dolphin

Dolphin - A GameCube and Wii Emulator Homepage | Project Site | Buildbot | Forums | Wiki | GitHub Wiki | Issue Tracker | Coding Style | Transifex Page | Analytics Dolphin is an emulator for running GameCube and Wii games on Windows, Linux, macOS, and recent Android devices. It's licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPLv2+). Please read the FAQ before using Dolphin. System Requirements Desktop OS Windows (10 1903 or higher). Linux. macOS (11.0 Big Sur or higher). Unix-like systems other than Linux are not officially supported but might work. Processor A CPU with SSE2 support. A modern CPU (3 GHz and Dual Core, not older than 2008) is highly recommended. Graphics A reasonably modern graphics card (Direct3D 11.1 / OpenGL 3.3). A graphics card that supports Direct3D 11.1 / OpenGL 4.4 is recommended. Android OS Android (7.0 Nougat or higher). Processor A processor with support for 64-bit applications (either ARMv8 or x86-64). Graphics A graphics processor that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 or higher. Performance varies heavily with driver quality. A graphics processor that supports standard desktop OpenGL features is recommended for best performance. Dolphin can only be installed on devices that satisfy the above requirements. Attempting to install on an unsupported device will fail and display an error message. Building You may find building instructions on the appropriate wiki page for your operating system: Windows Linux macOS Android OpenBSD (unsupported) Before building, make sure to pull all submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive Android-specific instructions These instructions assume familiarity with Android development. If you do not have an Android dev environment set up, see AndroidSetup.md. If using Android Studio, import the Gradle project located in ./Source/Android. Android apps are compiled using a build system called Gradle. Dolphin's native component, however, is compiled using CMake. The Gradle script will attempt to run a CMake build automatically while building the Java code. Uninstalling On Windows, simply remove the extracted directory, unless it was installed with the NSIS installer, in which case you can uninstall Dolphin like any other Windows application. Linux users can run cat install_manifest.txt | xargs -d '\n' rm as root from the build directory to uninstall Dolphin from their system. macOS users can simply delete Dolphin.app to uninstall it. Additionally, you'll want to remove the global user directory if you don't plan on reinstalling Dolphin. Command Line Usage Usage: Dolphin.exe [options]... [FILE]... Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -u USER, --user=USER User folder path -m MOVIE, --movie=MOVIE Play a movie file -e <file>, --exec=<file> Load the specified file -n <16-character ASCII title ID>, --nand_title=<16-character ASCII title ID> Launch a NAND title -C <System>.<Section>.<Key>=<Value>, --config=<System>.<Section>.<Key>=<Value> Set a configuration option -s <file>, --save_state=<file> Load the initial save state -d, --debugger Show the debugger pane and additional View menu options -l, --logger Open the logger -b, --batch Run Dolphin without the user interface (Requires --exec or --nand-title) -c, --confirm Set Confirm on Stop -v VIDEO_BACKEND, --video_backend=VIDEO_BACKEND Specify a video backend -a AUDIO_EMULATION, --audio_emulation=AUDIO_EMULATION Choose audio emulation from [HLE|LLE] Available DSP emulation engines are HLE (High Level Emulation) and LLE (Low Level Emulation). HLE is faster but less accurate whereas LLE is slower but close to perfect. Note that LLE has two submodes (Interpreter and Recompiler) but they cannot be selected from the command line. Available video backends are "D3D" and "D3D12" (they are only available on Windows), "OGL", and "Vulkan". There's also "Null", which will not render anything, and "Software Renderer", which uses the CPU for rendering and is intended for debugging purposes only. DolphinTool Usage usage: dolphin-tool COMMAND -h commands supported: [convert, verify, header, extract] Usage: convert [options]... [FILE]... Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -u USER, --user=USER User folder path, required for temporary processing files. Will be automatically created if this option is not set. -i FILE, --input=FILE Path to disc image FILE. -o FILE, --output=FILE Path to the destination FILE. -f rvz|iso|gcz|wia, --format=rvz|iso|gcz|wia Container format to use. Default is RVZ. -s, --scrub Scrub junk data as part of conversion. -b BLOCK_SIZE, --block_size=BLOCK_SIZE Block size for GCZ/WIA/RVZ formats, as an integer. Suggested value for RVZ: 131072 (128 KiB) -c none|zstd|bzip2|lzma|lzma2, --compression=none|zstd|bzip2|lzma|lzma2 Compression method to use when converting to WIA/RVZ. Suggested value for RVZ: zstd -l COMPRESSION_LEVEL, --compression_level=COMPRESSION_LEVEL Level of compression for the selected method. Ignored if 'none'. Suggested value for zstd: 5 Usage: verify [options]... Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -u USER, --user=USER User folder path, required for temporary processing files. Will be automatically created if this option is not set. -i FILE, --input=FILE Path