Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Developer(s)	Electronic Arts
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Harry Potter
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP 26 June 2004 NA 2 June 2004 EU 29 May 2004
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility	3 Starts
GameIDs	GAZF69, GAZE69, GAZJ13, GAZM69, GAZI69, GAZH69, GAZD69, GAZP69, GAZJ69, GAZS69
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 video game that was released concurrently with the film release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Both the game and the film were based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third novel in the Harry Potter series.

Problems

VP6 Videos

Videos are messed up, appearing scrambled, refer issue 5046. This was improved by 4.0-593, however stuttering, vertical line artifacting, and other glitches may still occur. There is no known fix at this time.

File:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-Video bug.jpg

Videos appear odd/scrambled

Transitions

Since at least 4.0-271 transitions between cutscenes/menus and gameplay will cause Dolphin to hang at 0 FPS for 5-10 seconds before resuming normally.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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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
3.0-811	Mac OS X 10.7.5	Intel Core i7 @ 2.2GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Barely playable. Intro videos are played incorrectly (random shapes mostly in blue, red and gray). Framerate is pretty low (15-18 FPS). Voices (and maybe other sounds) are missing from cutscenes. However, the game seemed to work for the 5 min I spent on it and would probably be playable if it had a better framerate. Tested with default settings and DSP HLE.	Nolendil
4.0	Windows	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.4GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6950	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban HD Widescreen Hack	Spartacus
4.0-271	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-3270 @ 3.2GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 660	Playable if you turn sound off, because sound laggy even at DSP LLE. FPS ~23. After cutscenes FPS goes to 0 for some time. VP6 video still messed. IR-4x, AF-16x, EFB - Virtual, EFB Copies - Texture, Fast Texture Cache (IT doesn't matter how low settings are, FPS still will be the same)	Moneyvova
4.0-595	Windows 7 x64	AMD Athlon II x3 455 @ 3.3GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7770	Barely functioning. Sound was turned completely off. FPS barely held 12. As stated, VP6 video is patched, though still glitchy. OpenGL Backend, IR native, AA none, Filtering 1x, disabled scaled EFB copy, copies to RAM with cache, fast TCA, virtual external frame buffer.	TheUltimaXtreme
4.0-1340	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.6GHz	AMD Radeon HD 4870	FPS ~ 30. Major bugs in game logic and physics, glitchy video, random in-game hangups and stutters, vanishing music	Unruval
4.0-5308	Linux Ubuntu 14.10	Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 650	Starts, but unplayable. Drops to 60% for extended periods of time and then will randomly come back to 100% for no discernible reason. Long hangs during transitions such as opening/closing the menus or coming out of cutscenes. You can only run while moving at an angle strangely so even going in a straight line efficiently is a challenge, having to zigzag or else deal with slow movement speed on top of the massive slowdowns. VP6 videos play, but often stutter or repeat segments of the cutscene. These glitches might be manageable if the game would run at full speed, but combined it makes for a very bad experience trying to play the game.	Xerxes

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-1192 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban HD Widescreen Hack