Dolphin/Gecko Codes These are the standalone codes for UCF that can be used in Dolphin or injected into other Melee mods. NOTE: Dolphin has a limit to the number of codes that can be enabled at once. Since UCF is a large code, having too many other codes enabled may cause UCF. Dolphin is a GameCube and Wii emulator with high compatibility across the majority of titles for both platforms. It was first developed as closed source in 2003, and as open source since 2008. When Dolphin went open-source in 2008, it was released under the GPLv2 license. However it has since been. Okay, I'm still really new with Dolphin, I've been playing some Super Smash Bros. Melee through this because my old memory card got corrupted and unusable. I downloaded a save file from GameFAQs, the very first one listed under Gamecube USB Memory Adapter Save (North America) here. In Dolphin, just right click your Melee ISO and hit properties, then navigate to the Gecko Codes tab. If there are no codes, hit the 'Download Codes (WiiRD Database)' button near the bottom right. Select codes to unlock every character/stage, and you're all set.
Dolphin is a dual core application that relies upon IPC (Instructions Per Clock) and clockspeed for performance. Additional cores will not make Dolphin go any faster, though an 'extra' core that Dolphin isn’t using may help slightly by keeping background tasks from using the same cores as Dolphin.

Accordingly, the perfect CPU for Dolphin has high IPC, a high clock rate, and four cores or more. With four cores, Dolphin has two cores for the main emulation threads, a third core for other tasks, and another core for the operating system and background tasks to run without taking resources from the emulator.
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Intel: For the most part, newer is better when it comes to Intel processors. Within a single generation of processors, the difference between i5 and i7 (hyperthreading/extra core counts) don't affect Dolphin very much. Newer generations will give higher performance per clock, and K series processors will allow for overclocking to gain extra performance. Be wary of U and Y series processors, as their reduced clockspeeds often struggle with Dolphin's workload.
AMD: Dolphin's workload didn't match the strengths of AMD processors until the Ryzen line. As such, we can only recommend Ryzen or newer for Dolphin among AMD's line of processors.

For more details, such as specific CPU recommendations, CPU comparisons, or what hardware you should purchase to get playable speeds on a specific game, please ask on our Hardware Forumbefore purchasing.
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Note: For more information regarding CPU performance, please check out this handy benchmark that contains results from tons of users. It's important to remember that Dolphin is a console emulator with tons of optimizations and features. But, in the end, it does what the game instructs it to do. Some games only use features that are easy to emulate, and thus will run full-speed on just about any computer that supports Dolphin. Meanwhile, others struggle to run full speed at all times on even the most powerful of processors.