The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
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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 5Stars5.pngEdit rating: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)
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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.

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. See issue 2068.

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. See issue 720 and issue 2499.

Goron Mines, Boss Door

The chains of the lock stay together after unlocking -> the door won't open. See issue 5002. This can be resolved by briefly disabling dual core mode.

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.

No Sun Rays

There are supposed to be lots of sun rays in the intro and at the springs (especially the one in Faron Woods and Kakariko Village). If fast mipmaps is checked the sun rays will not show up. Simply uncheck fast mipmaps to fix the issue. AF will also reduce the visibility of the sun rays (more samples = less visible) so this should be set to 1x.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config Setting Notes
Video Backend D3d9
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.
Texture Cache Accuracy Anything BUT Second-To-Fastest Fixes inaccurate player position indicator in map.

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.

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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
3.0-235 Mac OS X 10.7.3 Intel Core i5 @ 2.7GHz AMD Radeon HD 6770M Fully playable with constant 100% speed and 30 FPS at 2.5x Native resolution. Swiftwinter
^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).
^r7695 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5 @ 2.27GHz ATI Radeon HD 5450 Fully playable, PERFECT!!!. IguanaMasterz
^r6758 Mac OS X 10.6.8 Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz nVidia GeForce 9400M Fully playable, but by far the slowest game I've tested. Most areas run around ~7-17 FPS, even houses and save screen. Dungeons fare better; ~20-30 FPS in most rooms (strangely this excludes the Goron Mines). Map is extremely glitchy without proper settings. Hyrule Field is only ~9 FPS, ZTP hack doesn't help at all Ac
^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).
^r6800 Windows XP SP3 x86 Intel Atom N270 @ 1.60Ghz Intel GMA 945 (GMA 950) Very playable 8-10 FPS. Disable Lighting and sound Off for best performance. LORPAL
^r6887 Windows Vista x86 Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.2GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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 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 9600GT Fully playable @ 30 FPS on OpenGL without any errors Shyvo
^3.0 Windows XP x86 AMD Phenom II X2 545 @ 3.1GHz nVidia GeForce 8600GT Fully playable, some slowdowns on Hyrule's Field and Faron's forest. 30 FPS with OpenGL plugin and suggested settings from this page. luken
^r7714 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i3-370M @ 2.4GHz AMD Radeon HD 6370M Fully playable: No slowdowns, no known glitches.
^r7719 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.1GHz nVidia GeForce GTS 450 Fully Playable @ 29-30 FPS on DX9 with 4xSSAA and DSP HLE(Slows down to about 23-28 FPS with DSP LLE on Hyrule Field). Also when Hyrule Field is about 65% complete(before 3rd dungeon) frame rate drops to 24-28 FPS in Hyrule Field only. Exa
^3.0-96 Linux Sabayon 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
^3.0-187 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.8GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Perfectly ~30 FPS (60Hz) with Direct X (3D11), 1920*1080, 16/9 Hack, Internal Resolution x4 (maximum), Anti-Aliasing 4x (quality 16), Anisotropic 16x (maximum). Just Water effects with 16/9 widescreen bug (it does not matter) Sanitarium026
^3.0-204 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 470 Perfectly ~30 FPS (60Hz) 1920*1080, Default settings and the following: MMU speed hack + ZTP hack + custom projection hack, Anti-Aliasing 4x, Anisotropic 1x, Everything works great. Been playing half the game and the only freezes are random when howling as a wolf (solved by saving state before howling and retrying several times). Small issue: Music volume is much higher than SFX salkinrawr
3.0-235 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 30 FPS almost all the time, will dip to 25 in Hyrule Field, dips to 20 in some intense combat scenes. Sound glitches fixed by using DSP LLE recompiler. Does not freeze at howling stones or howling at grass with MMU Speed Hack, which does not make FPS drop. Can use anti-aliasing with little impact on performance. Second dungeon completed with no game breaking issues so far. drhead
3.0-306 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II X6 1090t @ 3.68GHz AMD Radeon HD 5850 30 FPS almost all the time, occasionally dipping to 28-29 on busy scenes with very rare lows of 25. Hyrule field is 29-30. Froze once on howling stones but worked grand after a restart. Got as far as return to Ordon after kakariko, fully playable, no major graphical glitches. Used settings shown on this page and graphics are set as OpenGL, 2x native mode, 2x anti-aliasing, 1x anisotropic. No post-processing, OpenCL texture decoder set, cache display lists set, openmp texture decoder set. Tsukiko
3.0-369 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.8GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 460 Running at mostly 30 FPS, occasionally dipping down to around 27-28 in Hyrule Field. Using D3D9 at 1080p and on JITIL experimental recompiler, DSP HLE, 2x native internal resolution, 9x SSAA AA and 16x AF. EFB copies to RAM, disable External Frame Buffer, check Fast Mipmaps, Disable Per-Pixel Depth, OpenMP Texture Coder and Enable Progressive Scan. penguinswithpie
3.0-371 Windows 7 x64 AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE @ 3.2GHz AMD Radeon HD 6950 Runs between 27 and 30 FPS. Some slowdowns here and there as well as a freeze once an hour or so. Game still freezes at howling stones. I have to use the MMU + MMUSpeedhack method to bypass this. Other than that, runs fine with ZTP Hack, 1x Native 9x SSAA x16 AF, Force Texture Filtering, Per-Pixel Lighting, EFB copies to ram, disable External Frame Buffer, Fast Mipmaps, Disable Per-Pixel Depth, OpenMP Texture Coder, Cache Display Lists, and the settings used in the problem section of this article. gtrhitman
3.0-371 Windows 7 x86 Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.67GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 460 Fully playable (and enjoyable!) with 27-31 FPS, except I didn't fix the intro making garbage audio, but reloading a save did the trick for the rest of my play through so far. Rarely hear an unusual beeping noise in game, but nothing too annoying. Also, before configuring Dolphin accordingly, during the intro, both characters had body parts/clothing flashing bright yellow occasionally; no idea how i fixed it but it's gone. Using JIT Recompiler with D3Dlevel at 9, EFB copies RAM w/o Cache enabled. Texture Cache Accuracy is at Fast. EFB is at Virtual, else the output was very low-res. I also skip EFB Access from CPU and no glitches happened so far when enabled. Force Texture Filtering is enabled. Framelimit is at Auto and Limit by FPS is off. Audio Back-end is DSound with DTK music enabled. Overall, using most settings recommended for optimal results. MrBucket
3.0-371 Windows 7 x86 Intel Core i3-530 @ 2.93GHz nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Roughly a constant 30 FPS. There are slowdowns in big/busy areas, but so far the FPS never went below 20. Tested using D3D9 video back-end, 1920x1080 resolution, 3x native internal resolution, no AA, 16x AF, EFB copy to texture (My game always freezes when using EFB copy to RAM for some reason.), texture cache accuracy is fast, no XFB, and skip EFB access from CPU is on. ZTP speedhack is enabled, and I get 23-27 FPS on Hyrule Field, with no slowdowns. I haven't experienced any issues with the audio. XAudio2 with DTK music enabled. Orang
3.0-555 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.7GHz AMD Radeon HD 6850 Enabled Open CL Texture decoder, ~50% speedup, no glitches Me
3.0-636 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i7-950 CPU @ 3.06 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 Fully Playable with average 95-100% lowest ever was 88%. - Following settings yielded best performance and quality

Config- JIT Recompiler Lock Threads to Cores UNCHECKED(slowed down with it on even tho multithreaded cpu) DSP HLE with XAudio2 backend.

Graphics- GENERAL: Backend=Direct3D9(fastest by far) Aspect Ratio=auto

ENHANCEMENTS: Internal Resolution=2xNative(noticeable loss with Auto) Anti-Aliasing=None Anisotropic Filtering=16x(unnoticeable loss) Scaled EFB Copy=CHECKED Force Texture Filtering=CHECKED(didn't notice any glitches) Skip EFB Access from CPU=CHECKED(didn't notice any glitches) Ignore Format Changes=CHECKED EFB Copies=RAM > Enable Cache=UNCHECKED(faster than with cache for me) Texture Cache=FAST External Frame Buffer=VIRTUAL(or else resolution was weird and map fucked up)

HACKS: (CHECK the following): Fast Mipmaps, Disable Per-Pixel Depth, OpenCL Texture Decoder(fastest by far)

ADVANCED: Enable Progressive Scan=CHECKED

zorga
3.0-637 Windows 7 x64 Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6900 Slowed to 20% on moving screens using Direct3D9, but upon switching to OpenGL runs perfectly Mark

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