These preview builds, unofficial SVN builds, were released with their revision number (e.g., RXXXX) rather than version numbers (e.g., 1.03). Since its open sourcing, various developers were attracted and development on the emulator has continued since, with regular releases of SVN builds, unlike before, when it was closed-source. At this point, the emulator even had basic Wii emulation implemented.

Open Source and Wii Emulation (2008–present)ĭolphin became an open-source project on Jwhen the developers released the source code publicly on an SVN repository on Google Code under the GPLv2. However, the developers decided to revive the project in 2005 and then in 2007, version 1.03 was released with minor improvements and a little sound support. However, it had performance issues and many games crashed on start up and some of them wouldn't boot average speed was from 2 to 20 FPS and audio was not yet emulated.ĭolphin was officially discontinued in 2004, and the developers released version 1.01 as the final build of the emulator. Its name refers to the Nintendo Dolphin, which was the development codename for the GameCubeĭolphin was first released in 2003 as an experimental Nintendo GameCube emulator that could boot up and run commercial games.

It is the first emulator to successfully run commercial Nintendo GameCube and Wii games and is the only emulator capable of running commercial Wii games. Dolphin is an open-source Nintendo GameCube, Wii, and Triforce emulator for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (Intel-based).

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