Twilight Princess and wind waker

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(08-14-2009, 08:51 AM)krypking Wrote:

(08-14-2009, 08:41 AM)Ò‰Ò‰Ò‰ Wrote: even the most beastly machine couldn't handle twilight princess at a constant full speed. wind waker is a different story.

from what i can tell, the problem with twilight princess is that in places like hyrule field, which has the biggest fps drop, the entire screen is rendered all at once, instead of little by little like a pc game. the gamecube, having a massive processor, was capable of rendering games with no problem, whereas pcs just dont have the processing power yet.

Not true. The game cube had a 486 Mhz processor. You gonna tell me that processor can process faster than my quad core overclocked to 3.2Ghz? hah...

The thing is, the game was designed to work for a specific processor, so your PC CPU doesn't process the commands the same way as the GC CPU, it's like speaking spanish to an italian child, it doesn't have any idea what you're talking about.

That's why it's called emulation. Dolphin is emulating that GC CPU and translating the language of the GU CPU into PC CPU language so that your CPU can understand it and do the requested function, and then it has to translate it's response back to GC CPU language and deliver that to the emulated GC CPU... It takes a LOAD of CPU work to do just this. And then it has to do the same for the GPU and memory and everything else. Emulation is no small task.

So it's not a question of processing power, cause there's plenty of that on PC CPU's, its more that it needs optimization of the translation to and from the GC/Wii lingo to PC lingo. Which is what the devs are doing, but it's going to take a long time for it to get to that point, developing an emulator is no easy task.