Skate

Skate
Developer(s)	EA Black Box
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Skate
Release date(s)	NA September 24, 2007 EU October 5, 2007 AU October 11, 2007
Release type	Console exclusive
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer
GameID(s)	BLES00124 (IRD), BLJM60070, BLUS30059 (IRD)
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Skate (stylized as skate.) is a skateboarding video game that delivers the feel of skating through innovative controls, authentic cameras and a fully reactive skateboarding city. The game features professional skaters such as Danny Way and PJ Ladd, as well as a reactive city and relevant in-game cameras. Skate's unique control scheme captures the true feel of skating versus the typical button mashing gameplay of past skating games.

The game's "flick it" control system began development long before any graphics had been implemented i.e. the initial prototype simply read analogue stick motions and displayed a basic text message saying what trick had been performed, along with speed and accuracy ratings. The developers found that in order to receive accurate information from the very fast analogue stick motions used when playing the game, input data from each control pad had to be read at a rate of 120 Hz.

The game relies extensively on physics to model the skateboarders' movement. Havok, Endorphin and others were considered, but ultimately a RenderWare package called "Drives" was used to model the joints of the human body. Initially the development team planned to include the ability for the player to get off of the skateboard and walk around, but animating this proved to be too big a challenge for the team to handle. Similarly the developers also wanted players to be able to play as a girl but this was also discarded after proving tough to animate.

The demo released on PlayStation Network in September 2007. The demo let players skate around the San Vanelona Community Center for thirty minutes and learn how to do various tricks as well as create and edit videos.

Configuration

Options that deviate from RPCS3's default settings and provide the best experience with this title are listed below.

GPU configuration

Setting	Option	Notes
Write color buffers	On	Fixes dynamic lighting bloom

Known Issues

There are no reported issues with this title.

Special Notes

Patches

PPU-aa2202f2dd8cf47ef78a0ef4c1294892f1054b28:
  21:9 Aspect Ratio:
    Games:
      "Skate":
        BLES00124: [ 01.00 ]
    Author: tuukkas
    Notes: Users need to enable the "Stretch to Display Area" option in RPCS3 for this patch to work. HUD will be stretched.
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x010A34D4, 0x4002F1BD ]
  Disable Motion Blur:
    Games:
      "Skate":
        BLES00124: [ 01.00 ]
    Author: tuukkas
    Notes:
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x010A3774, 0 ]