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TL;DR
- The Dolphin emulator now lets desktop users load games into RAM.
- The team explains that this is ideal for people playing games over a network or NAS.
- The latest update also brings major performance upgrades for
The Dolphin emulator for GameCube and Wii games is one of the best emulators in general, but the team continues to deliver meaty updates after all this time. Now, the Dolphin team has announced a slew of tweaks and additions to the emulator.
Perhaps the most notable addition to Dolphin v2603 is the ability to load games into RAM on desktop builds of the emulator. The team noted on its blog that Dolphin also emulates the GameCube and Wii’s slow disc read speeds (a whopping 8.5MB per second). So running the game via RAM won’t ordinarily deliver a speed boost.
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