Need for Speed: Undercover

Need for Speed: Undercover
Developer(s)	Exient Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Need for Speed
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA November 17, 2008 EU November 21, 2008 AUS November 22, 2008 JP December 18, 2008 KO December 23, 2008
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	Wii Remote, Wii Remote + Nunchuk, Classic Controller, GameCube Controller, Speed Force Wireless
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RX9J13, RX9P69, RX9X69, RX9K69, RX9E69, RX9Y69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

In Need for Speed: Undercover you never thought it would turn out like this-an all-out chase where you’re the hunted. And the hunter. Now you must use all of your experience-and every ounce of skill- to infiltrate and take down a ruthless international crime syndicate, outrun the law, & unlock the truth that puts an end to this chase once and for all.

Emulation Information

Controller Map Overlap

Need for Speed: Undercover is capable of using both GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes. If a physical controller is set to emulate both a GameCube Controller and a Wii Remote concurrently, it will operate both devices at the same time. To fix, migrate controls to use separate physical controllers.

Strange Layering Issues with Fences

Some fences in this game have objects that bleed through them. This is a bug in the game, not Dolphin.

Dolphin showing the issue in HD

Hardware Showing the issue

Problems

VP6 Videos

Need for Speed: Undercover 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

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 Need for Speed: Undercover since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.0

3.5

4.0-3599

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5.0-20144 (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
3.0	Windows 7	Intel Core-i7-2670 @ 2.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 635	Only boots, Graphic & Sound errors in the menu, when you try to play a race, does not matter if it is in: Career, Quickplay or Challenge, the game hangs up. Not playable at all.	FatalRaincloud
4.0-3599	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.2 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7950	Stable 60FPS on x2 IR, AFx1 (higher values broke in game graphics and movies), during races all car reflections has disappear. For fixing incorrect vinyl images set texture cache accuracy to safe.	skyh1gh
4.0-9291	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Runs mostly perfect. VP6 issues on NVIDIA.	JMC4789

Gameplay Videos

Need For Speed: Undercover Wii [Dolphin] #1

Need for Speed: Undercover - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-13246 [1080p HD] - Nintendo Wii