The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in HD

Me playing the fobidden fortress part of Zelda: The Wind Waker. This game is run on the Dolphin Emulator v2.0, and in my opinion it runs pretty well. It does have a few glitches however. The audio isn't emulated very properly (something to do with the way it's coded in Nintendo games). The graphics look nice in HD, but for some reason it looks blurry in far distances, maybe I need to change some settings to fix this though.

The framerate is pretty good especially since the Wind Waker doesn't use a lot of textures (yet it still looks freaking awesome). Sometimes you get slowdowns though. And during cutscenes, the audio desyncs with the video. It gets pretty bad. Keep in mind that fraps (the program used to record this) slows down the framerate by a bit.

I'm running this on 64bit Windows 7, with an Intel Core i7 2.66GHz, ATi 5870, and 6GB of 1600MHz RAM. since gamecube emulation isn't really a parallel process, multiple cores don't really help as much as a really high clock speed. I'd like to run this on a 4.0GHz cpu or something sometime, see how it works :D

Legal: I own a physical copy of this game.

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Gaming

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• The
• Legend
• of
• Zelda
• Wind
• Waker
• gamecube
• nintendo
• emulation
• high
• definition
• HD
• pirate
• link
• tetra
• forbidden
• fortress
• emulator

[ZombieDeath101]

5:35 - The barrel and the rat keep disappearing. 0__L__0

[9a3eedi]

@ZombieDeath101 This is because I enabled an option in the emulator called a "Widescreen hack".. it renders the game in a wide aspect ratio, which is nice, but then stuff disappear on the sides because the game wasn't designed to render objects at that resolution. It's wierd but at least it looks nice lol

[tarrizzzzzzzzz]

its sad really, even though you own the game, it still isn't legal to do this :( on the other hand, could someone point me in the direction of a ripped windfall island? I would like to have a look at it in maya or 3Ds MAX :D

[9a3eedi]

@tarrizzzzzzzzz it IS legal if you own the game. If you own the game you can do whatever you want with it. Reverse-engineering a device (like a gamecube) and making an emulator out of it is also legal (as long as it doesn't have any copywrited code). Distributing ISO's and BIOS's without permission however is illegal.

[MattyS54]

this looks phenomenal in high resolution, a testament to nintendo's amazing art direction that it scales up so perfectly. hopefully a future virtual console features upscaled versions of all these games in HD glory!

[cronochos]

looks amazing!!

[falaqdad15]

Nintendo really mastered Cel-shading here.

[askjiir]

Amazing graphics. Some of the best on Gamecube.

[fullmetalmc]

PCs ftw

[Beskonator]

@curseesruc

I strongly agree. This game does not need high definition, nor would it look any better in it, because there is it`s maximum, right there! :)

[curseesruc]

this has to be the best looking zelda, hd or not.

[DoodleMarshmallow]

so beautiful :')

[TheNinwii]

@Zeldafan88765

dont be too sure, i think you download them. sucks for those who have GC, but good for me who never got my hands on so many GC games i now want. emulating works poorly

[Zeldafan88765]

No Gamecube for Wii U :(

[MattyS54]

@jesusluvr07 yeah, but they will have to be remakes/VC, i think nintendo already confirmed it wouldn't upscale existing wii games. kinda poor as this should have been possible, like rendering to 720p at least :(