In CRT televisions, the image is sent in an interlaced format, rendering the raster image from top to bottom every other line, then blanking and starting again. VBeam emulation has had a long and storied history. So let's give a moment of silence to our retiring class of February 2015. These features were once useful to either work around bugs, or thought to be accurate and were found not to be.

We say goodbye to three features that have been on life support for quite some time.

Rest in peace: VBeam speedhack - 4.0-5432, Enable BAT - 4.0-5496 and Disable EFB Copies - 4.0-5656 ¶ With that in mind, let's get to a more fun topic February's Notable Changes! Especially when there are so many new features being added. For our users? Keep finding mistakes in the emulator and making developers aware. For a lot of the issues, a little time and expertise may be enough to narrow down and fix release critical issues. While a lot of the issues have owners, due to the volunteer nature of the project, many of the problems aren't currently being worked on. We understand that everyone is eager for the next official version, but when there are so many known critical issues on the tracker and others still getting discovered, it's just not the right time for release. Dolphin 4.0 was a lesson that we'd rather be safe than sorry and have to release multiple hotfix builds shortly after a much anticipated release. The fact of the matter is that a lot of people still use our older releases, and we don't want another case where a release has huge, advertised features broken. Yes, the latest development builds are fast, they're accurate, but they also have loads of issues that need to be taken care of before a release can even be considered. It's about putting the absolute best you have in terms of stability and usability as well. Most people by default recommend the latest development builds over Dolphin 4.0.2.īut a release build is about more than the latest and greatest features. Huge speedups that hit the core of the emulator, crazy accuracy improvements, hundreds of games with higher compatibility ratings and much more. So much has happened in the past year that it's kind of crazy. One of the topics of talk that have been hitting up message boards and social media is that of when the next official Dolphin release is coming up.

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