News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by metaphor on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:56PM (#13780647)
Seems like the Dolphin dev team is making quite the habit of releasing regular progress updates...color me impressed.
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by jmrockson on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:21PM (#13780717)
I'm pretty impressed myself, I'm a layman when it comes to emulators, but I've been following along with the Dolphin Progress reports since JMC47 started posting them in May 2014!

They really strike a nice balance between getting all the tech stuff out there, but also being extremely engaging for laypeople. And they been super consistent, I don't know if they've missed a single month in almost four years.

And it's starting to spread to other projects as well:

RPCS3: https://rpcs3.net/blog/ has started doing a monthly one since they started their Pateron and exploded their development progress.

PCSX2: http://pcsx2.net/281-q4-2016-progress-report.html They are doing a pretty nice quarterly blog.

It's really an amazing time for these kinds of open source projects!

I kinda wish all the major projects I used/followed would do something like this!

Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by Rebelgecko on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:39AM (#13781346)
I haven't looked at one of their updates for a while, but was surprised that they use lots of videos now too. You can tell they spend a lot of time figuring out how to make their progress reports informative and entertaining.
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by gallerdude on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:25PM (#13780522)
As a Nintendo fan, I'm proud of Dolphin for existing and being as wonderful as it is.
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by unificador on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:38AM (#13781958)
Same here, I've always been a fan of Nintendo and it's incredible for me to be able to play again to Super Mario 64 from my PC
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by madez on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:38AM (#13782198)
What controller are you using? I've found it hard to find a good controller.
Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by dEnigma on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:36AM (#13782729)
I don't know about Super Mario 64, but when I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl using Dolphin on my PC I used an XBox 360 controller and it worked like a charm. There are adapters that allow you to use the original Gamecube controller on the PC too; and I think there are some Gamecube-like unlicensed controllers too.

edit: Same goes for Nintendo 64 controllers, AFAIK

Re:Dolphin Progress Report: February 2017 by anotheryou on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:22AM (#13783905)
Hehe, as low-powered as the switch is, it might be quicker to run smooth on an emulator, right?