Balloon Fight

Balloon Fight
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, NES
Release date(s)	NES JP January 22, 1985 NA June 3, 1986 EU March 12, 1987 Virtual Console EU June 8, 2007 NA July 16, 2007 JP November 13, 2007
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	FCPE01, FCPP01, FCPJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

You'll need lightning-fast reactions to win this battle in the sky! It's Balloon Fight! You'll score lots of points and have loads of fun when you burst enemy balloons and send their parachutes crashing into the sea. But beware: these hot-air invaders having an amazing ability to land safely, blow up another balloon and come back stronger than before! What's more, if you fly too low you'll be devoured by man-eating sharks! Challenge them alone if you think you're up to it, or team up with a friend. Either way, you'll have the time of your life fighting off your opponents in the sky and avoiding those hungry sharks below in Balloon Fight!

NES Global Problems

Problems that may occur with any NES title on Dolphin are listed below.

DirectX with NES Games

Most NES games suffer strange graphical issues when using the DirectX backend with some graphics drivers; notably NVIDIA. This is a driver bug.

NVIDIA Title Corruption

As of 5.0-4869, the D3D driver bugs can be worked around by setting Ubershaders to Exclusive/Synchronous (Ubershaders). It's unknown what exactly is going on with the driver that's causing Exclusive Ubershaders/Synchronous (Ubershaders) to work properly.

This seems to have been rectified at some point, though it's unclear what resolved it.

Problems

This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Balloon Fight since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

4.0-8445

5.0

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5.0-20580 (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
4.0-8445	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Works OK. Requires EFB2RAM.	JMC47