Dolphin Emulator on RPi3?

bfenty

I got super excited to see Dolphin Emulator being included in 4.02, until I saw it is x86 only. While I'm fairly certain it won't run on an RPi3, are there any plans to port it over anyway?

herb_fargus

@bfenty no

bfenty

sad as that is, I understand.

PetroRie

Maybe if they make a Raspberry 4 which will be more powerful compared to the RP 3.

mediamogul

The only thing we know for sure is that whenever a Raspberry Pi model is able to run Dolphin, all anyone will be asking is when it will run Cemu.

drake999

The Gamecube, and by extension the Wii are simply too advanced to emulate at playable speed on this platform at this time.

bfenty

@mediamogul said in Dolphin Emulator on RPi3?:

The only thing we know for sure is that whenever a Raspberry Pi model is able to run Dolphin, all anyone will be asking is when it will run Cemu.

lol yeah.

And I understand it wouldn't be playable, I was just curious if it would be ported. It's amazing how things that aren't playable can become playable overnight when, say, a Pi 4 becomes available.

mediamogul

@bfenty said in Dolphin Emulator on RPi3?:

It's amazing how things that aren't playable can become playable overnight when, say, a Pi 4 becomes available.

I would love to see Dolphin ported to the Pi, even if it was just waiting for us in the experimental area of RetroPie, but considering it's system requirements, I wouldn't expect it to be a viable option for quite a few hardware revisions past the Pi4.

PetroRie

@mediamogul the processor would melt lol. It would be cool if the RPi4 could handle Dolphin and a PS2 emu, I would have the perfect all in one emu as now I have to use my Wii to play Gamecube roms and my PC for the PS2 emu.

LogischerJP

maybe if you install the emulator for ubutnu on the pi and starts netplay on a pc
you can play on the pi

loganmc10

Dolphin requires OpenGL ES 3, the Raspberry Pi only supports OpenGL ES 2.

For that reason alone it will never happen, but even if that technical limitation wasn't there, the Raspberry Pi is farrrr too slow for it to work. Dolphin doesn't work on most Android phones which are generally more powerful, the only Android device it probably runs on well is the Android Shield TV, which has a GPU that is many times more powerful than the Raspberry Pi.

I can confidently say it's not going to work on the "Raspberry Pi 4" either

windale

The more powerful the Raspberry Pi series becomes, the more it defeats it's purpose. The whole point of the Raspberry Pi is a low cost and low powered device. The more powerful they make it the more power and cooling it will require.

PetroRie

@windale Yeah but technology changes. Processors do get faster, and I know for sure that they will have faster ARM processors within a couple years.

herb_fargus

@PetroRie pi doesn't have the fastest arm processors though, even if they exist. But hey I'm looking forward to all of the improvements, increase ram at the very least. I wouldn't hold my breath on dolphin running in a playable way for a few renditions anyways.

RandoCalrisian

RetroPie on a lattePanda?

enderandrew

@RandoCalrisian said in Dolphin Emulator on RPi3?:

lattePanda

I had never heard of the LattePanda before. I'm curious to see what performance would be like on the system.

Nismo

@RandoCalrisian I didn't know about lattepanda, seems interesting.

Since it run windows you can run EmulationStation windows version.

Take a look at my ES running on windows

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enderandrew

@Nismo I'm still worried about how much space video previews for all games for all systems would take, but I love your Old Room theme with the video previews.

As for the LattePanda, it has more RAM and a slightly faster CPU, but I don't know if the GPU is considerably better so I'm not sure if you'd be able to run emulators that the Pi 3 can't.

Nismo

@enderandrew i don't know how good can be but i was watching some videos and seems good to play, but i'm wondering about the temps without any cooling system...

About the snaps it will depend on how many games do you have but you can expect about 1 mb or less for each game, some videos 2mb (only a few) and a lot of them around 400-700 kb.

I'm very busy with the theme and my own life, but don't worry because my plan is to upload optimized art and videos for the theme, and you only need to use some program on windows like fatmatch to match your roms with the art.

Also I want to upload my script (for windows) to add videos and marquees tags on the gamelist.

Then you can just use the gamelist and art folders in your Rpi.

Regards.

PD: I need to open a thread for the theme and post there all the info and files.

enderandrew

I still haven't built my RetroPie (holding off for the Spring) but I plan on using hundreds of roms for each system (using GOOD Rom sets as a base, but removing ROMS with no English version, overdumps, bad dumps, etc).