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posted by CoolHand on Monday April 27 2015, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-memoriam dept.

Rachel Bryk, an active developer for the Dolphin Emulator[*] project, passed away on the 23rd of April at the age of 23.

While this is hardly the kind of news that would shake the tech world and be featured on major news site, I think the SoylentNews community can fully appreciate her work and commemorate that tragic loss with the team and the retro gaming and TAS community at large.

Most of her work was focused on making the Dolphin more suited to make tool assisted speedruns.

A full announcement and commemorative post can be found on the official Dolphin project blog.

Dolphin emulator:

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 27 2015, @05:38AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @05:38AM (#175594) Journal
    Dolphin emulator [dolphin-emu.org]:

    Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

    (dolphin-emu.org ... grumble... what a name! Is it a dolphin or an emu?)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @08:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @08:13AM (#175617)

    (dolphin-emu.org ... grumble... what a name! Is it a dolphin or an emu?

    Haha, kudos all around good Sir!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @10:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @10:39AM (#175643)

    Dolphin riding an emu or an emu riding a dolphin? Someone should draw that.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Monday April 27 2015, @01:11PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @01:11PM (#175684) Journal

    For the overly-interested-in-meaningless-facts, why it's called that: the Gamecube, while it was in development at Nintendo, was called project Dolphin. The emulator is named after that.