A few questions

[Ksonic]

Hi. I am generally new to gamecube emulation, as I only just recently aquired a decent machine. I've ripped a bunch of my games to my pc and many are playable, perhaps a bit slow, but decent. My questions are, a. Should most games not have sound- Most of mine, except ssbm, do not. And b. Is super paper mario playable(wii)? I tried to play my rip and got to a screen that instructed me to tip my wiimote sideways, which I was obviously not able to do.



Thanks.

Specs:
2 gb 1100mhz ram
2.0Ghz dual core amd athlon64
512 mb pcie ati radeon x1900
Lg 8163b DVD reader
Other stuff

[MasterPhW]

Long questions, short answers:
a. Yes
b. No
addition to a.) because the sound hardware isn't documented well enough, most non Nintendo games are without sound, because they use a different music format
to. b.) Wii Input isn't emulated yet, they work on it! =)

[cerebus5]

Don't bother trying to play Wii games yet, it's quite a ways from being ready. Main thing as masterphw says is the emulation of the remote.

[Ksonic]

O ok thanks. Also, I hear that nVidia cards are better for GC emulation, as they have better support for OGL. So, is it worth it to sell my ati x1900 and buy an nVidia?

If so, any recommendations? I would buy on ebay and purchase for a max of 100 US dollars.

[cooliscool]

You could buy a gamecube and games with $100....

But yes, having an nVidia card is optimal, but I wouldn't call it significant enough to go through the effort you're describing.

[Ksonic]

I actually do have a Wii and gamecube games.

However, is it likely for ati support to improve?

[cerebus5]

Improved ATI support is dependent upon their own willingness to work on the Opengl drivers. But I think they have been recently recognising the need to work on their drivers so there is hope.

[p_025]

I think historically, NVidia has had worse support for OpenGL. However, the Dolphin team are using NVidia's OpenGL SDK or something, so naturally it still works better on NVidia cards.

[NepSquare]

I beg to differ on that last note, not even the FireGL in it's time could compete with the Nvidia's chipsets at that time in rendering openGL... Even before that actually.

On topic:
@MasterPHW: I actually get more sound from third party games, due to them using more common sound formats...

[cooliscool]

I beg to differ on that last note, not even the FireGL in it's time could compete with the Nvidia's chipsets at that time in rendering openGL... Even before that actually.

Yep, seconded.