The Godfather: Blackhand Edition

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition
Developer(s)	EA Redwood Shores
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA 20 March 2007 EU 23 March 2007 AUS 29 March 2007
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RGFE69, RGFF69, RGFI69, RGFS69, RGFP69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

You can move up the ranks of the Corleone crime family in The Godfather: Blackhand Edition. In the game based on the book and movie, you go from humble beginnings of petty crime and rise to be the most powerful crime lord in all of New York. The Godfather features customizable characters and a persistent gameworld, where your decisions affect how other characters interact with you. Marlon Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall return to the franchise to voice characters in the game as well.

Problems

VP6 Videos

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on many graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling. See issue 7193. In 5.0-15515 or newer, this can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings -> Advanced menu.

VP6 video

VP6 video with manual sampling

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with The Godfather: Blackhand Edition since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

5.0-6362

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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
5.0-6362	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	Playable. Game is running at 30 FPS. Vertical lines appearing in the VP6 videos. Tested with default settings.	SuperSonic

Gameplay Videos

Dolphin Emulator 4.0.1 - The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (1080p HD) - Nintendo Wii

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-11103 [1080p HD] - Nintendo Wii