Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Quote:Bsnes is an accurate Snes emulator, there are no hacks that would increase performance and the entire emulator is ran entirely in interpreter I believe. There is no JIT, no speed hacks and Bsnes is cycle accurate to the real hardware. I don't think you would want to know the system requirements if the Dolphin team took a completely accurate approach for GC/Wii emulation. Let's just say games would probably run at 1 - 5 fps, 5 fps at most if you are lucky and system requirements could easily quadruple from what they are now. Basically a system 4x - 6x or more times powerful than a beastly overclocked Sandybridge (Core i7 2600k) setup would be required.

We need dual socket motherboards for desktops not just servers.

Yes but it's not always about more cores/cpu's or clock speed, the cpu architecture and instructions per clock cycle are just as important if not more important.