diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/GraphicsImplementations/IGL_TK.cs b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/GraphicsImplementations/IGL_TK.cs
index dd5d4b2d57..10397183a5 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/GraphicsImplementations/IGL_TK.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/GraphicsImplementations/IGL_TK.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 using BizHawk.Bizware.BizwareGL;
+using BizHawk.Common;
 
 using OpenTK;
 using OpenTK.Graphics;
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 					throw new InvalidOperationException($"Error creating pipeline (link status false returned from glLinkProgram): \r\n\r\n{resultLog}");
 				else success = false;
 				resultLog = GL.GetProgramInfoLog(pid);
-				Console.WriteLine(resultLog);
+				Util.DebugWriteLine(resultLog);
 			}
 
 			//need to work on validation. apparently there are some weird caveats to glValidate which make it complicated and possibly excuses (barely) the intel drivers' dysfunctional operation
diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
index d35a1ccc7d..aa5a73189c 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
@@ -1138,9 +1138,9 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 				}
 
 
-				Console.WriteLine($"For emulator framebuffer {new Size(_currentVideoProvider.BufferWidth, _currentVideoProvider.BufferHeight)}:");
-				Console.WriteLine($"  For virtual size {new Size(_currentVideoProvider.VirtualWidth, _currentVideoProvider.VirtualHeight)}:");
-				Console.WriteLine($"  Selecting display size {lastComputedSize}");
+				Util.DebugWriteLine($"For emulator framebuffer {new Size(_currentVideoProvider.BufferWidth, _currentVideoProvider.BufferHeight)}:");
+				Util.DebugWriteLine($"  For virtual size {new Size(_currentVideoProvider.VirtualWidth, _currentVideoProvider.VirtualHeight)}:");
+				Util.DebugWriteLine($"  Selecting display size {lastComputedSize}");
 
 				// Change size
 				Size = new Size(lastComputedSize.Width + borderWidth, lastComputedSize.Height + borderHeight);
diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Throttle.cs b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Throttle.cs
index eb8a90b0e2..6a32202c31 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Throttle.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Throttle.cs
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 				afsfreq = 1000;
 				tmethod = 0;
 			}
-			Console.WriteLine("throttle method: {0}; resolution: {1}", tmethod, afsfreq);
+			Util.DebugWriteLine("throttle method: {0}; resolution: {1}", tmethod, afsfreq);
 			tfreq = afsfreq * 65536;
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Common/Util.cs b/src/BizHawk.Common/Util.cs
index 10074202a3..d4c3fa3967 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Common/Util.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Common/Util.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
@@ -21,6 +22,22 @@ namespace BizHawk.Common
 			}
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>equivalent to <see cref="Console.WriteLine()">Console.WriteLine</see> but is <c>#ifdef DEBUG</c></summary>
+		[Conditional("DEBUG")]
+		public static void DebugWriteLine() => Console.WriteLine();
+
+		/// <summary>equivalent to <see cref="Console.WriteLine(string)">Console.WriteLine</see> but is <c>#ifdef DEBUG</c></summary>
+		[Conditional("DEBUG")]
+		public static void DebugWriteLine(string value) => Console.WriteLine(value);
+
+		/// <summary>equivalent to <see cref="Console.WriteLine(object)">Console.WriteLine</see> but is <c>#ifdef DEBUG</c></summary>
+		[Conditional("DEBUG")]
+		public static void DebugWriteLine(object value) => Console.WriteLine(value);
+
+		/// <summary>equivalent to <see cref="Console.WriteLine(string, object[])">Console.WriteLine</see> but is <c>#ifdef DEBUG</c></summary>
+		[Conditional("DEBUG")]
+		public static void DebugWriteLine(string format, params object[] arg) => Console.WriteLine(format, arg);
+
 		/// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">issues with parsing <paramref name="src"/></exception>
 		/// <remarks>TODO use <see cref="MemoryStream(int)"/> and <see cref="MemoryStream.ToArray"/> instead of using <see cref="MemoryStream(byte[])"/> and keeping a reference to the array? --yoshi</remarks>
 		public static byte[] DecompressGzipFile(Stream src)
diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Common/Database/Database.cs b/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Common/Database/Database.cs
index f776051523..244065410a 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Common/Database/Database.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Common/Database/Database.cs
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Common
 			var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
 			ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(_=> {
 				initializeWork(path);
-				Console.WriteLine("GameDB load: " + stopwatch.Elapsed + " sec");
+				Util.DebugWriteLine("GameDB load: " + stopwatch.Elapsed + " sec");
 			});
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/BootGodDB.cs b/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/BootGodDB.cs
index 065242c1c8..44eb7921e1 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/BootGodDB.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/BootGodDB.cs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Nintendo.NES
 			ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(_ =>
 			{
 				instance = new BootGodDb(basePath);
-				Console.WriteLine("Bootgod DB load: " + stopwatch.Elapsed + " sec");
+				Util.DebugWriteLine("Bootgod DB load: " + stopwatch.Elapsed + " sec");
 				acquire.Set();
 			});
 		}