Along the top of the screen, each team's score display also features a thin bar with one half of the Golden Snitch. These cards are earned by completing certain tasks, such as winning without conceding a goal or performing a certain number of steals in a game. New abilities can also be unlocked by collecting certain Quidditch cards.
special moves and combo moves are unavailable in the first game. The Chasers' abilities depend on which challenges have been completed, e.g. Completing that challenge unlocks the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup final match.ĭuring a Quidditch match, the player controls the Chasers who try and score goals with the Quaffle to earn 10 points per goal. Winning the second game unlocks the final challenge. Winning the first game chosen unlocks the next set of challenges which must then be completed to unlock the next match.
Completing the first set of challenges unlocks the ability to play a full Quidditch match. Only the first three challenges - Passing, Tackle and Shoot, and Seeker - are initially available to the player, with Beaters and Bludgers, and Special Moves unlocked after the first Quidditch match, and Combos unlocked after the second match. Each is led by a relevant player – for example, Harry leads the Gryffindor Seeker challenge, while Angelina Johnson leads the Gryffindor Passing challenge and Oliver Wood leads the Gryffindor Combo challenge. There are six House challenges: Passing, Tackle and Shoot, Seeker, Beaters and Bludgers, Special Moves, and Combos. These challenges focus on specific areas of a full Quidditch game and are used to learn the game for new players, or polish skills as a returning player.
If this is the player's first time playing a team, the character will give a short statement praising the player's selection, then the house challenges appear. When the player chooses a team, the Seeker of the chosen House flies off on a broomstick. Each House team is represented by its Seeker, and each Seeker is a specific character from the books (Harry Potter for Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy for Slytherin, Cedric Diggory for Hufflepuff, and Cho Chang for Ravenclaw). In this stage, the player competes for the Hogwarts Inter-House Quidditch Cup for one of the Hogwarts house teams – Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin. Other characters make appearances in the stands and elsewhere, such as Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Rolanda Hooch and Albus Dumbledore.
Meanwhile, Ludo Bagman returns as play-by-play commentator for international matches, with a set of color commentators. Other House team and national team members not named in the books are named in this game, and their names are also listed on Chocolate Frog cards in the Half-Blood Prince video game.Īs in the first three books, Lee Jordan returns as play-by-play commentator for the House Quidditch Cup matches, but unique to this game, Harry and Ron's dorm-mate Seamus Finnegan joins as color commentator. The graph below charts the compatibility with Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.Hogwarts House team rosters are based on Harry's third year ( Prisoner of Azkaban). This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Some releases, including 4.0-7788, may crash displaying: "Warning: Invalid read from 0x3639008c, PC = 0x800ceef4".
The game may freeze/hang for extended periods of time, including loading the initial menu. Dolphin's automatic heuristic doesn't work in this title: you must manually set 16:9 in the graphics settings menu. Using the widescreen hack with this title is not recommended. Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup has a native 16:9 display option, but it requires enabling it in its internal options and setting Dolphin's Aspect Ratio graphics setting to "Force 16:9".