Trying to make RK3566 Dolphin emulator running on my R36S (RK3326) ... unsuccessfully

[FilipCZ]

• Device: R36S
• Using ArkOS build: latest v2.0 (01/27/2024-1) for RG351MP platform (with .dtb fix for R36S).

Steps done:

1. Following files and folders were copied from RG353M/V (latest RK3566 ArkOS build) to same locations on my R36S using custom bash script:

/home/ark/.local/share/dolphin-emu
/opt/dolphin
/usr/local/bin/dolphin.sh

2. Adjusted rwx permissions to 777 using custom bash script on my R36S for all copied files/folders
3. Added GameCube platform to /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg:

<system>
        <name>Gamecube</name>
        <fullname>Nintendo - Gamecube</fullname>
        <path>/roms2/gc/</path>
        <extension>.elf .ELF .gcz .GCZ .iso .ISO .m3u .M3U .wad .WAD .wbfs .WBFS .wia .WIA</extension>
        <command>sudo perfmax %GOVERNOR%; nice -n -19 dolphin.sh %ROM%; sudo perfnorm</command>
        <platform>gamecube</platform>
        <theme>gc</theme>
</system>

4. Created /roms/gc and /roms2/gc folders and adjusted their rwx permissions to 777. Copied some GameCube games into /roms2/gc.

Result:

• GameCube platform shows up in Emulation Station, I can see my added games in a list, but any game won't start at all (and Dolphin won't even log any output to textfile when started with 2>&1 1>/roms2/gc/dolphin-emu-nogui.log, only creates blank log file)

What I'd like to know:

• Where could the problem be?
• Did I forget to set something else in the system?

Thanks very much for any tips on what else could be tried with that to make the Dolphin emulator working.

[christianhaitian]

This will not work on the rk3326 devices as dolphin will not perform well at all. If you want to try it, you'd have to build it and link it against the libmali for the rk3326. The recipe used for building that emulator is here: https://github.com/christianhaitian/rk3566_core_builds/blob/master/scripts/dolphinsa.sh