The Last Story

The Last Story
Developer(s)	Mistwalker, AQ Interactive
Publisher(s)	NA XSEED Games JP/EU/AUS Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	JP January 27, 2011 AUS February 23, 2012 EU February 24, 2012 NA August 14, 2012
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player, Co-op
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk Classic Controller
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	SLSJ01, SLSEXJ, SLSP01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

The Last Story (ラストストーリー, Rasuto Sutōrī) is an action role-playing game developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The game was created by the creator of the Final Fantasy series, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Nintendo and Mistwalker both sought to create "a new form of RPG by choosing the universal theme of human emotion".

Nintendo originally did not intend to bring The Last Story to North America, but massive pressure from fans has convinced Nintendo to give it a NA release, albeit published by XSEED and not Nintendo itself. The game became a huge commercial success and the best selling title XSEED has ever developed.

Problems

Overly Bright Areas

Fog in this game effects lightning, but sometimes it can be too bright. If fog is disabled - it's too dark. Also if fog enabled there will be dark reflection on the water, more with D3D9 backend. Some times this problems can be resolved by switching per-pixel lightning (or disabling it). Loading a savestate may disable fog as a byproduct, for a quicker method to disable it.

Clothes texture missing

Parts of the body and clothing are missing. Enable "EFB Copies to RAM" to fix this.

• NOTE: You can change it back to EFB to Texture once the game is running. Keep in mind that with EFB to Texture active, every time a new model is introduced, such as meeting a new character, going through a loading screen, equipping a new armour etc, it will not load. Switch to RAM before a new model is loaded to prevent it.
  • The "Enable Hotkeys" setting, found in the Graphics settings, under the Advanced tab, can be used to speed up this process. With hotkeys enabled, press "5" to toggle between EFB to Texture and EFB to Ram.

Audio stuttering in FMVs

The audio in some FMVs in the game will stutter if you don't have a very fast CPU. If you encounter this, disable "Idle Skipping" to fix it (or just enable EFB Copies to Texture).

Odd Random Blurring

The games depth of field effects sometimes seems to go awry, randomly blurring odd elements. This can be fixed by pressing Shift+F1 then F1 to save then load a savestate.

Blurry characters.

Configuration

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

Wii

Config	Setting	Notes
Use PAL60 Mode (EuRGB60)	Enabled	Needed for the game to start.

Version Compatibility

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

r6284

3.0-484

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5.0-21455 (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
r6505	Windows 7	AMD Phenom X4 965	ATI Radeon HD 4870	Dolphin-r6505_DKTOS_MH3_FifoBs, turn off fifo busy under iso properties, use JITIL not JIT, Use Xaudio as HLE, for graphic use dx9 set to RAM, DOESN'T HANG	IcemanSR
r6505	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.5GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6870	PAL version tested; Used 6505 by Lectrode, which is the speediest build I've tested. The game is fully playable, but suffers from random freezings, despite using JIT or JITIL. (Happens less often with JITIL)	Garteal
3.0	Linux x86_64	Intel Core i5	ATI Radeon HD 5700	Playable (60 FPS)	tomtoom
3.0	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-2500	nVidia GeForce 560 Ti	Playable (25-30 FPS)	Deathykins
3.0-415	Windows 7	Intel Core i7-2600K	nVidia GeForce GTX 580	Playable (30 FPS, sometimes fall to 21 FPS.)	dnishimura
3.0-763	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-2450M	AMD Radeon HD 7610M	Playable, 30 FPS	Chinmorph
3.0-766	Mac OS X 10.8.1	Intel Core i7 @ 2.7GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 650M	Playable, 60 FPS	TresCoole
3.5-127	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-2500k	AMD Radeon HD 5670	The Last Story on Dolphin Emulator	LaImpetoOscuro‎‏
3.5-269	Windows XP	Athlon II X2 215 @ 3.56GHz	nVidia GeForce 440	Game completed! FPS at town 11-24Hz, in dungeons 20-30Hz, in rendered video cut-scenes - better set "EFB Copies to texture" to get 27-30Hz. Get random crashes/hangs during savestate save/load. Sometimes fog based lightning (fog of war) work's incorrectly. Also blurring depth set incorrectly (normally it should blur close? and very distant 3D-surfaces). Loading savestate seems to recalculate some variables and fix it.	†.fl.l).‎‏
^3.5-141	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II 955 BE @ 3.2GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6850	Playable (30 FPS). Slowdown in huge areas (15-30 FPS).	ramaGZ.‎‏

Gameplay Video

The Last Story on Dolphin Emulator (HD)

The Last Story on Dolphin Emulator