Dolphin's official logo.

Dolphin's game list and netplay interfaces.

Dolphin is aNintendo GameCube andWii emulator supported on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. It can runSuper Smash Bros. Melee andSuper Smash Bros. Brawl, albeit with minor graphical and performance issues not present on original hardware,^[1][2]Super Smash Bros. via the Wii'sVirtual Console, as well asmods, includingProject M andProject+. Dolphin's stability and enhancement options makes it the most viable option for emulating the supported systems.

Dolphin also features many graphical and gameplay features unavailable in the original consoles. These most notably include input recording and replaying fortool-assisted superplays, texturefile replacement and extraction, and nativenetplay functionality.

Despite popular belief, Dolphin software in isolation is not inherently illegal to own and operate. In the United States, several lawsuits have ruled in favor of emulators falling under fair use, such asSega v. Accolade in 1992 and Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment America v. Bleem in 2000, as well as theDigital Millennium Copyright Act declaring emulators as exempt from standard copyright protections. However, most methods to obtain games in a format that can actually be played on an emulator are considered piracy, which is illegal, so players are often warned to use emulation at their own discretion.

See also[edit]

• File replacement
• Tool-assisted superplay

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Dolphin's official site
• Official Dolphin Wiki

• Hacking
• Consoles
• Technology
• Emulators