Download

The beta versions require the 64-bit Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 to be installed.

Beta versions are released every month, usually accompanied by a Progress Report article. They are a good balance between the Dolphin development versions and the stable versions .

The development versions require the 64-bit Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 to be installed.

Development versions are released every time a developer makes a change to Dolphin, several times every day! Using development versions enables you to use the latest and greatest improvements to the project. They are however less tested than stable versions of the emulator.

Stable versions are released after a lot of testing to ensure emulation performance and stability. However, since they are released less often, they might be outdated and lacking some new features.

Users of other Linux distributions can look here to compile Dolphin: Building Dolphin on Linux

Ubuntu users can install a PPA for development and stable versions of Dolphin here: Installing Dolphin

Source code

The latest version of the Dolphin source code can be downloaded from the project Git repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin.git

You can also browse the current version of the source code.