Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Kirby
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, Nintendo 64
Release date(s)	Nintendo 64 JP March 24, 2000 NA June 26, 2000 EU June 22, 2001 Virtual Console NA February 25, 2008 EU March 7, 2008 JP April 15, 2008 KO September 16, 2008
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	Classic Controller, GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	NAME01, NAMP01, NAMJ01, NAMT01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, known in Japan as 星のカービィ64 Hoshi no Kirby 64 (Kirby of the Stars 64), is a Nintendo 64 platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo, a sequel to Kirby's Dream Land 3, and one of few Kirby titles not directed by Masahiro Sakurai who voiced King Dedede in the game, and where Meta Knight never appears.

Problems

Audio Issues

Audio is completely garbled with OpenAL, use any other. Refer issue 10704. Cubeb is default since 5.0-10192

Pixel Stretch

On both backends, some textures in the cutscenes (e.g. the skybox during the New Game intro) will have a pixel stretch effect that corresponds to the cutscene camera movement. Changing the External Frame Buffer to "Real" seems to fix this. Fixed with Hybrid XFB in 5.0-5874.

Cutscene Border Glitches

Cutscene borders have large artifacts at the bottom. Fixed by an unknown revision prior to 5.0-6004.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

4.0-3260

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5.0-19550 (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
4.0-3260	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II X4 955	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	Minor graphic and audio problems. Cutscene borders are slightly glitchy and audio skips intermittently.	Net_Bastard
4.0-3471	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II X4 955	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	Minor graphic and audio problems. Still very playable and better than an actual N64 emulator.	Net_Bastard
5.0-6004	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	Didn't play extensively, but only remaining issue seems to be with OpenAL audio.	Kolano