Super Mario Sunshine

Super Mario Sunshine
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Super Mario Bros
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP July 19, 2002 NA August 26, 2002 EU October 4, 2002 AUS October 11, 2002
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	GMSE01, GMSP01, GMSJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

Super Mario Sunshine is a platform game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in Japan on July 2002, in North America on August 2002, and in Europe and Australia on October 2002. It was the first 3D Mario platformer since the release of Super Mario 64 in 1996. Super Mario Sunshine's successor is Super Mario Galaxy, which was released for the Wii in 2007.

Problems

Goo/Oil

• EFB to Texture is disabled in the GameINI, requiring you to play it in EFB to Ram. If this is changed, goo/oil may behave oddly and be impossible to spray away.
• The goo/oil may slide across surfaces and erase itself if "Force Texture Filtering" is enabled. If already disabled, turning off "Scaled EFB Copy" can also resolve this.
• Bubbles in goo are rendered oddly regardless of configuration. (issue 540)

File:Super Mario Sunshine-Goo Dolphin.png

Goo/oil in Dolphin

File:Super Mario Sunshine-Goo Gamecube.png

Goo/oil on the GameCube

White Water

The water will go white if anisotropic filtering is used. See issue 5676.

"Scrubbing Sirena Beach" cannot be completed

In revisions between 3.0-439 and 3.5-512 the challenge could not be completed, and Super Mario Sunshine couldn't be finished. In builds before 3.0-439 the level didn't actually work either but you'd get the Shine without doing anything, so at least it wasn't a game breaker back then.

As of 3.5-513 this is no longer an issue when the D3D11 or OpenGL backend is used.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Video Backend	D3D11 or OpenGL	Required for completing "Scrubbing Sirena Beach"

Audio

Config	Setting	Notes
Audio Backend	ALSA (Linux only)	On Ubuntu, avoid choppy choppy with PulseAudio back end

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Super Mario Sunshine since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r4759

r5719

r6154

r6569

3.0-439

3.5-513

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5.0-21408 (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
r6569	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.1GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Fully Playable: 50-60 FPS with DX9 plug-in, OpenCL Enabled and Recommended Configuration
r6800	Windows XP x86	Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6GHz	Intel GMA 945	Very playable 8-10 FPS. Disable Lighting and sound Off for best performance.	LORPAL
r6879	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X3 N830 @ 2.1GHz	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	Fully Playable 60-80 FPS with DX11 plug-in
r7310	Windows 7 x86	Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.6GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5450	Fully Playable 15-25 FPS (45-50 FPS video) (PAL)--> 65-100% speed with DX9 plugin,Open CL,Disable fog.If you use EFB copy to texture you can play at 100% speed but sometimes you can have any graphics problem	Markon89
r7419	Mac OS X 10.6.7	Intel Core i7 @ 2.66GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 330M	Fully Playable 10-20 FPS at 45 - 95 % seems to slow down when NPCs come on screen	FeelGoodChicken
r7540	Windows 7 x64	Intel Pentium Single Core @ 4.15GHz	nVidia GeForce GTS 250	Playable! smooth gameplay when indoors or when there are little to no NPCs around but functional.	Redstorm3265
r7593	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-740QM @ 1.6GHz-2.8GHz	ATI Radeon Radeon HD 5870M	Perfectly Playable like on the console: 50/60 FPS (PAL/NTSC) with DX9 plug-in and Recommended Configuration	Thundereus
3.0	Windows 7 x64	AMD Turion II M520 @ 2.3GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4200	Runs great at 20-25 FPS with the dx11 plugin, and change the texture accuracy to fastest, enable OpenCL and OpenMP, disable fog, change EFB copies to RAM and enable cache, enable cache display lists and fast mipmaps and also hide shader errors.	Beecher
3.0	Linux Ubuntu 12.04 x64	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz	nVidia GT430	Fully Playable: 50-60 FPS with OpenGL plug-in, OpenCL Enabled, Upscaling Auto stretch (1080P), Anti Aliasing 4X, OpenMP decode; Sound with DSP-LLE Files on one thread CPU core & Alsa
3.0-94	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 440	Playable: constant 30 FPS, except in big areas (20-30 FPS).	Jhonn
r7714	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	Fully Playable: Graphics and sound can stall for a fraction of a second between scene changes occasionally causing a slight sound stutter, again for a fraction of a second, otherwise no known problems.
3.0-204	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.67GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5850	Perfectly playable. 30 FPS consistent, with very rare drops to around 90%. Only exception is secret shine involving tall grass and 8 red coins, which runs around 60%.	crumbworks
^r7283	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i3-2310 @ 2.1GHz	Intel HD Graphics	Fully playable with a resolution of "size of the window." sometimes slows down the game (ex. on the Isle Delfino just at the statue) lower than 20 FPS in USA version	Honguito98
3.0-371	Linux Slackware 13.37 x86_64	Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti	Games plays perfectly. 30 FPS with no slowdowns or graphical glitches using OpenGL, 2x IR, 4x AA, audio throttling. The goo renders fine with EFB copies set to RAM. GMSE01.ini overwrites default Dolphin configuration to use RAM, so if you start the game up with EFB copies on Texture, it still uses RAM, unless you change your settings in game play.	Shonumi
3.0-601	Windows 7 x86	Intel Core i5-650 @ 3.20GHz	Intel HD Graphics	Fully playable at native internal resolution and enabled OpenCL and Disabled Per Pixel Depth. Dual Core and Idle Skip also enabled. Also EFB to RAM enabled at Max speed. Consistent speed of 89-100% averaging at 95% with the 89% only happening in rare instances (eg: Main square @ Delfino Plaza). FPS solid @ 25-30	SoulFly
3.0-684	Windows 7 x64	AMD FX-4100 @ 4.5GHz	nVidia GeForce GTS 250	Tested with (DX9). Very good emulation. Be sure to "MMU ​​Speedhack" let off, to avoid errors Games. In game 25 FPS, 50 FPS video. Meanwhile, the game with "DSP HLE emulation" to be played.	Serverbot777
3.0-684	Windows 7 x64	AMD FX-4100 @ 4.5GHz	nVidia GeForce GTS 250	Tested with (DX9). In newer Dolphin versions, an error has crept in, and that if I had during the game on the memory card save, and then save-game-state charging, and later a game was stored on the memory card would, there is an error, you can not play more of this to save memory card.	Serverbot777
3.0-692	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2GHz	nVidia GeForce GT540M	Fine at 50 FPS and 50 VPS with the DX9 plugin, not tested the DX11 plugin, and change the texture accuracy to fastest, enable OpenCL and OpenMP, disable fog, EFB to Ram, disable AA. No graphics bugs seen.	TiJack
3.0-692	Windows 7 x64	AMD FX-4100 @ 4.5GHz	nVidia GeForce GTS 250	The most cheats work either not, or there is a crash-emulations.	Serverbot777
3.5-290	Windows 7 x64	Intel i3-2350 @ 2.3GHz	nVidia GeForce 410M	The cheat doesn't work for the PAL version, always the problem of Inkstains	Dratal

Gameplay Videos

Super Mario Sunshine on Dolphin Wii/GC Emulator (720p HD) Full Speed

Super Mario Sunshine on PC Full Speed (1080p)