
News and Features Writer After a stint specialising in TVs and audio gear, Jon moved to Trusted Reviews to broaden his horizons and start covering everything that the world of technology has to offer. Getting an emulator working inside the emulator would be a similarly impressive feat. Over the years the software has gotten so accurate that its even able to boot up the Wiis Netflix app and browse content from the Wii Shop. Now the thing Im most excited to see is how the Wii/GameCubes Dolphin Emulator handles this obscure functionality. Obviously this a horribly impractical way of actually playing old games, especially in a world where the Virtual Console now exists alongside the likes of the NES Classic Mini, but its an interesting snapshot into Nintendos early plans for repurposing its retro library. We have no idea what this functionality was originally intended for, but theres speculation that Nintendo might have intended at one point to sell classic NES games packaged on GameCube memory cards in the days before internet-connected consoles allowed the Virtual Console to flourish. Fortunately, in July 2016, this malware code was removed from both the source code and its installers. However, up to version 2.2, there were major safety concerns of installing Project64 through its official installer after numerous reports on social media websites of the installers containing malware. Dolphin Emulator 4.0 | Animal Crossing | Nintendo GameCube
