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Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure | |
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Developer(s) | Toys for Bob |
Publisher(s) | JP Square Enix NA/EU/AUS Activision |
Series | Spyro, Skylanders |
Platform(s) | Wii |
Release date(s) | AUS October 13, 2011 EU October 14, 2011 NA October 16, 2011 JP July 12, 2013 |
Genre(s) | Platform |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer (2), Co-op (2) |
Input methods | Wii Remote + Nunchuk, Skylander Portal |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
GameIDs | |
See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is a spin-off game and toy brand in the Spyro series. The game combines the software with toys, which link to the game with a device called a "portal". Players place toys onto the portal to unlock new characters for play in the game.
Emulation Information
Portal of Power
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure requires a USB device called the Portal of Power. As of Dolphin 5.0-18299 you can choose to emulate this USB device directly within the emulator. If you have a physical Portal of Power and wish to continue off of saved progress in your existing figurines, you can use third party dumping tools to dump the figure data off of your existing Skylanders figures for use in the emulated Portal or create IDs directly within the emulated Portal of Power. Up to eight figurine data dumps can be used at a time.
If you wish to use a physical Portal of Power you can do so by installing the proper libusb drivers with Zadig. Follow the same install instructions for the GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U but instead of selecting "WUP-028" in the pulldown menu, use "Spyro Portal". After doing this, the Portal of Power will work in Dolphin just fine whenever plugged in. You cannot use a physical portal and an emulated portal at the same time.
Problems
There are no reported problems with this title.
Enhancements
Bloom Offset at Higher IR
When playing at higher internal resolutions, bloom effects will scale incorrectly, with multiple copies of the bloom spread out from the source, which can be very distracting.
A workaround is to disable Scaled EFB Copy, which will cause all EFB effects to be rendered at native resolution.
Since 5.0-16763, Graphics Mods can be used to make only bloom render at native resolution, or to disable it altogether.
Because it was often rendered at low resolutions, the bloom may appear shimmery when rendered at native resolution.
60 FPS
While the game already runs at 60 FPS under the hood, everything but the UI is rendered at 30 FPS.
Use the following Gecko code to make the entire game render at 60 FPS.
$60 FPS 04021248 60000000
Tested on the NA and EU versions (may work on others). Requires overclocking the emulated CPU for full speed.
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
Config | Setting | Notes |
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Manual Texture Sampling | On | Required to remove artifacts from FMVs on some GPUs |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
Test Entries | |||||
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
3.0-424 | Windows 7 | Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GT 210 | Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Intro/Menu Dolphin Emulator 3.0-424 (No Portal) | EmuMaster1000 |
4.0-8833 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i7-4510U @ 2 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce 840M | Perfect with Portals from Swap force PS4 & Trap team PS4 | bennyzhou |
Gameplay Videos
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- Toys for Bob (Developer)
- Square Enix (Publisher)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- Activision (Publisher)
- Spyro (Series)
- Skylanders (Series)
- 2011 (Initial release year)
- Platform (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- 2 (Players supported)
- Co-op (Game mode)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- Nunchuk (Input supported)
- Skylander Portal (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Manual Texture Sampling (Config Required)
- Tested On (Release): 3.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Wii games