[GC] Skies of Arcadia Legends

[miracle.flame]

If anybody worldwide just stumbled upon this thread in search for optimal Doplhin settings summary to achieve TOP quality and TOP performance along (just like I did) for Skies of Arcadia Legends this post will hopefully save you hours of experimenting and reading (like I hoped for).

This is for Dolphin 5.0 with my HW specs so you know it may vary as much as your configuration varies. I took some hints from above into consideration though I haven't read through 460 post of mostly outdated remarks.

Of course I am very open to corrections from more experienced users. I actually wish for some.





Once you hit Edit button it will allow you to paste all this in which is advised:

Code:

[Core]
CPUThread = True
FastDiscSpeed = False
GPUDeterminismMode = fake-completion
SkipIdle = True
MMU = True
DCBZ = True
FPRF = True
DSPHLE = True
[Gecko]
$PAL
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38A00001 00000000
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801E0000 00000000
$NTSX-U
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90010010 3C003B4D
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60000000 00000000
C22AB724 00000003
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3C608034 900363C0
60000000 00000000
C22ABBD0 00000003
3C603B19 3C808034
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60000000 00000000
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60000000 00000000
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3C603B19 3C808034
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60000000 00000000
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9003003C 3CC03B4D
3D208034 90C963C0
60000000 00000000
C21CBA18 00000003
37FFFFFF 3FA03B19
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60000000 00000000
C216A570 00000003
3C603B4D 3C808034
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60000000 00000000
C216A580 00000003
3C603B19 3C808034
906463C0 38600001
60000000 00000000
C211B8D8 00000003
3C603B4D 3C808034
906463C0 387E0038
60000000 00000000
C211B8E8 00000003
3C003B19 3FC08034
901E63C0 38000000
60000000 00000000
C211BA0C 00000003
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906463C0 387E0038
60000000 00000000
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$60Hz AR Code PAL
04241FC8 38600000
042FEE50 00000014
[Gecko_Enabled]
$PAL
$60Hz AR Code PAL
[ActionReplay_Enabled]
$16:9 Aspect Ratio (Widescreen)
[ActionReplay]
$16:9 Aspect Ratio (Widescreen)
04348E54 3F400000

And so with this I am getting the most seamless fluent and most favorable output audio/graphic-wise.

[miyazaki9]

I don't think that 8x SSAA is the best use of your gpu! Why not go down to 2x SSAA and play at 1080p?

[miracle.flame]

(04-24-2017, 11:58 PM)miyazaki9 Wrote: I don't think that 8x SSAA is the best use of your gpu! Why not go down to 2x SSAA and play at 1080p?

I am glad you asked. First let me point out it is posible to go 8xSSAA@1080p without any performance drop or hiccups noticable on my end. So that might be called best use of GPU (although I believe AA puts stress on your HW and Internal Resolution rather to the emulation process itself).

However there is a deliberate reason behind choosing 720p for me. I am not a huge fan of supersharp edges on low-res textures and this game's textures are nowhere near hi-res. Using lower than native resolution forces the output to be upscaled in natural way which has a side effect of smoothing out edges. This is also very noticable on font sprites which are jaggy on native resolution but on 720p the edges are a bit smoother and blend better within the overal blurry texture details. I know there are many who prefer supersharp resolution with lo-res textures just because quality of their own sight itself blurs everythiing so they don't see the outcome supersharp anyway.

Here goes comparison:

2xSSAA@1080p
8xSSAA@720p

2xSSAA@1080p
8xSSAA@720p

[Redyn]

Hi, is there no 60 FPS code for the USA version? =(

[KacieKat]

On the Wiki there is a combined widescreen Gecko code that fixes screen edge culling and unstretches the HUD. The culling fix is great! The HUD unstretching not so much. It causes a lot of issues with menus and certain effects that use the HUD. Would it be possible to split the code into two?

Code:

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60000000 00000000
C22ABBC4 00000003
90010020 3C003B4D
3C608034 900363C0
60000000 00000000
C22ABBD0 00000003
3C603B19 3C808034
906463C0 38600009
60000000 00000000
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60000000 00000000
C22ABD58 00000003
3C603B19 3C808034
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60000000 00000000
C21CBA10 00000003
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3D208034 90C963C0
60000000 00000000
C21CBA18 00000003
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3C608034 93A363C0
60000000 00000000
C216A570 00000003
3C603B4D 3C808034
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60000000 00000000
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60000000 00000000

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

[gamemasterplc]

well, just remove all lines but the first for the same code but a stretched HUD

[KacieKat]

(06-02-2017, 08:23 AM)gamemasterplc Wrote: well, just remove all lines but the first for the same code but a stretched HUD

Can't believe that was so simple... Thanks!

[CypherX]

Is there a way to get rid of sound crackling when fps goes below 30?

[JosJuice]

(06-17-2017, 08:52 AM)CypherX Wrote: Is there a way to get rid of sound crackling when fps goes below 30?

You can enable the audio stretching setting. But note that this will only get rid of the audio crackling, not the audio slowdown.

[credburn]

Hello, friends. I have a question that nobody has been able to answer and I am at the end of my rope. I don't think this is exactly the best place to ask this question, but I don't know where else to turn and maybe someone here can help.

I'm trying to get the sound effects from Skies of Arcadia. The entire contents of the disc are easily extracted, and indeed there are many sounds contained within the /sound folder. However, all these sounds are of a very specific type -- say, ship battles, evil laughter, someone yelling as they power up. But the standard sound effects, like an attack, or a door opening, they are all missing and I can't find them anywhere. They must be there, obviously, because the game plays fine and the sounds are there.

I know I could just record the audio. It'd take some time to explain why I'm specifically trying to get the sound effects via this method. I figure that, if people have hacked the game in a way that allows replacement textures and such, surely these sound effects have at some time been identified.

Thanks for any guidance.