007: From Russia with Love

007: From Russia with Love
Developer(s)	EA Redwood Shores
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	James Bond
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA November 15, 2005 EU November 18, 2005 FR November 17, 2005 DE November 16, 2005
Genre(s)	Third-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GLZE69, GLZP69, GLZD69, GLZF69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

007: From Russia with Love (aka 007: Liebesgrüsse aus Moskau in Germany and 007: Bons Baisers de Russie in France) is a video game featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. The game is based on the 1957 novel and the 1963 film of the same name. The game follows the storyline of the book and film, albeit adding in new scenes to make the game more action-oriented, as well as changing the affiliation of the main villains. Additionally, it features many elements of earlier Bond films to recreate the feel of the era such as the jet pack from Thunderball (1965) and the Aston Martin DB5 that debuted in Goldfinger (1964). From Russia with Love is also notable in that it is the first video game to use Sean Connery's likeness as James Bond and the first to include all new voice work by the actor. From Russia with Love is the last James Bond video game EA Games marketed before they lost the rights to Activision in 2006.

Problems

VP6 Videos

007: From Russia with Love uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on many graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling. See issue 7193. In 5.0-15515 or newer, this can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings -> Advanced menu.

VP6 video

VP6 video with manual sampling

Bloom

Bloom around lights is not emulated with default settings. To emulate such appropriately disable Store EFB Copies to Texture, also disable Defer EFB Copies to RAM to prevent bloom being visible through objects.

Wii

Broken bloom

/w Store EFB Copies to Texture

/w Store EFB Copies to Texture + Defer EFB Copies to RAM

Enhancements

Non-Native Resolution

Using non-native resolutions will result in oddly colored lines on the edges of the screen. This can be addressed by enabling Vertex Rounding.

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Store EFB Copies to Texture Only	Off	Render bloom
Defer EFB Copies to RAM	Off	Layer bloom correctly
Vertex Rounding Hack	On	Correct odd lines at higher than native resolution
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with 007: From Russia with Love since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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5.0-20571 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
4.0.2	Linux	Intel Core i5-5200 @ 2.2 GHz	Intel E4000	Full 30FPS, everything works, no drops etc.
4.0-242	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	Full 30FPS; videos are messed up, but everything else works just fine (cutscenes, menus, sounds, no FPS drops or freezes).	TerminatorOST

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2 - 007: From Russia with Love (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

007: From Russia with Love on NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Dolphin Emulator (Nintendo GameCube)

007: From Russia with Love [Gamecube] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]