Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Developer(s)	Sonic Team USA
Publisher(s)	Sega
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Adventure
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	NA June 18, 2003 JP June 19, 2003 EU June 27, 2003
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GXSP6W, GXSE8P, GASJ8P, GXSP8P
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

In Sonic Adventure DX: Director´s Cut Dr. Eggman is up to his old tricks again, but in this special Director's Cut version, there are a whole lot more of them to trip up Sonic and his pals. Get ready to go on 50 new adventures in the all-new Mission Mode as you strive to dismantle the evil genius' plans to rule the world. There are 12 exciting Bonus Games to unlock in the form of classic Sonic Game Gear titles. Whether you play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Big the Cat, or E102 Gamma, you'll get a unique adventure every time as each character has their own deep storyline and unique type of gameplay. Don't forget to visit your favorite Chao in the Chao Garden where you can take a break from saving the world and pit your Chao against others in a variety of tournaments.

Problems

Screen Freeze in Game Gear Titles

When playing the unlockable Game Gear games, the screen often freezes for a couple of seconds, but game play continues. This happens with all video backends. Enable Safe Texture Cache to fix this.

Enhancements

Blurry Distant Textures

Since 5.0-5745, textures in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut will appear blurry in the distance at internal resolutions above native, due to false positives in Arbitrary Mipmap Detection. Since 5.0-8296, this setting can be disabled to work around the issue. However, if any "mip trick" effects are used by the game, they will not work correctly.

In prior versions, the only workaround is to enable GPU Texture Decoding.

Arbitrary Mipmap Detection On

Arbitrary Mipmap Detection Off

Aspect Ratio Fix

Sonic Adventure DX: Director´s Cut was designed with the expectation of square pixels, which the GameCube doesn't have, so the game looks slightly slimmer than its developers intended. Use these Action Replay codes to correct aspect ratio.

NA

$Aspect Ratio Fix
040A6DA0 02EA3140

EU

$Aspect Ratio Fix
0C0A7360 02F85640
040A7360 02F83840
0C0A7360 02EA5140
040A7360 02EA3140

JP

$Aspect Ratio Fix
040A6D80 02EA3140

16:9 Widescreen

NA

$16:9 Widescreen
0403AB38 C3628ACC
040A7598 3F400000
040A75A0 3F066666
040C514C 3FF3CF3D

EU

$16:9 Widescreen
0403ACE8 C3628ACC
040A7B58 3F400000
040A7B60 3F066666
040C570C 3FF3CF3D

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Texture Cache Accuracy	Position 1 (Safe)	Fixes display issues in Game Gear titles

Version Compatibility

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

r4361

4.0-2575

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5.0-19552 (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
r6758	Mac OS X 10.6.8	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	Very laggy, 20-30FPS, but otherwise accurate emulation	Ac
r7367	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II 720 BE @ 3.2 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Working perfect	ultramann
r7719	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II 965 @ 3.65 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Works great, but crashes randomly and save states don't work. Play the PC version instead.	AgainstYourThought
3.0-373	Mac OS X 10.7.2	Intel Core i7-2675QM @ 2.2 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Smooth.	jedivulcan
3.0-636	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2430M @ 2.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	Looks beautiful with higher resolutions and anti aliasing. However, doing this makes the frame rate drop. Runs smoothly on lower settings. Couldn't handle DSP LLE, but runs fine with DSP HLE. If your not playing this on a laptop (like me, heh) I am positive that you can handle the higher settings	theredpikmin
3.0-688	Mac OS X 10.7.4	Intel Core i7-2675QM @ 2.2 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Still smooth. Works great.	jedivulcan
3.0-688	Mac OS X 10.7.4	Intel Core i5-2435M @ 2.4 GHz	Intel HD Graphics 3000	20FPS. The game runs slow. Unplayable.	jedivulcan
4.0-2575	Windows 7	Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640	There is an issue concerning invisible text when speaking to people and interacting with the monitors. Adjusting the Texture Cache Slider does nothing to make the text visible again. Switching to Direct3D could have fixed the problem, but I don't remember if that worked and that backend has worse slowdown as well. The graphics don't work properly without EFB copies set to texture. Game runs with slowdown to 50FPS but with OpenGL it's a bit faster, but it could be my CPU since others are not having issues with slowdown.	Yugix
4.0-4488	Windows 7	Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640	The issue with invisible text is persistent on some screens on the city adventure field, and now the HUD seems be invisible as well in these instances, including the pause menu. The levels that are effected are Emerald Coast part two, and the Egg Carrier adventure field after the sky deck outside. Outside of those areas, the issue doesn't exist elsewhere no longer. The game runs at fullspeed with some very minor slowdown here and there that mainly happens with a bunch of stuff on screen. Direct3D is much worse with the invisible HUD and text issue so use OpenGL.	Yugix
4.0-5730	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i7-2600K @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	Game runs full speed as far as I've played on both the D3D and OGL backends at 4xIR and no extra effects added. Text is still invisible in areas of the game but the majority seems to be present (only really tested under the OGL backend); this can be annoying if using the Japanese voices in conjunction with English text depending on when the text decides to not appear and how important said text is. Those who understand the language they've selected will do fine and, as I've said, the game is essentially fully playable under either backend using this build.	TehGuy
5.0-11193	Windows 10	AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	The main game itself was playable from start to finish without any issues for me. However, I ran into problems once I tried out the unlockable minigames. Every once in a while, these Game Gear games will have the screen freeze for a few moments. The duration varies from game to game, but most minigames can be played from start to finish. The only one I couldn't play was Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, as the screen freezing was the most severe there.	Deerly beloved

Gameplay Videos

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