Serious Sam: Next Encounter

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Serious Sam: Next Encounter
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Developer(s) Climax Studios
Publisher(s) Global Star Software
Platform(s) GameCube
Release date(s) NA April 12, 2004
EU April 30, 2004
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer (4), Co-op (4)
Input methods GameCube Controller
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Serious Sam: Next Encounter is a spin-off first person shooter in the Serious Sam series of video games. The game is a first-person shooter featuring both single and multiplayer modes. The single-player story mode sends the player through various historical settings to face off against legions of monsters. The two multiplayer modes consist of a deathmatch mode and a co-op version of the story mode.

Problems

Save Screen Hang

The emulator will get stuck into the save screen right before level loading. To fix the this, disable the memory card in slot A, or try other revision.

Configuration

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

GameCube

Config Setting Notes
Device Settings\Slot A Nothing Fixes Save screen problem. However, you can't save your game.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Serious Sam: Next Encounter 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
3.0-226 Kubuntu 11.10 AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Perfect, full speed.
3.0-716 Windows XP Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHz NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140m Laggy, Save screen hang. 989Nintendo898
3.5-33 Windows 7 x64 Athlon II x2 250 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Good, fullspeed on most levels. D3D9, Native x3, Skip Alpha Pass.
4.0-9045 Windows 10 x64 Intel Core i7-4790k NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Perfect, D3D12, Native x3, Note: Disable "Force texture filtering" to prevent blurry textures. MDA

Gameplay Videos