Dolphin v0.1 for Android - Gamecube Emulation Arrives on Android

April 8th, 2013, 02:09 Posted By: wraggster

The Android is becoming the new king of emulation just recently, already we have Snes, Nes, Nintendo 64, Playstation 1, Megadrive, MAME Arcade Emulation, GBA, Gameboy, Genesis and every retro console going and now the developers of Dolphin have released the first Gamecube Emulator for the Android.

Heres a few screens of the emulator in action:





The first screenshot is of an homebrew demo and the second is of the GBA Emulator VBAGX working via dolphin on the Android.

At the moment the emulator is in a preview beta stage so you can expect slow speeds, graphical glitches and other problems but we all know our good the windows version turned out, heres a taster:





Heres whats new etc in this release:

THIS APP DOES NOT COME WITH ROMS
- You must have the right to a given ROM before you play it!
- A number of public domain games/demos are available at http://gcemu.dcemu.co.uk
This is a public preview release of this Dolphin for Android.
This is currently in early beta testing, expect slow speeds, graphical glitches, and a myriad of problems with it.
If you're expecting reasonable speeds out of this, you are sorely mistaken. This will run slow on every single Android device, no matter if it is the most powerful one in the world.
Once we port our OpenGL plugin over, and you use a OpenGL ES 3 capable phone, this will improve a bit.
http://gcemu.dcemu.co.uk has a bunch of free homebrew applications to try out.
One I particularly like to use is Starfield
http://sonicadvance11.dyndns.org/starfield.dol
Some caveats
- It will crash. Alot.
- Rotations don't work well or at all.
- There isn't /any/ input
- It might need to be force closed and ran multiple times to work.
- It renders video with the CPU entirely with our VideoSoftware backend.
Pros of this, is it will run on almost any hardware. Some limitations are
- Phones that support OpenGL ES 2 (99.8% of the Android Market)
- Phones that have at least 1Gb of RAM
This app is licensed by the GNU GPL v2, and the full source code is available through the public GIT repository at https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/

Try it for yourself at the google play store

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