Dolphin Emulator

Rise of the Triforce During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip givin...

Did you know that there was an arcade platform based on the GameCube? In this deep dive, we introduce our console step-sibling and show off all of its games!

There's definitely nothing else.

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512 With the holiday season reaching its apex, we have a few surprises for those of you that have been patiently waiting. The latest release of Dolphin is stuffed with treats. Our first present is present...

On the ninth day of Christmas the Dolphin gave to you... a Dolphin release! And with it we have a special and not at all late Dolphin Progress Report for your holiday enjoyment. Sit back with your favorite warm beverage and enjoy!

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Starlight Spotlight: A Hospital Wii in a New Light In the early 1990s, the world found itself at a crossroads of technological change. Electronic entertainment was blowing up just about everywhere, with Nintendo at the forefront of the home video game...

Did you know that there was a Wii that used wired Wii Remotes, couldn't be accessed by players, yet could swap between 22 retail titles? In our latest feature article, we look at the weird, the wonderful, the Starlight Wii.

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2509 The Dolphin Blog is full of stories surrounding games, their development, and the challenges they present to emulate them. And in these stories, we sometimes have some recurring characters that we gai...

Release 2509 is live! In this Progress Report, we make Dolphin less prone to crashes, it's not a hack actually, expand our Bluetooth Passthrough compatibility, de-fang The Disney Trio of Destruction™, and more!

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If you want to know more about the Stop Killing Games initiative, why we support it, and why signing matters, we wrote about it in a previous Progress Report: dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/12...

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Signature collection for the #StopKillingGames initiative against planned obsolescence of video games is ending in a few weeks. If you're from Europe, please sign the petition and support game preservation!

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2506 Welcome to the Dolphin Progress Report for Release 2506! As we've alluded to a few times, we've had major changes in the pipeline that we've been very excited to show off. Some of those changes are fi...

Release 2506 is live! In this Progress Report, we have better audio during slowdown, better frame pacing, we listen to anisotropic filtering, PS3 guitar support, Wii Speak emulation, 120 FPS support, and more!

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We've created Hotfix Release 2503a to fix some problems in Release 2503, such as broken GBA connectivity in some games, crashing on older macOS versions, and an incorrect Dolphin version number on some platforms.

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503 It's time for us to again delve into the latest changes hitting the newest release of Dolphin Emulator. If you've been keeping tabs on development channels, you'll know there are some exciting bombshe...

Release 2503 is live! In this Progress Report, we have input mapping fixes galore, we fix a game for them, track your play time, new per-game settings GUI for graphics, improved Wii Remote TASing, and cheats in RetroAchievements?!

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It’s 2025 and the Nintendo Wii is getting a new Guitar Hero controller Rock on!

We are so ready.

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2412 Dolphin Release 2412 is here and we've got the details for what's new in the latest build. The biggest thing to note is that there's a lot of polishing to help make playing games a little more pleasan...

Release 2412 and its Progress Report are live! This time, we muffle some cars, fix bounding box AGAIN, light the school of darkness, topple MetaFortress's ruins, officially support Flatpak, and more!

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Work truck with the Dolphin Emulator logo on it.

When we said we liked the car with our logo on it, this is not what we meant.

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2407 and 2409 After an exciting round of feature articles, it's Progress Report time once again! However, a lot has changed. Dolphin has finally left the 5.0 era behind, and has entered the Release Era. Not only di...

Release 2409 and its Progress Report are live! This time, we have exploding polygons, Cached Interpreter 2.0, external sensors on Android, we save your pixels, and more!

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Unlocked: RetroAchievements Come to Dolphin Dolphin's users are always looking for new ways to play their favorite games. And when a project called "RetroAchievements" started gaining popularity for adding achievements into retro games, users s...

Achievement Unlocked: RetroAchievements are now available for GameCube games in Dolphin!

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Dolphin Releases Announcement On the 24th of June, 2016, Dolphin 5.0 was released. The product of a long and hard transition period, the fundamental inaccuracies that plagued Dolphin for over a decade had successfully been undone,...

The wait is over.

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Bug Showcase - Skyward Sword in Dolphin 2.0 This disasterpiece is an old favorite of the Dolphin team, but most users are entirely unaware of it. It's time to change that.Some NPC dialog and tutorial m...

To celebrate the anniversary, we put together a little something special. Enjoy!

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Dolphin Progress Report Tenth Anniversary Special: February, March, and April 2024 In late 2012, Dolphin moved to a brand new website - dolphin-emu.org. With complete control of our own home and infrastructure for the first time, we noticed the accessibility to users that it gave us...

The February, March, and April 2024 Dolphin Progress Report is live, and it's the tenth anniversary of the Progress Reports! We've gone over the top, with tons of videos, dabbling with experimental browser features, a bunch of great changes, and the end of an era!

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Expect low frequency posting.

And the occasional spotting of our project's logo in the real world.

Hello Bluesky!

We're the team behind the Dolphin Emulator project. ( dolphin-emu.org ) Just like on Twitter and Mastodon, you can now follow us here for Dolphin news, announcements, and occasional random thoughts.

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