Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

What're Nintendo's discs based off of, CDs or DVDs?

DVD

GameCube and Wii are based from DVD and Wii U are based from blu-ray, but I'm not sure about Wii U...

GC: Single Layer Mini-DVD
Wii: DVD (mostly single layer, a few games use dual layer)
Wii-U: Single layer BD (dual layer is probably supported but to my knowledge no games use it yet)

They're based on DVD/BD technology but differ in a few ways (for example the BCA). They differ enough that nintendo can avoid paying royalties for DVD/BD technology.

Well does this mean that the discs are copy-protected?

It means they can't be read by normal DVD or BD drives

Yoyoman Wrote:Well does this mean that the discs are copy-protected?

Yes.

And Wii U emulation won't happen any time soon either. It's not impossible but it ain't gonna happen this decade, at least not playing games as good as in Dolphin.
Maybe someone makes an emulator that runs homebrews in a few years but that's about it.

No, generally the newer a console is the easier it is to emulate due to them running "proper" OSes - everything besides the CPU can be HLE'd, and in the WiiU's case there's plenty of existing code to handle the CPU.
(And why would anyone make a wiiu emulator for homebrew when wiiu homebrew doesn't exist?)

(01-09-2015, 07:23 PM)tueidj Wrote: [ -> ]No, generally the newer a console is the easier it is to emulate due to them running "proper" OSes

I ain't gonna play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 on a PS3 emulator anytime soon...

(01-09-2015, 07:23 PM)tueidj Wrote: [ -> ]everything besides the CPU can be HLE'd, and in the WiiU's case there's plenty of existing code to handle the CPU.
(And why would anyone make a wiiu emulator for homebrew when wiiu homebrew doesn't exist?)

I guess you're in the midst of writing a Wii U emulator perhaps?