Tornado Outbreak

Tornado Outbreak
Developer(s)	Loose Cannon Studios
Publisher(s)	Konami
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA September 29, 2009 EU October 2009
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	R6TEA4, R6TPA4
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Harness the power of a raging tornado and battle the forces of evil in an effort to save the world in Tornado Outbreak! Sinister forces have deceived players to believe that their destructive behavior will save an epic hero. In reality, they're working for evil. Players must take control of a dynamic tornado to tear through open environments, chew up the landscape and spit out everything in the way. The more destruction, the bigger the tornado grows. Work against time based, collection and point challenge, players search for hidden elements and enemies from another world. As the debris flies and the trail of destruction is left behind, players must battle bosses and defeat the forces of evil.

Problems

VP6 Videos

Tornado Outbreak 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

Missing Graphics

XFB Real is required for some FMVs and loading screens to appear. Fixed with Hybrid XFB in 5.0-5874.

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

Enhancements

60 FPS

This code runs Tornado Outbreak at 60FPS, but it will still drops to 30FPS when too much is happening. Overclocking may account for that.

$60FPS [Nick Reynolds]
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Version Compatibility

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

4.0.2

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5.0-20619 (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
4.0.2		Intel Core i5 @ 3.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 430	too slow (12 or 15FPS) (unplayable)	62.57.99.244
5.0-422	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	Pretty good. EA VP6 video artifacts. Some slowdown, this is a fairly demanding game. No big issues.	JMC4789
5.0-6208	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3 GHz		Game runs perfectly fine, however certain levels like Roadside Destruction will start to lag, while other levels tend to run at 30FPS.	larryeedwards
5.0-13947	Windows 10	AMD Ryzen 5 2600	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	Game runs without any issues at a solid 30 FPS with the graphical backend set to OpenGL.	larryeedwards

Gameplay Videos

Tornado Outbreak short PC gameplay 2.0! (Direct3D11)

Tornado Outbreak - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-3910 [1080p HD] - Nintendo Wii