Nintendo Gamecube emulators

Nintendo Gamecube emulators

Nintendo's first ever console to use an optical disk system for loading games is the 128-bit Gamecube. It competes with Sony's Playstation 2 and Microsoft's XBox.

Specs:

• Contemporary cube shape
• 4 controller ports
• 2 memory card slots
• Capacity for future modem/broadband connection
• 485MHz custom CPU with 162MHz custom graphics processor
• 40MB total memory; 2.6 GB per second memory bandwidth
• 12M polygons per second; texture read bandwidth 10.4 GB per second
• 64 audio channels
• Dimensions 4.5" x 5.9" x 6.3"
• 3-inch Optical Disc Technology (1.5 gigabytes)

Be warned that there have been many fake emulators, so be careful when you download one from any site other than ours.

• Gcube
  
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• WhineCube
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• GCEmu
  
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• Dolwin
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• Dolphin(our reccomendation)
  

Gcube

Gcube

Gcube is an open source gamecube emulator beeing developed with the main purpose of running at least one commercial game fully emulated. The emulator doesn\'t run any comercial games yet and the current release is aimed at homebrewn programs.

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File	Platform	License	Date	Size
Gcube 0.3	Windows	Freeware	Dec 5, 2004	1389 Kb.

WhineCube

WhineCube

Yet another Game Cube emulator for Windows written using C++. WhineCube is able to load and execute DOL, ELF or GCM format executables with graphics, pad, DVD and sound emulation. Requirements: windows xp or later. Latest DirectX available. A graphics card that support D3DFMT_YUY2 conversion (something like a GeForce 256 or newer). This emulator does not run any commercial games yet, but you can try a few homebrew such as Pong pong.dol and Wireee wireee.dol. You can find a compatibility list at the official site. Some of them may require a cache hack.

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File	Platform	License	Date	Size
WhineCube Release 7	Windows	Freeware	Jul 26, 2005	483 Kb.
d3dx9_25.dll	Windows	Freeware	Jul 26, 2005	1043 Kb.

GCEmu

GCEmu

GCEmu is a very incomplete emulator for the Nintendo Gamecube. It uses recompilation techniques and other tricks to achieve a reasonable speed. Although emulation is very incomplete, it shows that 'it can be done' and can be done at a decent speed. Text taken from the official site.

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File	Platform	License	Date	Size
GCEmu 20051211	Windows	Freeware	Feb 8, 2006	3069 Kb.

Dolwin

Dolwin

Dolwin is an open source Game Cube emulator fully written with C. Even though it's still under development you can still be able to boot and run some commercial games and a few demos. This comes with a demo that you can play to test the emulator. Since the Game Cube system is still new to emulate it perfectly, remember not to expect a good emulation with commercial games, some may run and some may not.

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File	Platform	License	Date	Size
Dolwin 0.10 The first ever GC emu released.	Windows	Freeware	Jan 10, 2005	831 Kb.

Dolphin

Dolphin

Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Even at its early stage some games manage to load and run but not perfectly. Please remember that Dolphin is an experimental GameCube emulator so many games might not run and for the ones that do run you will need a strong PC.. Dolphi now also makes progress in emulating Wii games. System requirements: GFX: Radeon 9500+ series card recommended, but GE FORCE FX SERIES also work. Expect severe graphics problems with lower cards. CPU: The fastest you can find. RAM: 256MB or higher strongly recommended. Audio: Any Windows/DirectX-compatible soundcard.

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File	Platform	License	Date	Size
Dolphin Unofficial SVN build 1546 Gamecube Emulator	Windows	Freeware	Dec 20, 2008	6000 Kb.
msvcr71.dll 7.1 The emulator might need this to run.	Windows	Freeware	Jan 25, 2004	178 Kb.