Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Developer(s)	Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Fire Emblem
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	JP February 22, 2007 NA November 11, 2007 EU March 14, 2008 AUS April 10, 2008
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	Wii Remote, Classic Controller, GameCube Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	RFEP01, RFEE01, RFEJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It is the tenth Fire Emblem title and the first for the Wii. It was announced for the Wii on May 9, 2006 at the E3 convention, officially released on February 22, 2007 in Japan, and released in North America on November 11, 2007.

Problems

Character Faces

Black or Purple lines appear around character mouth and eyes. Solution: Disable anisotropic filtering. [Only affects Direct3D9/11, OpenGL doesn't have this problem]

Cheats

When cheats are activated, the game may crash after the intro. Solution:Disable cheats, then play the game for about 5 min, then quit the game, enable the cheats again, then play normally.

Instability

Dolphin will crash randomly (Something like at least 1 crash for every 2 maps played) while emulating this game, it's usually stable in menus and the base but when playing a map the game will occasionally crash when:

• Issuing a move or attack order (most frequent)
• Transitioning from the field view to the battle/upgrade animation screens
• Ending turn
• The AI can also crash the game by the doing any of the above (least frequent)

Work around it by making thorough use of save states between every turn.

WARNING: at the beginning of the Third Part, there is a point where a group of Laguz, led by Skrimir, transform. Dolphin always crash. To fix the issue, you must set Audio to "DSP LLE".

Controls Fix

If you experience mad controls, go to config and set the Gamecube controller to none, but leave the wii remote as it is.

Audio

If you are having problems with sound errors try setting 'Audio Backend' to 'XAudio2'.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Video Backend	OpenGL	Prevents black or purple lines around character mouth and eyes
Scaled EFB Copy	Fractional	Fixes portraits having black lines in them

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r4789

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5.0-21502 (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
3.5	Windows 7 x64	Intel I7 950 @ 4.1 Ghz	Nvidia GTX 570 @ 900 Mhz, Memory @ stock	Good, purple lines around characters mouth go away with anisotropic filtering x1, game runs smoothly, but speed drops when there is a phase change, sometimes also crashes at that moment. I didn't experience crashes at other moments. The biggest problem along the crashes is the sound. There are many many glitches	Titouf
style="white-space:nowrap;	Windows 7 x64	AMD Athlon II X4 640	ATI Radeon HD 5770	Good, purple lines around characters mouth won't go away, even with anisotropic filtering x1
^3.0-415	Windows 7 x86	Intel Core i5-2300 @ 3GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 430	Mostly perfect, sometimes sound glitches.	MiniBolt
^3.0-549	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 420M	Runs fluently. Some minor speed problems (rarely runs at full speed). No graphic issues.

Gameplay Videos

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (Dolphin Emulator Test): When the RNG hates you

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - Opening and Main Menu