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Android x86 - ichiro_93 - 10-07-2014
CPU : dual core Intel Atom Z560 1,6ghz
GPU : Powervr 544MP2 (but OpenGL es2.0)
RAM : 1GB
can be running dolphin with games from gamecube ?
RE: Android x86 - mbc07 - 10-08-2014
No.
RE: Android x86 - pauldacheez - 10-08-2014
Nope. No Dolphin at all.
Not only is it incapable of running the OpenGL ES 3.0 video backend (thus you'd be stuck with software rendering, which is unusably slow), it's x86-32, which we no longer support. And, heck, you're on the bare minimum amount of RAM Dolphin can run with.
Also, GameCube games don't have lower requirements than Wii games. That's a common misconception.
RE: Android x86 - ichiro_93 - 10-08-2014
(10-08-2014, 02:25 AM)Jhonn Wrote: No.
(10-08-2014, 02:26 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: Nope. No Dolphin at all.thanks for answer :-(
Not only is it incapable of running the OpenGL ES 3.0 video backend (thus you'd be stuck with software rendering, which is unusably slow), it's x86-32, which we no longer support. And, heck, you're on the bare minimum amount of RAM Dolphin can run with.
Also, GameCube games don't have lower requirements than Wii games. That's a common misconception.
RE: Android x86 - Nintonito - 10-08-2014
(10-08-2014, 02:26 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: Nope. No Dolphin at all.
Not only is it incapable of running the OpenGL ES 3.0 video backend (thus you'd be stuck with software rendering, which is unusably slow), it's x86-32, which we no longer support. And, heck, you're on the bare minimum amount of RAM Dolphin can run with.
Also, GameCube games don't have lower requirements than Wii games. That's a common misconception.
So what the relationship compabilility and performance wise between GCN and Wii? I was under the impression they were pretty similiar most respects.
RE: Android x86 - pauldacheez - 10-08-2014
(10-08-2014, 11:15 AM)Nintonito Wrote: So what the relationship compabilility and performance wise between GCN and Wii? I was under the impression they were pretty similiar most respects.
Yeah, they're pretty similar. Few of Dolphin's performance bottlenecks are actually from any factor that differs significantly between the GC and Wii.
RE: Android x86 - Shonumi - 10-08-2014
(10-08-2014, 11:15 AM)Nintonito Wrote: So what the relationship compabilility and performance wise between GCN and Wii? I was under the impression they were pretty similiar most respects.
Performance-wise between GC and Wii games, when you're talking about Dolphin, the answer is pretty much always "it depends". Performance is really determined on a game-by-game basis. Depending on what the game wants to do, Dolphin may or may not have an "easy" time emulating what it's asked to do. Some GC games require incredibly (computationally) difficult things for Dolphin to emulate, whereas some Wii games are cake-walks.
EDIT: Not sure if you were talking about the performance differences between actual GC/Wii hardware or performance differences in Dolphin with GC vs. Wii games (I tried to answer for the latter...)
RE: Android x86 - tueidj - 10-08-2014
A wii is just a gamecube with more memory and some extra peripherals (NAND, USB, Network etc.) bolted on. Luckily these extra peripherals are all accessed using the same method (the powerpc<->starlet bridge) so they're easy to emulate using HLE.
Since gamecube games had to deal with such strict memory restrictions some of them resorted to using the MMU (memory management unit) to enable virtual memory, this actually makes them a lot more complicated to emulate than wii games.