NHL 2K9
| NHL 2K9 | |
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| Developer(s) | Visual Concepts |
| Publisher(s) | 2K Sports |
| Series | NHL 2K |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
| Release date(s) | NA September 8, 2008 EU November 14, 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Sports, Hockey |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer (4) |
| Input methods | Wii Remote + Nunchuk |
| Compatibility | 4  Playable |
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| See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Do you long for the days when hockey video games didn't require an engineering degree to master? 2K Sports has listened to the masses by bringing the fun back to hockey video games with an intuitive control scheme, hard-hitting action. Developed by award-winning Visual Concepts studios, NHL 2K9 brings a totally rebuilt NHL experience to life with a brand-new in-game presentation system, as well as fresh player animations and controls that fans will enjoy from the moment they play their first game, until well after they become a seasoned veteran. Further adding to an unmatched level of fun and celebrating the NHL’s uniqueness are an all-new Zamboni mini-game, playoff beards, a new fighting engine and more!
Problems
Choppy Audio
The audio during a match is choppy. To reduce the choppiness you can enable Emulated CPU Clock Override and set it to 50%.
Invisible Audience
The audience during a match are not visible. To fix this uncheck Store EFB Copies to Texture Only.
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
| Config | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Store EFB Copies to Texture Only | Off | Show audience |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with NHL 2K9 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 |
| 4.0-8400 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 | Crowd only shows up with EFB Copies to RAM. | JMC47 |
Gameplay Videos
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- Visual Concepts (Developer)
- 2K Sports (Publisher)
- NHL 2K (Series)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- 2008 (Initial release year)
- Sports (Genre)
- Hockey (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- 4 (Players supported)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- Nunchuk (Input supported)
- 4 stars (Rating)
- Store EFB Copies to Texture Only (Config Required)
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Wii games
- Games with Dolby Pro Logic II support