times its price while remaining within the reach of ARM of a powerful desktop computer. It absolutely wipes out a two-and-a-half-year-old MacBook Pro that was more than three years old. “There’s no denying it,” the Dolphin Emulator team wrote in a blog post, “macOS M1 hardware kicks in seriously. Dolphin Emulator Project - Website Source Code - Privacy. Dolphin’s ARM support is not as comprehensive as emulation on 64-bit x86 hardware, but performance is already excellent in most games. Merge pull request 6234 from amolloy/highsierra Fix Wiimote support on macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Dolphin can now run natively on Apple M1 hardware, and new fixes for Mali’s GPU emulation mean more games than ever run well on Android devices.ĭolphin just added native support for Apple’s M1 chipsets late last month, using the project’s AArch64 JIT (Just-In-Time) emulation core which was developed for Android and Windows on ARM. The Android port has been around for years, and over the past couple of months the Dolphin Emulator team has been working on a few big changes.
Dolphin is the best emulator for playing Nintendo GameCube and Wii games, and it’s not just available on desktop computers.