Xenoblade Chronicles

Xenoblade Chronicles, known in Japan as Zenobureido (ゼノブレイド), is a console role-playing game published by Nintendo for the Wii console. Traditionally PlayStation exclusive, Xenoblade is the first Xeno series game to make it to a Nintendo console. The game was released on June 10, 2010 in Japan and on August 19, 2011 in Europe.

Originally not intending to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to the US, the massive pressure from fans has convinced Nintendo release Xenoblade in the US. It has been announced for an April 2012 release date.

30 FPS Patch
There is a patch to make the PAL version run at 30 FPS rather than its default 25 FPS. This makes gameplay smoother and matches the original JAP version's 30 FPS. Download the patch here. You may wish to back up your original .iso game image before applying the patch.

XBox 360 Button Icons
A patch has been made to allow the user to select between three different XBox 360 button icon types. The buttons replace the Wii button icons in the game. A forum post with pictures on the Xenoblade Dolphin forum thread can be found here. The file can be downloaded here. Be sure to install whichever pack to your Dolphin install directory. Also, you MUST click "Load Custom Textures" under the "Advanced" tab of the "Graphics" configuration window.

Problems
Xenoblade Chronicles is a very sound-intensive game, so the most common emulation problems relate to sound stutter, choppy voices during cutscenes, and random crackles and pops in the music and in menus. The sound issues occur for most whether using XAudio2 or DSound. Using the LLE sound plugin can help for some users. Others using HLE usually need to disable Audio Throttle.

The main factor for whether the sound will have issues is what build is being used. There are several special Dolphin builds made with hacks to fix the sound issues, as can be found in the official forum thread for the game.

Dolphin 3.0 version 373 and onwards renders the game unbeatable when a certain boss battle nearing the end of the game fails to register a quest mid battle. You can not win.

Gameplay Videos

 * Xenoblade JP HD Gameplay 1A (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade JP HD Gameplay 1B (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade JP HD Gameplay 2 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade JP HD Gameplay 3 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade JP HD Gameplay 4 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD Intro (Dolphin Emulator @ 1080p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD Gameplay 1 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD Gameplay 2 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD Gameplay 1 - Near start of game (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD Gameplay 2 - Continuation of Gameplay 1 (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)
 * Xenoblade PAL HD - A protective mother (Dolphin Emulator @ 720p)