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skeletalheartattack · 2 years ago

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i was able to get twilight princess wii version working on the dolphin emulator. it was a little tricky though. certain actions like catching fish required me to map a specific button to do the wiimote wiggles the game wanted. also there were graphical issues that i had to download a mod or something to fix. but. other than that i was able to play it! so theres an option for ya

sadly the issue i always run into isn't gameplay-related, it's usually performance related, since my laptop is roughly from 2007 or so. most games i try to emulate that are within the range of gamecube-ps2 era (and anything beyond) usually run below double digit frames.

#ask #catboygirljoker #hence why id rather a physical copy than emulation in this case #ik i can probably mod my wii but. id rather not ruin my wii honestly #my old laptop was able to handle emulation really well #when i played animal crossing city folk. i modded the entire controls to an xbox controller (since its a wii game)#and i had a button used for enabling wii cursor movements (for typing and using my inventory) to the joystick #which. honestly feels better to use for typing with a controller? like you hold R1 and move the joystick around and press A #which. makes me wonder why no ones tried it for current age typing with controller(?)#i dont have any new consoles so for all ik they already do that #but yeah. ive tried playing games im absolutely itching to play from my childhood but cant due to my hardware issues #it makes me want to implode honestly #the curses of having a laptop that does. okay at most things. but playing games isnt one #especially in a field where game devs dont really care too much about the person with the laptop from two decades ago #its sad but. i cant do anything about it #i cant even play current day gmod for example. i have to resort back to gmod 12.#which is a little saddening because some old addons (like playX) dont work anymore for gmod 12 #most ive been doing in gmod 12 is just personalizing it for myself. have a stupid joke where i call it gammy's mod 2001 xp vista #had like 4 people ask me what it was #i only have CSS and HL2DM ''mounted'' atm. tf2 would be such a pain to port honestly.#primarily because gmod 12 is a sourcemod so it doesnt actively look for file directories. instead it looks in source sdk base 2007 #so you gotta copy all your files from those games there. and i dont have lots of space #anyway i really do appreciate your ask!!!! my situation is just. complicated.

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