The GameCube And Wii Emulator Dolphin Is No Longer Coming To Steam

Its not that much of a loss given you can still launch Dolphin from steam anyway. It just won't be on the storefront.

TLDR

Because Valve asked Nintendo if it was allowed, and Nintendo said it shouldn't (pretty please), so Valve asked Dolphin to ask Nintendo if they could. Dolphin's team finds of obviously impossible to accomplish.

With Nintendo, it's always a double-edged sword. On one hand, they create really good games, but on the other hand, they are a shitbag company.

I don't mind that Dolphin is not staying on steam for whatever reason - they do have an auto updater and I can use any other cloud service to synchronize my saves - but seriously, just let them be, Nintendo...

I don't really see the point of adding it to Steam in the first place anyways

Not sure why it was coming to steam in the first place, made no sense. All it would do when you open it through steam is open the dolphin program, the games themselves weren’t being integrated into steam.

Just seemed like a bizarre decision by the devs that was always going to get blocked.

it's a bit of a tangent on this story, but it's been super disappointing that the wii/gc emulation layers they built for the mario collection hasn't really materialized in anything else. I feel crazy for thinking we would start getting ports of gc/wii games that feel lost to time

Dolphin is also available as a core on RetroArch, which is on Steam (though I greatly prefer the non-Steam version)

This video from a real lawyer explains the Dolphin Steam situation better than anyone I've seen: https://youtu.be/wROQUZDCIMI

Oh no I would not have expected this /s

As much as I hate Nintendo, I fucking hate them for their stance on emulation. You would think they would have the sense to preserve their heritage outside of their own platforms since they do such an absolute dog shit of a job of providing access to the library and catalogue of games. Either make your games available (as widely as they are via emulation) or move the fuck outta the way.

Edit: I meant to say “as much as I love them”, but going to leave my double hate up there because of how idiotic their decision is to crack down on emulation.

Just get it from the store if you're on Steam Deck.

What a surpirse

Well, you can still add as a non steam game and get ROMs from sites on the wayback machine.

retroarch remains.

(Add mandatory "go screw on a corn Nintendo" comment here)

Fuck Steam, download it directly from their website and tip them on their develoemt fund if you like it!

Adding it to Steam would do shit anyways. It would just add another layer between the user and the program.

The only positive would have been that saves could have been synced but there's other (cloud) platforms that let you do that as well.

Thanks for nothing Nintendo :(