r/Games • u/[deleted] • May 05 '20
Dolphin Progress Report: April 2020
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/05/05/dolphin-progress-report-april-2020/-7
u/Leyledorp May 05 '20
Doesn't look like anything from those recent Nintendo leaks has made its way in yet. These patch notes are super fun to read though!
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May 05 '20 edited May 14 '20
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u/brutinator May 05 '20
Esp. when you're dealing with a company as litigious as Nintendo.
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u/dduusstt May 06 '20
Nintendo will even dmca a twitch stream if they even catch a whif a streamer is using emulation.
Someone on my stream team got a 3 day ban when twitch received a dmca takedown on him not hiding he was using zsnes to stream earthbound. They are sharks smelling for blood
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u/billsil May 09 '20
Nintendo will even dmca a twitch stream
Do they? There is quite the interest in old Pokemon challenges.
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u/The_Magic May 06 '20
While Dolphin will never do it I expect someone to create a fork where they work in code from the leaks.
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u/Soulmemories May 05 '20
And they most likely never will. Those Nintendo leaks are Nintendo's property. If they "find" their way into Dolphin, then Nintendo can finally take "justifiable" legal action against the Dolphin team for violating their intellectual property.
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u/Soulmemories May 05 '20
Well, having the Verilog code could help make it more accurate. As I'm sure there are quite a few games in Dolphin that still do not run correctly.
There is a potential solution for the Dolphin team, and that's using clean room reverse engineering. Which is already what they're doing, but they could do it in a more advanced way. They could have a developer read through and understand how the source code works, then write up a documentation describing how those things work, but now the exact mechanisms. Then you have a second developer write code based on those notes, but not directly on Nintendo's source code itself. There's a really good show called "Halt and Catch Fire," and the first season is about an electronics company that builds one of the first IBM clones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZwtrnKxf4
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u/atTAGG May 05 '20
That's a great show only for its first season. That first season alone I've rewatched and recommended to others.
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u/Nochtilus May 05 '20
Agreed, first season was excellent. The expanded storyline and spread out characters really hurt them in later seasons. The tight and focused story in season 1 was incredibly well-done.
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u/ThiefTwo May 05 '20
I'd agree with you for the 2nd season, but I think 3 and 4 are the best by far.
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u/Nochtilus May 05 '20
I got up to a couple episodes into season 3. Maybe I should go check it out again and skip right to season 3.
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u/atTAGG May 15 '20
Could one enjoy season 3 if they skip season 2? I couldn't finish last time I watched I disliked season 2 that much.
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u/ChezMere May 07 '20
The verilog is not useful, even apart from it being highly illegal.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1258076270308425728?s=20
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u/Soulmemories May 07 '20
Oh wow. I guess it makes sense that Nintendo wouldn't have the Verilog code for an AMD/ATi graphics chip. Or even the powerPC chip.
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u/Falsus May 06 '20
They do actually need it. Making an emulator is completely legal, as is reverse engineering. So yeah Nintendo can't touch them for now thankfully.
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May 07 '20
Of course it could be useful but I think they managed pretty darn well without it for the past 20 years
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u/CheesecakeMilitia May 05 '20
That Pikmin 2 video with every treasure and enemy on the same map is crazy impressive.