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Eternal Darkness Playable On Dolphin Again After Being "A Thorn" In Its Developers' Sides | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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Eternal Darkness Now Playable Again On Dolphin

Dolphin, the popular Gamecube and Wii emulator, has just introduced an update (release 2412) that addresses a longstanding issue with Silicon Knights' Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Key Points:

Issue Details: The game would hang on boot instead of loading normally, an issue first introduced in release 2409.
Root Cause: A problematic race condition that resulted from improving cycle delay in Dolphin for other games like Metroid Prime, Resident Evil Zero, and The Force Unleashed II.
Fix Approach: The emulator team opted for a game-specific patch to change a troublesome function, enabling the issue's resolution without affecting performance further.

This fix has been automatically implemented in all regional variants of the game.

Are there any games that you have found to be unplayable with Dolphin?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Few games will ever have the guts to implement a sanity system as buck wild as Eternal Darkness.

[–] samus12345 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The ones pretending to mess with your TV and controller connections were great, but my personal favorite was Paul Luther walking into the church in Amiens in 1485 and seeing triage tents from WWI, over 400 years in the future.