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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life | |
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Developer(s) | Marvelous Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | JP Victor Entertainment NA Natsume EU 505 Games AUS Nintendo |
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 |
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See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
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
Nighttime Slowness
Lights from houses cause game to run very slow from in game time 7pm to 4am.
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.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
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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 |
3.0-696 | Windows 8 x64 | Intel Core i3 @ 3GHz | Intel HD Graphics 4000 | Game is running great. To fix the night lag error use this Dolphin Version!. | GhostRJ |
^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 |
3.5 | Windows 8 x64 | Intel Core i5-M460 @ 2.8GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5650 | Perfect. Barely drops from 30 FPS. The sound is good too with DSP HLE. | ZanBolt6 |
3.5-367 | Windows 7 x86 | Intel Dual Core E5700 @ 3GHz | nVidia GeForce 9400GT | Good. Everything is fine 30 FPS 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 @ 3.4GHz | AMD Radeon HD 6950 | Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life HD Widescreen Hack | Spartacus |
4.0-1519 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i5-3350P @ 3.1GHz | 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 x64 | Intel Core i7-2600k @ 4GHz | 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 |
Gameplay Videos
- Marvelous Entertainment (Developer)
- Victor Entertainment (Publisher)
- Japan (Release region)
- Natsume (Publisher)
- North America (Release region)
- 505 Games (Publisher)
- Europe (Release region)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Australia (Release region)
- Harvest Moon (Series)
- 2003 (Initial release year)
- Life simulation (Genre)
- Role-playing (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Single-player only (Game mode)
- 1 (Players supported)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- Game Boy Advance (Input supported)
- 4 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (Release): 3.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): AMD
- Tested
- Tested On (GPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU):
- Tested On (GPU): ATI
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- GameCube games