Dolphin has survived for so long.. I remember when the interface was a photo of a gamecube, do you guys remember that? how long ago was that? or is it my mind playing tricks
? i remember trying to run crystal chronicles on a celeron D, it was super slow and crashed after the menu.
farthest i remember was when interface had a outline of mario in blue i think back then i tried prime crashed instantly, melee 0.2 fps then i discovered the so called magic of GCOS which for some reason was being praised by people on youtube as allowing them to play dolphin at playable speeds it increased melee's fps to ........ wait for it 2 WHOLE FRAMES PER SECOND man i was ticked playable my foot it took nearly 20 minutes go through intro for melee if you watched from beggining to end and also cause back then i had to dump my games using LG drive and that was such a pain compared to the ease of doing it from my wii almost 4 hours of dumping gone gave up on dolphin after that then i decided to check it out around the middle of this year without very high expectations but i was pleasantly suprised to see it running my games at either full speed or close to it
Furthest I remember was back before Dolphin was even emulating the wii, and I couldn't play melee fast, with music that would intermittently stop and eyes that just don't render.
![[Image: pykH1.png]](http://i.imgur.com/pykH1.png)
Beats me what SVN this was though.
I can see the old Dynarec icon in that screen too, I don't remember it being very stable.
it was something like this but a little bigger
![[Image: Nintendo%20GameCube.png]](http://www.rollanet.org/~khigh/byoac/consoles/Nintendo%20GameCube.png)
obviously way before the wii came out.
yep first time i used dolphin was in i think 2005 or 2006 but it was before the wii came out mine looked like Rupee Boxes picture except i never managed to get into a battle cause of how slow it was i would have killed for 15 fps back then i think mine was either the 1.03 beta or something before that cause it was really slow only interpreter mode could be selected for the core options JIT was permanently greyed out
You can't close an open source project. It's everywhere and nowhere =). If if they somehow close it there are people who will continue working on it. It's an endless cycle.