You should ask on the dolphin or ngemu forums for an answer instead. EPSXe is plugin based, and has some really nice plugins that enhance. After a whole day of searching, I finally found out I need my BIOS and I cant. Dolphin is an open-source Nintendo GameCube and Wii Emulator for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (Intel-based). It is the first emulator to successfully run commercial GameCube and Wii games, and is still the only emulator capable of running commercial Wii games.

The GameCube's Main Menu, commonly known as the GameCube BIOS, is the Initial Program Loader (IPL) of the GameCube and its top level interface, allowing the player to load discs, change settings, and manage up to two memory cards at once. To access these features, the player must either hold A on controller 1, have no disc inserted, or have the lid open as the GameCube logo animates.

Dolphin does not include the GameCube Main Menu by default, and it doesn't need it; it is able to launch games straight from the Dolphin GUI. However, the GameCube Main Menu is fully functional and even capable of launching games.

• 1Emulation Information
• 2Problems
• 3Configuration

Emulation Information

Accessing the Menu

As a prerequisite, you must first dump a copy of IPL.bin from a GameCube console. Then disable Skip BIOS in the Dolphin settings. To access the menu from launching a GameCube game, load any GameCube game of the appropriate region, and hold A as the GameCube logo animates. 5.0-3902 added the ability to boot directly to the menu from the Dolphin menu.

Inserting a Disc / Changing Discs

To insert a disc or change discs, right click on any game in the game list and select 'Change Disc', or use File > Change Disc. The GameCube menu has regional lockout mechanism in place, so when there's a region difference between the GameCube menu and disc, you will receive the message 'The disc could not be read'.

Cheats, Savestates, Game INIs Not Working After Disc Change

When emulating a GameCube, Dolphin only recognizes the first thing loaded as the game that is being played. So while changing the disc during the GameCube BIOS menu, for example, Super Smash Bros. Melee was loaded from the Game List, and then change disc and load Super Mario Sunshine, the game cheats, game-specific settings, and even any savestates made will be for Melee and not Super Mario Sunshine.

Problems

Disc Swapping Hang

Since at least 5.0-9241, when using Dolphin's 'Change Disc' feature in the GameCube Main Menu, switching between certain combinations of discs will cause the menu to hang. This does not occur on Interpreter. See issue 11503.

Flickering/Stretchy Menu

The start up animation and menu will stretch and distort unless XFB is enabled, either virtual or real will correct for this issue. Fixed with Hybrid XFB in 5.0-5874.

Missing Music/Incorrect Audio

Despite the fixes 4.0-7286 made to the DSP HLE sound by more accurately emulating Zelda ucode, music and effects in the IPL are still missing or distorted. Needs DSP LLE for proper audio. Refer issue 7980. Fixed in 5.0-4452

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

General

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with GameCube Main Menu since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Gameplay Videos

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