Dolphin is the best well known emulator for the Gamecube system. It's always worth a download and test drive the games on your machine. I've seen the Dolphin handle several games very well and play a few without fault. Packed with various features, Dolphin is always a great download. View their website in order to test a new version for 64-bit processors.

EmulatorPro Rating: 5 / 5

Latest Version: 1.03.2 beta

Website Link: http://www.dolphin-emu.com/downloads.php

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Dolphin was the first Gamecube emulator to successfully run commercial games. It can run quite a few, albeit very slowly, on a standard PC with a modern graphics card (needs support for Pixel Shader 2.0 functionality) but the emulation is far from perfect. Sound emulation is not fully implemented, and is missing a lot of sound effects and music. Dolphin's team promises better performance in the near future. Dolphin is now able to use mouse/keyboard and joypad/joystick. The latest release is Dolphin Final 1.03.2 x64 BETA 3. The new version was announced in late 2006, showing screenshots of various games running at 15-30 frames per second . This new version is only compatible with 64-bit computers and is optimized to work with dual-core processors (It still works with single-core processors as well). It will be capable to run most games at a maximum of 30 frames per second, provided one has a 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista.

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