Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

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Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
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Developer(s) Factor 5, LucasArts
Publisher(s) LucasArts, Activision
Series Rogue Squadron, Star Wars
Platform(s) GameCube
Release date(s) NA November 9, 2001
JP March 22, 2002
EU May 3, 2002
Genre(s) Action, Arcade flight simulation
Mode(s) Single-player
Input methods GameCube Controller
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The second of three games in the Rogue Squadron series, it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released as a launch title for the Nintendo GameCube. The game was praised for its amazing visuals, thanks to an impressive game engine that uses advanced GameCube features.

Similar to its predecessor, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Rogue Leader is a fast-paced, flight action game. Each of the game's ten levels introduces mission objectives such as search and destroy or protection that must be completed to progress to the next level. The players performance on each level is compared to three medals (bronze, silver, and gold), based on completion time, enemies killed, etc. Getting more metals results in unlocking more levels and spacecraft. Rogue Leader also has a large collection of hidden items throughout the game, from powerups, hidden ships, and hidden levels.

Because of its technical prowess, use of rare GameCube features, and plethora of hacks, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader has proven difficult for Dolphin to emulate.

Problems

zfreeze

Rogue Squadron uses zfreeze - a function that Dolphin's hardware renderers currently do not support - for distant objects and the skydome. The lack of support for this feature makes the skydome appear over nearly everything, and distant objects are not rendered at all. This gives the impression of an extremely short draw distance. The game is functional, but it is impossible to play with this issue. The software renderer supports zfreeze and this issue is not present there, but the extreme hardware demands prevent it from being playable on any current system. See issue 4113 and issue 3334.

Flickering Menu

In-game menu suffers from flickering issues in D3D9 and D3D11. Enter/exit fullscreen or resize the window to fix the flickering. Since the GLSL merge in 3.5-1025, OpenGL does not have this issue.

No Menu Videos

The background videos in the menu do not work in D3D9. Use D3D11 or OpenGL and they will appear normally.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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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
r7561 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II 945 @ 3.0Ghz ATI Radeon HD 4890 Non-stop "Trying to reinterpret pixel data with unsupported conversion type 1 and 4" errors when starting. Using OpenGL works, but the sound is super wonky, parts run weird/bad, and the game doesn't render much in front of yo at all
r7687 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ATI Radeon HD 5770 Non-stop "Trying to reinterpret pixel data with unsupported conversion type 1 and 4" errors when starting.
^3.0 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.8GHz ATI Radeon HD 4870 Wonky sound, parts runs weird/bad. Lots of framerate issues and the game doesn't render much in front of you.
3.0-373 Mac OS X 10.7.2 Intel Core i7-2675QM @ 2.2GHz AMD Radeon HD 6750M Wonky, slow, and unpredictable regardless of CPU/Sound emulation setting. jedivulcan
3.0-415 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2400 Intel HD2000 Is 100% speed all the time but the draw distance problem is too important. You can't see anything until is in front of you. Shame. If that get fix the game will work excellent at full speed. InterlinkKnight
3.0-865 Windows 8 x64 Intel Core i5-3570K AMD Radeon HD 7870 Runs around 25 FPS, screen flickers, throws unknown opcode 0x3d and 0x62 frequently, crashes at Star Wars logo before beginning mission, music continues to play. Whacka
3.5-1387 Windows 7 x64 AMD FX 6350 nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Menu screen flickers, throws unknown opcodes few seconds into first mission, audio is garbled throughout. Ship selection still runs full speed, slight screen flicker, the only bit of the game that works almost 100%, everything else is messed up. Slarlac249

Gameplay Videos

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