(02-04-2014, 09:43 PM)RachelB Wrote: Whether supported by Nintendo or not, the hardware he has is perfectly capable of playing the games. His wii being broken doesn't revoke his right to play his gamecube games.Not the right, but it does remove the ability. The point of a backup loader is to run the game as if the original disc is inserted, even when it's not; if the game won't run even when the original is in the drive, a backup loader has no responsibility to do anything.
Quote:No? That's not the same software. The emulator that is packaged with the roms is not free software, so he doesn't not have the right to download it. It certainly gives him the right to play those games via a nes, snes, or emulator that he has the right to use though. If you disagree, then i have to wonder why you're even here, because that's kind of the entire point of Dolphin.So if you buy one VC game, you've paid for the emulator. By your logic you now own it and are entitled to use it for any other game you own?
In case you haven't noticed, the number of system configurations actually supported by Dolphin has been rapidly shrinking... no more XP support, no more D3D9, no more OpenGL < 3.0, terrible audio for anyone with a not-fast-enough CPU... it may as well just read the DMI bios copyright string and reject anything older than 2012. It can hardly be used as a shining example of a "liberate your games from their original restricted hardware, to the freedom of the great and varied PC world!" emulator.
tl;dr: Dolphin is an emulator, Devolution is a loader. An emulator allows you to play games on different platforms than the original, while a loader runs the original game on the original hardware with enhancements.