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    The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 18, 2011

    Link descends from his floating continent home to explore the dark and dangerous world below with the help of a magical sword, in this Wii installment of the Legend of Zelda series.

    This game looks pretty good in 1080p

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    #1  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    Seriously, the game looks great running in 1080p with 16x antialiasing on. I'm definetly going to have to come back to it after I finish TES5: Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Saints Row 3, and Dark Souls.

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    #2  Edited By Giantstalker

    What kind of computer do you need to get it running that well and still get 60fps?

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    #3  Edited By Liber

    PC specs please.

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    #5  Edited By Doctorchimp

    @ShaggyPolarBear said:

    How would you play it when Dolphin doesn't support motion+?

    if the wii-mote you are using has wii motion plus Dolphin will pick it up. Dolphin totally supports it.

    That being said, I'm looking forward to having a copy in my house when it shows up and watch my room mate play it on her wii. I'll probably mess around with it before the year's over, but I'm holding off until next year when the tweaks and settings are out there to make sure it runs like a dream before trying to mess around with Dolphin.

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    #6  Edited By SeriouslyNow
    @ShaggyPolarBear said:

    How would you play it when Dolphin doesn't support motion+?

    Pretty sure Dolphin (and DolphinGIT) can't emulate a Motion Plus but it should just hand off whatever data is coming from a real WiiMotePlus to the game.
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    #7  Edited By Marz
    @ShaggyPolarBear said:

    How would you play it when Dolphin doesn't support motion+?

    does support it if you use a wii mote with motion+ attached.  Otherwise there is no support for emulating it on another gamepad or device.
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    #8  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    I have an I7 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz, GeForce 460's in SLI, and a SSD primary drive. Dolphin supports Motion+ as long as it's the new remotes with it built in and not the old school attachments.

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    #9  Edited By Marz
    @ShadowSkill11 said:

    I have an I7 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz, GeForce 460's in SLI, and a SSD primary drive. Dolphin supports Motion+ as long as it's the new remotes with it built in and not the old school attachments.

    that's false, i'm using a regular wii mote with the motion+ attachment and it works fine.
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    #10  Edited By Sambambo

    This thread comes off as oddly boastful.

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    #11  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    @Marz said:

    @ShadowSkill11 said:

    I have an I7 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz, GeForce 460's in SLI, and a SSD primary drive. Dolphin supports Motion+ as long as it's the new remotes with it built in and not the old school attachments.

    that's false, i'm using a regular wii mote with the motion+ attachment and it works fine.

    If you say so. I only have the new model and read the compatibility page about Skyward Sword.

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    #12  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    @SuperSambo said:

    This thread comes off as oddly boastful.

    And your response comes off as oddly passive aggressive. This is America, if you don't want to spend the cash for better stuff then don't.

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    #13  Edited By JasonR86

    @ShadowSkill11:

    screenshots?

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    #14  Edited By RE_Player1

    I'd love to see some screenshots if possible.

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    #15  Edited By theodacourt

    @ShadowSkill11 said:

    @SuperSambo said:

    This thread comes off as oddly boastful.

    And your response comes off as oddly passive aggressive. This is America, if you don't want to spend the cash for better stuff then don't.

    Dude, I'm in America!? Woo! Oh wait, no I'm not. Turns out this is the internet.

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    #16  Edited By Giantstalker

    @theodacourt said:

    Dude, I'm in America!? Woo! Oh wait, no I'm not. Turns out this is the internet.

    Well, technically I suppose it's an American website, but...

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    #17  Edited By AlexW00d

    @Giantstalker said:

    @theodacourt said:

    Dude, I'm in America!? Woo! Oh wait, no I'm not. Turns out this is the internet.

    Well, technically I suppose it's an American website, but...

    But half the viewers/readers are from the rest of the world.

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    #18  Edited By Afroman269

    I would like to see screenshots.

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    #19  Edited By sf2733

    @AlexW00d: Really, where did you get that statistic from?

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    #20  Edited By AlexW00d

    @sf2733: Something Ethan posted a while back, I'm looking for it now.

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    #21  Edited By captain_clayman

    honestly, every game looks pretty ok in 1080p.

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    #22  Edited By Aegon
    @AlexW00d said:

    @sf2733: Something Ethan posted a while back, I'm looking for it now.

    I found this a little while ago. It even divides things by race.  
     
    18% of the US whiskey media users apparently make over $100,000 a year.  
     
    Also, there are nearly twice the amount of visits to whiskey sites from non-US countries.  
     
    7% of us are labeled as addicts since we visit over and over again. I guess it's kind of true. 
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    #24  Edited By toowalrus

    Dude comes in here telling us how great it looks on his computer and won't even take a few screencaps... jerk.

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    #25  Edited By therealnelsk

    @ShadowSkill11 said:

    I have an I7 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz, GeForce 460's in SLI, and a SSD primary drive. Dolphin supports Motion+ as long as it's the new remotes with it built in and not the old school attachments.

    I have an identical setup, including the overclocked freq. Weird... but cheers to PC gaming sir.

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    #26  Edited By Sambambo

    @H2Oyea said:

    @AlexW00d said:

    @sf2733: Something Ethan posted a while back, I'm looking for it now.

    I found this a little while ago. It even divides things by race. 18% of the US whiskey media users apparently make over $100,000 a year. Also, there are nearly twice the amount of visits to whiskey sites from non-US countries. 7% of us are labeled as addicts since we visit over and over again. I guess it's kind of true.

    I had no idea GB was so popular.

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    #27  Edited By BBQBram

    This game looks pretty good not pirated.

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    #28  Edited By NekuSakuraba

    How does one even get it running on a PC? Dolphin looks hard to use and configure.

    Is it hard?

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    #29  Edited By AlexW00d

    @H2Oyea: Exactly what I was looking for, cheers.

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    #30  Edited By Afroman269
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    #31  Edited By iamjohn

    Post screenshots or gtfo.

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    #32  Edited By Marz

    few screenshots i took.

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    This one will age gracefully

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    #34  Edited By DG991

    Not hard to set up at all if you have used PCSX2.

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    #35  Edited By octaslash

    I can't get it to run good with the Direct3D11 plugin and I get visual glitches with the other plugins. However, I have one 460. Time to get a SLI motherboard (or wait for more Dolphin updates). 
     
    Edit: Nevermind, I something enabled that totally shouldn't have been enabled and now it runs fantastically. 

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    #36  Edited By GS_Dan

    @Marz: That makes me angry at my Wii. Damned aliasing.

    Gonna have to try Wind Waker on Dolphin at some point.

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    #37  Edited By DG991

    Geeze... has anyone dived into those threads on the dolphin forums and started reading some posts from random users?

    They are just... annoying forum users. Way worse then anything I have encountered here.

    Also some of them don't know shit about building PC's

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    #38  Edited By Brendan

    I just pinpointed the thing that annoys me about Skyward Sword. Link's lips. They just look off to me.

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    @BBQBram said:

    This game looks pretty good not pirated.

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    #40  Edited By DG991
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    #41  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    @NekuSakuraba said:

    How does one even get it running on a PC? Dolphin looks hard to use and configure.

    Is it hard?

    Not unless you are an idiot. PCSX2(PS2 emu) is harder to get working correctly without glitches due to having to find the right combination of plug-ins. Dolphin seems to have Nintendo-ized it by making it easier for gamings less technically skilled users to use.

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    #42  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    @BBQBram said:

    This game looks pretty good not pirated.

    It's an emulator for a computer. It doesn't care if it's an ISO file or if you stuck the retail disc in your optical drive.

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    #43  Edited By NekuSakuraba

    @ShadowSkill11 said:

    @NekuSakuraba said:

    How does one even get it running on a PC? Dolphin looks hard to use and configure.

    Is it hard?

    Not unless you are an idiot. PCSX2(PS2 emu) is harder to get working correctly without glitches due to having to find the right combination of plug-ins. Dolphin seems to have Nintendo-ized it by making it easier for gamings less technically skilled users to use.

    Yeah, It's actually quite easy to configure it.

    Just sorta assumed since it wasn't made for PC there would be a lot of graphical glitches you would need to fix by tweaking a lot of different things.

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