(12-30-2012, 09:00 AM)Shonumi Wrote:Ok but how would a general user like myself view the source code of dolphin?(12-30-2012, 08:36 AM)science man Wrote: Well what other reason could there be? (Please give me an e.g.)
Educational and academic purposes. A lot of people who are interested in emulation care about knowing what the hardware does. Dolphin can be seen as a way of exploring how the GC and Wii function, both on a low-level and high-level scale. Dolphin has also unearthed a lot of undocumented information about both systems in its push to emulate both systems.
Others purely want to make a working emulator to increase their programming skills, learn how to work on an open-source project, or just learn how emulators work in general. Some like the challenges of getting an emulator to work.
(12-30-2012, 09:12 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Believe me I wish I didn't feel this way, I wish I didn't feel it was the case but sadly I do because the first 1 or 2 replies I got on this thread gave me that impression.science man Wrote:To me it sounds like Dolphin was a project that the developers worked on and then once completed to a certain extent the developers just stopped bothering with it.science man Wrote:What they know how to? You mean there's stuff they just flat-out don't know how to fix? Can't they figure it out?
Oh good lord! You are displaying a a level of ignorance and lack of appreciation that is truly baffling.
Yes the developers have a finite level of knowledge. And no they have not "stopped bothering with dolphin". I don't know where you get this stuff from.