Skylanders: Giants

Skylanders: Giants
Developer(s)	Toys for Bob
Publisher(s)	Activision SA Neoplay
Series	Spyro, Skylanders
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	AUS October 17, 2012 EU October 19, 2012 NA October 21, 2012 SA November 22, 2012
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2), Co-op (2)
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk, Skylander Portal
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	SKYP52, SKYZ52, SKYE52, SKYX52, SKYY52
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Skylanders: Giants is a 2012 video game in the Skylanders series, and a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. The game involves connecting a physical toy to the video game console through a "Portal of Power"; whichever toy is used creates a respective character in the game. New to Skylanders Giants are "Giants", as the name suggests, which are larger toys with new gameplay elements revolving around them. Toy figures from the first game are also forward compatible with Giants, although there are also new versions, called "Series 2", which have more powerful attributes than the originals. The game also has a new and improved "Battle Mode", for head-to-head play, featuring more areas and gameplay options.

Problems

Portal

Dolphin from version 4.0 is compatible with USB HID drivers. Thus the portals are working when a proper WinUSB driver is installed for it.

Works perfect on [Unofficial] Dolphin DX12 backend and [UNOFFICIAL] Ishiiruka-Dolphin Custom Version

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-unofficial-dolphin-dx12-backend

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-unofficial-ishiiruka-dolphin-custom-version

A Skylanders portal of power is required to play.

Compatible Portals are those came with PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U.

Plug the Portal in USB and install the WinUSB driver. Eg. Zadig 2.2 http://zadig.akeo.ie

Open Zadig and in Options -> List all devices. Find the Portal and install WinUSB driver on it.

There is no need to change any config for USB connection. The Portal will work with Dolphin straight away.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

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

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5.0-21401 (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