It is now working well enough that we are releasing it to the public as a beta: don't expect everything to work, but popular games like Mario Kart Wii or Super Smash Bros Brawl can be played online right now. While it was not an easy change in itself, it also required a lot of modifications to core components of the emulator to be implemented properly (for example asynchronous IPC HLE) and a lot of debugging. More than two years ago, Matthew Parlane and Shawn Hoffman started working on emulating the Wii Wi-Fi networking API in order to run Wii online multiplayer games inside Dolphin. With about 2500 changes since Dolphin 3.5, Dolphin 4.0 is a big release with the addition of several new major features: Beta support for the Wii official online multiplayer ( Documentation) This is a feature that has been coming for a long time. Dolphin 4.0 is a special release for all of us, since it also marks the 10 years anniversary of the project, first unveiled by Henrik Rydgård ( ector) and F|RES in September 2003.ĭolphin 4.0 can be downloaded for Windows (x86 or 圆4), Mac OS X (>= 10.7) or Ubuntu 13.04 from our official website:. On behalf of the Dolphin Emulator development team, I am pleased to announce the release of Dolphin 4.0, the newest major release of the most compatible and most performant GameCube and Wii emulator for PC.

While it only affects a few specific use cases of the emulator, we still consider this a critical issue and we will release a Dolphin 4.0.1 version fixing this bug. Single Core mode is not used for regular gameplay but is usually required for TAS and NetPlay. Update: a few hours after release, a bug causing crashes with Windows 圆4 and Single Core mode was found by testers.

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