Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Developer(s)	Warthog
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Harry Potter
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA December 9, 2003 JP December 11, 2003 EU December 12, 2003
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	GHLE69, GHLJ13, GHLY69, GHLP69, GHLX69, GHLZ69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Wikipedia page

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Europe) it's Harry's first year at Hogwarts and he's still trying to take it all in, to get fully situated, when he and best friends Ron and Hermione stumble through a doorway and into a room guarded by a humungous, three-headed dog. Only after they successfully escape the beast's huge jaws do they all simultaneously wonder why it's hidden within the confines of the wizardry school and perhaps more intriguing still, what it could be guarding. So begins the tale of the Sorcerer's Stone, the first of author J.K. Rowling's incalculably popular books about "The Boy Who Lived."

Problems

Random Sounds

As of 4.0-4478 sounds in this game can range from fully functioning to completely unlistenable, and vary in volume, becoming extremely loud with no warning. The only known workaround is to set the Sound Effects Volume setting in the game's internal options to 0. See issue 8096.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (GC) 1080p - Audio Anomalies in Dolphin

Fixed by 5.0-5578.

Enhancements

NTSC-U 16:9

Cutscenes are zoomed in.

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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 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.5-1270

4.0-4478

5.0-5578

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5.0-19599 (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
3.5-1270	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 3.6 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 7770	Near perfect and fully playable but for some missing poly issues during certain animations and during cutscenes.	Cammelspit
3.5-1389	Windows 7	AMD Athlon II X2 270 @ 3.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT	Playable with minor lag during a few cutscenes. Can play to end of game.	Tsarchasm
4.0-271	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	FPS ~ 55(US). Some minor bugs. Playable to the end.	Moneyvova
4.0-1340	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.6 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 4870	FPS ~ 55(US). Perfectly playable.	Unruval
4.0-4478	Ubuntu 14.04	Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650	EXTREME audio glitches; be warned as these can and will blow speakers. The actual game is fine, perfect graphics with 100% speed at all times, but I wasn't even able to make it to Hogwarts because I was afraid my speakers were going to be damaged. No settings fix this, LLE has no effect and neither does audio backend. As a sidenote I clipped through the floor making a jump as well, but that didn't happen again after a reset and compared to the sound it's not a big deal. Unplayable unless sound effects are muted from the start.	Xerxes
4.0-8860	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i5-6600k @ 4.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	FPS ~ 60(US) Severe audio problems. Game freezed right after leaving Ollivanders shop with OpenGL backend. This does not happen with Direct3D.	Majki
5.0	Windows 10	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series	FPS are stable , but game have audio glitches. Also, the game is cut off at the Ollivander's Wand Shop.	KolganJunior
5.0-4607	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	Playable, but the game has too many audio glitches.	SuperSonic
5.0-5578	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	Perfect. No random sounds occurring after the last update.	SuperSonic
5.0-16101	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-4910MQ @ 2.9 GHz	AMD Radeon PRO WX 4150	PAL version tested with 3x native internal resolution. Perfect 50 FPS and no audio glitches.	Someone7272

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-8860 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Nintendo GameCube

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-2745 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [PAL] [Gamecube] [Español] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]

• Dolphin Directx 12 - Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal (Europe)