Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (GC)

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Developer(s)	Marvelous Entertainment
Publisher(s)	JP Marvelous Entertainment NA Natsume
Series	Harvest Moon
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP November 10, 2005 NA March 28, 2006
Genre(s)	Role-playing, Life simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	G4AEE9, G4WJ99
See also...	Wii Version Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Wikipedia page

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (牧場物語 しあわせの詩 for ワールド/Bokujō Monogatari: Shiawase no Uta for Wārudo in Japan) is an updated version of Bokujō Monogatari: Shiawase no Uta with several differences:

• Jamie is not marriageable.
• Smaller capacity for the shelf and the fridge.
• The game balance has not been readjusted.
• Contains several bugs and freezes.

It features plenty of crops, a variety of animals to care for, tons of festivals to participate in and loads of events to create a fun and entertaining game play experience. Play as either a boy or girl: Each gender has 10 potential spouses. Compete against a rival farmer; Your productivity will be judged on a daily basis against that of your rival's...you will also compete against your rival in the festivals. Cultivate a wide variety of crops and trees. Raise cows, sheep, horses and chickens. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody offers 4-player minigames. Purchase different plots of land and expand your farm by building various extensions. The Harvest Goddess has turned to stone and the Harvest Sprites need your help to bring her back. You need to collect Musical Notes throughout the game in hopes of restoring her to her former self. There are 100 Musical Notes in the game and to collect the notes you must do a variety of different tasks, such as shipping a certain number of items, winning a festival or making friends with the wild animals found around your farm. Only by collecting a certain number of notes will the Harvest Goddess come back.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Enhancements

16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix

The Widescreen hack has shadow issues that can be fixed with an AR Code. Disable the Widescreen Hack before using.

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Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Harvest Moon: Magical Melody since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r6603

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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
r6603	Windows 7	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	Playable
r7553	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II X4 945	AMD Radeon 6970	Black Screen
r7580	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650	ATI Radeon HD 5770	Perfectly Playable, just a 1 crash in awhile
3.0	Windows 7	AMD Phenom X3 8450e	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	Works with occasional crashes with "Format Changes" off
3.0	Ubuntu 10.04.2	AMD Phenom X3 8450e	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	Title, but no background, and then black screen with sound, takes input
3.0	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2500K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Black screen
3.0	Windows XP	Intel Pentium E5200	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT	Fully playable but the map doesn't show up	the metal
r7658	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2500K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Perfectly Playable
r7714	Windows 7	Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	Fully playable: No slowdowns, no known glitches.
r7719	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.45 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Playable: some crashes at cutscenes, save states sometimes crash	xXDarkXx
3.0-204	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.45 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Blackscreen (only text and box is shown)	xXDarkXx
4.0-1340	Windows 7	Intel Core i-5 3570k @ 3.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	Playable: Odd Shadows/No Map	Sir Thorne
4.0-6266	Windows 7	AMD FX-8350 @ 4 GHz	AMD Radeon R7 260X	Playable: Tested using default settings, no noticeable glitches anywhere. Map displays fine.	cjrobe
4.0-6891	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i5-5200U @ 2.2 GHz	Intel HD Graphics 5500	Perfectly Playable: Default settings, solid 30FPS, no lag and no visible glitches	Tester

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-2745 - Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody on NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Dolphin Emulator (Nintendo GameCube)

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody [Gamecube] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]