SSX on Tour

SSX on Tour
Developer(s)	EA Canada, EA Montreal
Publisher(s)	EA Sports BIG
Series	SSX
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA October 11, 2005 EU October 21, 2005 JP November 17, 2005
Genre(s)	Sports, Snowboarding
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GXOE69, GXOX69, GXOP69, GXOJ13
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

You can ski or snowboard yourself into stardom in SSX on Tour. The game includes 12 levels for racing and performing stunts. You can earn yourself a spot on the professional tour by winning events and improving your skills. Your success moves you up the rankings until you can call yourself the best on the mountain. This version of SSX features new graphical effects and controller feedback designed to capture the speed of your races and the massive air of your tricks. SSX On Tour also includes new music, art, and characters.

Problems

VP6 Videos

SSX on Tour uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on many graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling. See issue 7193. In 5.0-15515 or newer, this can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings -> Advanced menu.

VP6 video

VP6 video with manual sampling

Error

After selecting "Going The Tour" or "Quick Play" an error will occur when loading or shortly after getting in-game. See issue 11570. This has been fixed since at least 5.0-13620.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

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

r7181

r7457

3.0-801

5.0-8500

5.0-13605

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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
r7621	Windows XP	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3 GHz	ATI FireGL V5600	Working Perfect	DeniSSXRus
4.0	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Everything is good!	iCore
5.0-13605	Windows 10	Intel Xeon E3-1245 @ 3.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	I tested the game for half an hour and it seems playable. It slows down for a second once in a while but I could finish a few races without problem. issue 11570 seems to be solved. VP6 video issues still happen.	Nolendil

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2

Dolphin - SSX on Tour Luigi Gameplay