Rhythm Heaven Fever

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Rhythm Heaven Fever
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Developer(s) Nintendo SPD, TNX
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Platform(s) Wii
Release date(s) JP July 21, 2011
NA February 13, 2012
EU July 6, 2012
AUS September 13, 2012
Genre(s) Rhythm
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods Wii Remote
Compatibility 5Stars5.pngEdit rating: Rhythm Heaven Fever
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Rhythm Heaven Fever, known in Europe as Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise and in Japan as Everybody's Rhythm Heaven (みんなのリズム天国, Minna no Rizumu Tengoku), challenges you to stay on the beat in a world of animations that are decidedly offbeat. The premise of Rhythm Heaven Fever is simple and the catchy style is irresistible. Use three basic button commands - A, B, or both - to keep the beat in clever challenges featuring a variety of hand-drawn animation styles. You'll discover rhythm in places you would never expect, with robot assembly lines, sword-wielding samurai, rolling peas you'll try and stab with a fork, and more. Complete challenges to unlock remixes and alternate versions, or join a friend in two-player mode for a two-person jam session.

Problems

Micro-Row Practice Level

If Disable External Frame Buffer is checked, during the practice level for Micro-Row the screen will turn completely black randomly. To get around this, enable the external frame buffer or skip the practice level.

Micro-Row Main Level

The main Micro-Row level will not play properly, and instead video output will be frozen on the first frame of the game until the music is complete.

  • Video output freeze also seems to be fixed if EBF copies is set to ram (+cache). This can be set before or during the micro-row stage.
  • This can also be fixed to an extent by having "External Frame Buffer" enabled and changing the status of it to either "Virtual" or "Real" while the game is playing.

Flock Step

In Flock Step level, every bird may appear with the same pink color. Disable "Skip EFB Access From CPU" to fix this.

Shrimp Shuffle

Game flashes black during gameplay. Can be fixed by having "External Frame Buffer" enabled.

No Background Music

If Vbeam is enabled background music won't be able to play with DSP HLE.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config Setting Notes
Skip EFB Access from CPU Off Fixes the Flock Step birds

Audio

Config Setting Notes
Audio Backend XAudio2 Fixes some audio cut-offs

Version Compatibility

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

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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 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.6GHz AMD Radeon HD 6950x2 Solid 60 FPS throughout the game, although the game seems to experience some slowdown as the peg approaches you on the first "Built to Scale" game. Remix 6 crashes the game (A variety of other remixes crash on revisions past 3.0), and there are also other small emulation errors. Most of these errors can be fixed by using the configurations listed above. It also seems like some remixes have some issues with transitioning between games and sometimes get their timing off. MyDreamName
3.0-441 Windows 7 x64 AMD FX-6100 AMD Radeon HD 6870 Perfect AlbusDlx
3.0-441 Windows 7 x64 Intel nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Crashes on remix 6. Don't trust Albus Anon
3.0-804 Windows 8 x64 Intel Core i7-2675QM @ 2.2GHz AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mostly 60 FPS, with some slowdowns towards 40 FPS at remix 4. Fixes many remix crashes of earlier versions. Remix transitioning as said by MyDreamName is fixed, though specifically, music stutters/slows down at remix 4 halfway and on, messing up your timing on that remix. Tested on a full completion save file to pass badly emulated minigames. Anon
3.5-367 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.3GHz nVidia GeForce GT 640M Absolutely perfect. No slowdowns or crashes unlike 3.0. The only things I have noticed are lines on Shrimp Shuffle and a slowdown after you press A+B on the title screen, which lasts for under a second, so it doesn't matter. Anon
4.0.2 Windows 8 x64 Intel Core i5-4200u Intel HD Graphics 4400 Stable 60 FPS Zcair
4.0.2 Windows 7 x64 AMD FX-8320 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB Stable 60 FPS Zcair

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