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'''[[wikipedia:Dolphin (emulator)|Dolphin]]''' is a [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]], / [[Wii emulators|Wii emulator]] that supports many extra features not present on the original consoles, such as upscaling and additionally capable of basic [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]] by its own built-in version of [[mGBA]] with stripped-down GUI, for the sake of GameCube games that support connectivity featurestexture replacements. Though early Early development was supported by a very active homebrew scene led by fail0verflow precursor (previously known as Team Twiizers, proper emulation ). Dolphin's development is still underway very active as of 2024 and improvements are still being made as Wii games continue {{CURRENTYEAR}}, with many contributors to have its GitHub repository updating the emulator multiple times a week.<ref>[https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/projects/emulator/issues?set_filter=1&status_id=c&tracker_id=1 Dolphin issue list] (closed issues.)</ref>

Dolphin's official website, dolphin-emu.org, also runs a blog , with monthly multiple progress reports, tracking throughout the year detailing pull requests from contributors, and providing comprehensive and in-depth feature articles. Another site that has been confused Dolphin's website also features a wiki with guides on setup for multiple parts of the real oneemulator and detailed game articles featuring useful information regarding compatibility, dolphin-emulator.comperformance, has no connection to the project and only hosts builds going up to 4.0associated peripherals.

Dolphin has support for widescreen output and can override the aspect ratio of the original game. However, this is a hack that rarely works without issues.  To get Many games feature Action Replay and/or Gecko codes that do a better job at adding widescreen fully nativelysupport, try and said codes can be found on [[Emulator_Files#GameCube https:// Wii|Swiss]]wiki.dolphin-emu. This can even be run on a real GameCubeorg/Wii if desiredDolphin's own wiki.]

The Dolphin Team is working on an official has had multiple pull requests related to VR implementation using OpenXR, though all pull requests related have been closed as of March 2024.<ref>jordan-woyak. [https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/8380 WIP - OpenXR]. GitHub.</ref><ref> Ivonasek. [https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/12564 OpenXR - Basic integration for Meta Quest]</ref><ref>Maylmilae, JMC47. [https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/10/05/dolphin-progress-report-august-and-september-2019/#50-10941-and-50-10943-fix-stereoscopy-and-3d-vision-and-50-10945-remove-3d-vision-by-billiard-and-stenzek Dolphin Progress Report: August and September 2019]. "In general, despite the loss of NVIDIA 3D Vision, Dolphin's 3D support has been modernized to work with [https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/04/01/the-new-era-of-video-backends/ the new VideoCommon] and should be working better than ever between all of our backends. And these updates help lay the foundation for [https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/progress-report/2019-august/subtle.svg what's to come]."</ref> *'''Texture Packs'''{{Main|Texture packs#GameCube/Wii}}Dolphin lets you dump game textures and also replace game textures with new custom ones.