Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Developer(s)	Square Enix PDD 2
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Series	Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	JP November 12, 2009 NA December 26, 2009 EU/AUS February 5, 2010
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RFCJGD, RFCEGD, RFCPGD
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers throws you into an incredible fantasy world where you take control of crystal bearer Layle as he battles an age-old evil that has resurfaced to shatter the peace. As a crystal bearer, Layle belongs to a rare breed of individuals who have become shunned and treated as criminals. Whatever side of the law they might lie on, crystal bearers share a common ability to perform incredible acts of magic. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers offers a sprawling game world to explore, brought to life by head-turning graphics and an emotive orchestral soundtrack. With unforgettable characters around every corner, you’ll find yourself drawn into a rich storyline as you battle to discover the truth about your mysterious adversary.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Enhancements

HD Texture Packs

The Crystal Bearers HD texture pack by 1vierock28 forum thread

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Store EFB Copies to Texture Only	Off	Emulates lighting on clothes

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers 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
r4708	Windows	Intel Core i5-750	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ~ The Crystal Bearers (Dolphin R4708)	iXOmega
2.0	Windows XP	AMD Athlon II x2 215 @ 3.45 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 7025 658MHz	Disable Panic Handlers! In game runs at 11-24FPS (35-80% of speed) - seems playable. Sound's in cutscenes is often missing and if not - it's desynced, in game music often freeze. It's first game what I see on GameCube/Wii - which uses shaders. But sad - this is another game about blonde blue eyed freak. ):	†.fl.l).
3.0-235	Windows 7	Intel Core i5 @ 2.53 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5650	Disable DSP DTK - disable DSP LLE on thread music - Direct3D9 1366x768 internal resolution 1,5 960x729, AA=0 AF 1x scaled EFB copy, playable 20FPS 60 vps 100% sometimes slow down 10FPS 30VPS 40% , game music always freeze	David
4.0-3638	Windows 8.1	AMD Athlon II x3 435 @ 2.9 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	It take about 16 hours to complete this game. Get about 70%-100% of speed mostly. Nasty slowdowns to 1FPS at some places (if rotate camera, moving), sometimes can be avoided if stand for a minute with max speed (seems what most of the code for this problematic area would be cached/recompiled?). If that was not helping - I used version 3.5-1124 LLE to walk this area and make ingame save, also savestate/saveload (shift+F1;F1) give some speed but for half a second (maybe it will help, if saving/loading savestate to ramdrive every second). Water and cave walls are still flick (shader bug, mirroring of world misplaced). Small bug with audio at cut scene's - sometimes character (Jigran mostly) only open mouth and don't say anything, subtitles also doesn't shown at that moment (HLE). Need to use EFB copies to RAM - to fight some bosses, and see some cutscenes.	†.fl.l).

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0-4057 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ~ The Crystal Bearers (Dolphin R4708)

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers Dolphin Emulator 5.0-10892 1080p Nintendo Wii