Dolphin for Vista

[RiderLeangle]

Does Dolphin work on Vista? if yes how do I get it to read Wii games in my disk drive? I want to try to play Super Smash Brothers Brawl on PC.

[troval]

hmm i just downloaded dophin to my vista an it 'works' (quad cpu, 9.6 GHz, nvidia geforce 8600gs) but with 800x600 a 10.5/fps !?

[RiderLeangle]

OK, So how would I get it to read disks in my CD drive? I want to try Super Smash Brothers Brawl (I hear Dolphin can run Wii but can't get the controlls right, Brawl uses Gamecube controller so....)

EDIT: BTW, How do I set up controlls for Dolphin?

[ulaoulao]

For the controllers get the latest controller plugin. its very straight forward.

for the CD, you must rip the drive first. Or download the ISO.

[RiderLeangle]

So basicly you can't map it to your keyboard and need a real USB controller?

[alexxi]

SSBB does not work on dolphin(..currently, probably soon).

[RiderLeangle]

Well Brawl isn't the only game I want to play, there are some good GameCube games I missed.

BTW this was never answered

So basicly you can't map it to your keyboard and need a real USB controller?

[alexxi]

...BTW this was never answered

So basicly you can't map it to your keyboard and need a real USB controller?

you can use a keyboard and usb controller, maybe both at the same time too.

[RiderLeangle]

In that case I should try my Rock Band drums and have my Keyboard for the rest.

[RiderLeangle]

OK, how do I map the controlls, it doesn't give me a selection and when I go on something and hit the button it doesn't do anything.

[alexxi]

OK, how do I map the controlls, it doesn't give me a selection and when I go on something and hit the button it doesn't do anything.

It should look something like this:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8031/padconfigex6.png

[RiderLeangle]

How do I get there? the only control setup I can find looks like this
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/manaleader/Avatar4/dolphincontrols.png

[alexxi]

How do I get there? the only control setup I can find looks like this...

you can change the pad plugin in: options=>configure=>plugins=>pad

[RiderLeangle]

Thanks. Now I should be ready to use it.

OK, I can run the Crysis demo which I looked it up and is as graphics heavy as the full game) on full setings just fine, why can't I get Ikaruga to run a faster speed?

[FatTrucker]

Because your system has a slow processor and onboard graphics.

There is no way that rig will run Crysis on full settings at full speed, no matter what they say about the demo its either a very different build to the full game or its simply defaulting the settings based on your hardware, but even some Dual Cores with good dedicated graphics cards struggle to push it along at a decent lick.

Was just looking at some benchmarks for other systems, and a fast Core2Quad System with 3Gb of Ram and a dedicated 256Mb 8600GTS card was only benchmarking 13FPS with full settings.

[Valor]

When I set my plugin to pad and click the button to try and configure the pad so that it maps to my keyboard, nothing happens. I'm running Vista, so I'm not too sure what's going on there.

Edit: When I try to do it through the configure wizard, I get the error message that says: ChangeNumPlayers

uhhhh.. yeah.

[RiderLeangle]

Because your system has a slow processor and onboard graphics.

There is no way that rig will run Crysis on full settings at full speed, no matter what they say about the demo its either a very different build to the full game or its simply defaulting the settings based on your hardware, but even some Dual Cores with good dedicated graphics cards struggle to push it along at a decent lick.

Was just looking at some benchmarks for other systems, and a fast Core2Quad System with 3Gb of Ram and a dedicated 256Mb 8600GTS card was only benchmarking 13FPS with full settings.

Is there any way to fix that without opening my PC and manually repairing everything?

And heres the demo if you want to see how powerful it is
http://www.crysisdemo.com/

[FatTrucker]

Honestly mate, no matter how much you really, really want it to work, your processor and graphics card are a long way below the spec you are going to need to run PS2 or GC via emulation.

There's no magic optimisation that you can do that will suddenly turn it into a fast PC.

Regardless of what the demo is, what it says or how well you think its running, Crysis (not the demo the actual game) will run like a dog with everything turned on. Even if you had a good gaming rig, Its pointless using a PC game as a benchmark for emulation as the two aren't really comparable in the way they work or the way they use the hardware.

[Valor]

When I set my plugin to pad and click the button to try and configure the pad so that it maps to my keyboard, nothing happens. I'm running Vista, so I'm not too sure what's going on there.

Edit: When I try to do it through the configure wizard, I get the error message that says: ChangeNumPlayers

uhhhh.. yeah.

bump? :o

[RiderLeangle]

Honestly mate, no matter how much you really, really want it to work, your processor and graphics card are a long way below the spec you are going to need to run PS2 or GC via emulation.

There's no magic optimisation that you can do that will suddenly turn it into a fast PC.

Regardless of what the demo is, what it says or how well you think its running, Crysis (not the demo the actual game) will run like a dog with everything turned on. Even if you had a good gaming rig, Its pointless using a PC game as a benchmark for emulation as the two aren't really comparable in the way they work or the way they use the hardware.
Well what would be a good one fro what I want?

Well theres overclocking but I don't know if my power suply and fan could take that.

Damn, if the most powerful game on the market on full stats isn't good enough of a PC to run PS2 and Gamecube, I'd be impressed of how bulked up of a PC it takes for them.

EDIT: Wait, Is there a way to hook up Gamecube and PC so I can run ISOs from my PC, onto my Gamecube, then route it back to the PC as a screen?