Dolphin

Dolphin became an open-source project on July 13, 2008 with the developers releasing the source code under the GPLv2 as well as creating a public SVN repository on Google Code with basic Wii emulation implemented.



This attracted various developers and development on the emulator has continued since with SVN builds being released regularly since, unlike before, when it was closed-source. Coders began releasing builds under the label of \’unofficial SVN builds\’ rather than the previous \’official\’ releases, as well as the new builds being released by their revision number (e.g. RXXXX) instead of version numbers (e.g. 1.03) like in the previous builds, differences between consecutive builds are also usually minor.



Dolphin\’s Wii emulation reached a milestone in February, 2009 when it made a breakthrough managing to successfully boot and run the official Wii System Menu v1.0. By now, Dolphin can boot all versions of the Wii OS.[citation needed] There is however not yet support for Wii channels, except for the disc channel.



By April 2009, most commercial games, Gamecube and Wii alike, have been able to be fully played albeit with a few minor problems and errors, with a large number of games running perfectly. Many changes to the emulator have improved speed for both x86 and x86-64 users achieving full speed or higher speeds than the Gamecube and Wii itself. Sound has dramatically improved. Graphics in most games are also almost perfect except for a few minor problems.



By late October 2009, numerous new useful features were incorporated into the emulator such as automatic Frame-skipping, which increases the performance of the emulator as well as increased stability of the emulator overall. Also improved was the NetPlay feature of the emulator, which allowed players to play multiplayer Gamecube and Wii games online with friends, as long as the game doesn\’t require a WiiMote. The GUI was reworked to make it more user-friendly. The DirectX plugin has also been fixed and brought up to speed with the current OpenGL graphics plug-in.



Quoted from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_%28emulator%29)

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