| Dolphin | |
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| Original authors | F|RES, Henrik Rydgård (ector)[1][2] |
| Developer | Dolphin Emulator Project[3] |
| Initial release | 22 September 2003; 22 years ago (2003-09-22) |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | 2512-109 (January 3, 2026; 46 days ago (2026-01-03)) [±] |
| Written in | C++ andC[5] (GUI: originally inwxWidgets, ported toQt5 in 2018)[6][7][8] |
| Operating system | Windows 10 (v1903) or later,macOS Big Sur 11 or later,Linux,Android 5.0 or later (only 64-bit)[9][10] |
| Platform | |
| Available in | 24 languages[13] |
| Type | Video game console emulator |
| License | 2015:[a]GPL-2.0-or-later[14][15] 2008:[b]GPL-2.0-only 2003: Proprietary |
| Website | dolphin-emu |
| Repository | github |
| Requirement | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Personal computer[9][16] | ||
| Operating system |
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| CPU | x86-64 CPU[11] withSSE2 support.[9] AArch64[12] | Intel:Intel Core i5-4670K or equivalent. AMD: AnyRyzen CPU or newer.[9] Snapdragon8cx or equivalent[18] |
| Memory | 2GBRAM or more[9] | |
| Graphics hardware | Pixel Shader 3.0, andDirect3D 10 orOpenGL 3 support[16] | Modern Direct3D 11.1, OpenGL 4.4, orVulkanGPU[9] |
| Input device(s) | Any PC input device – mouse and keyboard by default for Wii, mouse by default for GameCube | Original NintendoGameCube controller withUSB adapter[19] Original NintendoWii Remote via DolphinBar[20] |
| Android | ||
| Operating system | Android 5.0[21] | Android 10[22] |
| CPU | AArch64[12] | Snapdragon835 or equivalent[23][24] |
| Memory | 1GBRAM | 4GBRAM |
| Graphics hardware | OpenGL ES 3.0[25] | Adreno 540 or equivalent[23][24] with OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan support[26] |
Dolphin is afree and open-sourcevideo game console emulator of theGameCube,Wii[27] andTriforce arcade system[28] that runs onWindows,Linux,macOS, andAndroid.
It had itsinaugural release in 2003 asfreeware for Windows. Dolphin was the first GameCube emulator that could successfully run commercial games. After troubled development in the first years, Dolphin becamefree and open-source software and subsequently gained support for Wii emulation. Soon after, the emulator was ported to Linux[29] and macOS.[30] As mobile hardware became more powerful over the years,running Dolphin on Android became a viable option.
Dolphin has been well received in the IT and video gaming media for its high compatibility, steady development progress, the number ofavailable features, and the ability to play games withgraphical improvements over the original platforms.
Dolphin was first released on 22 September 2003[31] by Henrik Rydgård (ector) and F|RES as an experimental GameCube emulator that could boot up and run commercial games. Audio was not yet emulated, and the overall performance quality was very poor. Many games crashed on start-up or barely ran at all; average speed was from 2 to 20frames per second (FPS). Its name refers to the development code name for the GameCube.[32]
Dolphin was officially discontinued temporarily in December 2004, with the developers releasing version 1.01 as the final version of the emulator.[33] The developers later revived the project in October 2005.[34]
Dolphin became an open-source project on 13 July 2008[29][35] when the developers released the source code publicly on aSVN repository onGoogle Code under theGPL-2.0-only license.[29] At this point, the emulator had basic Wii emulation implemented, limitedLinux compatibility and a newGUI usingwxWidgets.[29] The preview builds and unofficial SVN builds were released with their revision number (e.g., RXXXX) rather than version numbers (e.g., 1.03).[36][37] As with previous builds, differences between consecutive builds are typically minor.[38]

By February 2009, the software was able to successfully boot and run the official Wii System Menu v1.0. Shortly after, almost all versions of theWii system software became bootable.[39]
By April 2009, most commercial games, GameCube and Wii alike, could be fully played, albeit with minor problems and errors, with a large number of games running with few or no defects. Adjustments to the emulator had allowed users to play select games at full speed for the first time, audio was dramatically improved, and the graphical capabilities were made more consistent aside from minor problems.[40]
By late October 2009, several new features were incorporated into the emulator, such as automatic frame-skipping, which increased the performance of the emulator, as well as increased stability of the emulator overall.[41] Also improved was the Netplay feature of the emulator, which allowed players to play multiplayer GameCube and Wii games online with friends, as long as the game did not require aWii Remote. The emulator'sGUI was also reworked to make it more user-friendly, and theDirect3D plug-in received further work.[42]
On 12 April 2010 Dolphin 2.0 was released.[43][10]
By the end of November 2010, the developers had fixed most of the sound issues such as crackling, added compatibility with more games, and increased the overall emulation speed and accuracy.[citation needed]
In June 2011, version 3.0 was released.[44] Strange user interface behavior, crashes, graphical glitches and other various issues were fixed. The release notes state that the majority of games "run perfectly or with minor bugs".[44] The release featured redesigned configuration windows, an improved LLE sound engine, new translations, added support for the Wii Remote speaker, EFB format change emulation, graphics debugger and audio dumping among several other new features. The 3.0 release removed theplug-in interface in order to "allow for a much better integration with the other parts of Dolphin". The developers also added aDirect3D 11 video back-end and anXAudio2 audio back-end.[44]
On 25 December 2012, version 3.5 of Dolphin was released, featuring support for emulating theGameCube Broadband Adapter andMicrophone accessories. It introduced aFreeBSD port, free replacement for theDSPfirmware, and the WBFS file format.[45][46]
On 6 April 2013, the Dolphin development team released the first builds forGoogle'sAndroid mobile operating system.[47] As of September 2013, only a handful of devices contained the hardware to supportOpenGL ES 3.0, with Google officially supporting the standard in software since July 2014 with the introduction ofAndroid 4.3 Jelly Bean. Games ran at an average of one frame per second. The developer has cited theSamsung Galaxy S4 as one of the first phones capable of playing games at higher speeds, but even it would have considerable performance limitations.
On 22 September 2013, version 4.0 of Dolphin was released, featuring back-end improvements to OpenGL rendering and OpenAL audio, broader controller support, networking enhancements, and performance tweaks for macOS and Linux builds.[48][49] Months later, versions 4.0.1[50][51] and 4.0.2[52][53] were released, fixing minor bugs.
On 12 October 2013 (4.0-155), Direct3D 9 support was removed from the project, leaving Direct3D 11 and OpenGL as the two remaining video back-ends. The Dolphin team explained this, stating that the plug-in was "inherently flawed" and that trying to evade its several flaws "wasted time and slowed development".[54]
On 19 May 2014, the Dolphin team announced that32-bit support forWindows andLinux would be dropped.[11] The Dolphin team stated that it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the 32-bit builds, and that the 32-bit releases simply offered an inferior experience compared to their64-bit counterparts. Furthermore, the vast majority of their users were already using 64-bit CPUs, and most users of 32-bit builds were 64-bit compatible yet were using 32-bit by mistake. The combination of these factors made 32-bit support unnecessary. 32-bit Android builds suffered from similar issues, but ARMv7 support[55] remained for another year until theAArch64 JIT was ready and devices were available.[12]

Throughout 2014, several features were implemented into Dolphin, including disc loading emulation, native support for GameCube controllers,[19] perfect audio emulation,[56] and bug fixes for problems which had been present since the emulator's earliest days.[57][58][59]Memory management unit (MMU) improvements allowed many games to boot and work properly for the first time.[57] Improvements towards the emulator also allowed for it to run well onAndroid using theNvidia Tegra processor, albeit with minor difficulties.[60]
In coordination with the developers of theVBA-MGame Boy Advance emulator, support forlinking GameCube and Game Boy Advance games was implemented into Dolphin in March 2015.[60]
On 25 May 2015, the Dolphin development team announced that they had successfullyre-licensed the code base from "GPL-2.0-only" to "GPL-2.0-or-later" in order to improvelicense compatibility with otherfree and open-source projects and be able to share and exchange code with them.[14][15][27]
In August 2015, the Dolphin developers announced further improvements with audio[61][62] and throughout December 2015 the Dolphin project fixed audio issues on TR Wii Remotes.[63] Two months later, in February 2016, aDirect3D 12 back-end was mainlined after months of development.[64]
On 24 June 2016, version 5.0 of Dolphin was released, making various fixes and additions to the emulator.[65][66]
Development of aVulkan-based graphics renderer began in June 2016.[15][67] After a month, the developer announced that it is "now feature-complete" and that it's "time for clean-ups/bug-fixing/performance work".[68][69] Development of the renderer was still done in a dedicatedbranch for the next few months until the code was finally merged in October 2016.[70]
In September 2016, Dolphin's developers announced the emulator was now able to boot all official GameCube titles. The last title to be supported for boot-up,Star Wars: The Clone Wars, had been particularly difficult to emulate due to the game's use of thememory management unit.[71][72]Triforce emulation was removed in 2016 due to lack of maintenance,[73] until being restored in 2026, now able to run all games but one for the system.[28]
In March 2017, support was added for theWii Shop Channel.[74]
Two experimental features, both of which never reached maturity, were removed in May 2017: TheDirect3D 12 renderer – which found a suitable replacement in the Vulkan back-end – and the alternative CPU emulatorJIT IL.[75][76]
Continuing this year's earlier work on graphics performance-related matters, Dolphin developers implemented a solution for the long-standing problem known asshader compilation stuttering.[77] The stuttering is caused by the emulator waiting for the graphics driver to compile shaders required for new environments or objects. The solution that theUbershaders – in development since 2015[78] – present to the problem was to emulate the Wii's and GameCube's rendering pipeline by way of aninterpreter running on the host system'sgraphics processor itself until a specialized shader has been compiled and can be used for future frames, at a lower cost to performance.[77]
18 August 2017 marks the culmination of work started in late 2016 when thecross-platformMMORPGDragon Quest X was added to the list of playable games just two months before support for the online functionality of the Wii version was dropped.[79] The addition relied on a number of features that had been previously added to the emulator simply for the sake of accuracy, such as support for theWii Shop Channel. Support for Wii File System, an encryptedfile system that was originally designed for theWii U, was also added after a rigorous amount ofreverse engineering.[79]
In the first half of 2018 Dolphin's developers deprecated thewxWidgetsGUI toolkit and replaced it with one based onQt because the original GUI toolkit's limitations stood in the way of implementing new features.[6][7][8] Among the other newly introduced features wereAsynchronous Shader Compilation similar toIshiiruka,[80] an auto-update feature,[81] and integration withDiscord.[82]
In the summer of 2018 Dolphin's Vulkan renderer was brought to macOS viaMoltenVK[83] and the Android version was brought back toGoogle Play with monthly updates.[84] In April 2019, Dolphin added 3 new features; unification of common video backends, a NetPlay Server browser, andWii MotionPlus emulation. The Direct3D 12 renderer was also brought back.
During the time-frame between November 2019 and January 2020, support forWindows 10 on ARM was added. According to the developers, "[i]t turned out to be quite easy" because support for AArch64 hardware has already been present as part of the Android port.[18]
In the May and June Progress Report for 2020 the Dolphin team unveiled a new compression format, based upon the WIA format and usingzstd, called RVZ.[85] The article claims that RVZ, compared to the NKit format, properly emulates load times.[86] Additionally, the article claims that RVZ approaches or excels the file sizes of "scrubbed" WIA and GCZ disk images while remaining lossless.[86]
In the December 2020 and January 2021 Progress Report, the Dolphin team reported that support had been added for emulatingNintendo DS Connectivity with various Wii titles. The article stated that this development would not lead to Dolphin and DS interoperability, either with physical hardware or with another emulator.[87] This new emulation fixed a crash present inDriver: San Francisco and other games that attempt to initiate DS communications.[87]
In May 2021, Dolphin added support formacOS on ARM64, which had been a heavily requested feature following the announcement of theMac transition to Apple Silicon.[88] In July 2021, the Dolphin team announced the integration of themGBA emulator into Dolphin, allowing a Game Boy Advance emulator to run within Dolphin simultaneously to simulateGameCube-GBA connectivity. In addition to supporting transfer of data to and from emulated GBA titles, up to four Game Boy Advance instances can be simultaneously active in Dolphin at once, making multiplayer in games that require the GBA such asThe Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures andFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles viable within Dolphin locally and via netplay.[89]
In June 2022, the Dolphin developers announced that subsequent versions would not run onWindows 7,Windows 8 andWindows 8.1, citing that less than 2% of users and none of the developers still used these operating systems, making developing and testing on them difficult, and that the newest versions of the emulator's dependencies such asQt no longer supported them.[90] In July 2022, Dolphin developers released a graphics mod infrastructure, allowing users to make graphical changes while a game's images are being rendered.[91] In September 2022, themacOS version added a nativeMetal graphics backend, which featured improved performance over theVulkan backend running viaMoltenVK.[92]
In March 2023, the Dolphin developers announced that they would be releasing a version of the emulator on theSteam platform, in "early access", by Q2 2023. On the Steam page there were no depictions of officially licensed Wii or GameCube games, no specific mention of Nintendo by the Dolphin developers and a statement that "this app does not come with games". The Dolphin developers touted that the Steam version would have better integration into Steam UI which followed the Dolphin developers receiving aSteam Deck ahead of its release.[93] In May 2023, they announced that the Steam release would be indefinitely postponed due to a cease and desist citing theDMCA from Nintendo sent to Valve. Project treasurer Pierre Bourdon, who was named in the email, stated that the presence of anAES-128 key used to encrypt Wii game discs in the emulator's source code may have allowed Nintendo to take down the Steam release.[94][95] A spokesperson for Nintendo stated to Kotaku that Dolphin "illegally circumvents Nintendo's protection measures" and that "illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation". YouTuber and video game developer Dimitris Giannakis stated on hisModern Vintage Gamer channel that he found evidence, in 2020, of a user named "Littlemac123" warning about the presence of the keys in theRetroArch Core source code.[96]
On July 20, 2023, the Dolphin developers announced that the planned Steam release for the emulator has been cancelled due to legal objections from Nintendo.[97][98] They clarified in a blog post that Nintendo did not issue a DMCA notice but was actually contacted by Valve who sought Nintendo's approval prior to allowing Dolphin to be released on Steam. They also announced that they would not remove the decryption key following legal consultation over its use, arguing that the presence of the AES key used by the Wii to decrypt retail games falls under the reverse engineering exemption in 17 U.S.C. § 1201(f), which allows for interoperability, and has mentioned how the key in question has become common knowledge since its discovery.[97] As a result, online searches for the emulatorhave surged.[99]
On July 2, 2024, the developers announced that Dolphin was moving to arolling release cycle going forward. This means there will be no version 6.0, but instead more frequent smaller updates. The first release using this new cadence is Dolphin 2407.[100] Later that month, Dolphin added support for RetroAchievements on GameCube games.[101] On June 4, 2025, Dolphin added support forWii Speak emulation and game requestedanisotropic filtering.[102] In February 2026,Triforce arcade system support was merged into mainline Dolphin.[28] In March of 2026, Dolphin will add RetroAchievements support for Wii games.[citation needed]
Features of Dolphin include the ability to start games regardless ofregion, recordtool-assisted speedruns,[103][104][105] and the use ofcheat codes withAction Replay and Gecko. Functions of the originalGameCube controllers andWii Remotes can be mapped to PC controllers.[106][107] The emulator allows for the use of real GameCube controllers through the use of aUSB adapter[108][19] and Wii Remotes throughBluetooth connection.[109] Controller expansions are also supported, including theWii MotionPlus adapter,Nunchuk,Classic Controller, Guitar, Drums, and Turntable.[110]
Two kinds of network play are supported by Dolphin: Emulated local multiplayer[111] andNintendo Wi-Fi Connection.[112] The first only works among Dolphin users. It applies to games that by default have no online option. The second kind is for online gameplay forWFC supported Wii games with other Dolphin users as well as real Wii users.[48][113][112]
Game progress can be saved on virtualGameCube Memory Cards, emulatedWii flash memory, andsave states. Dolphin features a Memory Card Manager which allows transfer of save files to and from virtual GameCube memory cards.[114]
In conjunction with an integratedGame Boy Advance emulator, Dolphin supportslinking GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles.[89]
Dolphin does not require Wii Remotes or Nunchuks for all games. For example,New Super Mario Bros. Wii requires a Wii Remote, or Wii Remote + Nunchuk for the Wii hardware console, but any controller can be used to play the game from Dolphin.

Dolphin is backwards compatible withWiiWare andVirtual Console titles. This includes platforms such as theNintendo Entertainment System,Super Nintendo,Nintendo 64,TurboGrafx-16 (or TurboGrafx-CD),Sega Master System,Sega Genesis,SNK Neo Geo, and theCommodore 64. TheMSX is exclusive only to theNTSC-J region. For the full library of all Virtual Console titles seeLists of Virtual Console games.

Like many other console emulators on PC, Dolphin supports arbitrary resolutions,[59][115][116] whereas the GameCube and Wii only support up to480p,[117] or576i if EU firmware is run.
Dolphin can load customizedtexture maps.[27] These can also be of higher resolution than the original textures.[118] The emulator also has the ability to export a game's textures in order for graphic artists to modify them.
Dolphin can outputstereoscopic 3D graphics on any platform Dolphin runs. Special hardware such asNvidia 3D Vision is also supported. The ability to play games in stereoscopic 3D is a feature the original consoles never had,[119] although Nintendo did originally plan to release a stereoscopic 3D add-on screen for the GameCube.[120]
Additional features to further enhance the graphics quality are also available. Dolphin supportsspatial anti-aliasing,anisotropic filtering, post-processing pixelshaders, and awidescreen hack for forcing widescreen output on games that do not support it natively.[121] Games can also achieve higher-than-intendedframes per second.[122]
The Dolphin emulator has been well received by the gaming community, with the program's ability to run games at a higher resolution than the GameCube and Wii's native 480p resolution receiving particular praise from the gaming community.[123][115][116][124]PC Gamer editor Wes Fenlon called it "one of the only emulators to make many games better" and praised it for continually "making major, sometimes huge improvements to compatibility and performance".[35]Wololo.net praised the system's high compatibility.[125]
Dolphin has been used by some people as a tool to mitigate certain shortcomings for gamers; in 2012, business owner and father Mike Hoye, who had been playingThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with his daughter and realized that the game referred to the main character as a male individual regardless of the inputted name, changed all of the game's cutscene dialogue text to refer to a girl instead of a boy by editing it through a hex editor, testing out the game's ISO using Dolphin.[126] The emulator's Netplay feature has been described byArs Technica to be serving as an alternative to the discontinuedNintendo Wi-Fi Connection.[112]
As of March 2017[update], Dolphin has approximately50000 daily active users, according to Dolphin'sopt-inanalytics.[27]

A version of Dolphin made to emulate theTriforce arcade system titledDolphin Triforce was in development by the Dolphin team, but was eventually disabled after development priorities shifted and the feature became unmaintained.[73] Downloads of Dolphin Triforce are still available from the website[127] and the source code is available from GitHub in a dedicated repository.[128]
In 2026, Triforce support was merged into mainline Dolphin.[28]
Dolphin VR is athird-party project aimed to extend Dolphin with the ability to play games "invirtual reality with accurate life-size scale, full FOV [field of view], a 3D HUD, independent aiming, and the ability to look around".[129]HTC Vive andOculus Rift are supported.[130]
PC Gamer tested a few games with Dolphin VR.Metroid Prime andF-Zero GX received especially high praise with one editor feeling "childlike wonder when playing Metroid Prime in VR" and another stating that "F-Zero [is] the thing that sold me on Dolphin VR".[130]
The latest release is 5.0[131] and the source code is hosted onGitHub.[132]
TheFree Software Foundation maintains the position that GPL software cannot be combined with Oculus SDK's license.[133]

DolphiniOS is athird-partyfork[134] of Dolphin forApple iOS.[135] It is not available on theApp Store, instead being distributed through aCydia repository forjailbroken devices, anAltStore and a SideStore repository, or anIPA package forsideloading.[136][137]
DolphiniOS used to be monetized by having beta releases be available earlier toPatreons; their Patreon program has been paused as of 6 October 2020[update] and they claim that they are now permanently discontinuing this practice.[138] Along with this they also announced that the project would be going on hiatus due to the lead developer going on break.[138][139]
The first pre-release version went public on 9 December 2019[140] with the 1.0 release following a week later.[137] Version 2.0 has been released only a month later on 9 January 2020. The 2.0 version supports physical controllers, among other new features.[141]Version 3.0 was released on the 20 June 2020.[142] Notable new features include the ability to display your games in a grid, the ability to update the Wii System Menu like on the desktop version of Dolphin, the ability to install WAD files to the Wii NAND and the ability to change disc while the emulator is running.[142] Versions 3.1.1 and 3.2.0 beta 1 have been released since the hiatus announcement. Rumble and motion control support was added forDualShock 4s and DolphiniOS now functions properly for users of the Odyssey jailbreak.[143]
A writer from Wololo.net wrote regarding the performance of DolphiniOS: "On my iPad Pro 10.5-inch (A10X),Mario Kart Wii works pretty well and playing through the first two tracks of the Mushroom Cup provided excellent results!"[144]
The source code is hosted onGitHub.[145]

In reaction to theremoval of Direct3D 9 support, Dolphin developer Tino created an unofficialfork calledIshiiruka on 18 October 2013.[146] The name is Japanese forDall's porpoise.[147] Although the focus is Windows with Direct3D 9 and 11 support,[148] Linux versions also exist.[149][150]
The fork attempts to remedy performance problems present in Dolphin such as microstuttering due toshader compilation,[151] however, it relies on asynchronous shader compilation to achieve this, which is not a full solution and in some cases results in pop in.[152] Ishiiruka serves as base for the canonical client of theSuper Smash Bros. Meleenetplay communitiesFaster Melee[153] andSmashLadder.[154]
John Linneman ofEurogamer talks in the October 2016Metroid Prime episode of theirDigital Foundry Retro video series about Ishiiruka. He compares playingMetroid Prime via Ishiiruka to playing it on original hardware, Wii and GameCube, andupstream Dolphin. Linneman argues that "the benefits [of emulation] kind of outweigh any of the smaller issues that you might encounter". He continues to point out features of Ishiiruka that "allow you to push the visuals beyond what you can achieve using standard Dolphin. For instance, you can add lots of cool additional enhancements likedepth of field,ambient occlusion, various types ofcolor correction and a whole lot more [...]. It's also worth noting that this version of Dolphin helps avoid the shader compilation stutters that plagued the official release of the emulator and it leads to a much more fluid experience."[151]
As with Dolphin, development is hosted onGitHub.[155]
PrimeHack is a version of Dolphin created by shiiion that has been modified to playMetroid Prime: Trilogy on PC with keyboard and mouse controls.[156] Two variants exist of PrimeHack – one is based onIshiiruka,[157] the other one on Dolphin proper.[158] The latter is as of October 2019 the focus of development[159] after it laid dormant between February and October 2019.
The source code is hosted on GitHub.[157][158]
DolphinUWP is a third-party fork of Dolphin forXbox One,Xbox One S,Xbox One X,Xbox Series S andXbox Series X. This version of Dolphin Emulator is not available for download through theMicrosoft Store, and requires the use of developer mode on the Xbox console.[160]
The source code is hosted on GitHub.[161]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[…] Nintendo GameCube system actually had 3D-compatible circuitry built in. […] Nintendo GameCube could display 3D images if you attached a special LCD, but that special liquid crystal was really expensive back then.
what is the best way to play Metroid Prime today? […] I actually think in this case emulation is a pretty good option. Yes, I'm talking about Dolphin here which has come a long way – with games like Metroid Prime benefiting greatly in the process now. It's not yet flawless, mind you, but the benefits kind of outweigh any of the smaller issues that you might encounter. And, of course, while the standard version of Dolphin certainly gets the job done, I'm actually playing the game here using an unofficial Ishiiruka version of Dolphin which adds a ton of unique features that allow you to push the visuals beyond what you can achieve using standard Dolphin. For instance, you can add lots of cool additional enhancements like depth of field, ambient occlusion, various types of color correction and a whole lot more […]. It's also worth noting that this version of Dolphin helps avoid the shader compilation stutters that plagued the official release of the emulator and it leads to a much more fluid experience. All around and as you can see the end results are pretty much excellent the game is sharper and cleaner than ever before.
I'm happy to announce that PrimeHack is now offered on the Mainline Branch of Dolphin (aka latest, non ishiiruka). […] From now on we shall focus our updates onto the Mainline branch. This doesn't mean Ishiiruka has been abandoned, and it will still be supported. However it will no longer be our priority.