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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Difference between revisions
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===Fire Effects=== | ===Fire Effects=== | ||
In Wind Waker, the various fire effects are glitched, resulting in a odd doubling of portions of the screen exposed to the heat effect. These heat effects are used in many places, like Dragon Roost Cavern and hanging torches. The glitches can be fixed by checking "EFB Copies - Disable" to disable the heat effect entirely, but this also disables dozens of effects used throughout the game. This is the only known solution to this problem. | In Wind Waker, the various fire effects are glitched, resulting in a odd doubling of portions of the screen exposed to the heat effect. These heat effects are used in many places, like Dragon Roost Cavern and hanging torches. The glitches can be fixed by checking "EFB Copies - Disable" to disable the heat effect entirely, but this also disables dozens of effects used throughout the game. This is the only known solution to this problem, and it is not recommended. | ||
*See {{Issue|2120}}, {{Issue|2338}}, and {{Issue|3971}}. | *See {{Issue|2120}}, {{Issue|2338}}, and {{Issue|3971}}. | ||
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===Distant Areas=== | ===Distant Areas=== | ||
Windwaker uses a DOF blurring effect, which scales poorly on resolutions above the gamecubes native 640x528. There are several solutions to this problem. | |||
*Use an efb scale that is higher than your window/fullscreen resolution. This means for lower resolutions you will need a 2x efb scale and for higher resolutions you will need a 3x efb scale. This will remove/reduce the DOF blur without breaking anything. | |||
* | **EFB Copies - Virtual is required for this to work on the latest revisions. | ||
**Unfortunately for users with 1080p and higher resolutions, 1920x1584 (3x scale) is the highest dolphin supports, and 4x has not been implemented yet. Without 4x it is impossible to set a EFB scale higher then 1920x1080, thus impossible to fix the blur with this technique. To fix it, use SSAA. | |||
*Super Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA), combined with an EFB Scale equal to or greater then your current resolution, will solve the effect better then any other option available. It will allow for crystal clear distance areas without breaking any effects. Unfortunately, SSAA is very GPU intensive, so this can only be done by those with strong GPUs. | |||
**EFB Copies - Virtual is required for this to work on the latest revisions. | |||
*Disable EFB copy. | *Disable EFB copy. | ||
**This solves the distant areas problem but breaks characters shadows, screen blurring (when cutting small trees with sword and other things), and causes the pictobox problem. This is not recommended. | |||
**This solves the distant areas problem but breaks characters shadows, screen blurring (when cutting small trees with sword and other things), and causes the pictobox problem. This is not recommended. | |||
*The d3d11 video backend will produce DOF blur regardless of efb scale. It is therefore advised to use the d3d9 or openGL video backends. | *The d3d11 video backend will produce DOF blur regardless of efb scale. It is therefore advised to use the d3d9 or openGL video backends. | ||
*It is not advised to use projection hacks with newer revisions. | *It is not advised to use projection hacks with newer revisions. |
Revision as of 17:37, 26 June 2011
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | |
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Developer(s) | Nintendo EAD |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Series | The Legend of Zelda |
Platform(s) | GameCube |
Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Input methods | Gamecube controller |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
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Nintendo's thematic action-adventure sequel to Ocarina of Time takes the series back to its more cartoonish roots. Utilizing a completely new look with cel-shaded graphics, the game casts players in the role of a familiar young boy, who sets out to save his kidnapped sister. Gameplay is vintage Zelda, only that the game's overworld is covered by water. Players have to control the direction of the wind to sail across the ocean and find dungeons, towns, and plenty of secrets. A special Game Boy Advance link-up option lets another player join the quest and give hints and assistance via the handheld.
Problems
Fire Effects
In Wind Waker, the various fire effects are glitched, resulting in a odd doubling of portions of the screen exposed to the heat effect. These heat effects are used in many places, like Dragon Roost Cavern and hanging torches. The glitches can be fixed by checking "EFB Copies - Disable" to disable the heat effect entirely, but this also disables dozens of effects used throughout the game. This is the only known solution to this problem, and it is not recommended.
- See issue 2120, issue 2338, and issue 3971.
Sound
- Sound and music cut out at various points.
- Sound de-syncs during cinematics. This issue has been partially fixed, see this forum thread.
- If audio throttle is on black screens may occur when audio de-syncs
The various sound issues are resolved via use of the LLE plug-in.
Distant Areas
Windwaker uses a DOF blurring effect, which scales poorly on resolutions above the gamecubes native 640x528. There are several solutions to this problem.
- Use an efb scale that is higher than your window/fullscreen resolution. This means for lower resolutions you will need a 2x efb scale and for higher resolutions you will need a 3x efb scale. This will remove/reduce the DOF blur without breaking anything.
- EFB Copies - Virtual is required for this to work on the latest revisions.
- Unfortunately for users with 1080p and higher resolutions, 1920x1584 (3x scale) is the highest dolphin supports, and 4x has not been implemented yet. Without 4x it is impossible to set a EFB scale higher then 1920x1080, thus impossible to fix the blur with this technique. To fix it, use SSAA.
- Super Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA), combined with an EFB Scale equal to or greater then your current resolution, will solve the effect better then any other option available. It will allow for crystal clear distance areas without breaking any effects. Unfortunately, SSAA is very GPU intensive, so this can only be done by those with strong GPUs.
- EFB Copies - Virtual is required for this to work on the latest revisions.
- Disable EFB copy.
- This solves the distant areas problem but breaks characters shadows, screen blurring (when cutting small trees with sword and other things), and causes the pictobox problem. This is not recommended.
- The d3d11 video backend will produce DOF blur regardless of efb scale. It is therefore advised to use the d3d9 or openGL video backends.
- It is not advised to use projection hacks with newer revisions.
Black Squares in Dragon Roost
- Use Zelda Twilight Princess Bloom Hack and EFB to RAM or texture enabled.
- Blur distant images fixed, shadows work, and the fire effect is correct.
Pictobox only shows black images
- Don't use EFB to texture
- If you take a photo in this mode it will appear black both when you take it and when you try to view it, even if switching to EFB to RAM later the photo will continue to be black.
- Don't use projection hack and Enable EFB to RAM
- Pictobox will work perfectly, but bugs with waiting to see the photo continue.
- Use a projection hack and Enable EFB to RAM
- It's essential to use a projection hack or problems will occur: blurred distant images and black squares in Dragon Roost. When using a projection hack, photos will appear black at first, but when you switch modes to view photos they will appear normally.
- With r6778 issues with the pictobox should be resolved, as long as "EFB to RAM" is enabled.
Texture flickering
- Sometimes textures such as waves or shadows will flicker at certain camera angles
- Use r6520 or higher and make sure that Disable Per-Pixel Depth is unticked (off) in the graphics plugin to fix this.
Black/gray screens
- A black/gray screen crash may occur after certain events in the game. This can be fixed by enabling the "fix item hang" patch in the patches section of game properties (right click the game in the main dolphin window to get to game properties)
- Be warned however that the fix item hack patch will cause audio issues. Use it only when you encounter a black/gray screen crash
GameBoy Player
Emulation of GameBoy Player doesn't work with this game. It can be enabled in Config => GameCube, but the game will not detect it. (GBA Link is partially emulated since r6059 and requires a dump of GBA BIOS and VBA-M with joy bus options to work).
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Audio
Config | Setting | Notes |
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DSP Emulator Engine | LLE | Resolves a variety of sound issues |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
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