Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution
Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution is a video game released for the Nintendo GameCube. It has a card based play style, making it unique among games in the Phantasy Star Online series. The story of the game takes place twenty-one years after Episodes I and II.
Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution | |
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Developer(s) | Sonic Team |
Publisher(s) | Sega |
Series | Phantasy Star Online |
Platform(s) | GameCube |
Release date(s) | JP November 27, 2003 NA March 2, 2004 EU June 11, 2004 |
Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Local Multi-player- (4), Online (4) |
Input methods | GameCube Controller |
Compatibility | 4 Playable |
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See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Problems
NTSC Version
The NTSC version does not boot, only displaying the error "ERROR: Trying to compile at 0. LR=00000000". The PAL version works perfectly in comparison, minus the online mode portion of the game.
Apparently sometime between the time of this bug and stable release 3.5, the crash was fixed, as the NTSC version boots flawlessly now.
Missing Characters in Text
All versions of the game may have missing characters in various game text, per issue 30. Such can be resolved by setting accurate texture case towards a "safe" setting, though it's unclear what setting is necessary. Middle seems to work fine, though there may be 1 or 2 missing letters every once in a long while.
Cannot create a new save file
For whatever reason, the NTSC version crashes upon trying to create a brand new save file. Copying a save from an actual Gamecube memory card through GCMM, and importing said save, seems to fix this issue. Once a save is actually made, it is entirely possible to delete all of the characters on the save and start over; there just needs to be a save file on the memory card at boot to successfully run the game. Apparently plagues the PAL and JP versions of the game, too; someone should confirm this first.
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
Config | Setting | Notes |
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Video Backend | Direct3D9 or OpenGL | Avoids white screen post license info |
Texture Cache Accuracy | On | Fixes the missing letters problem on the EU version of the game. Avoids issue 30 on JP version. |
Audio
Config | Setting | Notes |
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DSP Emulator Engine | LLE | Required for music to not sound crackly and bad; can be disabled if one's PC cannot handle LLE sound, as long as the music is turned off in-game (under options from the title screen). |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution 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 |
3.5 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | ASUS Nvidia GTX 560 TI | [NTSC] Flawless from what I've tested after copying my old save file from my memory card; I haven't tried playing through the whole game, but it should work fine. | Star-X |
^r7458 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz | AMD Radeon HD 6870 | [PAL] Perfect, I've beat the entire game at 100% speed. No text/texture/music bug or desync. | Sojiro seta |
^3.0-189 | Windows 7 x64 | AMD Phenom II X4 B60 @ 3.3Ghz | AMD Radeon HD 6770 | [PAL] Game is completely playable at full speed, however certain letters of a conversation will occasionally not appear. For example, "Ou" instead of "You". No texture or desync bugs though. Only works on Direct X 9, Direct X 11 displays a white screen past the license agreement. I fixed the text problem by enabling accurate text cache. | Krigo |
^3.0-432 | Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 | AMD Athlon II x2 @ 3.4GHz | AMD Radeon HD 6570 | Steady 30 FPS, no problems with x2 native resolution. | |
^3.0-692 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i7-2680QM @ 2GHz | nVidia GeForce GT 525M | [Broken] [Laptop+hybrid graphics] Interrupt <20>: SRR0 = 0x8001ccb8 TB = 0x00389caf630017fb. | dreadslicer |