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# Nintendo GameCube Emulator not only for Windows
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Dolwin is work-in-progress emulator of Nintendo GameCube console.
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The goal of the emulator is to research the hardware features of GameCube and reverse engineer technologies used to develop games for this platform.
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GameCube is the hardware masterpiece of Nintendo engineers and it's a pleasure to explore this device and discover something new for yourself.
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This project is revived from 2004 in 2020.
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Dolwin Team:
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- org (ogamespec), responsible for the rest;
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- hotquik (http://www.hotsoft.com.ve/about/), responsible for memory cards emulation, Bootrom fonts and UI.
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## Building
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Build using Visual Studio 2019. To build, open Dolwin.sln and click Build.
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The executable will be at the root (Dolwin.exe).
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## Solution structure
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All solution projects are independent components (or try to be like that).
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Currently, work is underway to encapsulate components in their namespaces, but the legacy code from version 0.10 does not make it so simple.
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Currently, the following namespaces are quietly formed:
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- Debug: for debugging functionality
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- Gekko: for the core of the Gekko CPU
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- Flipper: for various internal Flipper hardware modules (AI, VI, EXI, etc.)
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- DSP: for GameCube DSP
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- DVD: for a disk drive unit (DDU)
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- GX: for the Flipper GPU
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The user interface will most likely be rewritten as a Managed C# application. In the meantime, it's just like a piece of code from version 0.10.
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## Third-party code
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Try not to use third-party libraries without special need.
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## Why "Dolwin"?
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Dolwin was originally stands for "Nintendo *Dol*phin Emulator for *Win*dows" (Dolphin is GameCube codename).
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Later "Dolphin" was changed to "GameCube", so that there is no confusion with another emulator - Dolphin-emu.
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## Situation with rebranding
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I didn't want to leave Windows aside, but the public is interested in the possibility of launching and porting Dolwin in other OSes.
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Therefore, a small rebranding was made, now Dolwin stands for "Nintendo GameCube Emulator not only for Windows". Lol.
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As soon as the opportunity arises, all Win32 dependencies will be cleaned up and the portable code will be encapsulated as much as possible.
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Essentially the emulator is purely algorithmic code, with the exception of the user interface and audio/video/controllers interactions. Therefore, I don't see any problems here.
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## Greets
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We would like to say Thanks to people, who helped us to make Dolwin:
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- Costis: gcdev.com and some valuable information
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- Titanik: made GC development possible
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- tmbinc: details of GC bootrom and first working GX demos
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- DesktopMan: nice GC demos
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- groepaz: YAGCD and many other
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- FiRES and ector for Dolphin-emulator, nice chats and information
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- Masken: some ideas from WhineCube
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- monk: some ideas from gcube
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- Alex Raider: basic Windows Console code
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- segher: Bootrom descrambler
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- Duddie: For DSP reversing and docs
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And also to people, we have forgot or who wanted to stay anonymous :)
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Many thanks to our Beta-testers, for bug and compatibility reports.
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Dolwin Beta-team: Chrono, darkreign, Jeil, Knuckles, MasterPhW and Posty.
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Thanks to Martin for web-hosting on Emulation64.com
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## Contacts
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- Official Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ehz8PYA
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- Skype: ogamespec
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- Email: ogamespec@gmail.com
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