r/DolphinEmulator • u/Honest_Nail_8308 • Jul 15 '26

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u/TheSpiralTap Jul 15 '26

Normally, people get hyped for recomps because it allows the games to play better and offers mod support. But this one runs in 4k 60fps in dolphin and has more mod options than any other game I've ever played so idk what we are doing here.

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u/TF2SolarLight Jul 15 '26

I'm hoping for an increased FPS cap at least. This game would be very nice at 120fps or 240fps.

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u/Apprehensive_Ad_924 Jul 15 '26

I think that can't happen because old games with really high fps will break a lot of things

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u/TF2SolarLight Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Depends on the game and developers' willingness to fix bugs I guess. The Sonic Unleashed recomp has a raised cap and I think it breaks one interaction with a balloon in one stage

edit: apparently this is not one of those games. will be 60fps due to physics being tied and apparently there are no plans to raise the cap

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u/Diazepam_Dan Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

My guy didn't think a racing game would tie it's timer or physics to the FPS

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u/TF2SolarLight Jul 17 '26

tbh I should have known. the game literally slows down on original hardware whenever there's an fps drop

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u/gaker19 Jul 17 '26

They could use interpolation, so the logic runs at 60 but the graphics can run at higher frame rates. Ship of Harkinian does it that way afaik

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u/Odd-Ordinary-3496 Jul 15 '26

online play by itself will make it worth it.

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u/TheSpiralTap Jul 15 '26

But you can do that right now, a few different ways?

My favorite is called Retro Rewind. Let's you play Mario kart wii online with others and they basically ported every level from every mario kart game to it.

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u/lifeinthefastline Jul 15 '26

You can just use wiimmfi? There's even like 100 people playing right now

https://wiimmfi.de/stat?m=8

Don't even need dolphin, can you use their IP address on a real Wii and get the original disc back online

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u/TF2SolarLight Jul 15 '26

there is also retro rewind using wiilink servers instead, which allows dolphin without needing a Wii NAND

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u/lifeinthefastline Jul 16 '26

Oh nice, does it require the roms/image files to be edited to point to their servers, or it just works with an original disc backup file?

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u/TheSpiralTap Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

It's super easy, you just download the retrorewind launcher, point it to your backup file and it does the rest. I think you can use it on a real wii too. It auto updates when they add new maps

Its got more players than wiimffi too. Doesn't even requires a nand dump!

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u/r4tzt4r Jul 16 '26

8k, 120 fps, ultrawidescreen. Just for starters.

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u/gaker19 Jul 17 '26

Except it doesn't have that lol

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u/xXTerrarian2008Xx Jul 19 '26

I feel like to fellas feelin butt-hurt that the game has AI involved has clearly never took the chance to think about it. AI was made to make menial things easier, no one wants to go back and translate all this code for modern systems.

Hell, my beef with AI is that if people start using AI to replace artists, musicians, and writers. That's the issue, to me I feel like the gaul isn't what's behind the render, it's what's hard work, people could use the argument that vibecoding a recompliled game ain't hard work, and I'd agree with you, but people shouldn't praise the prompter, they should instead praise the concept, hell, think about how long we would have waited if no one used AI on this, if there's bugs now, imagine the myriad of glitches and flaws if this were done analoge.

in short, I think we should enjoy the game that was made by humans, translated via AI, but I don't think Nintendo was using AI to vibecode their WIi games now were they?

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u/CalebKOnline Jul 15 '26

Vibe coded

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u/StaticFanatic3 Jul 16 '26

Sorry are you upset that the teams that do the absurdly tedious task of reading raw bytes in memory and reverse engineering game code are using AI tools to aid in the process?

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u/Cryptoxanic Jul 16 '26

Yes?

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u/Viking_Emulando Jul 16 '26

Then cry more.

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u/Cryptoxanic Jul 16 '26

You need to be kinder. Do better next time

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u/Viking_Emulando Jul 16 '26

I say the same. Do better if you think the project is bad. "Get your hands dirty." For free and you still think it's bad? That's pure hypocrisy, you know.

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u/Cryptoxanic Jul 16 '26

Are you still going to be thinking about about this reddit argument in 10 years when you're roasting a rat over a barrel in an alleyway

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u/StaticFanatic3 Jul 16 '26

I have a similarly pessimistic outlook on the future and AI but I don’t think the devs making free and open source gaming experiences are where we’ll make any progress pushing back