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Midnight Bowling
Midnight Bowling | |
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Developer(s) | Gameloft |
Publisher(s) | Gameloft |
Platform(s) | WiiWare |
Release date(s) | JP September 2, 2008 NA October 6, 2008 EU October 10, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Sports, Bowling |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer (4) |
Input methods | Wii Remote |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
GameIDs | |
See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Plunge directly into the trendy and electric atmosphere of Midnight Bowling! With awesome playing sensations, prepare for ultra-fun gaming thanks to a new physics engine that lets you control your throws precisely and easily with your Wii Remote and make spectacular spins that will impress your opponents! Face up to 3 friends in the fun Party mode where your playing abilities will be put to the test! Whatever your level, launch yourself into the immersive career mode where you will play in the trendiest bowling spots of the planet against charismatic characters that will give you a run for your money! The game is part of Gameloft's Midnight series which also includes Midnight Pool.
Problems
Menu graphics corruption
As of 4.0, the game can now be played without any XFB emulation. This will however cause severe corruption in the game menus. The screen will flicker rapidly. Enabling Virtual XFB within the menus will eliminate the problem however in game, this will cause the problem seen in the menu screens and XFB emulation then has to disabled to prevent this issue occuring in-game. It would be more advisable just to tolerate the flickering menus than switch XFB emulation on and off during game as it will likely crash Dolphin.
Low FPS
Game FPS drops massively when the game is calculating physics. The game is playable but suffers a HUGE slowdown just before the bowling ball hits the pins. This also occurs when a CPU opponent is 'thinking'.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Midnight Bowling 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 |
4.0 | Windows 7 | AMD Phenom II X4 975 | AMD Radeon HD 7870 | Can be played all the way through but suffers from severe slowdowns, menu's exhibit rapidly flashing screen glitches. In-game average 30FPS, 50VPS however, the game can slow down to 40% speed quite often. | Someone7272 |
Gameplay Videos
- Gameloft (Developer)
- Gameloft (Publisher)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- 2008 (Initial release year)
- Sports (Genre)
- Bowling (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- 4 (Players supported)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): AMD
- Tested On (GPU): AMD
- Tested
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- WiiWare games