Eternal Darkness Playable On Dolphin Again After Being “A Thorn” In Its Developers’ Sides

The devs have now issued a game-specific patch for the horror game.

The popular Gamecube and Wii emulator Dolphin just got an update (release 2412) recently that introduced a bunch of amazing new fixes. This included a fix for somewhat of an annoying issue that the development team had been experiencing with Silicon’s Knights’ Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, which would cause the game to hang on boot, instead of loading as normal.

According to the developers’ 2412 release blog (as spotted by Android Authority), this was a problem that had first been introduced in release 2409-161, after the team had successfully fixed an “unknown opcode” message plaguing titles like Metroid Prime, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, and Resident Evil Zero, and was the result of triggering a problematic race condition that would never be an issue on real hardware but presented cycle timing problems for the emulator to overcome.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

The devs have now issued a game-specific patch for the horror game.

The popular Gamecube and Wii emulator Dolphin just got an update (release 2412) recently that introduced a bunch of amazing new fixes. This included a fix for somewhat of an annoying issue that the development team had been experiencing with Silicon’s Knights’ Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, which would cause the game to hang on boot, instead of loading as normal.

According to the developers’ 2412 release blog (as spotted by Android Authority), this was a problem that had first been introduced in release 2409-161, after the team had successfully fixed an “unknown opcode” message plaguing titles like Metroid Prime, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, and Resident Evil Zero, and was the result of triggering a problematic race condition that would never be an issue on real hardware but presented cycle timing problems for the emulator to overcome.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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