Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (GC)

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Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
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Developer(s) Marvelous Entertainment
Publisher(s) JP Marvelous Entertainment
NA Natsume
EU Rising Star Games
AUS Nintendo
Series Harvest Moon
Platform(s) GameCube
Release date(s) JP November 10, 2005
NA March 28, 2006
Genre(s) Role-playing, Life simulation
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods GameCube Controller
Compatibility 5Stars5.pngEdit rating: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (GC)
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Moon: Magical Melody Wikipedia page

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is a social simulation video game for the Nintendo GameCube developed by Marvelous Interactive. It is an updated version of Bokujō Monogatari: Shiawase no Uta, which was only released in Japan. The updated GameCube version was released in the United States by Natsume on March 28, 2006, and by by Rising Star Games for its European release.

Problems

Black Screens

A Black Screen will occur if EFB copies are disabled.

Crashes

Crashes occasionally (many during cut-scenes).

Missing Textures

Certain textures, such as the texture for the town map in the start menu, do not display correctly.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config Setting Notes
Video Backend Direct3D Prevent black screen problem seen with OpenGL
Anti-Aliasing None Can prevent black screen problem seen with Direct3D
Ignore Format Changes Off Prevent black screen problem seen with OpenGL

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Harvest Moon: Magical Melody 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
r6603 Windows 7 x64 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ nVidia GeForce 8500 GT Playable
r7553 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II X4 945 AMD Radeon 6970 Black Screen
r7580 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 ATI Radeon HD 5770 Perfectly Playable, just a 1 crash in awhile
3.0 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom X3 8450e nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Works with occasional crashes with "Format Changes" off
3.0 Linux Ubuntu 10.04.2 x86_64 AMD Phenom X3 8450e nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Title, but no background, and then black screen with sound, takes input
3.0 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500K nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Black screen
3.0 Windows XP x86 Intel Pentium E5200 nVidia GeForce 9400 GT Fully playable but the map doesn't show up the metal
r7658 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500K nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Perfectly Playable
r7714 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz AMD Radeon HD 6370M Fully playable: No slowdowns, no known glitches.
r7719 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.45GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Playable: some crashes at cut-scenes, save states sometimes crash xXDarkXx
3.0-204 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.45GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Blackscreen (only text and box is shown) xXDarkXx
4.0-1340 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i-5 3570k @ 3.4GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti Playable: Odd Shadows/No Map Sir Thorne

Gameplay Videos

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