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How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Vega - 06-05-2018 How to Install Dolphin Emulator
Intro & Requirements Dolphin Emulator is software installed on your computer that emulates the Nintendo Wii and its games. This tutorial will install the latest Developer Version of Dolphin onto your computer. There are what is known as 'Stable' versions for installation. But these versions aren't all that stable, and they are very very outdated. Computer Requirements: 8 GB RAM or higher Basic intel i5 processor or better NOTE: Once you have completed this guide and have Dolphin installed, view this guide HERE to learn how to apply cheat codes in Dolphin. Installing For Windows: NOTE: For Windows 8 or later The development versions require the 64-bit Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 to be installed. Link - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads Go to the Download page of the Dolphin website - https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ Scroll down to Development Versions. The version listed at top is the most recent. Click on the blue Windows x64 button to download. The download package will be in 7z format, you will need some third party archiver/extractor (such as WinRAR). Extract the download. You will see an application named Dolphin.exe. This is the application you would run to launch Dolphin. Launch the exe file. Dolphin should boot. If not, you will need to use Google or search on the Dolphin Forums to remedy the problem as it can be a result of various things. If Dolphin boots, but the game cannot play in full 60fps, it may be an issue with a cheap Graphics card or the processor is not good enough. If Dolphin boots and plays your games at 60fps, you are done. Congratz! Installing For Linux (Ubuntu or Debian only) For Linux installations of Dev versions of Dolphin, Dolphin must be built from source. NOTICE: For Ubuntu, you must be on version 18.04 or later (there is a special note for 20.04 on Step 3). For Debian, you must be on Debian 10 or later. The information on this thread is from this Dolphin wiki page - HERE Refer to that wiki page or post a reply here if you are stuck on a step. Let's begin. 1. Update, Upgrade, etc, etc. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean The above command will update and upgrade everything for your Linux OS plus delete/wipe any unneeded cache and/or dependencies If you had to preform any upgrades, be sure to reboot your computer - sudo reboot 2. Install the Necessary Dependencies sudo apt-get install cmake pkg-config git libao-dev libasound2-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libbluetooth-dev libenet-dev libgtk2.0-dev liblzo2-dev libminiupnpc-dev libopenal-dev libpulse-dev libreadline-dev libsfml-dev libsoil-dev libsoundtouch-dev libswscale-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev portaudio19-dev zlib1g-dev libudev-dev libevdev-dev "libpolarssl-dev|libmbedtls-dev" libcurl4-openssl-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libpng-dev qtbase5-private-dev The above command may take about 10 minutes to complete. 3. Install More Dependecies sudo apt-get install git cmake pkg-config gcc libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxext-dev libreadline-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libevdev-dev libudev-dev libasound-dev libpulse-dev libao-dev libopenal-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libenet-dev liblzo2-dev libminiupnpc-dev libsoil-dev libsoundtouch-dev libsfml-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libbluetooth-dev libxrandr-dev NOTE: For Ubuntu 20.04 replace libwxgtk3.0-dev with libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev 4. Make the script Dolphin wiki provides an excellent script that will build the source code for you. Obviously if you are experienced with building source code, you can build it without the script In your home user directory, make a folder called 'DolphinScript'. Inside DolphinScript, make a blank file called script.sh Open script.sh with any basic editor and enter this in.. #!/bin/bash DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )" getdolphin() { echo 'Downloading Dolphin...' git clone https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin.git } updatedolphin() { cd $DIR/dolphin echo 'Updating the local repository...' git pull origin } build() { cmake $DIR/dolphin make } updatedolphin || getdolphin mkdir $DIR/build cd $DIR/build build && echo 'Compiled successfully.' || exit echo 'Proceeding to the installation; press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel.' read if [ $(whoami) == "root" ]; then make install else sudo make install fi 5. Running the script First we need to make the script executable, open a terminal and cd to /home/youruser/DolphinScript Run this command - sudo chmod +x script.sh Now run the script! sudo ./script.sh This process is lengthy and can take as long as an hour. But if you have good specs and high RAM, it should only take 15 - 20 minutes. You will be prompted to press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel. Press Enter to finish the script. 6. Booting Dolphin Once the script is done, simply run this command - dolphin-emu Dolphin Emulator will launch, click the Open button and choose an iso/wbfs to play. Congratz. It's recommended to install your own NAND and some other things, which will be covered in other guides. 7. Future Use and Other Notes Please do NOT change the location or names of the folders/directories of where your source code files are stored. This can cause Dolphin to break. It will also disable all future upgrades. Please also note that even though there is a script provided to upgrade Dolphin, if you have your Dolphin working 100%, then i do NOT recommend upgrading unless it is needed to fix an issue/bug. How to Upgrade Dolphin: Simply re-run the script. The master git hub tree will be viewed, and updates will be installed if there are any. RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Vega - 08-09-2019 UPDATE: Aug 9, 2019 ![]() THIS IS FOR Debian 10 Dolphin Users Installing From Source-- My old Dolphin build (some 82XX version) finally broke when I updated the computer to Debian 10, not surprised. I decided to install the latest Dev version from Source today (version 10829 at the time during install). It appeared to compile fine. However, I get a segmentation fault no matter what when trying to boot dolphin. Luckily I have some archived versions of Dolphin for Linux (since the Dolphin site only keeps archives for Windows, MAC, and Android). I had dev version 10413. Compiled it, and it works! So I have no idea why the latest version didn't work. There's no way I can diagnose this problem. So if you are on Debian 10 like me, and your Dolphin works fine, UPDATE AT YOUR OWN RISK. If your dolphin is not working, regardless of the situation, you can try the current latest dev version, it might fail. If so, contact me, I can give you the source package for 10413. RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Espion17 - 07-31-2020 Hello. Just a question. for the windows installation guide, what is the purpose of the first link? Thanks RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - JoshuaMK - 08-01-2020 It's a package dolphin needs to run iirc RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Vega - 08-01-2020 That link use to be on the Dolphin Downloads page. It was recommended by the Dolphin team to install on Windows if you wanted to run a dev version of Dolphin. RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Mango Man - 11-29-2020 Just a note for installing dependencies on Ubuntu, it seems that in 20.04 they renamed `libwxgtk3.0-dev` to `libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev`, which caused me a bit of a headache RE: How to Install Dolphin Emulator - Vega - 11-29-2020 Note added |