[qwertay]

The wii and gamecube had only CDs for storage so it doesn't run in to that issue.

[monocasa]

They have their own very special requirements. For instance their equivalent of shaders are able to be changed much more quickly than PC architectures's GPUs generally allow.

[rubatuga]

But dolphin emulator enthusiasts mitigated that by creating huge shader caches by playing the games for hours, and then saving the shaders.

[srgpqt]

I don’t think they use shader caches anymore? Unless something changed since 2017?

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/

[thih9]

Great story, I enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing.

> Mali on Android: Not tested. We can safely say it wouldn't end well, though.

This brings memories; my canvas webpage had a number of problems with android mali devices.

[zcoyle]

The gamecube used mini-dvd and the wii used dvd