emulator Dolphin v1.02 question

[Chorus]

I have a question about the emulator Dolphin v1.02.
I have the game Mario Kart Double Dash. So if I want to play this game, I go to file, open and then I search for Mario Kart Double Dash. But it can't find a gcm, iso, dol or a elf file! And if I do All Files it shows me the file but if I try that, it says: you try to load and unknown filetype. Does anyone knows what I can do about this?

[hagbard]

You can't play an original GC game on a PC. You need an ISO, or make an ISO of this game.

Take a look at this thread:

http://forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=1997

[Chorus]

No. I downloaded the file. It is 6,54 MB big so I think that that is not the problem.

[hagbard]

What file did you download?

6.8 Mb it's too small for a full GC ISO. Furthermore Mario Kart Double Dash NTSC-U it's around 303 Mb Rared, so it's either the DOL executable file only), or just incomplete/bad dumped, etc.

Anyway, you won't get more than 4 frames per second

[Chorus]

How can you see what file you download?

[hagbard]

I'm not sure if I've understood it right, but usually you only need to unrar/unzip to get the actual image you've downladed

[Chorus]

I'm from Europe, so I think I need a PAL version not NTSC I think. But how do I know if it is a ISO file or not?

[hagbard]

PAL or NTSC it's not a problem if you run it on emulators, but the low speed it is.
On consoles you need a a either a hard/soft modded GC and a Scart cable to convert NTSC video signal.

GC ISOs use the .gcm or .iso extension. GC-Tool is tool able to rebuild, extract or fix GX ISOs: If you try to open some supposed image and it won't work it should be mostly a bad rip or not even a ISO.

There's also a nice app called fstfix (Wiped GCM Fixer v1.5 by SlideR/LOONYCUBE!) which might rebuild GC ISOs to be on its real size: 1,459,978,240 bytes

[Chorus]

I now have a Mario Kart Double Dash file op 380,45 MB but I can't play it.
380,45 is normal or not?

[Milkrosoft]

This is kind of depressing.