FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006

FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006
Developer(s)	EA Canada
Publisher(s)	EA Sports
Series	FIFA World Cup, FIFA
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA April 24, 2006 JP April 27, 2006 EU April 28, 2006
Genre(s)	Sports, Soccer
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	G6FF69, G6FD69, G6FE69, G6FP69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006 (known as 2006 FIFA World Cup in Europe) is the official video game for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, published by EA Sports. The game allows players to participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany by taking control of one of 127 national teams. Since the release of the game 2002 FIFA World Cup, the menus have been redesigned and have more options. It even includes a satellite map when choosing countries to play in a Friendly.

Problems

VP6 Videos

FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006 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

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006 since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

4.0-8145

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5.0-20164 (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
4.0-8161	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	Videos corrupt, game play fine on defaults	Circo

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-2460 - FIFA World Cup 2006 (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

2006 FIFA World Cup [Gamecube] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]