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The famous Gamecube and Wii emulator, Dolphin, has been updated to run as a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) application, which makes it compatible with the Xbox Series S/X console (and even Xbox One consoles, but to a lesser compatibility and performance degree). The developers of Dolphin have previously worked on a beta release (v1.0.0), which added UWP support to the emulator to run on Xbox Series consoles, and as of December, 2022, the emulator now has a stable release in UWP format.

Previously, the only methods of running Dolphin on an Xbox Series console was to either install an unofficial UWP port of the emulator into the console (which is shady on its own to the app not being the officially coded one by Dolphin's devs), or go the RetroArch route and get Dolphin as a core for it, and while using RA with the Dolphin core was a good way to cover any Gamecube/Wii needs on Xbox Series consoles, the core itself is greatly lagging behind in terms of features and updated versions of the standalone Dolphin emulator. With the UWP port, users can now have all the perks, updates and features of the latest Dolphin emulator in their Xbox Series consoles.

For those interested, the UWP version of the emulator is available in SirMangler's Dolphin fork GitHub page under the "Releases" tab,, with the official Dolphin repository finishing the last touchups on a Pull Request for the eventual merge of the UWP port. The latest UWP update having the following changelog:

• New ingame setting menu! Press Left Stick + View to access!
• Ability to change the dolphin settings folder, from within the in-game menu.
• Added a few missing file formats to the picker, including elf, wad and json.
• Minor improvements and changes.

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[Kioku]

Well, now I have to install this…

 

[CoolMe]

XSX|S does what Nintendont.
Great job, devs! (Dolphin)

 

[neotank19]

now I just need a series x to play my gamecube games on.

 

[megahog2012]

or S

 

[HarveyHouston]

Or Z.

 

[V800]

• Added a few missing file formats to the picker, including elf, wad and json.

I always use either wad, iso or wbfs with dolphin. What are elf and json for?

 

[TheStonedModder]

I can’t wait to play paper Mario tonight now

 

[dh3lix-pooch]

Very great news! Gonna try it right away! Metroid Prime here I come

 

[Pickle_Rick]

• Added a few missing file formats to the picker, including elf, wad and json.

I always use either wad, iso or wbfs with dolphin. What are elf and json for?

I have no idea about json but homebrew for the GCN/Wii are typically distributed as elf binaries.

 

[eduall]

this is piracy guys! this belongs to nintendo not microsoft
(Sarcasm)

 

[pustal]

TIL you could install homebrew without a dev account. Neat, got up to speed.

Post automatically merged: Jan 23, 2023

I have no idea about json but homebrew for the GCN/Wii are typically distributed as elf binaries.

JSON should be something to store metadata of sorts.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

JSON should be something to store metadata of sorts.

Yeah but why would you be able to pick that from the file picker to start a game?

 

[pustal]

Yeah but why would you be able to pick that from the file picker to start a game?

No clue, possibly redirects to a game with emulation configurations.

 

[zekro94]

No clue, possibly redirects to a game with emulation configurations.

Or cheats, ps4 uses cheats in json format

Edit: Json files cand be used with dds texture files on dolphin, the json file specifies what type the textures are

 

[godreborn]

Interesting. There's a dolphin core with Retroarch, but it does have noticeable bugs. My computer is down or else I'd check this out.

 

[raxadian]

How about a standalone Dreamcast emulator? Dreamcast games look as good as Gamecube games but Flycast is way less of a ram hog that Dolphin.

 

[zekro94]

Interesting. There's a dolphin core with Retroarch, but it does have noticeable bugs. My computer is down or else I'd check this out.

there is a way without PC, MVG talks about it in his video

 

[raxadian]

Interesting. There's a dolphin core with Retroarch, but it does have noticeable bugs. My computer is down or else I'd check this out.

If you have the extra space on your PC or an extra HD just install Linux and run Dolphin from there. For Windows you need Windows 10 or 11 for the standalone version of Dolphin. Need at least 8 GB of Ram for decent Dolphin performance and at least 16 GB if you wanna try texture packs.

 

[godreborn]

there is a way without PC, MVG talks about it in his video

Thanks. I had forgotten about getting it via discord for retail mode.