At this point is it safe to say that using Dolphin is far better than the console?

[gamemasterplc]

Dolphin is actually just an emulated Wii. The most reliable way without a console to test if the codes will work on console is by enabling MMU on Dolphin 5.0-583. I use that build because it is the first build with a debugger and memory breakpoints and later builds have issues in Virtual Console games with Gecko Codes.