gamecube emulators. I don't use them myself, but there's one called Dolphin or something similar, I know people have made changes to it without the author's permission, making it work plenty good, but due to legal reasons I'm not going to post the site/sites. Making your own's the best way to go, despite the fact that it takes blithering ages.......

Due to legal reasons??? What are you, a narc?

Why not go for broke......

[geohound]

Due to legal reasons??? What are you, a narc?

Why not go for broke......

No I just respect the work of fellow programmers, and have a unique code of morals/ethics

[woodman]

No I just respect the work of fellow programmers, and have a unique code of morals/ethics

Dolphin source was released to the public a while ago..
PCSX2 is still under development by it's original developers.
Where is the problem?

Dolphin Homepage - http://www.dolphin-emu.com/index.php
PCSX2 Homepage - http://www.pcsx2.net/

[geohound]

Dolphin source was released to the public a while ago..
PCSX2 is still under development by it's original developers.
Where is the problem?

Dolphin Homepage - http://www.dolphin-emu.com/index.php
PCSX2 Homepage - http://www.pcsx2.net/

The mods/additions were made before Dolphin became open source, and it's easy to see they hacked it to pieces, Just my last word.

May be legal now, but is it ethical?

Thanks for the knowledge then I might grap a copy of Dolphin's source myself

[FoReVerZeRo]

May be legal now, but is it ethical?

With that kind of attitude I question why your here.

[Del_Boy]

Dolphin hacks? Never heard of any. I wouldn't imagine simple hacks would achieve anything much anyways - most of the slowness comes from emulating the PPC core.

Dolphin source was released to the public a while ago..

The mods/additions were made before Dolphin became open source, and it's easy to see they hacked it to pieces, Just my last word.

The Dolphin source has never been released. I can't help but feel you are both confusing this with another emulator.

The source you are probably referring to is the Dolwin source.

[Xena]

Dolphin hacks? Never heard of any. I wouldn't imagine simple hacks would achieve anything much anyways - most of the slowness comes from emulating the PPC core.

The Dolphin source has never been released. I can't help but feel you are both confusing this with another emulator.

The source you are probably referring to is the Dolwin source.

That is true, on thier main download site,

http://www.dolphin-emu.com/downloads.php

There is only updates of the Final release of dolphin, for now.

A new plugin has been released recently, but thats all.

[FinFish77]

Sweet man. Thanks for these links. Ill try and download a game right away to try it out.

[Del_Boy]

Sweet man. Thanks for these links. Ill try and download a game right away to try it out.

May be worth your while checking the compatability thread on Emutalk first and foremost, unless you want a wasted download For the record pretty much only Bust A Move 3K is properly playable (and I think some other 2d game, forgot which).

[Xena]

May be worth your while checking the compatability thread on Emutalk first and foremost, unless you want a wasted download For the record pretty much only Bust A Move 3K is properly playable (and I think some other 2d game, forgot which).

Yeah I got BAM 3K, I habe the other one to, its called Namco museum.

Ive foor quite alot of games work well, but just slow. Like star soldier, Ikaruga,Crazy taxi, Paper mario 2, Legend of Zelda the wind waker, Super smash bros melee and tons of others ive downloaded and tested.

The only ones ive found that do not work at all are lost kingdoms I & II. Others do work but normaly crash before you go ingame, like luigis mansion and Final fantasy chrystal chronicals

[woodman]

Dolphin hacks? Never heard of any. I wouldn't imagine simple hacks would achieve anything much anyways - most of the slowness comes from emulating the PPC core.


The Dolphin source has never been released. I can't help but feel you are both confusing this with another emulator.

The source you are probably referring to is the Dolwin source.

Taken from Dolphin Main Page.

Download Links:
Links are hidden from guests. Please register to be able to view these links. My bad.. I had never looked into it further than that. I did not know they never actually released the code...Just said they were gonna..
It was Dolphin I was thinking of, they just never actually released it...

[hayato1]

omg, i completely new to this due to kindness of xena uploaded naruto[gc] recently makes me feel i must play gamecube atleast once.
not to mention that i dunknow how to do with the 1.3gb iso inside >.0!
well since is xena release i assuming it will play just by choosing the iso haha.
just wondering what emu xena use to run it...
as i have no keyboard now while typing this msg i couldn't test dolp...^^
i will be doom! if the emu went full screen lol (as couldn't exit without keyboard esc)