Yes, I know how this sounds like, but this is actually somewhat serious.
As it stands, current android phones have no chance of emulating the Gamecube, much less the Wii's hardware, the most powerful Android phones are dual cores that run at about 1.2 GHz per core, not nearly powerful enough.
But, Qualcomm a System-on-a-Chip manufacturers, not too long ago revealed their new SoaCs, one of them uses a Quad Core 2.5GHz beast, no much info about the GPU though, but it's going to be OpenGL and far more powerful than their current GPUs. Those chipsets will be out early 2012, with phones coming out after that.
I'm pretty sure that a Quad Core 2.5GHz CPU should be able to emulate Gamecube games, even if at not full speed.
Now, as of now Dolphin only really gets benefits from dual core systems, and tri+cores if you are using LLE on the third core, which is slower than HLE anyway, so a Quad Core wouldn't be of much use, but that 2.5GHz still accounts for something.
Of course it would need to get ported to the ARM architecture, and optimized for the Snapdragon 2, and later the Tegra 2 devices when they reach that power, and I doubt anyone would want to bother with that.
Just food for thought.
As it stands, current android phones have no chance of emulating the Gamecube, much less the Wii's hardware, the most powerful Android phones are dual cores that run at about 1.2 GHz per core, not nearly powerful enough.
But, Qualcomm a System-on-a-Chip manufacturers, not too long ago revealed their new SoaCs, one of them uses a Quad Core 2.5GHz beast, no much info about the GPU though, but it's going to be OpenGL and far more powerful than their current GPUs. Those chipsets will be out early 2012, with phones coming out after that.
I'm pretty sure that a Quad Core 2.5GHz CPU should be able to emulate Gamecube games, even if at not full speed.
Now, as of now Dolphin only really gets benefits from dual core systems, and tri+cores if you are using LLE on the third core, which is slower than HLE anyway, so a Quad Core wouldn't be of much use, but that 2.5GHz still accounts for something.
Of course it would need to get ported to the ARM architecture, and optimized for the Snapdragon 2, and later the Tegra 2 devices when they reach that power, and I doubt anyone would want to bother with that.
Just food for thought.
