Medal of Honor: Frontline

Medal of Honor: Frontline
Developer(s)	EA Los Angeles
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Medal of Honor
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA November 10, 2002 EU December 6, 2002
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GMFE69, GMFS69, GMFD69, GMFF69, GMFI69, GMFP69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

Medal of Honor: Frontline is the fourth game in the Medal of Honor series. The player character in the game is that of Lt. Jimmy Patterson, from the American OSS. Frontline chronicles Patterson's journey as he fights his way across Europe into Nazi Germany during World War II.

Problems

VP6 Videos

Medal of Honor: Frontline uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on many graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling. See issue 7193. In 5.0-15515 or newer, this can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings -> Advanced menu.

VP6 video

VP6 video with manual sampling

HUD and Text Flickering

The heads up display (HUD) and other in game text may flicker. This can be corrected by enabling External Frame Buffer (XFB) emulation under the Graphics/Hacks config. Fixed with Hybrid XFB in 5.0-5874.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Medal of Honor: Frontline since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.5

5.0-5874

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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
3.5	Windows 8	Intel Core i7-2600K @ 4.6 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670	Playable. Music/other audio missing with DSP HLE; works with DSP LLE. HUD & pause menu will flicker with XFB Disabled. Occasional minor slowdowns, and many cutscenes are jittery or broken.	rewrite
3.5-367	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-460 @ 2.53 GHz	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	Playable. The three intro movies are broken, but the rest of the game is well. Slow most of the time, especially during the first mission.	Gicombat
4.0-8916	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770	Very playable. No issues with audio or slowdown in the first few missions, running with XFB to correct UI issues. Opening cutscenes are broken due to VP6 codec.	Philcsf

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.1 - Medal of Honor: Frontline (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube