Use Ishiiruka V17 if:

Switch to Official Dolphin if:

You might ask: Why not use the latest version of Ishiiruka? The answer is simple: later versions (v18, v19, and the experimental builds) became unstable. They tried to merge with mainline Dolphin’s changing codebase, leading to crashes, broken audio, and game-specific glitches.

Version 17 (specifically Ishiiruka 5.0-17067 or the final stable v17 builds) hit a perfect sweet spot:

v17 introduced an advanced caching system. It allows you to dump high-resolution texture packs (like Hypatia’s 4K Zelda packs) and load them without crashing. Later versions broke this feature; v17 perfected it.