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. Fixed by 4.0-5124.
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 |
4.0-4480 | Windows 8.1 x64 | Intel Core i5-4670k @ 3.4GHz | 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 x64 | AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0GHZ | AMD Radeon R7 260X | With default settings, a solid 30fps even into the night. | cjrobe |
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
- Tested On (CPU): AMD
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- GameCube games