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Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017

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100 pointsdEnigma8 comments

Seems like the Dolphin dev team is making quite the habit of releasing regular progress updates...color me impressed.

I'm pretty impressed myself, I'm a layman when it comes to emulators, but I've been following along with the Dolphin Progress reports since JMC47 started posting them in May 2014!

They really strike a nice balance between getting all the tech stuff out there, but also being extremely engaging for laypeople. And they been super consistent, I don't know if they've missed a single month in almost four years.

And it's starting to spread to other projects as well:

RPCS3: https://rpcs3.net/blog/ has started doing a monthly one since they started their Pateron and exploded their development progress.

PCSX2: http://pcsx2.net/281-q4-2016-progress-report.html They are doing a pretty nice quarterly blog.

It's really an amazing time for these kinds of open source projects!

I kinda wish all the major projects I used/followed would do something like this!

I haven't looked at one of their updates for a while, but was surprised that they use lots of videos now too. You can tell they spend a lot of time figuring out how to make their progress reports informative and entertaining.

As a Nintendo fan, I'm proud of Dolphin for existing and being as wonderful as it is.

Same here, I've always been a fan of Nintendo and it's incredible for me to be able to play again to Super Mario 64 from my PC

What controller are you using? I've found it hard to find a good controller.

I don't know about Super Mario 64, but when I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl using Dolphin on my PC I used an XBox 360 controller and it worked like a charm. There are adapters that allow you to use the original Gamecube controller on the PC too; and I think there are some Gamecube-like unlicensed controllers too.

edit: Same goes for Nintendo 64 controllers, AFAIK

Hehe, as low-powered as the switch is, it might be quicker to run smooth on an emulator, right?

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