Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503 6av2y

It's time for us to again delve into the latest changes hitting the newest release of Dolphin Emulator. If you've been keeping tabs on development channels, you'll know there are some exciting bombshell features waiting for us just over the horizon. Unfortunately, given the close proximity to this release, we've decided to hold a lot of them off so they can get more widespread testing in the development builds before hitting a release. Think of the March 2025 release as an iterative improvement that focuses on experience and stacking many small …

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2412 62b28

Dolphin 2412 is here and we've got the details for what's new in the latest release. The biggest thing to note is that there's a lot of polishing to help make playing games a little more pleasant. Several key fixes to Dolphin's HLE audio helps bring a few more games toward audio perfection, and adjustments to Dolphin's U <-> GPU syncing reduces the number of harmless, but annoying, popup errors that happen in certain games.

That isn't to say there aren't any titles seeing significant improvements. LIT (School of Darkness) had …

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2407 and 2409 331t2o

After an exciting round of feature articles, it's Progress Report time once again! However, a lot has changed. Dolphin has finally left the 5.0 era behind, and has entered the Release Era. Not only did we get our first release in eight years, but we also established a commitment to continuous releases going forward.

For the Reports, things will be more or less the same, but with a few changes.

Progress Reports are now also release changelogs. We'll be going …

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Unlocked: RetroAchievements Come to Dolphin 6u3f31

Dolphin's s are always looking for new ways to play their favorite games. And when a project called "RetroAchievements" started gaining popularity for adding achievements into retro games, s started wondering if Dolphin would ever add for the project. Unfortunately for them, Dolphin isn't a retro game emulator. We're a modern emulator that emulates two recent Nintendo consoles! RetroAchievements wouldn't make sense-

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RetroAchievements Dolphin Launch Announcement!¶ 3l5v5

That's right, it's finally here. RetroAchievements integration has come …

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Dolphin Releases Announcement 6l39d

On the 24th of June, 2016, Dolphin 5.0 was released. The product of a long and hard transition period, the fundamental inaccuracies that plagued Dolphin for over a decade had successfully been undone, and Dolphin was now free of its burdens to swim forward into a new era of accuracy and performance.

Eight years have ed since that great release, and we have seen the dividends of that effort time and …

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Dolphin Progress Report Tenth Anniversary Special: February, March, and April 2024 r2j1w

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Dolphin Progress Report: November and December 2023, January 2024 u566t

With the conclusion of the holiday season, it's time for us at the blog to get back to work. And this time around, we have a smattering of changes covering just about everything you could imagine. For those looking to enjoy some of the latest homebrew with DSP-HLE, Dolphin now has for the latest homebrew microcodes! For retail games, we also have a minor update to the Zelda-HLE microcode to fix a missing effect that's long overdue.

In some more important news, for those of you having disk space issues when …

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Dolphin Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023 2n275s

This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old since its initial release to the public as an experimental GameCube emulator. It's been a long ride, with twists and turns. I don't know if anyone back in 2003 expected Dolphin not only to still be under active development 20 years later, but to also the GameCube's successor in the Wii.

You might be wondering, where is all the pageantry? The honest truth is that things aren't ready yet. We have a few massive changes on the horizon that we wanted to be …

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Dolphin Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023 4s3m6r

It has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever restrictions they want within their private storefront. Please read the full article for details.

Fortunately, all that means is that nothing is going to change. We're …

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What Happened to Dolphin on Steam? 1k644t

Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to lawyers first to make sure that our understanding of the situation was legally sound. That took some time, which was frustrating to ourselves and to our s, but now we are educated and ready to give an informed …

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