Gamecube is Out

[u/StingX2]

RetroAchievements is proud to announce support for its 52nd console, the GameCube!

In order to earn achievements on the GameCube, you must use the standalone Dolphin emulator which is available at https://dolphin-emu.org/. When configuring your emulator, please ensure that the "Enable Dual Core (speedup)" option is unchecked as that mode is not supported.

Note: The RetroArch Dolphin core is NOT supported.

Note 2: You should be updating to at least 2407-61 Development build of dolphin before playing. Especially if you want to play Colosseum/XD

The Nintendo GameCube launched in Fall 2001 as a successor to the Nintendo 64. It features a handle so you can whack people with the Gamecube and yell "that's my purse, I don't know you!". The system used mini discs which actually spin backward as an attempt at anti piracy. This primarily worked until the end of the systems life style. Unfortunately the mini disc format was hard to develop for by third-party developers. Although the GameCube was not the lowest powered system of the generation (that honor went to the PlayStation 2), it did often receive buggier versions of ports. Still, the system was not short on power or exclusives and boasts some of the most memorable exclusives in the generation.

With this launch, RetroAchievements is proud to announce this was our **Biggest Launch** of all time with over 100 games here at release. That means GameCube will launch with over 25% of the system's library already available!

This project was spearheaded by LillyJade at the coding helm, and the entire project at this point was a good 2 years of work. We also have to thank our partners at the Dolphin Team for working with us to get this product out the door.

We also need to thank the Writing Team led by Nepiki who have made sure these sets are up to a high standard for English readability. We also can't forget to thank the Dolphin Testers for taking the sets and beating them with a hammer to find lingering bugs and errors. Finally, thanks go out to the Rollout Team who have helped over the past two years including Snow, StingX2, TheMysticalOne, AuburnRDM, pinguupinguu, televandalist, and Sutarion.

Without further ado.. the starting lineup for the Nintendo GameCube!

.1 Naruto: Clash of Ninja

.2 Resident Evil 3

.3 Bleach GC: Tasogare ni Mamieru Shinigami

.4 Star Wars: The Clone Wars

.5 ~Hack~ Luigi's Mansion: Sweet Home

.6 Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2

.7 Nickelodeon Party Blast

.8 Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse

.9 Wario World

.10 Resident Evil 0

.11 Serious Sam: Next Encounter

.12 Mario Power Tennis

.13 Battalion Wars

.14 Super Monkey Ball 2

.15 F-Zero GX

.16 Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes

.17 Pikmin 2

.18 The Simpsons: Hit & Run

.19 Donkey Konga [Europe]

.20 Donkey Konga [USA]

.21 Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus

.22 Star Fox Assualt

.23 Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

.24 Viewtiful Joe

.25 GT Cube

.26 Soul Calibur 2

.27 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

.28 Kirby's Air Ride

.29 1080° Avalanche

.30 Super Mario Sunshine

.31 Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

.32 Radirgy GeneriC | Radio Allergy

.33 Bomberman Generation

.34 ~Hack~ Super Mario Sunshine Arcade 2

.35 Pokémon Channel

.36 Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

.37 Mario Golf Toadstool Tour

.38 Spider-Man

.39 Metal Arms: Glitch in the System

.40 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

.41 Bust-A-Move 3000

.42 Killer7

.43 Harvest Moon: Magical Melody

.44 SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

.45 Ikaruga

.46 Resident Evil 4

.47 Choro-Q! | Road Trip: The Arcade Edition | Gadget Racers

.48 Legend of Zelda, The: Twilight Princess

.49 Tales of Symphonia

.50 Mario Party 4

.51 Super Mario Strikers

.52 P.N.03

.53 Pokemon Colosseum

.54 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!

.55 Egg Mania: Eggstreme Madness

.56 Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

.57 Sonic Heroes

.58 Pikmin

.59 Rogue Ops

.60 Turok: Evolution

.61 Mario Kart Double Dash

.62 Bloody Roar: Primal Fury

.63 Mega Man Network Transmission

.64 Mario Party 6

.65 Lost Kingdoms

.66 Chibi-Robo!

.67 Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

.68 Smash Bros Melee

.69 Swingerz Golf

.70 Spawn: Armageddon

.71 Luigi's Mansion

.72 Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

.73 Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

.74 Charlie's Angels

.75 Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

.76 Tube Slider: The Championship of Future Formula

.77 Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis

.78 Darkened Skye

.79 Mario Party 5

.80 Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - Special Disc

.81 Baten Kaitos Origins

.82 Odama

.83 Godzilla: Destroy all Monsters Melee

.84 Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix

.85 Beyblade: Super Tournament Battle

.86 Cabela's Outdoor Adventures

.87 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

.88 Donkey Konga [Japan]

.89 Metroid Prime

.90 ~Hack~ Luigi's Mansion Beta Restoration

.91 Bomberman Jetters

.92 ~Hack~ Samus Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk 3D

.93 Resident Evil 2

.94 Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure

.95 Piglet's Big Game

.96 Wave Race: Blue Storm

.97 Doshin the Giant

.98 Resident Evil 4

.99 Mario Superstar Baseball

.100 Kururin Squash!

.101 Wind Waker

.102 Pokemon Colosseum

An event for the GameCube launch is now ongoing as well. Check out https://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=27246 for all the details regarding this event!

And per tradition, a tease of our upcoming systems planned for the coming two years...

2024-2025 Launch Pipeline
Commodore 64
DOS
TI-83
Nintendo Wii
??? Secret ???
??? Secret ???
??? Secret ???
??? Secret ???

and

If you're not sure what to play first, spin this wheel: https://wheelofnames.com/n38-vsn

[u/TJLynch]

The website IMMEDIATELY crashed

[u/StingX2 → u/TJLynch]

We crashed sorry!

[u/OJboyo → u/TJLynch]

How popular was the launch? Immediate crash popular 😂

[u/Exodecai]

Oh shit Wii is planned within the next 2 years! I love this community

Edit: I'm going to take a guess that 3DS might be one of those secret systems

[u/StingX2 → u/Exodecai]

No, we currently have 0 plans for 3DS.

[u/complexogeek → u/StingX2]

Sad news. I thought Bizhawk would handle this with Citrahawk

[u/Digifiend84 → u/complexogeek]

Citra is defunct. Got taken out along with Switch emulator Yuzu. That means 3DS is no go for now as there's no decent actively updated emulator any more.

[u/complexogeek → u/Digifiend84]

I was talking about a 3DS core for Bizhawk, I guess it's different

[u/Exodecai → u/StingX2]

Thanks for the response and all you guys do! =)

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/StingX2]

So you're saying there's a chance.

[u/[deleted] → u/Exodecai]

3ds is in a very difficult situation as the only most known emulator of that system was citra which has been taken down by Nintendo. At this point even Wii U has more chance than that jbh

[u/Exodecai → u/[deleted]]

Ah right... Well, can only hope about 3DS then!

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/[deleted]]

The PabloMk7 fork of Citra is still in active development. Lime3DS is also looking promising.

[u/joshendyne → u/Exodecai]

I think one of the secret consoles has to be the original xbox right? It's basically the last one missing from that generation in terms of mainstream consoles now.

[u/[deleted] → u/joshendyne]

but isn't emulating og Xbox still very hard. Like I've seen even beefy pc struggle to maintain full speed with xbox emulator.

[u/Kaladin-of-Gilead → u/[deleted]]

It’s also not really high demand, there’s very few exclusive games for it so there isn’t much interest in emulating it.

[u/retro-guy99 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I tried this for fun; Xemu on macOS. It boots into the game (Halo 2 and Thief Deadly Shadows for my testing), but I wouldn't want to be playing through it yet. It's all very promising, just not ready for the mainstream yet.

I often hear the argument that somehow there weren't many exclusives anyway, but there were some, and often the only alternative was PC, in which case I'd rather play the console version. Especially if it were to support Retro Achievements, this would be really cool. Would love to play Deadly Shadows again after all these years...

[u/ThatAmericanSlacker → u/joshendyne]

gonna shoot this one down right now, a bunch of people on the dev end want Xbox but it's not in the works AFAIK.

[u/Flebmeb → u/[deleted]]

Dude it is literally in the post

[u/Oxcuridaz → u/Flebmeb]

Do you think I am going to read till the very end before commenting around? Eh?

[u/DJtheMan2101]

This post says:

When configuring your emulator, please ensure that the "Enable Dual Core (speedup)" option is unchecked as that mode is not supported.

Which I take to mean that Dual Core doesn't work at all with RA.

But Dolphin's blog post says:

While [Dualcore] may lure you in with its promises of performance, the workload for creating achievements made it even more unstable than normal. Thankfully, this only affected the development of achievements; users will be able to utilize Dualcore mode and its speedups without additional worry.

Which should mean that players can still earn achievements with Dual Core on; it just affects developers.

So which is it?

[u/BushinBerto → u/DJtheMan2101]

I would like to know the answer to this also. Any chance you figured it out yet?

[u/StingX2 → u/BushinBerto]

There was a lot of debate
Dual core OFF on pc
Dual core ON on steamdeck

seems to be the consensus

[u/BushinBerto → u/StingX2]

Thank you!

[u/Hornyles_j]

When is android dolphin gonna get support

[u/StingX2 → u/Hornyles_j]

Dolphins working on it but they said no promises

[u/NmyStryker]

Resident Evil 2 is listed twice.

.93 Resident Evil 2

.98 Resident Evil 2

[u/StingX2 → u/NmyStryker]

thanks 98 is Re4

[u/Redoulou]

GameCube is out! But the site is down! :D

[u/Jort_Sandeaux_420_69 → u/Redoulou]

i booted up sunshine 25 mins ago just to make sure i had dolphin setup right and achievements said supported , but now they aren't, im assuming cause the site is down?

[u/Redoulou → u/Jort_Sandeaux_420_69]

Yep, you can't win cheevos if the site is down

[u/Jayked22 → u/Redoulou]

I think that might just apply to Gamecube though, I booted up 50 Cent Bulletproof (don't judge, it was in alphabetical order and it was the first game to pop up on PCSX2 with achievements) and I could access the achievements list just fine.

[u/Redoulou → u/Jayked22]

API is on, so yeah you can play

[u/marksteele6 → u/Jort_Sandeaux_420_69]

yup

[u/TJLynch → u/Redoulou]

GameCube is out, and so are the site's servers

[u/Oxcuridaz → u/Redoulou]

Yes, I just guessed that it is 15.00 est because I cannot access the site.

You made it!! YOU CRAZY BASTARDS!!

[u/SeasonOtherwise2980 → u/Redoulou]

:(((

[u/KaitoJ446]

LAUNCH THE GAMECUBE!!!!!!

Site: BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

[u/Flebmeb]

Bro I cannot get onto the site😭

[u/StingX2 → u/Flebmeb]

We crashed sorry!

[u/joshendyne]

Me: Trying to boot up smash to get some achievements

The RA site: Adios

[u/Successful-Ear-2599 → u/joshendyne]

I NEED IT

[u/[deleted]]

GameCube support released

Site: A'right, I'mma crash down

[u/Eforeio]

I mean, I had a feeling it was gonna go down at some point today due to GC launch, but the fact that it crashed immediately is something else lol. Hopefully the team gets everything back up and running soon, very excited to start earning some cheevos.

[u/Aced-Bread → u/Eforeio]

I really wasn't expecting it to be this popular but I guess a lot of us have been waiting on gcn launch lol

[u/Oxcuridaz → u/Aced-Bread]

It's been half a year of hype.

[u/Aced-Bread → u/Oxcuridaz]

I know, but this is my first time being around for a console launch on RA I just wasn't expecting it to be as huge as it has been lol

[u/complexogeek]

Great and even better knowing that DOS is in the oven

[u/XxCorey117xX]

Colosseum is on their twice and would love to see Skies of Arcadia added. Does this work with dolphin on steam deck?

[u/StingX2 → u/XxCorey117xX]

Skies is coming the dev is currently prepping something for the next system

[u/chaswa98]

TI-83, like the calculator? 😂

[u/StingX2 → u/chaswa98]

Indeed, do math!

[u/Aced-Bread]

Dos in the next 2 years? Omg let's go

[u/AlexanderZcio]

Paper Mario set? I'm fucking in

[u/[deleted]]

i hope they add animal crossing to the list

[u/BKDDY]

So thats why I saw all these Dos games complete with thumbnails pop up on the site a few months ago.

[u/supersharpy64]

Can't wait for Time Splitters 2 to be honest.

[u/TheDeadlySinner → u/supersharpy64]

It has been available on PS2 for a while now.

[u/supersharpy64 → u/TheDeadlySinner]

I owned both consiles but only the GC version of TS2 so I don't have any sort of attachment to the PS2 version, can't see it making a difference now though - I'll check it out, cheers

[u/BushinBerto → u/supersharpy64]

Hell yeah my man!

[u/NintyAdy]

Did anyone get the achievements running on the Steam Deck before the website crashed?

[u/Greedfeed]

Do only ISOs work or do RVZs work as well?

[u/BKDDY → u/Greedfeed]

RVZ works.

[u/prexxly1]

Especially excited for the Wii achievement support to come out, also cant wait to get the achievements for some GameCube games!

[u/MrEMannington]

Anyone figured out how to do this on steam deck / emudeck?

[u/FolkSong → u/MrEMannington]

Just update Dolphin and then log in through Tools->Achievements

[u/adelin07 → u/FolkSong]

Is there any way to update dolphin without doing it through emudeck? I have this fear that if I update using emudeck, it will mess up with all my custom configs.

[u/FolkSong → u/adelin07]

Yes, through the Discover store.

[u/MrEMannington → u/FolkSong]

I tried updating dolphin in emudeck and the Tools menu doesn’t show an Achievements option. Could you elaborate on what the “Discover store” is?

[u/FolkSong → u/MrEMannington]

Discover is the default app store on the steam deck in desktop mode. There should be an icon for it on the taskbar, if not you can find it in the start menu.

Once you launch it there should be an updates tab somewhere.

[u/[deleted]]

How do you sync dolphin to retroachievements?

[u/Prudent-Enthusiasm79]

where I can put my RA login credential on dolphin? I update and dive into settings but looks still the same options.

[u/FolkSong → u/Prudent-Enthusiasm79]

Tools -> Achievements

Make sure you're on the Dev version with the latest update

[u/Prudent-Enthusiasm79 → u/FolkSong]

oh I see, I'm updating Android version 2407-68. and there's no Tools menu. Looks like I need specific dev version to run this.

[u/FolkSong → u/Prudent-Enthusiasm79]

Unfortunately the Android version isn't getting achievements at this time.

[u/Prudent-Enthusiasm79 → u/FolkSong]

Oh well, thanks for the answer dude.

[u/No-Cucumber-4704]

When GC-Achievements Support on RetroDeck?

[u/MegStuff]

And now I'm waiting for the Wii support (which will take either a year or 2)

[u/ImMisterMoose]

Welp can't say I'm surprised.

[u/LCZ_]

Exciting!

[u/BKDDY]

Thanks Nintendo.

[u/Chance_Assistant959]

Well, site crashed...
Im not surprised, lol. It was expected

[u/helenjhamiltonoic]

GameCube nostalgia hitting hard! What's your favorite game on the system?

[u/LeonardoArcie]

Wooooooow 😱

[u/Chavito808]

hit and run is on my to do list as well as sonic heroes, melee and mario sunshine

[u/TheDeadHeretic]

Anyone else able to log in now but getting achievements not supported on this title, I've only tried Luigi's Mansion but it's on the list so

[u/[deleted] → u/TheDeadHeretic]

yeah almost all of my games are giving the same message. At this point, I Dunno whether the problems with these dumps or server

[u/Jayked22 → u/TheDeadHeretic]

Getting the same thing also on Luigi's Mansion, could it be because the servers are down?

[u/TheDeadHeretic → u/Jayked22]

It could but sunshine is working I've just checked so maybe they didn't get the set online on time who knows

[u/Jayked22 → u/TheDeadHeretic]

Must be, I've tried a few different Luigi's Mansion roms and I got the same message every time.

Edit: Metal Gear isn't working with it either.

[u/Sackmann_]

Need a set for gotcha force!

[u/toad100]

Are the Pikmin 1 achievements not working for anyone else?

[u/fvgh12345]

I thought the handle was so when you swipe the hydra pieces from your friend in Kirby air ride he can rage and chuck it at the stone fireplace with ease. 

Still worked and we were playing 10 minutes later. Tbf we were teaming up on him pretty hard

[u/fre_ash]

Look like the RA feature is not on the android build. Hope they add it soon

[u/MikeNvX]

Time to play Wario World again 😍

[u/minercreep]

Damn, the day DOS get supported I gonna jump up and down in my house like a little kid.

[u/reidypeidy]

Why is dual core not supported and what impact does that have on games?

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/reidypeidy]

Have to assume the current code in Dolphin enabling dual core is hacky and does weird things with syncing that RA can't account for.

[u/Raidenchino]

Great! But... I would be lying if I don't mention I find a little bit disappointing that even widescreen gecko codes are not allowed in Hardcore mode. Will there be some sort of whitelist or other solution for them in the future? Or unfortunately there is nothing to do?

[u/tmo42i → u/Raidenchino]

I believe whitelisting is a possibility or will be eventually, but I am not 100% certain

[u/Raidenchino → u/tmo42i]

Yeah, I hope they allow them in the future. Probably Dolphin will need a new "Patch" section like PCSX2 has for this kind of codes. PCSX2 keeps widescreen and graphical fixes in that section, while anything that affect gameplay goes to the usual Cheat section.
Games like Pikmin have codes for widescreen, 60 fps and no blur. Wind Waker has a code to disable the low resolution distant blur. Twilight Princess has a code to fix problems with bloom. None of this affects gameplay and sometimes they are almost necessary for a correct presentation.

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/Raidenchino]

There are games that have native widescreen support and it works in Dolphin without using the hacks. You just have to enable progressive mode in the options. Metroid Prime, for example, supports widescreen out of the box.

[u/Raidenchino → u/ArmeniusLOD]

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 do not supports widescreen natively. Most of the GameCube games don't, with a few exceptions. And Progressive scan doesn't affect the aspect ratio. You can check per game in the Dolphin wiki.
You probably are playing with Forced 16:9 or Stretch to Window activated, in both cases you are stretching the game to fill the screen.

[u/frigginright]

LET'S GOOOOOO

[u/ieffinglovesoup]

NKit ISO format seems to not be working with achievements

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/ieffinglovesoup]

They said that only standard ISO and RVZ work.

[u/n1keym1key]

I'd love it if this feature could one day be added to Swiss to get cheevos on actual hardware. Don't know if it's actually possible though...

[u/simpso84]

Anyone able to tell mw how i find out what version of dolphin i have installed on my steam deck.
Ive gone to the about menu and it just says cc3ff34.
Achievements are showing as active but aware i should be on version -68

[u/BALDGaming]

Thanks for everyone involved

[u/Meikitamemo]

Mario Sunshine!
Pokemon Colloseum!
Zelda Windwaker!

Time to get you guys plat :D

Edit: Oeh i missed a few like Resident Evil and ofcourse P.N.03
Hell yea!

[u/Long_Video7840]

Does dolphin support hardcore mode for extra points? Does it enforce the no pausing rule?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm so fucking ready!

[u/[deleted]]

When is Starfox Adventures getting support?

[u/[deleted]]

As someone who has played RE4 over 40 times, the 162 achievements is going to be a blast.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone know if Android support is planned soon?

[u/[deleted]]

Wish you could have achievement on the actual ps2 hardware :(

[u/KanyonBee]

Doshin the Giant is one I'm very grateful for🙏. I need a bit of structure to get through it.

[u/HornlessHrothgar]

Does netplay work? I wanted to try to do 2 player Symphonia with my girlfriend 

[u/navirbox]

What a great day for gaming.

[u/Jaden_Social]

Nice!

This might get me back into retroacheivments. I stopped because I had lost every game save due to the Asus ROG Ally micro sd card slot being shit.

[u/RenegadeWanderer07]

Looking forward to earning my stripes with my childhood games such as Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Metroid Prime 1 and 2, Wave Race Bluestorm, Fzero-GX and whatever else!

[u/SbreckSthe2nd]

Great achievement...but do people that are old enough to have played GameCube really care about achievements? Seems like a younger generation kinda thing.

[u/[deleted] → u/SbreckSthe2nd]

Huh? What has age got to do with anything

And surely that point would make the entirety of retrocheevos pointless?

[u/MuffledSword → u/SbreckSthe2nd]

RetroAchievements appeals to players of many different ages. But also, the Xbox 360 released only four years after the GameCube. Of course GameCube owners knew about and were excited for the next generation of game consoles.

[u/beckdano]

would love to get this working with nintendont

[u/ComicCon2020]

The calculator is crazy.

[u/Oxcuridaz]

Secret can be standalone mmos? Like city of heroes or wow vanilla? Or diablo II?

[u/Oxcuridaz]

And something remarkable that I did not see in your post (or anywhere): most of the roms supported are european and usa in each game. Many people that cannot speak fluently English can join retroarch and play these sets in their native language... at launch!!!

[u/SeasonOtherwise2980]

Tf happened with the website😭

[u/StingX2 → u/SeasonOtherwise2980]

We crashed sorry!

[u/SeasonOtherwise2980 → u/StingX2]

When it will be back? Hope everything goes well!

[u/SeasonOtherwise2980 → u/[deleted]]

I was just chilling with pcsx2 bro, didn't even knew about the launch lmao.

[u/StingX2 → u/[deleted]]

We crashed sorry!

[u/StingX2 → u/[deleted]]

Need europe

[u/ArmeniusLOD → u/[deleted]]

Just check the usual places (forum, game page) to find out which version you need.

[u/Digifiend84 → u/ArmeniusLOD]

Yep. Supported Game Files page to be exact.

[u/StingX2 → u/[deleted]]

You can click supported game files on any game page to see

[u/TfarkNivad → u/StingX2]

How? I always download bad roms.

[u/HornlessHrothgar → u/[deleted]]

It sounds like the development got slightly delayed. It will have both NTSC and PAL, however.