I'm wondering how hard it might be to run something like Metroid Prime with Dolphin on my computer. If my computer can't handle the emulator, I'll find out I guess.
I've bought that game in the past, so I'm not stealing anything.

Thanks.

I'm not gonna tell you how to get images, but everything you need to know about Dolphin can be found on the wiki.

Like all emulators, YMMV on how much fussing about you will have to do to get it working properly.

As far as i'm aware, you have to own both the game and the hardware to be able to legally use an emulator.

Why won't you help me get images?

Anyways, Metroid Prime accidentally got sold in a garage sale... so I can't rip anything from a disk.

Because there's no way for me to know whether you really have the games or not. Google is you faithful friend, however :)

One does not simply use into Dolphin Emulator.

This wiki got me curious if one of my older DVD drives could rip my GC games, and indeed it does. :) It sure is slow though, it'll probably take me a full day to rip them all. But it'll be nice to have ISOs of all my GC games to try on Dolphin when I get around to it.

Hey glad to help :)

Wait on a rainy day, get yourself some coffee, set some nice tunes and get to rippin'

I installed the latest 32 bit windows version of Dolphin and extracted all files to a folder on my desktop. When I did this, several conflicts occurred and instead of using "move and replace" for all of them I used "keep both files" for them all.

And now I got the Prime 2 ISO, so what now?

Run your Dolphin.exe
Configure your graphics options (keep 'em simple for a first time run)
Set up your Gamecube controller (presumably you're using a gamepad or something)
Click the 'open' icon
Browse to your legally-acquired .iso and select it
You should see the game as an option in your Dolphin window now
Double-click the game
Enjoy.

Hey got it to work. I always wanted to play a game in slow motion! Kidding of course, I probably just need a new computer, it looks like all the settings are turned all the way down by default with the exception of dual cores option.

I can barely play it in this state but nevermind that. How would I set two input devices, in this case the w a s and d keys and the mouse as well, to both control the main stick?

You don't. For each gamepad configuration profile, one function of the gamecube controller is mapped to one input. However, should you find that some games you feel most comfortable using WASD to emulate the main stick, and some games you prefer using the mouse for it, you can create seperate controller profiles (there is a save/load profile option at the top of the Controller Configuration window) and then switch between them as you so choose.

As a caveat, though, I cannot reccommend using this emulator without a PC gamepad of some sort. Trying to emulate dual analogue stick inputs on a keyboard is no fun, and if it's no fun why would we do it? :)

Because free games are better than paying for games. :)

Spending new on hardware to play games would sort of defeat the purpose of not spending money on hardware to play games.

Not sure I get this. There are no free games available to use with the Dolphin emulator. I think there is, however, a test .iso that simply shows the emulator is working. It wouldn't be fun to play, though.

But if you're suggesting some form of piracy, may I remind you that we're here to support a company that eschews intrusive DRM in favor of simply trusting their customers to be decent human beings. I for one appreciate that trust and reciprocate it wherever possible.

tl;dr - Piracy is bad, m;kay?

Yep.

One must learn to smother his free ride impulse, because if he doesn't, he's not contributing to DRM free games and doesn't deserve to complain about Steam and such.