Dolphin homebrew is executed in exactly the same way as Wii images. The Dolphin emulator also allows you to play Wii homebrew. Since version 4.0 of Dolphin 3D is supported so you can fully utilise your 3D TVs and glasses which is again something that the Wii itself could never do. Dolphin can also emulate applications stored in Wii channels so you can play all of your favourite downloaded content. Controller rumble features are also emulated and it also supports emulated memory cards for full game saving functionality. We found that the XBOX 360 wireless controller worked well with a large portion of the games that do not need motion sensing. For the games that do require motion sensing add a simple Bluetooth adaptor and Dolphin supports the connection of a Wiimote to your PC and it works very well indeed.

Dolphin allows you to configure any PC game controller to work with your emulated games but of course most don’t support the motion sensing the Wiimote does. One thing to be aware of when emulating Wii games is the Wiimote controller. Dolphin makes use of multiple CPU cores so the more the merrier.

The Dolphin Nintendo Wii emulator download size is just 4.39mb. We have found that a now very affordable Intel I3 CPU is more than enough for the software and the majority of gaming graphics cards available today will do the job and will play in the highest available resolutions. On their website Dolphin simply state that it requires a fast CPU and a graphics card supporting Pixel Shader 2.0. What is surprising about a system emulator cable of playing games that are so recent is the low system requirements Dolphin has.

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