The Godfather: Blackhand Edition
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.
| The Godfather: Blackhand Edition | |
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| 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 |
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| See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
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.
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.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
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| 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 |