Rodea: The Sky Soldier

Rodea: The Sky Soldier
Developer(s)	Kadokawa Games, Prope
Publisher(s)	JP Kadokawa Shoten NA Nippon Ichi Software America KO Shinsegae I&C
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	JP April 2, 2015 NA November 10, 2015 KO November 12, 2015 EU November 13, 2015 AUS November 19, 2015
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	Wii Remote
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	SROJQC, SROENS, SROPNS, SROKZ5, SROKQC
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Rodea: The Sky Soldier, 1,000 years ago, Emperor Geardo of the Naga Empire sent an army of machine soldiers to invade the sky kingdom of Garuda. Thanks to the efforts of Princess Cecilia and Rodea, a machine soldier who promised to protect Garuda, Emperor Geardo’s assault was thwarted. In present day, a spirited inventor named Ion discovers an abandoned robot that has fallen into disrepair in the heart of a scorching desert. Upon completing her repairs, the robot stirs to life and reveals itself to be none other than Rodea. Stunned to find himself in the future, Rodea learns that the Naga Empire is no more and that Garuda has known peace for 1,000 years. But this peace was not meant to last, for the forces of Naga have returned to wage war against Garuda. Remembering the promise he made 1,000 years ago, Rodea takes to the skies to defend Garuda from the Naga Empire once again.

Emulation Information

Language Region Mismatch

Rodea: The Sky Soldier might not start unless the Wii language setting is set to a value matching the region of the game. With Dolphin 5.0-10866 or newer, the language setting will automatically match the region of the game, and there is a new setting (Options > Configuration > General > Allow Mismatched Region Settings) used for optionally disabling this behavior. On older versions of Dolphin (or if Mismatched Region Settings is turned on), you may need to change the Wii language setting manually (Options > Configuration > Wii > System Language) and choose a compatible language by region:

• Japanese for NTSC-J (SROJQC)
• English, Spanish, or French for NTSC-U (SROENS)
• English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Dutch for PAL (SROPNS)
• Korean for NTSC-K (SROKZ5)

Character Dialog desync

The game occasionally desynchronizes the character voice acting and the dialogue text. When testing on a Wii U (via Virtual Wii), the character voice acting and dialogue text also desyncs occasionally.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

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

4.0-7810

5.0-11518

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5.0-20511 (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
4.0-7810	Mac OS X 10.10.5	Intel Core i7-950 @ 3.06 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750	Runs perfectly with OpenGL backend.	angelXwind
4.0-7810	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-950 @ 3.06 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750	Runs perfectly with OpenGL and Direct3D backends. Higher performance on OpenGL backend.	angelXwind
4.0-8135	Windows 10	Intel Core i7 5930K @ 3.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	Runs mostly perfect, though I did experience the dialogue desync bug near the end of Chapter 1.
5.0-1483	Windows 7	Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	Runs perfectly, did not experience the dialogue desync bug. The Direct3D 11 backend runs the best.

Gameplay Videos

Rodea the Sky Soldier - Nintendo Wii - Chapter 1 - S Rank Time - Dolphin Emulator - 60FPS

Rodea The Sky Soldier (Wii) HD Demonstration with Dolphin Emulator

Rodea the Sky Soldier (4K / 2160p / 60fps) - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-16350 - Nintendo Wii