Sonic Adventure 2: Battle

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Developer(s)	Sonic Team USA
Publisher(s)	Sega
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Adventure
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP December 10, 2001 NA February 12, 2002 EU May 3, 2002
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GSNP8P, GSNE8P, GSBJ8P
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Sonic and company are back and better than ever in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Dr. Eggman is causing trouble once again, and it's up to Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles to stop him. Experience faster action, all-new two-player games, and a branching storyline that lets you choose to save the world as the Hero side, or conquer it as the Dark side. In the single-player mode, you'll go through more than 30 unique stages, which include a forgotten pyramid, an abandoned military base, and a giant space station. And then there's the expanded two-player mode, which features 12 playable characters competing in new head-to-head games.

Problems

Tiny Chao Garden

Connections to a GBA (emulated via VBA-M) to enable play of "Tiny Chao Garden" does not work. Dolphin will not connect.

Black Bar at Bottom of screen

This is caused by the game running in 50Hz Mode. Hold down B as emulation starts to get a prompt for 60Hz Mode.

Crash in Wild Canyon (2nd Hero level)

If framelimit is set to "auto", then the game will crash upon the player trying to float up using the wind tunnel in the middle of the level. Setting the framelimit to "60" should do the job.

Random FPS drops

Some levels (notably City Escape) will sometimes seemingly out of the blue drop the framerate to about half of regular speed. The cause is unknown.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Sonic Adventure 2: Battle since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r5691

r7345

r7367

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5.0-21455 (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
r5691	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-750 @ 4GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5870	Perfect: 60 FPS
r5774	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-930 @ 2.8GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 470	Perfect, 60 FPS @ 1080p Widescreen.
r6457	Mac OS X 10.7	Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5750	50 FPS @ 2560 x 1440	RDawkins
r6758	Mac OS X 10.6.8	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz	nVidia GeForce 9400M	Running very smoothly at half speed (30). Sound desyncing during normal cutscenes, CGI cutscenes too slow to bear. Character shadows don't appear in levels and there is a graphical glitch in driving levels unless EFB scale is set to 1x.)	Ac
3.0-458	Mac OS X 10.6.8	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz	nVidia GeForce 9400M	Who knew that upgrading to Dolphin 3 would boost this game to perfection?!! Well, almost. Not only are levels at least 90% now, but even cutscenes run at their normal speed. Absolutely no graphical glitches, and there were some in my previous testing.	Ac
^r7345	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.7GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 285	Multiple Crashes: 60 FPS	Vega
^r7367	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II 720 BE @ 3.2GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Works perfect	ultramann
^r7553	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-950 @ 3.07GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 470	Perfect 60 FPS	Mark_Twain007
^r7646	Windows 7 x86	Intel Duel Core @ 3.06GHz	nVidia GeForce G210	Perfect, Black line on the bottom
^r7671	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T	AMD Radeon HD 6950	Crash at City Escape	XFox Prower
^r7719	Windows 7 x86	Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.3GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 560	(D3D9)50fps(D3D11)~50fps (driver:275.33)	Peka
^r7719	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II 965 @ 3.65GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Runs smoothly for first level, but then crashes immediately upon loading second level, regardless of settings. I've tried everything	AgainstYourThought
^3.0-226	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.6GHz	ATI Radeon HD 6770M	Flawless 60FPS in 1080p, no crashes	firstEncounter
^3.0-371	Linux Slackware 13.37 x86_64	Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti	Perfect. Consistent 60 FPS with no drops. Audio sounded fuzzy in places; changing backend from ALSA to OpenAL solved it. No crashes whatsoever.	Shonumi
^3.0-413	Mac OS X 10.7.3	Intel Core i5 @ 2.7GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	Excellent	Discotazo
^3.0-415	Windows 7 x86	Intel Core i5-2300 @ 3GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 430	Perfect, 60 FPS.	MiniBolt
3.0-505	Windows Vista x64	Intel Pentium @ 2GHz	Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family	Introduction cutscene lags a lot and runs at 11 FPS. The menu screen runs at full speed with a few hiccups. The game itself is kind of playable at a steady 15-20 FPS. The sound is choppy due to the video lagging behind.	Mchccjg12
3.0-688	Mac OS X 10.7.4	Intel Core i7-2675QM @ 2.2GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Smooth. Playable.	jedivulcan
3.0-758	Windows 7 x86	AMD Athlon II 4X 635 @ 3GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 480	Works perfectly like it did on my GameCube. Beat the game too, No bugs or slowdowns. 1920x1080 widescreen 16x AA 4X AA	ALLEN2
^3.0-735	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 525MX	Runs Perfectly At 60 FPS (OpenGL 1366×768 2× Native 4× AA 16×). Perfectly smooth.	Har8
4.0-652	Windows 7 x64	AMD FX 4300 @ 3.8GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7850	Almost always runs at 60 FPS and is buttery smooth. Only frame drops were in City Escape where it dropped to 45 a couple of times.(Direct 3D 1680x1050 3× Native No AA)	Ryan1016
4.0-4151	Windows 7 x64	AMD Athlon X4 640 @ 3.15GHz	nVidia GeForce 550 Ti	Playable to completion with absolutely no flaws. Silky smooth framerates throughout. Also just FYI, there is an audio looping glitch with the jet fighter sounds on certain levels (like Mission Street). This is a bug in the game code and is not a Dolphin issue. DX11, HLE OpenAL, 3x scale	Durandal

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.1 - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle HD 1080p Gamecube (Dolphin Emulator)