Emulating gamecube bios

Forblaze · (This post was last modified: 03-08-2014, 05:58 PM by Forblaze.)

I'm trying to emulate gamecube's bios so that I can emulate action replay (dolphin's built in action replay won't work for what I need), but it doesn't seem to be emulating properly. The animation flashes rapidly, is off center, and the sound is just a buzzing. I've tried two different IPL.bin files, which I have put in dolphin/sys/GC/USA, so I thought maybe it's a dolphin setting that needs tweaked.

Dolphin version is 4.0-1054 x64, OS is windows 8 x64

EDIT: never mind, enabling external frame buffer fixed this.

KruZ · 03-08-2014, 07:54 PM #2

(03-08-2014, 05:45 PM)Forblaze Wrote: I'm trying to emulate gamecube's bios so that I can emulate action replay (dolphin's built in action replay won't work for what I need), but it doesn't seem to be emulating properly. The animation flashes rapidly, is off center, and the sound is just a buzzing. I've tried two different IPL.bin files, which I have put in dolphin/sys/GC/USA, so I thought maybe it's a dolphin setting that needs tweaked.

Dolphin version is 4.0-1054 x64, OS is windows 8 x64

EDIT: never mind, enabling external frame buffer fixed this.

Thank you SO much for this! I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 years now!

Forblaze · 03-08-2014, 08:00 PM #3

(03-08-2014, 07:54 PM)KruZ Wrote: Thank you SO much for this! I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 years now!

The audio only works right like half the time. Sometimes it's the buzzing and sometimes it's desync'd. Not sure how to completely fix that or if it's even needed.

**DJBarry004** · 03-09-2014, 01:04 AM #4

Use Real XFB instead of Virtual.

**ExtremeDude2** · 03-09-2014, 05:34 AM #5

That has nothing to do with audio, LLE is needed to get correct audio

KruZ · 03-09-2014, 09:37 AM #6

No, the audio works perfectly. Simply use LLE Recompiler. It works without causing as much of a slow down as the interpreter.

AwesomeMarioFan · 03-10-2014, 06:09 AM #7

I had uploaded a YouTube video about this a few months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNLVBTiwudU

In the description it is listed what I had to change.
"For this menu to work, I had to change the following settings in Dolphin:
1) External Frame Buffer (Disabled) -To- External Frame Buffer (Enabled) [Virtual]
2) DSP HLE Emulation (Fast) -To- DSP LLE Recompiler
3) Skip BIOS Un-Checked in GameCube Tab of Config"