If you face any installation challenges or errors, please feel free to hit the comments below. Additionally, this emulator gives you tonnes of features and settings to tweak your games and enhance your gaming experience. With Dolphin setup and running on your Ubuntu system, you are now ready to enjoy playing amazing games from Nintendo’s latest consoles – Wii and Gamecube.
If you installed Dolphin via PPA, follow the steps below:ġ. If you installed Dolphin with the Snap package manager, execute the command below: sudo snap remove dolphin-emulator We will look at two methods of removing/ uninstalling the Dolphin Emulator from your Ubuntu system. It also saves your game data, and you can pick up from where you left. Once you have selected your game-file, Dolphin will open the game on a new window, and you can play it as if you were using Gamecube or Wii. Dolphin supports various file extensions, including elf, dol, iso, gcm, ciso, wbfs, gcz, wad, and All Gamecube and Wii files. Then click on the Open button and select your game file. To play a game with Dolphin, you first need to have a Wii or Gamecube game-file downloaded on your PC. At the far right, you have the graphics and controller settings. You have the Open button, which enables you to open your games and a few controls that you can use to allow smooth gaming sessions. Click ‘YES’ to accept or ‘NO’ to decline, sharing any data.ĭolphin presents quite a clean and easy-to-navigate window. You will see a pop-up window telling you that Dolphin will collect data on the application’s overall performance. To get started with Dolphin, navigate to the Applications menu and open Dolphin Emulator. If the installation completes successfully, you should be able to launch Dolphin from the applications menu.
Once you have Snap package manager installed, you can proceed to install Dolphin Emulator with the command below: sudo snap install dolphin-emulator
Type your Ubuntu password when prompted, then press Enter to confirm the addition of the Dolphin package into your system. Sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dolphin-emu/ppa