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Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by lucasyvas on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:28PM (#32846621)
The Dolphin updates make me wish that some of those enthusiastic devs would pivot their amazing talents to a Switch emulator.

Some exist, but I have to say Dolphin just hits different. There is a shocking amount of enthusiasm for that project and that gaming era.

Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by Kyrio on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:28AM (#32849279)
I feel like the Yuzu project is just as exciting, they make progress reports just like Dolphin and it's always a pleasure to read. It might not have the level of polish of Dolphin, but give it time.

I can't speak about the other major Switch emulator, Ryujinx, because I haven't used it much. They're just as enthusiastic though, and also write regular progress updates.

Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by teruakohatu on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:37PM (#32846677)
It emulates a completely different architecture to the Switch, the Wii was really just an updated and more powerful Gamecube.
Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by lucasyvas on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:42PM (#32846712)
This I'm aware of! From what I heard Switch is even easier due to better availability of documentation surrounding the Tegra chips.

I doubt a different architecture would stand in the way of some of these people. Wizardry :)

Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by Jasper_ on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:35AM (#32848443)
eh, as a former contributor to Dolphin, and a current game developer who has worked on the Switch, I'd say Dolphin has it quite a bit easier easier -- the GX API maps pretty well to modern GPUs, the lack of programmability means shader recompilation & reverse engineering is far from as big an issue, and Dolphin doesn't have to implement from scratch a giant OS and all of its services.
Re:Dolphin Progress July and August 2022 by VHRanger on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:44AM (#32851834)
Yuzu devs share a lot of code and knowledge with Dolphin and Citra devs.

The progress in Yuzu has been more amazing in the last 2 years than Dolphin.