P.N.03

P.N.03
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Developer(s)	Production Studio 4
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP March 27, 2003; EU August 29, 2003; NA September 9, 2003;
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 ; Playable
GameIDs	GPNE08, GPNJ08, GPNP08
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread; Open Issues; Search Google; Search Wikipedia;

P.N.03, short for Product Number Zero Three, is a 2003 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo GameCube. Its protagonist, a mercenary named Vanessa Z. Schneider, fights an army of berserk robots in a space colony compound. Vanessa wears special body suits that provide offensive capabilities such as shooting and explosive area-attacks.

Emulation Information

Banding

There is notable banding in indoor areas of P.N.03. Despite appearances, this is in fact accurate emulation, as this banding also occurs on console. It's just harder to see on the original hardware due to factors such as the strong dither, the low resolution, and fuzziness from analog video (especially if captured over composite).

Unlike Luigi's Mansion, 5.0-20849 does not allow Force 24-bit Color to remove this banding. There is currently no known way to remove the banding in current Dolphin versions. However, Per-Pixel Lighting makes it worse.

Versions of Dolphin prior to 4.0-1192 did not exhibit P.N.03's banding. This was inaccurate, but it could be considered an enhancement. However, 4.0-1192 corrected a major inaccuracy in how Dolphin emulated the GameCube and Wii's graphics, solving tens of thousands of bugs in the process. If you revisit P.N.03 in such old versions to play it with this inaccurate behavior, you will experience additional bugs and issues that are solved in current versions of Dolphin. Proceed with caution.

Problems

Dither

P.N.03 has a strong dither effect that is always on screen. This is a part of the game's visual identity, and it helps the game hide visual quirks such as its banding. Dolphin's hardware backends currently do not emulate this dither correctly, with a much weaker dither than on console. Refer to issue 13630 for details.

Note that Force 24-bit Color disables all dithering in Dolphin; that setting must be off to see this dither effect at all.

Intro Cutscene Audio Desync

The audio lags behind the video in the "new game" cutscene. The easiest place to see it is at the first laser blast at 1:00. The audio is synced up again in the "radio" dialogue that follows.

P.N.03 Dolphin Intro Audio Desync

Enhancements

Smoother vent textures

Turn on Force Texture Filtering to smooth out jagged rendering of "vent" textures.

16:9 Widescreen

NA

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EU

$16:9 Widescreen [Ralf]
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Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with P.N.03 since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.0-235

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2603-410 (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
3.0-235	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-460M @ 2.53 GHz	Intel HD Graphics	Runs perfectly with occasional slowdowns.	Phazon Lord
5.0-11109	Windows 10 x64	Intel Core i7-7500U @ 2.7 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	Dual core, HLE, 2x resolution, Direct3D 12, Asynchronous (Ubershaders) shader compilation, 4x MSAA. Little/no performance problems. Significant banding in most of the game. Intro cutscene audio lags. Played through first two story levels.	Garaden

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2 - P.N.03 (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

P.N.03 [JP] [Gamecube] Dolphin 5.0 [1080p HD]

P.N.03 - Gamecube Gameplay 4K 2160p (DOLPHIN)

P.N.03

Developer(s)	Production Studio 4
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	^JP March 27, 2003 ^EU August 29, 2003 ^NA September 9, 2003
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GPNE08, GPNJ08, GPNP08
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia