Excite Truck
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| Developer(s) | Monster Games |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Series | Excitebike |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
| Release date(s) | NA November 19, 2006 JP January 18, 2007 EU February 16, 2007 AUS February 22, 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer (2) |
| Input methods | Wii Remote |
| Compatibility | 4  Playable |
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| See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Excite Truck is a video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monster Games for the Wii video game system. It features malleable environments and tilt-based controls. The game was one of the Wii launch titles in North America. It is a spiritual successor to the Excitebike series (Excitebike and Excitebike 64). Excitebike was released on the Virtual Console service in Europe on February 16, to mark the European release of Excite Truck.
Excite Truck is the first Wii game to let people select music, in the form of MP3s from an SD card, to be played in the background while they are playing instead of the music provided by the game. This feature is also used by Endless Ocean.
Problems
Main Menu Background Video Corruption
The main menu background video has corrupted vertical lines and wider horizontal areas. The vertical lines appears with certain resolutions (x1,x3,x6...), the horizontal ones are present in any resolution.
This can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings → Advanced menu. Alternatively, "Vertex Rounding" can reduce the corruption, but with that option the horizontal blocks will remain.
Sun Flare
For the lens flare effect to be emulated when looking towards the sun, Skip EFB Access From CPU must be disabled.
However, the effect will not be emulated accurately compared to real hardware, as the process to determine whether the sun is occluded is timing-sensitive in a way that Dolphin doesn't replicate. Changing the Emulated CPU Clock Override will change the behavior (the higher it is, the more a partial occlusion will prevent the flare).
For instance, in the tutorial select screen, the sun is partially covered by the trees: on real hardware it flares occasionally, on Dolphin it always flares at default clock and never flares at 500% clock. On the other hand, in Cooling Down (the first Basics 2 tutorial), the sun will always flare behind a hill, even at 500% clock (while it doesn't on real hardware).
If Dual Core is enabled, it's likely that the flare will flicker when it should be occluded.
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
| Config | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Skip EFB Access from CPU | Off | Emulate sun flare effect |
| Defer EFB Copies to RAM | Off | Fix broken shadows in multiplayer |
| Manual Texture Sampling | On | Fix FMV corruption |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Excite Truck 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:
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| Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
| r4885 | Windows XP | Intel Core i7-950 @ 3.83 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce 285 GTX | - Excite Truck Under Dolphin4885(part1) - | backgamon |
| 5.0 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.8 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce 780 GTX | some audio studder, Dolphin crashes after a few minutes -] | nontheist |
| 5.0-445 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.8 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce 780 GTX | no problems noted -] | nontheist |
Gameplay Videos
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- Monster Games (Developer)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Excitebike (Series)
- North America (Release region)
- Japan (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- 2006 (Initial release year)
- Racing (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- 2 (Players supported)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- 4 stars (Rating)
- Skip EFB Access from CPU (Config Required)
- Defer EFB Copies to RAM (Config Required)
- Manual Texture Sampling (Config Required)
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Tested On (Release): 5.0
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Wii games
- Games with Dolby Pro Logic II support
- Games with RetroAchievements support