Hi there,
I just wanted to take a moment and say THANKS to everyone who has worked so hard to make Dolphin so amazing!
I have been a Wii and GameCube fan for years, and I love so many of the classic games on these consoles.
It took a lot of work, but I now have all my games running on a dedicated 3D Dolphin gaming system. And it is AMAZING! I never dreamed I'd be able to go back and play these games in high definition and 3D.
Perhaps it will inspire others if I post the details of my setup:
I use a custom front-end game launcher that I wrote.
Finding the proper depth and convergence settings for each game is difficult. Dolphin doesn't really allow you to adjust the settings in-game and save them for next time. And you can't use the keyboard shortcuts because it won't save your settings and I don't think there's any way to see the resulting values. So my technique for finding the right 3D settings for each game was:
1. Play the game, and alt-tab over to the graphics settings.
2. Tweak the depth and convergence settings until they are dialed in
3. Exit Dolphin
4. Go find the resulting values in the dolphin config GFX.ini or gfx_dx11.ini
5. Save them in the game ini custom config file
At first I had the 3D maxxed out, but over time I realized that a bit more subtle effect is more comfortable for long playing sessions. I try keep most of the 3D depth starting just in-front of the TV to about 5 feet behind the TV.
Also, some of my games have some textures that don't work well with 3D. I used 3dmigoto to find and hide those textures. I wrote a script to put the IDs of the textures to hide for each game into the d3dx.ini file before launching Dolphin. Then the problematic textures aren't shown in the game.
Yes it took a lot of work, but it was fun and well worth it. Now I have everything working smoothly like a console. Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this possible!
Sincerely,
Morriz
I just wanted to take a moment and say THANKS to everyone who has worked so hard to make Dolphin so amazing!
I have been a Wii and GameCube fan for years, and I love so many of the classic games on these consoles.
It took a lot of work, but I now have all my games running on a dedicated 3D Dolphin gaming system. And it is AMAZING! I never dreamed I'd be able to go back and play these games in high definition and 3D.
Perhaps it will inspire others if I post the details of my setup:
- 60 inch LG 3D television (using side-by-side 3D mode)
- Dell Inspiron 7000 gaming laptop with Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
- Ishiiruka build of Dolphin (definitely improves performance and reduces lag)
- 2x native resolution (with V-sync on), side-by-side stereoscopic 3D mode
- Dolphin Bar for Wiimote connectivity (works great, I don't use this as my motion bar though, it is too jittery from long range)
- Nintendo official Wireless Ultra Sensor Bar (makes the motion pointer much more smooth and accurate from long range)
- Knock-off Wii remotes and nunchuks with built-in motion sensor plus (from eBay, these work great)
- Sony Dual-Shock official controllers (for GameCube games)
- Logitech wireless mouse (just for waking the PC out of sleep mode so I never need to open the laptop cover, also can be used to select game to play)
I use a custom front-end game launcher that I wrote.
Finding the proper depth and convergence settings for each game is difficult. Dolphin doesn't really allow you to adjust the settings in-game and save them for next time. And you can't use the keyboard shortcuts because it won't save your settings and I don't think there's any way to see the resulting values. So my technique for finding the right 3D settings for each game was:
1. Play the game, and alt-tab over to the graphics settings.
2. Tweak the depth and convergence settings until they are dialed in
3. Exit Dolphin
4. Go find the resulting values in the dolphin config GFX.ini or gfx_dx11.ini
5. Save them in the game ini custom config file
At first I had the 3D maxxed out, but over time I realized that a bit more subtle effect is more comfortable for long playing sessions. I try keep most of the 3D depth starting just in-front of the TV to about 5 feet behind the TV.
Also, some of my games have some textures that don't work well with 3D. I used 3dmigoto to find and hide those textures. I wrote a script to put the IDs of the textures to hide for each game into the d3dx.ini file before launching Dolphin. Then the problematic textures aren't shown in the game.
Yes it took a lot of work, but it was fun and well worth it. Now I have everything working smoothly like a console. Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this possible!
Sincerely,
Morriz