Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
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Developer(s) Genius Sonority
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Series Pokémon
Platform(s) GameCube
Genre(s) RPG
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer
Input methods Gamecube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility 4Stars4.pngEdit rating: Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, released in Japan as Pokemon Ekkusudī Yami no Kaze Dāku Rugia (ポケモンXD 闇の旋風ダーク・ルギア), is the second role-playing game from Nintendo's Pokémon franchise for the Nintendo GameCube. It is the successor of the Gamecube game Pokémon Colosseum, and takes place in Orre, the setting of Pokémon Colosseum. All of the Game Boy Advance Pokémon games can connect to this game through trading and Battle Mode.

Problems

Crash on the MAC OS X Build

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness will load successfully on MAC OS X however during the opening cutscene where XD001 is about to use Shadow Blast on the S.S. Libra the emulator crashes.

Sound stutter LLE (Expression error: Unrecognized word "r".)

Sound stutters when using LLE. Simple fix is using HLE.

Broken in rXXXX through r6469

FIFO errors prevented booting this game in a recent set of releases (rXXXX through r6469). This was corrected in r6470.

Blackscreens r7451

To fix black screens from appearing, disable "Enable dual core". This has also been corrected.

Configuration

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


Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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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
style="white-space:nowrap;Expression error: Unexpected number.Expression error: Unexpected number. Windows 7 x86 AMD athlon II 4X @ 3.0GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Extremely slow downs in battles and on the field or walking around. Unplayable. ALLEN2
r6117 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i7-930 @ 2.8GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Broken: Black Screen Timmy112
r6535 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-430M @ 2.26GHz ATI Radeon HD 5470 5-16 FPS, audio cuts in and out.
r7379 Windows 7 AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2GHz nVidia GeForce 285 GTX playable. full speed, with some sound and graphic issues under DX 9
r7494 Windows 7 Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.06GHz nVidia GeForce GTS 20-25 FPS Avg. 23 FPS
r7668 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6850 @ 3GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 260 25-30FPS Emulation Speed 85-100% Resolution 2x, playable. Emulation speed and audio significantly improved.
r7671 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 @ 3.1GHz nVidia GeForce 9600 GT 30FPS Emulation Speed 99-100%. No music glitches, game runs perfectly. No graphs glitches, problem with connection.
r7688 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-760 @ 2.8GHz nVidia GeForce 460 GTX 30FPS. Seems to work perfectly, though music stutters when using LLE but perfect with HLE Pablo Bollansée (The Oddler)
r7714 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz AMD Radeon HD 6370M Playable: Full speed for main part of the game. Some major graphical glitches during battle, which can cause big slowdowns depending on the attack being used. Cut scenes have sound issues, sometimes to the point of having no sound at all.
3.0-634 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-3400 @ 3.1GHz nVidia GeForce GTS 450 Playable. Game has encountered no crashes as of now, though graphical and sound glitches plague the game (distorted elements, effects, etc. and sometimes music cuts out - using HLE). Rating should be reduced to **** (Playable) instead of ***** (Perfect)
3.0-710 Windows 7 x86 AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3GHz AMD 760G Playable. Had to disable DualCore, having it enable caused the game to crash. There are some graphical and sound glitches, like some elements and effects appear distorted. Music stops playing in some cutscenes and when talking to some NPCs. Opening and then closing the menu after makes the music return. DelCtrl

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