Dolphin Emulator is one of the best emulators for reviving console video games Nintendo Wii and GameCube on personal computers. Well-known among emulator lovers, the announced arrival on Steam will expand its use to a large part of users who are not familiar with it, allow better software support and faster and more convenient updates. Save it to your wishlist because it looks like it will be free.

This emulator debuted in 2003 and became the first emulator that could successfully run commercial GameCube games. Early versions had performance issues and audio emulation was not available at first, but development improved over time. In addition, he became a Dolphin Open Source in 2007 and has been updated regularly since then.

Dolphin Emulator on Steam

Emulators are fantastic software that allow you to enjoy great classic video games on devices other than where they were released. While the original hardware offers the purest experience, emulators allow for some additional features, such as higher resolution or support for new hardware such as widescreen screens. Content like HD texture packs can also improve the look of older games, and newer patches that have been released can (in some cases) improve things like framerate.

Additional features such as quick saves, online multiplayer modes, custom level packs or mods created by the community are other sections that can improve the experience in addition to increasing the number of supported controllers. And of course the biggest advantage of emulation is be able to run old games from discontinued consoles which are not available and which we would otherwise not be able to play.

The functioning of this emulator, as well as others, is known and it is about create a virtual environment for playing GameCube and Wii games. It does not contain any games and it will be up to the user to obtain a copy of the games and/or save them in a format compatible with the emulator. The development team will publish a full article when Dolphin hits Steam, which will happen next quarter.

It will support Windows, macOS and Linux PCs, and its hardware requirements are so minimal (Intel i5-3550 / AMD FX-6200 CPU with 2GB RAM) that it can be installed on any current machine. We will show you how it works in the following video: