Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Developer(s)	Victor Interactive Software
Publisher(s)	JP Victor Entertainment NA/EU Natsume
Series	Harvest Moon
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP September 12, 2003 NA March 16, 2004 EU March 26, 2004
Genre(s)	Life simulation, Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GYWEE9, GYWJ99, GYWPE9, GYWDE9
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life will span a lifetime on the farm and follow the drama that goes with it. Not only must you build and successfully run a farm, but you must also build a successful life with family and friends! This new Harvest Moon experience will take the best qualities of the series and add more...more animals, more vegetables and more drama! What sort of life will you live?

The game offers connectivity with the Game Boy Advance game Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. Another related GameCube game called Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life was released where the player goes through the storyline of A Wonderful Life as a female character.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Enhancements

16:9 Widescreen Gecko Code

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HD Texture Packs

• A(nother) texture pack for Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life by Kupo

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

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

r5136

3.0-413

4.0-5124

4.0-6266

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5.0-20519 (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
3.0-458	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-760 @ 3.25 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6870	Text Is working now, Download DSP LLE files and use Recompiler for sound Fix (sound is jerky otherwise).	Neph
3.0-630	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2430M @ 2.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	Game running great. audio using DSP LLE, but still choppy quite often.	Arya
3.0-696	Windows 8	Intel Core i3 @ 3 GHz	Intel HD Graphics 4000	Game is running great. To fix the night lag error use this Dolphin Version!.	GhostRJ
3.5	Windows 8	Intel Core i5-M460 @ 2.8 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5650	Perfect. Barely drops from 30FPS. The sound is good too with DSP HLE.	ZanBolt6
3.5-367	Windows 7	Intel Dual Core E5700 @ 3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT	Good. Everything is fine 30FPS indoor and outdoor (98-100% game Speed). Sound is fine. The only problem in game at night from 7PM - 4AM, FPS only 5-15 (Game Speed only 10-15%) Unplayable at Night, but indoor is okay at night. Only outdoor area is unplayable at night.	octadaniel
4.0	Windows	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.4 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6950	Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life HD Widescreen Hack	Spartacus
4.0-1519	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3350P @ 3.1 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7950	Huge slowdown after 7pm in-game time, caused by the streetlights. FPS then drops down to 9 making it unplayable.	Nightapple
4.0-1707	Windows 7	Intel Core i7-2600K @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	Game has slight pauses when moving between areas via doors, frame rate tanks between 7 PM and 7 AM (possibly due to lights). Otherwise, this game appears to be completely playable.	TehGuy
4.0-4480	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770	Tested for the framerate drop between 7PM and 4AM with default Dolphin settings. Framerate at night dipped a few times but never below 28FPS.	b2zeldafreak
4.0-6266	Windows 7	AMD FX-8350 @ 4 GHz	AMD Radeon R7 260X	With default settings, a solid 30FPS even into the night.	cjrobe
5.0-5146	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-7700K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	From what I could tell everything was running perfectly.	IceStrike256

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2 - Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life On Dolphin 5.0-5146

Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life HD Widescreen Hack

• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (ISSUES) on NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Dolphin Emulator (Nintendo GameCube)
• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life [Gamecube] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]