SimAnimals

SimAnimals
Developer(s)	Electronic Arts
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	SimAnimals, Sims
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA January 21, 2009 AUS January 29, 2009 EU January 30, 2009
Genre(s)	Life simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	R4AP69, R4AE69, R4AJ13
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

In SimAnimals, embrace all the adventure, fun, and mischief that await you in the vast forest. You have the power to reach out and touch, pick up and move everything in the forest from squirrels and foxes to trees and flowers. Make your wild animals happy and maintain a forest that lets them flourish as you venture further into the forest than you've ever been before! Engage with a forest full of wild animals including bears, rabbits, hedgehogs, badgers, and owls. Solve challenges, and uncover one-of-a-kind objects as you journey deep into a forest that you control. Specifically on Wii, experience the forest with your pals by playing cooperatively with up to four players at the same time. Get ready to run the wild in SimAnimals.

Problems

It has been reported on discord and on the bug tracker that the pointer is broken with certain enhancements. See bug https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13148

The problematic enhancements are

• Internal Resolutions higher than 1x native
• Any Anti-Aliasing

The problematic Hack is

• Store EFB Copies to Texture only

To make fix this set

• Internal Resolution to 1x Native
• Set Anti-Aliasing to None
• Disable Store EFB Copies to Texture only

On discord it was confirmed these settings makes the pointer work properly on the tree.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

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

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5.0-21453 (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

Gameplay Videos

SimAnimals (4K / 2160p) - Dolphin Emulator 5.0 - Nintendo Wii