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How to install Dolphin Emulator in Ubuntu

Install Dolphin Game Emulator in Ubuntu

Dolphin is a free source emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games. It saves the state of game and reload/resume it whenever necessary. It allows you to Play games on maximum resolution and in high definition. Installation of Dolphin is explained in this manual.
It requires Direct3D 10 / OpenGL 3 and 64-bit CPUs.

To install Dolphin Game Emulator

Run the following command to add the repository.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:dolphin-emu/ppa 
 Unofficial builds for Dolphin Wii/Gamecube Emulator.
Install the dolphin-emu package for the latest stable release of Dolphin.
&hellip 
&hellip 
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


Then update the system by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get update 
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolphin-emu/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.1 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]    
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                                   
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                       
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolphin-emu/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,512 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolphin-emu/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [32 B]                      
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolphin-emu/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [548 B]
Fetched 115 kB in 1s (87.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done


Run the following command to install the dolphin emulator.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install dolphin-emu 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
&hellip 
&hellip 
Setting up dolphin-emu (5.0+r1~21~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

To open the dolphin emulator

Click and search the dolphin emulator from the unity dash.


Choose the Controller Settings to configure game cube controllers.

Click configure to proceed further.

Click config interface and then hit on the general tab to know about the general settings.

Then click Interface tab to know about interface settings.

To configure audio, hit Audio settings

Click on Gamecube settings to know about Gamecube.

To make changes in Wii settings, click wii.

Game ISO path settings can be viewed by hitting paths tab.

Graphics settings

Advanced settings

OpenGL settings

Supported game file formats

Tag : Dolphin Emulator
FAQ
Q
How much RAM do I need to run Dolphin?
A
2GB or more is recommended. RAM speed or the amount of RAM generally has no affect on emulation speed.
Q
What is the system requirement for the Dolphin Emulator?
A
Here I have to give some of the system requirement for the Dolphin Emulator,
System : Host Name, Kernel version, Architecture, Desktop & Distribution
Machine : Motherboard & Bios information
CPU : Processor Name and core
Graphics : Graphics card info
Network : Network card info
Drives : HDD size and used percent
Info : Total process count, Server Uptime, Memory total and used, inxi version
Q
What are the operating systems will support the Dolphin Emulator?
A
Dolphin is a cross-platform emulator that runs on Windows (7 SP1 and newer), Linux, and macOS (10.10 Yosemite and up). For their ease of use and additional graphics backend options, Windows i
Q
Which GPU do I need for installing the Dolphin Emulator?
A
NVIDIA,
AMD,
Intel
Q
How to install Dolphin Emulator on Linux?
A
"Windows build instructions"
"Linux/macOS build instructions"