Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Developer(s)	Square
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, SNES
Release date(s)	SNES JP March 9, 1996 NA May 13, 1996 Virtual Console JP June 24, 2008 EU August 22, 2008 NA September 1, 2008
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Classic Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	JCBE01, JCBM01, JCBJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, known in Japan as Super Mario RPG (スーパーマリオRPG Sūpā Mario Āru Pī Jī), is an action role-playing game developed by Square and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Square did much of the development of Super Mario RPG under direct guidance from producer Shigeru Miyamoto. It is the first role-playing video game in the Mario franchise, with token similarities to other Square role-playing video games but with a story and action-based gameplay derived from the Super Mario Bros. series.

Super NES Global Problems

Problems that may occur with any Super NES title on Dolphin are listed below.

Glitched Sound

Sound is glitched in the OpenAL backend. Use XAudio2 to prevent this. Fixed in 5.0-798.

also, may need to enable frame skipping, frame limit: 60, and disable scaled EFB copy for a speed improvement. now the game runs correctly. minor speed hiccups (rare microstutter), not sure if due to dual-core.

Problems

Saves

Frequently the game does not save despite telling you it did.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.5-350

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5.0-21395 (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
4.0	Windows 8	Intel Core i5 3450 @3.1GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 640	Nearly Perfect emulation, saves only work when they want	DeathArcana