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{{Infobox emulator
|title = PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
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|title = Dolphin
|image = PC-Engine-Console-Set.png
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|logo = CoverGraphic.jpg
|image2 = SuperGrafx-Console-Set.jpg
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|logowidth = 104
|imagecaption = '''Above''': The PC Engine.<br/>'''Below''': The SuperGrafx.
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|version = e2.8
|developer = [[:Category:NEC consoles|NEC Home Electronics, Hudson Soft]]
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|active = No
|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]
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|platform = [[Emulators on Windows|Windows]]
|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]
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|target = [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]]
|release = 1987
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|developer = Nintendo
|discontinued = 1994
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|website = [http://www.warioworld.com/ WarioWorld]
|successor = SuperGrafx, [[PC-FX emulators|PC-FX]]
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
 
}}
 
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The '''[[gametech:TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine|PC Engine]]''' ('''PCE''') was a 16-bit system released jointly by [[wikipedia:Nec|NEC]] and [[wikipedia:Hudson Soft|Hudson Soft]] in Japan on October 30, 1987 and in the US on August 29, 1989. It was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|399.99|1987}}. It had a Hudson Soft HuC6280 8-bit CPU at 7.16 MHz and 1.79 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 64KB of VRAM. The CPU was teamed up with a 16-bit graphics processor and 16-bit video color encoder chip, both built by Hudson Soft. When it came time to seek other potential markets, the two companies eventually caved to a limited American release in 1989 under a completely different model and name: the '''TurboGrafx-16'''. The European versions varied throughout the countries, being the western version in Spain and United Kingdom and Japanese models in Benelux regions.
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'''Dolphin''' is a leaked [[GameCube emulators|GameCube emulator]] developed by Nintendo, named after the console's codename. It has no connection to [[Dolphin|the open-source GameCube and Wii emulator of the same name]].
  
The joint venture, formed in North America as TTI, made an add-on called the '''PC Engine CD''' ('''PCE-CD''') / '''TurboGrafx-CD''' ('''TG-CD''') that loaded games from discs instead, much like the Sega CD but better supported. The '''PC Engine Duo''' / '''Turbo-Duo''' combined the add-on into the unit with more RAM as yet another failed attempt to relaunch the failing console in the West.
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It, unfortunately, doesn't run commercial games and is only useful as a debugger.
  
When it first launched in North America, the TurboGrafx-16 was largely seen as a failure blamed on poor marketing by the manufacturers. The PC Engine, on the other hand, was a whole different story, beating out the [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Famicom]] when it first came out long enough to compete against [[Super Nintendo emulators|its rival's own successor]] and gave little focus for the [[Sega Genesis emulators|Mega Drive]] who was instead posing more of a threat to Nintendo in North America.
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NEC planned to enhance the system further, announcing the "PC Engine 2" that would later become the '''PC Engine SuperGrafx'''. However, it was rushed to a 1989 market in Japan lacking much of its promised features with only seven titles exclusively made for it, ending up a commercial failure to be binned and discontinued not long after. The '''PC Engine GT''' / '''Turbo-Express''' was a very rare handheld model of the original hardware, in the same vein as the Sega Nomad (a portable [[Sega Genesis emulators|Sega Genesis / Mega Drive]]). It did include some exclusive features like the TurboLink multiplayer feature (used in games such as the flight sim called ''Falcon'' and ''Bomberman 93'') but wasn't widely supported.
 
 
 
==Emulators==
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
|-
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
! scope="col"|PCE-CD (TG-CD)
 
! scope="col"|PCE2 (SG)
 
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="9"|PC / x86
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|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big}}
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|'''[http://www.emuparadise.me/sdk/Installers/Nintendo/GameCube/NINTENDO%20GameCube%20PC%20Dolphin%20Emulator%20e2.8%20(Installer).7z Dolphin Emulator e2.8 and SDK]'''<br/><small>Have to install the SDK to use the emulator</small>
|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Accurate)</small>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[MAME]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[BizHawk]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[Turbo Engine]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/turbo.html 0.32]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[MagicEngine]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS}}
 
|[http://www.emuparadise.me/emulators/files/user/Magic-Engine_1.1.3-952.rar 1.1.3]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
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|[[Ootake]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ 2.93]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|pcejin <small>(Mednafen 0.8.x)</small>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[https://github.com/TASVideos/pcejin Git]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[https://segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]
 
|{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
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|Neco
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|0.11
 
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
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|[http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ ePCEngine]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/common/index.html 8/12/2017]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[FinalBurn Alpha]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[http://www.fbalpha.com/downloads/ 0.2.97.43]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[[higan]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ {{higanVer}}]
 
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|[http://zeograd.com/ Hu-Go!]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
 
|[http://zeograd.com/hugo_download.php 2.12]
 
|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
!colspan="9"|Mobile / ARM
 
|-
 
|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
 
|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|PCE.emu
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
 
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PceEmu 1.5.40]
 
|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
 
|-
 
!colspan="9"|Console
 
|-
 
|[[Virtual Console]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}
 
|N/A ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small><ref group=N>Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP|PS3}}<br>{{Icon|Wii|3DS|WiiU|Switch}}
 
|{{MednafenVer}}
 
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|HuE
 
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
 
|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-hue-for-psp-070-f28312.html 0.70]
 
|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
 
 
|}
 
|}
<references group=N />
 
 
===Comparisons===
 
;[[Mednafen]]:Much like its other original cores, it does very well, even having two profiles: PCE-Accurate and PCE-Fast. Despite being CLI-based, a fork of an older version that has a GUI has emerged called pcejin. [[RetroArch]] uses the PCE-Fast core for its beetle fork.
 
;[[Ootake]]:It's okay for general purposes.
 
;[[MAME]]:Has a <code>pce</code> driver <small>(and a child driver called <code>tg16</code>)</small>. In all revisions it emulates, MAME reports it as working and the graphics as okay, but the sound is imperfect.
 
;[[MagicEngine]]:Unfortunately trialware that costs €15 euro. There are better options available for free.
 
  
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[[Category:Emulators]]
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[[Category:Console emulators]]
[[Category:NEC consoles]]
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[[Category:Home console emulators]]
[[Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles]]
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[[Category:GameCube emulators]]
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[[Category:Official emulators]]
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[[Category:Windows emulation software]]

Revision as of 01:40, 15 October 2021

Dolphin
CoverGraphic.jpg
Developer(s) Nintendo
Latest version e2.8
Active No
Platform(s) Windows
Emulates GameCube
Website WarioWorld

Dolphin is a leaked GameCube emulator developed by Nintendo, named after the console's codename. It has no connection to the open-source GameCube and Wii emulator of the same name.

It, unfortunately, doesn't run commercial games and is only useful as a debugger.

Download

Windows Dolphin Emulator e2.8 and SDK
Have to install the SDK to use the emulator