Post subject: Dolphin Emulator
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Hi, Im looking to TAS Super Mario Sunshine and, Mario Kart Wii I was wondering what a good emulator would be? and where to find it.
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On this wikipedia page you should find every emulator for each console or handheld. If you want to TAS games then you should look at the Emulator Resources page. In your case it would be Dolphin, so then go ahead and take a look at the Dolphin forum for more information and help.
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We talked earlier. What he wants to know is, - what version of Dolphin to use for TASing? - where to get it? Download link. - maybe some sort of guide or starting help (I don't know the answers to those questions myself, I'm still using 3.0-616 lol)
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Masterjun wrote:
then go ahead and take a look at the Dolphin forum for more information and help.
Since there the first thread is marked Sticky: and the title contains Important information for tasing, I would guess that someone who wants to TAS would go there. Then he suddenly looks at the first two sentences of the first post and he reads:
Please use builds from http://dolphin-emu.org/download/ . The latest master version should generally be the best to use for tasing in most cases.
Then he goes on reading the post and he realized that there are a lot of Important information for tasing with dolphin! Also, there is this Tasing Guide which could help for general TASing.
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I have looked at Dolphin 4.0 yesterday and have a couple questions. - Since settings always get moved around between versions, and new settings get added and old ones get removed, I'm confused what set of settings is the recommended standard. What is the recommended set of settings that everyone should use in 4.0? - Do I still need the two DSP files? - When I stop emulation, it would ask me if I really want to. Can that popup be turned off? - In contrast to the previous Dolphin versions, savestates, savegames, dumped videos and audio, etc. don't get saved in a subdirectory of the Dolphin folder anymore, but they get saved under user/documents/Dolphin Emulator/... Is there a way to determine what directory it uses because this creates some chaos for me. I want the 4.0 related files to be in the 4.0 folder and not somewhere completely different...
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- Do I still need the two DSP files?
For tasing, yes. There are open source replacement files that can be used, but the timing is not the same as of the official dsp roms, so don't use those. You may be able to use HLE in new revisions (anything after 3.5-80 or something like that, but only with games that use the AX ucode (that would be roughly 99.9% of them. Some of the first party nintendo games, particular zeldas other than SS, luigi's mansion, and others do not), which should be perfect/nearly perfect. I know the netplayers have been using HLE for a while now without deysncs, but i don't think anyone has really tested it with tasing, so i can't promise anything, but i would expect it to work okay.
- When I stop emulation, it would ask me if I really want to. Can that popup be turned off?
Yes, in interface settings.
- In contrast to the previous Dolphin versions, savestates, savegames, dumped videos and audio, etc. don't get saved in a subdirectory of the Dolphin folder anymore, but they get saved under user/documents/Dolphin Emulator/... Is there a way to determine what directory it uses because this creates some chaos for me. I want the 4.0 related files to be in the 4.0 folder and not somewhere completely different...
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/controlling-global-user-directory/
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RachelB wrote:
- In contrast to the previous Dolphin versions, savestates, savegames, dumped videos and audio, etc. don't get saved in a subdirectory of the Dolphin folder anymore, but they get saved under user/documents/Dolphin Emulator/... Is there a way to determine what directory it uses because this creates some chaos for me. I want the 4.0 related files to be in the 4.0 folder and not somewhere completely different...
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/controlling-global-user-directory/
Hey, thanks for your help. But I cannot follow the instructions on this page. How do I access the registry and "expand" ? Some "baby steps" would be appreciated
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Run regedit.