GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.

  Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub. Compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.

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  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree. I can’t tell if it’s just the nature of Nintendo’s console architecture from that era, or if there simply isn’t the same degree of effort/priority put into exposing those kinds of features in other emulators.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree

      And yet despite the options, it’s not overwhelming like a lot of other highly-configurable software often is. They’ve done such an amazing job.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, that’s super weird. I never realized the Steam flatpak wasn’t official.

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• Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just bought a deck yesterday. Now you’re telling me I can play my Gamecube games on it? Brain melts

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  • ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could before as well. Check out EmuDeck.

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Switch. And anything Retroarch supports.

    The Steam Deck is amazing.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been playing my 3DS, Wii, WiiU, Gamecube, and PS2 titles on it.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally, whoever has been maintaining the current one hasn’t let us have RetroAchievement support last I checked

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  • Persi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing will change in that sense.

    There is already support for retroachievents, if you don’t see it you’re most likely on the stable branch.

    Retroachievents only work on the dev builds, which are available on flatpak-beta. The readme has some instructions in case you need them.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought Nintendo shut that down? Or was that just Switch emulation?

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  • thejevans@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They sued one specific switch emulator.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was just the Yuzu/Citra team. Main reason they got in trouble (from what I understand) is that they were making money off of it, specifically people had to subscribe to their patreon to get Tears of the Kingdom optimized builds, when the only copy of TotK available was an illegal pre-release one.

    There were some more things like messages they sent that were incriminating, but that was the biggest thing afaik.

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    • jerb@lemmy.croc.pw ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, that bit about Patreon isn’t true. There were fixed builds before release, but they were third party ones unaffiliated with the Yuzu devs.

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