FIFA Soccer 2003

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FIFA Soccer 2003
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Developer(s) EA Canada
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Platform(s) GameCube
Release date(s) NA November 14, 2002
EU November 1, 2002
Genre(s) Sports, Soccer
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods GameCube Controller
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FIFA Soccer 2003, also known as FIFA Football 2003, FIFA 2003 or simply FIFA 03 in Europe, is the tenth game in the FIFA series and the seventh to be produced in 3D. A number of new features were added to improve upon the previous version. Club Championship Mode was introduced with the feature of playing against 17 of Europe's top clubs in their own stadiums and the fans singing their unique chants and songs. A TV-style broadcast package gives highlights at half-time and full-time, as well as comprehensive analysis. One of the most anticipated new features was EA Sport's "Freestyle Control" which allows the user to flick the ball on and lay it off to team mates. Other additions include greater likenesses of some of the more well-known players such as Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho, as well as realistic player responses.

The European cover features Roberto Carlos, Ryan Giggs, and Edgar Davids, representing Brazil, Manchester United, and Juventus respectively. In the USA Landon Donovan appeared in Roberto Carlos' place.

Problems

VP6 Videos

FIFA Soccer 2003 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.

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 Soccer 2003 since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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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 Windows Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.4 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6950 FIFA 2003 HD Widescreen Hack Spartacus
4.0-9440 Windows 10 Intel Core i7-2630QM AMD Radeon HD 6650 Works at full speed. Nice. francis

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