Like I says, I can't even afford a CD-RW drive, let alone the fancies to load in it! But regardless, there has to be a workaround somewhere. I found that in the short-term by reading through reams of forumites being really snotty about having configured their own settings wrong.
This wonderful and perfectly-outdated guide by MarioMadness increased performance, and not being greedy about the window size got me somewhere reasonable. At around $150 for W7, I'm not willing to indenture myself further in the name of curating these classics. It is very sad to realize these ten years later that I was sitting on a gold mine, failing to recognize the importance of these things now that I work with games. I believe that the entire collection was traded off to Game Krazy for less than $100 total. With karma like that, no wonder that company is bankrupt!
Thank you both for your help, I'll eventually partition the HD and look into Ubuntu. I...didn't know there was a Windows 8. Or that Debian went anywhere.
As a final thought, no wonder the good people who put Dolphin together don't touch these kinds of things, when Mario Kart plays like a dream and there are enough pre-fab tools to solve your own dang problems. I think it's really unfortunate how much hostility I've seen users give to those trying to provide support over something that was given to them for free. And especially when after so many weeks of digging, it looks like most of the issues are their own fault. If any of that team should read this, thank you for helping to preserve these masterpieces so beautifully for people like me and mine. It's sad that I only now appreciate them and everyone who remains so passionate as such. Thank you!
EDIT: For others with this dilemma, that guide is at: http://128bit.me/index.php?topic=7442.0
This wonderful and perfectly-outdated guide by MarioMadness increased performance, and not being greedy about the window size got me somewhere reasonable. At around $150 for W7, I'm not willing to indenture myself further in the name of curating these classics. It is very sad to realize these ten years later that I was sitting on a gold mine, failing to recognize the importance of these things now that I work with games. I believe that the entire collection was traded off to Game Krazy for less than $100 total. With karma like that, no wonder that company is bankrupt!
Thank you both for your help, I'll eventually partition the HD and look into Ubuntu. I...didn't know there was a Windows 8. Or that Debian went anywhere.
As a final thought, no wonder the good people who put Dolphin together don't touch these kinds of things, when Mario Kart plays like a dream and there are enough pre-fab tools to solve your own dang problems. I think it's really unfortunate how much hostility I've seen users give to those trying to provide support over something that was given to them for free. And especially when after so many weeks of digging, it looks like most of the issues are their own fault. If any of that team should read this, thank you for helping to preserve these masterpieces so beautifully for people like me and mine. It's sad that I only now appreciate them and everyone who remains so passionate as such. Thank you!
EDIT: For others with this dilemma, that guide is at: http://128bit.me/index.php?topic=7442.0