Emulator

Game Name?

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade

Game ID?

RBIEE9

MD5 Hash?

3827a53c67afb5b90adf59ce4f81984f

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.

Often during play (at least once an hour, sometimes twice), the game will completely freeze and have to be forcibly closed. It most often occurs during loading screens, but I had 4 occur doing normal play (catching a fish, twice during a cutscene with the Harvest Goddess showing the player a picture, and once during a tool skill level up).

Now, the problem doesn't seem to occur in the 5.0 stable version of Dolphin after 8 hours of total playtime. However, there is a known graphical glitch in the 5.0 version (https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/2701). This graphical glitch was fixed in Development version 5.0-1487. The problem is, using that specific version of development brings the freezes. Using the most current version of Dolphin brings the freezes as well.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I'm not sure. The loading screen one seems pretty easy to keep testing, however they never were repeated freezes except one. During a cutscene when the player first meets the Harvest Goddess, she shows the player a picture of the Bells. The game froze twice on that screen, and I had to reload my save 3 times to get through it. The other freezes were never the "same" loading screen, or the same event.

Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?

5.0 - No freezes.
5.0-1487 - Fixes earlier mentioned graphical glitch, but has Freezes.
5.0-4698 - Fixes earlier mentioned graphical glitch, but has Freezes.

What are your PC specifications?

i7-4790 @ 3.60GHz
GTX 980 Ti
Windows 10 Pro
16GB RAM
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB