Game Modification: 60 FPS Hacks in Dolphin (opens in new tab)

(dolphin-emu.org)

89 pointsPxl_Buzzard11y ago15 comments

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Last night I set up Dolphin and it ran both Super Monkey Ball 2 and Mario Kart Double Dash in 1080p at 60fps. It was amazing, and super easy

film4211y ago

Do you use a usb controller? If so, which one?

dyselon11y ago

Dolphin uses DirectInput on Windows, so basically anything works. If you're in the market for a PC gamepad, it's hard to go wrong with a 360 controller.

sombremesa11y ago

You can use the Wiimote via bluetooth, it works great

CountHackulus11y ago

Wow, 60fps really does look fantastic in Super Mario Sunshine. Amazing that this kind of thing is possible now.

miander11y ago

Man I love these guys. They strive for accurate emulation first and foremost, but they still care about giving the emulator the power to enhance games in such amazing ways. They really have their priorities straight.

benguild11y ago

Tutorial on setting up Dolphin on a rMBP that I wrote. Although 60fps is unlikely in most games. http://benguild.com/2013/07/18/how-to-play-nintendo-wii-game...

archagon11y ago

I have one of the high-end i7 rMBPs with an Nvidia 750M chip inside. In Boot Camp, I get 60fps the vast majority of the time playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy with mostly default settings — albeit at 1.0-1.5x internal resolution. Can't complain! Love having all the best Wii games on the go, original jaggies and everything.

In native OSX, performance is 1.5-2.0x worse.

comex11y ago

Yeah, this is mainly because Apple's OpenGL drivers are terrible. They're eternally behind the GPU vendor drivers in OpenGL version/feature availability and have worse performance. I'm crossing my fingers that in a few years the clean slate of glNext will give Apple a chance to fix this, but not counting on it...

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namuol11y ago

For those interested in a more technical explanation for the Super Mario Sunshine 60FPS romhack, go here: http://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=17475

The hack seems like it was possible because the engine was designed to run at arbitrary framerates, and the romhacker (ehw?) found framerate and vsync-related functions in the demo version of the game, which actually has debug symbols baked in!

Romhacking sounds really fun.

simlevesque11y ago

I am really interested in reading more about the 60FPS hack for Gauntlet: Dark Legacy but I could not find anything online.

archagon11y ago

Wow, this makes me want to play Sunshine again. I only played it after Galaxy and was put off by the framerate (though I still beat most of it).

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docx11811y ago

Last night I set up Dolphin and it ran both Super Monkey Ball 2 and Mario Kart Double Dash in 1080p at 60fps. It was amazing, and super easy

film4211y ago

Do you use a usb controller? If so, which one?

dyselon11y ago

Dolphin uses DirectInput on Windows, so basically anything works. If you're in the market for a PC gamepad, it's hard to go wrong with a 360 controller.

sombremesa11y ago

You can use the Wiimote via bluetooth, it works great

CountHackulus11y ago

Wow, 60fps really does look fantastic in Super Mario Sunshine. Amazing that this kind of thing is possible now.

miander11y ago

benguild11y ago

Tutorial on setting up Dolphin on a rMBP that I wrote. Although 60fps is unlikely in most games. http://benguild.com/2013/07/18/how-to-play-nintendo-wii-game...

archagon11y ago

In native OSX, performance is 1.5-2.0x worse.

comex11y ago

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namuol11y ago

For those interested in a more technical explanation for the Super Mario Sunshine 60FPS romhack, go here: http://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=17475

Romhacking sounds really fun.

simlevesque11y ago

I am really interested in reading more about the 60FPS hack for Gauntlet: Dark Legacy but I could not find anything online.

archagon11y ago

Wow, this makes me want to play Sunshine again. I only played it after Galaxy and was put off by the framerate (though I still beat most of it).

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