Kirby Air Ride
Kirby Air Ride is a 2003 racing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console starring Kirby, one of HAL's characters.
Kirby Air Ride has the players and computer-controlled racers ride on Air Ride Machines. The game supports up to four players, and was the first GameCube title to support LAN play using broadband adapters and up to four GameCube systems.
Masahiro Sakurai, the game designer behind most of the games in the Kirby series, resigned from his position at HAL Laboratory only days after giving a public interview where he openly criticized Nintendo for circumstances surrounding the development of Kirby Air Ride.
Problems
Audio Issues
Music tends to stop after playing for about 3 seconds.
BBA Unsupported
BBA emulation is unsupported, preventing LAN play, refer issue 647.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Kirby Air Ride 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:
Test Entries | |||||
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
r6252 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i7 930 @ 3.53GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5770 | Perfect | |
r6257 | Windows Vista x86 | AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.21GHz | ATI Radeon HD 4650 | Playable | |
r6857 | Windows XP x86 | AMD Athlon II x4 @ 3GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5450 | Nearly Perfect, Random crashes | |
r7413 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27GHz | ATI Radeon HD 4570 | Nearly Perfect, Random crashes, audio stuttering/looping | |
r7485 | Windows 7 | AMD Athlon Core 2 Quad @ 3GHz | ATI Radeon HD 3200 | Perfect,sound does not disable | |
3.0 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i5 Quad @ 2.27GHz | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 | Playable, Random freezes, audio stuttering/looping |
Gameplay Videos
- HAL Laboratory (Developer)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Kirby (Series)
- Racing (Genre)
- Single-Player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): ATI
- Tested
- Tested On (CPU): AMD
- Tested On (Release): 3.0
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- GameCube games
- Racing games
- Multiplayer games