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DolphiniOS dev says barring just-in-time compilation prevents playable performance.
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DolphiniOS dev says barring just-in-time compilation prevents playable performance.
Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to contact lawyers first to make sure that our understanding of the situation was legally sound. That took some time, which was frustrating to ourselves and to our users, but now we are educated and ready to give an informed response.
GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is no longer coming to Steam, as the team behind it is "abandoning [its] efforts]".
The emulator Dolphin had just been on Steam since March. Long-time gamers tend to feel nostalgic about the games they had as a kid and find themselves wanting to play them again.