Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Developer(s)	Victor Interactive Software
Publisher(s)	Victor Entertainment JP Marvelous Interactive NA Natsume Co. EU 505 Game Street AUS Nintendo of Australia
Series	Harvest Moon
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP September 12, 2003 NA March 16, 2004 EU March 26, 2004
Genre(s)	Simulation, Role-Playing
Mode(s)	Single-Player
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GYWEE9, GYWJ99, GYWPE9, GYWDE9
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube that was released on March 16, 2004. It was developed by Marvelous Interactive Inc. and released by Natsume, and is part of the long-running Harvest Moon series of video games. 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

Music Skipping

Music may be prone to skips, pops, and missing instruments. Use DSP LLE to fix it.

Night Time Lag

Around 7PM (when streetlights turn on), FPS drops drastically.

Glitched Text

The dialogue and standard text is jumbled and glitched, refer issue 2197. This is corrected in 3.0-413 with the texcache preload merger. See git change.

File:HarvestMoonGCN Text Error.png

Configuration

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

Audio

Config	Setting	Notes
DSP Emulator Engine	LLE	Fixes missing instruments

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.

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3.0-413

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5.0-21453 (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 x64	Intel Core i5-760 @ 3.25GHz	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 x64	Intel Core i5-2430M @ 2.8GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 540M	Game running great. audio using DSP LLE, but still choppy quite often.	Arya