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Well in short a Gamecube emulator is now available for your PC, its been around for quite sometime and there are a number of games already that have been emulated successfully.
Not very good news for Nintendo as it could allow anyone with a PC to experience some of the Gamecubes games. Other consoles suffer badly from the use of pirated software or 'backups' but for them people still need to own the console which makes this a more serious problem in my eyes.
Guess the good part about it all is that it requires a high end graphics card and high spec processor to work and even at that it still only runs at 3 to 7 frames per second.
But how long is it going to remain like that? How long before they manage to utilize aspects of the PC's architecture to allow the games to run as well as they do on the gamecube?
Its pretty common these days to expect emulators for most of the consoles but thats usually when they are on there last legs or have already been replaced by a newer console. Just wondering what the Ninty folk think about all this..
Well in short a Gamecube emulator is now available for your PC, its been around for quite sometime and there are a number of games already that have been emulated successfully.
Not very good news for Nintendo as it could allow anyone with a PC to experience some of the Gamecubes games. Other consoles suffer badly from the use of pirated software or 'backups' but for them people still need to own the console which makes this a more serious problem in my eyes.
Guess the good part about it all is that it requires a high end graphics card and high spec processor to work and even at that it still only runs at 3 to 7 frames per second.
But how long is it going to remain like that? How long before they manage to utilize aspects of the PC's architecture to allow the games to run as well as they do on the gamecube?
Its pretty common these days to expect emulators for most of the consoles but thats usually when they are on there last legs or have already been replaced by a newer console. Just wondering what the Ninty folk think about all this..
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But how do they read the Gamecube mini-disks?
I'm guessing the games will be copied onto a PC using a wired Gamecube and then onto a DVD.
I can't see much of a market though.
A few hardcore will love it, but for the most people it would just be too much hassle.
I'm guessing the games will be copied onto a PC using a wired Gamecube and then onto a DVD.
I can't see much of a market though.
A few hardcore will love it, but for the most people it would just be too much hassle.
It'll be AGES before a decent GC emulator comes out on the PC. And I can't see too many PC users caring much, as most of the games available they wouldn't want to play anyways.
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Sorry if a similar thing has been posted, had a quick look and couldn't see a similar topic.
Well in short a Gamecube emulator is now available for your PC, its been around for quite sometime and there are a number of games already that have been emulated successfully.
Not very good news for Nintendo as it could allow anyone with a PC to experience some of the Gamecubes games. Other consoles suffer badly from the use of pirated software or 'backups' but for them people still need to own the console which makes this a more serious problem in my eyes.
Guess the good part about it all is that it requires a high end graphics card and high spec processor to work and even at that it still only runs at 3 to 7 frames per second.
But how long is it going to remain like that? How long before they manage to utilize aspects of the PC's architecture to allow the games to run as well as they do on the gamecube?
Its pretty common these days to expect emulators for most of the consoles but thats usually when they are on there last legs or have already been replaced by a newer console. Just wondering what the Ninty folk think about all this..
Well in short a Gamecube emulator is now available for your PC, its been around for quite sometime and there are a number of games already that have been emulated successfully.
Not very good news for Nintendo as it could allow anyone with a PC to experience some of the Gamecubes games. Other consoles suffer badly from the use of pirated software or 'backups' but for them people still need to own the console which makes this a more serious problem in my eyes.
Guess the good part about it all is that it requires a high end graphics card and high spec processor to work and even at that it still only runs at 3 to 7 frames per second.
But how long is it going to remain like that? How long before they manage to utilize aspects of the PC's architecture to allow the games to run as well as they do on the gamecube?
Its pretty common these days to expect emulators for most of the consoles but thats usually when they are on there last legs or have already been replaced by a newer console. Just wondering what the Ninty folk think about all this..
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