(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.
(02-04-2014, 10:36 PM)tueidj Wrote: [ -> ] (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.
Only because you've artificially prevented it. Other software will still allow the ability to play them just fine.
Quote: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.
No, i suppose not.
Quote: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?
Sure? As far as i know, there's nothing illegal about injecting another rom into it, so long as both the rom and vc emulator were obtained legally.
Quote: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.
Yes i have noticed. Dolphin has removed compatibility with old hardware/software, because it is burdensome to maintain compatibility. You've gone out of your way to restrict usage of your software on systems that would otherwise work just fine. It's quite a different situation.
Quote: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.
Right, and one of those enhancements is the ability to play gamecube games on wiis and wii us that would not otherwise be able to...as long as you own a wii that can. It just seems like a silly restriction to me.
I believe you can dump GC games with a WiiU
Nope, the drive just ejects them - The firmware of the drive isn't coded to accept them.
delroth Wrote:What's the issue with Pulseaudio? Latency with arecord/aplay via SSH is terrible, with PA forwarding on a LAN (via Wi-Fi) I could reach consistent <20ms latency for audio, which is in the realm of "acceptable" for me.
Getting PA to work right with Slackware has always been a pain in the rear. Even if it's become less trouble to get it running in recent years, I've all but given up on it. I'd rather have a more "out-of-the-box" solution.
RawDump port for the WiiU anyone? (I know that it won't work because rawdump only works on a few drives, and given that they're all old, it's unlikely the WiiU uses one, but someone could redo the WiiU's drive firmware similarly to how RawDump redoes the firmware for the drives it supports. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure why I'm going to the effort of justifying an intentionally silly suggestion, so I'll stop now.)
Also, if someone can find a reliable 4GB GTX770 for a sensible amount of money with a decent overclock/cooler so I can OC myself which hasn't been discontinued after I've had a pre-order waiting for a little over a month, that'd be great. They're all either at a locked core voltage (so reduced OC potential), have a poor cooler, or are £30+ more than the MSI one I had on back order.
It's not just that the firmware can't handle them, the drive physically isn't built to handle the smaller discs. There's nothing to guide the center of the disc to the spindle or stop it from travelling inwards further than it should, and the spindle lock-down can only be triggered by a regular size disc.
Does anyone here is expert in laptop touchscreens? Mine´s driving me crazy, whenever I make a simple movement to the display, lots of touches appear and wreck my machine up.
The crazy touches appear on the right side of the screen, BTW.