Dolphin Emulator Trampoline Generation

1 · Nelson Elhage · April 15, 2016, 4:27 a.m.
[Ed note: This post was contributed by Dougall Johnson via email, and edited by me, with permission] Dolphin is a Wii/GameCube emulator. A few years back, it had a bug where it was crashing with the error “Trampoline cache full” during the “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” character selection screen. Dolphin uses a JIT compiler that translates blocks of PowerPC code from Wii or GameCube games into x86-64 instructions as the game runs. It generally uses a feature called “fastmem”, to quickly emulate the ...