Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Developer(s)	Sora, Game Arts
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Super Smash Bros.
Platform(s)	Wii
Genre(s)	Fighting, Action
Mode(s)
Input methods	Wii Remote, Wii Remote+Nunchuckc, Classic Controller, GameCube Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RSBP01, RSBE01, RSBJ01, RSBK01
See also...	Search Dolphin Forums Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts and staff from other developers and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. Brawl was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conference by Nintendo president and Chief Executive Officer Satoru Iwata. Masahiro Sakurai, director of the previous two games in the series, assumed the role of director for the third installment at the request of Iwata. Game development began in October 2005 with a creative team that included members from several Nintendo and third party development teams. After delays due to development problems, the game was finally released on January 31, 2008 in Japan, March 9, 2008 in North America, June 26, 2008 in Australia and June 27, 2008 in Europe. Twenty-seven months after its original Japanese release, the game was released in Korea, on April 29, 2010.

Problems

Graphics

• The post battle stats are corrupt. In random cases, the credits screen (after beating classic mode) may suffer from the same issue. Names above characters during matches are also corrupted. Setting EFB Copy to RAM fix these issues.

Corrupt

Appropriate

• After winning a stage in classic mode, a green rectangle is visible (issue 2828), enabling Virtual XFB display a corrupt Texture instead of green and Real XFB fixes the issue but make the game to run at a lower resolution with pixelated graphics...

Audio

Audio randomly crackles and feeds-back when using the DSP HLE audio engine. The error is random, and its severity depends on the specific revision. Use the DSP LLE audio engine to avoid this. Note: DSP LLE requires a dumped DSP ROM from a physical console. Instructions are on this forum thread The music glitches will always end when a new music track is played; so any music problems encountered will end with the current fight, when leaving the menus, or when playing another track in the sound test. Also, using the XAudio2 backend on Windows result in pitch issues with the audio of movies.

Controls

Brawl is capable of using both GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes at the same time. If you have a physical controller set to emulate both a GC Pad and a Wii Remote concurrently both inputs will be used and will operate both player 1 and player 2 at the same time. To fix, disable one of the emulated controllers or move one of them to a second physical controller.

Subspace Emissary Videos

Many disc images of this game are DVD5 (4.7 GB) altered versions of the original DVD9 (8.5 GB) release. In these most of the videos are removed, resulting in black screens or the same video being repeated all the time when playing the Subspace Emissary. Following these videos, the character select screen may appear; however the names represent the characters for the next level. Dolphin cannot fix this problem; the only solution is to use a full unaltered ISO (Dual Layer Disc, 8.5 GB).

Master Pieces

Attempting to load a Master Piece will freeze the emulator, showing nothing but a black screen with FPS 0, VPS 60, and Speed 100%. This is caused by Dolphin having only a partial support for in-game soft resets. Metroid Prime: Trilogy also has this issue.

Saving Screenshots

The game crashes when taking a screenshot using in-game tools; you can fix this enabling EFB Copy to RAM or using Dolphin's screenshot tool instead.

Broken Revisions

Some revisions have WriteARAM code changes that inadvertently breaks Super Smash Bros Brawl and some other games. When the game is launched, it immediately freezes with the message "Please Insert Super Smash Bros. Game Disc". This problem doesn't seem to occur on r7482 and newer.

Configuration

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

Version Compatibility

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

r2661

r4357

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5.0-21464 (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.

• NTSC-U and NTSC-J versions do not work until r4687.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

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Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
r4341	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz	Intel GMA 945G	Broken, freeze with the message "Please Insert Super Smash Bros. Game Disc"	Jhonn
r4598	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz	Intel GMA 945G	Broken, freeze with the message "Please Insert Super Smash Bros. Game Disc"	Jhonn
r6515	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7 @ 2.2GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Constant 60FPS at 1080p. A few minor graphical glitches, but still completely playable	onebitwonder
r6815	Windows XP x86	AMD Athlon II X4 @ 3GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5450	Good, 55-60 FPS
r7045	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600	nVidia GeForce 9800 GT	OpenGL Good, 60+ FPS, DirectX 55-60 less texture glitches
r7063	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz	Intel GMA 945G	Slower, 25-35 FPS in game	Jhonn
r7335	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II 720 BE @ 3.2GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Working good at 50FPS (Frame limiter on) or around 100FPS (Framelimiter off). Corrupt (green) Results Display. Using DX11 Plugin	ultramann
r7473	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5750	Perfect: 60 FPS in game and menus, Dual Core Mode enabled, resolution 1680x1050 full-screen, x16 Anisotropic filtering, x3 scale, EFB Copy: Texture, OpenCL enabled, 64 bits mode.	Juliannb
r7477	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 910 @ 3GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6970	Broken, freeze with the message "Please Insert Super Smash Bros. Game Disc"	FHaze
r7490	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4870	Working at 45-60FPS. Occasional crashes. However, results screens in all modes are broken.	Ragnar.Kon
r7546	Mac OS X 10.6.7	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2Ghz	nVidia GeForce 9400 256MB	Works really fast; had to enable frame rate limiting. However, all character names in battle, and all the names in the Classic "credits" coin shoot are broken/appear as bar codes.
r7598	Windows 7 x64	Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5770	Various Audio Bugs: Cutout, Feedback, etc.	SephirothFanatic
3.0	Windows 7 x86	Intel Duel Core E6600 @ 3.06GHz	nVidia GeForce G210	A few sound issues, 40-60FPS
3.0	Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 11.04)	Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.4GHz	nVidia GeForce 8600 GT	Very Good	individuo7
r7623	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.9GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 460	Very Good!	algeerian
r7714	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7-2600k @ 3.4GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 580	Perfect emulation! Only tried a few matches though.	YouHaveRROD
r7716	Linux x86_64 (Gentoo)	Intel Core 2 Due T8300 @ 2.4GHz	nVidia GeForce 8600M GT	Almost perfect, no visible lags. Settings = 960x792, skip EFB from CPU, EFB virtual only and disabled : external frame buffer, fog, per-pixel depth, dest. alpha pass. Tested on EUR version (RSBP01)	Yuusha-sama
^3.0	Windows 7 64x	AMD Phenon II 1100T Black 3.3Ghz	AMD Radeon HD 6850	Perfect,60FPS all times just some random crashes and minor audio issues	Aldaris
^r4598	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 440	Constant 60 FPS, except in bigger stages (such as Delfino Plaza)	Jhonn

Gameplay Videos

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (1080p HD) Dolphin Wii Emulator
• super smash bros brawl in 3d dolphin emulator
• super smash bros brawl fox vs ike (dolphin emulator).mp4
• super smash bros brawl rashomon12345(fox) vs LightRaider96(sonic) rematch
• super smash bros brawl rashomon12345(mario) vs LightRaider96(sonic)
• super smash bros brawl mario classic mode (dolphin emulator)

See also

• Super Smash Bros.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl at Wikipedia