The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	The Legend of Zelda
Platform(s)	GameCube
Genre(s)	Action-Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-Player
Input methods	Gamecube Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	GZ2J01, GZ2P01, GZ2E01
See also...	Wii Version Search Dolphin Forums Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia Debug Symbol Files

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles. It is the thirteenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series. Originally planned for release in November 2005, Twilight Princess was delayed by Nintendo to allow its developers to refine the game and add more content. The Wii version was released alongside the Wii console on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 in Japan, Europe, and Australia. This made Twilight Princess the first Zelda game released at the launch of a Nintendo console. The GameCube version was released in December 2006, and was the last Nintendo-published game for the console. During early development, Nintendo referred to Twilight Princess as The Wind Waker 2. As development progressed, Nintendo announced a new title, Twilight Princess, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2005.

Problems

Sound issues

To reduce the number of sound issues on older revisions:

1. Visit DSP-HLE Plugin: Zelda TP Intro Music on the forums
2. download a patched version of the DSP-HLE plug-in
3. backup the original Plugin_DSP_HLE.dll file
4. replace it with the one downloaded

This will help, but audio issues still exist. Please note also that this method can't be used on newer revisions since the plug-in merge. Note: The patched plug-in may break sound in many games that work with the original plug-in.

The top left quadrant of the screen is blurred

Use EFB scaled copy to fix this.

Discolored map with EFB to texture

Use EFB to RAM to fix this.

Bloom offset

Sometimes the bloom coordinates are wrong causing a "ghost" image to appear around certain objects in areas with high amounts of bloom. There is no known solution for it at the moment.

Screwed up grass

To fix this use r5462 or newer.

Hyrule Field Slow Down

Over time in the game Hyrule Field becomes progressively slower. To fix this use the "ZTP hack" or "ZTP speedup hack" (not the projection hack). This can be found in the game properties by right clicking the game in the main dolphin window and clicking game properties. Make sure this option is checked for this game and only this game.

Water Bug

Water reflections are buggy when the widescreen hack is active.

Widescreen hack

Water reflections and almost everything will be buggy by activating this feature.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Video Backend	OpenGL	Faster than Direct3D, and mini-map works properly now.
Scaled EFB Copy	On	Enable this if the quarter of the screen is blurred when using EFB copy to RAM
Widescreen Hack	Off	If enabled, water reflection effects will be buggy.

Game Properties

Config	Setting	Notes
Enable MMU	On	Enable this only if random crashes occur when using the howling stones.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r6271

r7714

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5.0-21395 (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
r6271	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Fully playable and no slowdown in Hyrule Field (only when ZTP hack is enabled, otherwise you will get only 10 FPS).
r6815	Windows 7 x86	Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4870	Fully playable in dungeons and in other areas but still slowdown in Hyrule Field (ZTP hack is enabled it helps but not so much, you obtain 15 FPS).
r6887	Windows Vista x86	Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.2GHz	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 256MB	Fully playable in dungeons and in other areas but still slowdown in Hyrule Field (ZTP hack is enabled it helps but not so much, you obtain 15 FPS).
r6912	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5 2500k @ 4.2GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5770 x2	Fully playable in all areas at 30 fps
r7435	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom X4 955 @ 3.2GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4870	Works perfectly without any slowdowns	Shachi
r7450	Linux Debian Wheezy	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.88Ghz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Works, but slower than when running on Windows
r7583	Windows 7 x64	Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.2Ghz	nVidia GeForce 7100 GT	Fully playable in all areas, except in Hyrule Field
r7590	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.27GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6870 x2	Fully playable in all areas at 30 fps
r7607	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X2 555 @ 3.8GHz	nVidia GeForce 9800 GT	Fully playable in all areas at 30 fps @ 720p+vsync no slowdowns in Hyrule Field (ZTP Hack disabled)
r7607	Windows 7 x64	AMD Athlon II X2 620 @ 2.6GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB	Fully Playable @ 25 - 30 FPS	Shyvo
3.0	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6970	Mostly okay. Some random crashes. Slowdown to around 20 FPS on Hyrule field with ZTP hack activated. Ending has no music whatsoever.	No Pistons
r7661	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5770	Unfortunately, this doesn't fair much better than my testing of the Wii version. Resizing, maximizing/minimizing the game window causes the EXACT same errors regarding D3D shading, with the same ridiculous amount of error spam, followed by Dolphin crashing. For some reason, however, maximizing the window when the Nintendo and Dolby logos were occurring, it didn't error spam or crash. That's somewhat of an improvement over my Wii experience I suppose.	Schala
r7669	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2GHz	nVidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB	Fully playable @ 30 FPS on OpenGL without any errors	Shyvo
^3.0	Windows XP x86	AMD Phenom II X2 545 @ 3.1GHz	nVidia GeForce 8600 GT 512MB	Fully playable, some slowdowns on Hyrule's Field and Faron's forest. 30 FPS with OpenGL plugin and suggested settings from this page.	luken
r7719	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.1GHz	nVidia GeForce GTS 450	Fully Playable @ 29-30fps on DX9 with 4xSSAA and DSP HLE(Slows down to about 23-28fps with DSP LLE on Hyrule Field). Also when Hyrule Field is about 65% complete(before 3rd dungeon) frame rate drops to 24-28fps in Hyrule Field only.	Exa
^3.0-96	Linux Sabayon (like Gentoo)	Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.13GHz	nVidia GeForce GT 430	Playable, but slower the larger the current area is. This is noticeable everywhere, but only the forest is a bit slow (I don't mind), and Hyrule Field is very slow (which is annoying). If you're not in Hyrule Field, it works very well overall. Sound works nicely, too, but adapts to the game's speed (so in the slow areas it will be playing slower). Use suggested settings from this page, otherwise you get graphics bugs. State saves work! If you get crashes (happened for me once), try switching between the experimental and non-experimental JIT.	scummos
^r7714	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	Fully playable: No slowdowns, no known glitches.

Gameplay Videos

• Zelda Twilight Princess running in Dolphin R4911