Quote:I read that the Dolphin Emu was coming to PS3. Can anyone confirm this ?
Yes and no. Someone out there did start working on a port but they didn't get very far and apparently now the googlecode page is gone.
Keep in mind that even if a moderate sized team of good dedicated programmers got together and decided to make this:
1. There is no telling how far they would get. Just because somebody starts working on an emulator doesn't mean it will ever be in a usable state (a lesson that apparently the ps3 communities just can't seem to learn).
2. It would take years to reach a usable state at the minimum and several additional years to reach a good state. Most of dolphins code would have to be completely rewritten from scratch. We would be well into the lifecycle of the PS4 before the emulator reached a good state, and that's if we were extremely lucky and had a good team of programmers working on it almost nonstop.
3. It would run slow, very slow. The cell architecture is very poorly suited to applications like dolphin. Even if it uses a similar ISA the fact is the SPEs in the cell processor would be pretty much totally useless for something like dolphin and the PPE is even slower than a pentium IV at running control heavy code (which dolphin contains a ton of). Not to mention dolphin is not heavily multithreaded to top it all off. I wouldn't expect many games to run well even after it reached a good state.
4. Memory limitations are a serious concern that would require some genius level programmers to get around.
5. The gpu will likely struggle with anything past 2x IR.
etc.
Don't hold your breath waiting for good GC/Wii emulation on the ps3, you might pass out.
Quote:Start here Big Grin -> http://dolphin-emu.org/system-requirements.html
.....those are the minimum requirements needed to run dolphin.
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