Simple Noob question

[Memory-sniper]

I don't have a working cd-drive. Can I still play games with dolphin. I'm looking to play twilight princess. Also is it legal if you actually own the game? I have TP but no gamecube or working drive so this really kinda sucks. Help is appreciated .

[NepSquare]

Well, it is "illegal" when you play the original disc in another system than what it's meant to be played on. Even if you use a backup.

But we are not playing here

There's no piracy involved anyway, you are not exactly infringing copyrights of the media, but actually the gamecube itself. I don't know what to call that, but probably if shit hits the fan on a big scale, Big N can say they lost income on sales of gamcubes due to people being able to play the games on another system. That's the "illegal" part.

But this is something different, I see the emulation community as something educational, and we use it also that way... Sometimes people mistake Dolphin with commercial or other software, but it's purpose is different.

So educate yourself, and njoy what you learn and know that this is not a way to be able to "play" GC games on pc, but it's a gateway that interpets software in a totally different way....And I must say, I like the possabilities.

Just one side note before I start to help this thread, and I'd like not to get in a discussion about this one BUT:
--Owning the game that you made a backup from doesn't matter, if we are talking about emulation: No GC involved nor do you ever "play" your backup.
--Not owning a game but deleting it after 24hrs is pure cr@p. I've never seen so many disclaimers on R0m sites since one guy thought of this one. Nowhere on the planet there's a written law for this. People just copy eachother, that's it.

So, all "legal" stuff aside, if you don't own a gamecube (no exploit possability) nor a >DVD< drive, then you are not able to load the medium onto your pc. And that means....yeah.
Making a backup at a friend's house is illegal, just kidding, it's doable.

Peace,

Nepsi.

[emwearz]

Well, it is "illegal" when you play the original disc in another system than what it's meant to be played on.

Thats totally false.
(example, it is perfectly legal to use pcsx2 as long as you own the console from which you dumped the bios from and the original game).

[NepSquare]

You're right, you mean in that case the console manufacturor and the game distributor wouldn't suffer any loss, everybody wins. Thx!

[Tyseah]

Good evening everyone (or should I write "morning" ? xD)
Well, I'm posting in this topic as I have a noob question and I thought it good not to open a new topic for such a stupid question.
Then, here's the question : Which version of Dolphin do I have to download if I have an Intel Core 2 Duo with a 32-bit Vista ?

[Agozer]

The regular one. The new x64 build with dual core optimizations doesn't work with a 32-bit operating system.

[[SS] Starscream]

Thats totally false.
(example, it is perfectly legal to use pcsx2 as long as you own the console from which you dumped the bios from and the original game).

It's not false. GC games were made to be used ONLY on the GC and anything else is not what was intended and therefore we are using their software in an illegal way.

If they wanted us to use their software on whatever we wanted to use it on they would have made GC discs run on a simple DVD drive with our PC's. If they wanted us to play mario games on our PC's they would have released PC versions of all their games, but they did not.

Now, i don't think it is as bad as not even owning the game and stealing the download online, but i still believe Nintendo would not approve of this.

I think as long as people believe in their own minds that they are not doing anything illegal then it's ok with them.

[Toasty]

GC games were made to be used ONLY on the GC and anything else is not what was intended and therefore we are using their software in an illegal way.

Wrong. If that were true it would be illegal to play GC games on a Wii too.

[NepSquare]

Nope, that IS a licensed Nintendo Console, a pc isn't.

[[SS] Starscream]

Wrong. If that were true it would be illegal to play GC games on a Wii too.

What kind of silly argument is that?

Nintendo made the Wii and wanted GC games to be used with the Wii. What you just said makes absolutely no sense.