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From the forums...

"Switching the texture cache slider while a cutscene updates the current cutscene frame to actually display. It'll be frozen on that frame until the next time the texture cache setting is changed. Rapidly swapping between "Safe" and "Fast" settings allows you to view the cutscene. The faster you swap between them the faster the framerate.

By default my screen flashes purple whenever I change this setting during a cutscene, so doing it rapidly causes annoying rapid purple flashing. Enabling "Immediately Present XFB" eliminates this purple flashing entirely."

Changing the "Disable EFB ram copies" on or off also updates the cutscene frame.

A 2 second transition to the title screen in 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de is also affected by this.

Videos in Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee are also affected, according to a forum post: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-gc-godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee--26944?pid=493854#pid493854

Sounds like video's in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian are also affected: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-night-at-the-museum-battle-of-the-smithsonian?pid=487186#pid487186

It looks like some videos in Power Rangers Samurai also stopped working properly in 5.0-4703.

I can get the FMV to play normally with software renderer, but not OpenGL, Vulkan or Direct3D 11.

This is still an issue as of 5.0-14388. However, on this same version of Dolphin, I observed that the first story cutscene in Sonic Riders would play the FMV normally while there were subtitles on the screen. The video starts frozen, but whenever subtitles are shown, the video cuts to where it should be at that point, plays normally for the duration of the subtiles, then freezes in place once the subtitles are gone. It repeats this pattern for all subtitles in the video. In other words, if subtitles were theoretically shown for 100% of the video, then it seems the video would play with no issues at all.

I haven't seen anyone report this before, and I thought it was interesting and worth reporting.

Emulator information:

Version: 5.0-14388
Backend: Vulkan
Adapter: GeForce RTX 2080

To add to what ubergeek posted, Metal Arms exhibits similar behaivor. The only fmvs that play are the loading screens and demo attract movie. The former have text overlayed that's data driven, the latter has "press start/insert controller" overlayed and flashing

If you spam the "HOME" button while a cutscenes are playing, it would goto the right frame that it should be at. If you spam the "HOME" button, the cutscene will work, only when you stop spamming the "HOME" button, it wouldn't work. In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, if you wait for the cutscenes to show up in the start screen, the cutscenes would work. We would need to find a way to update those frames for it to work.

Works in: OpenGL, Vulkan

In Sonic Riders Games GC/Wii, If it goto the "OPTIONS" menu, Control Settings, and change the control to a gamecube controller, it fixes the problem and you would be able to view all the cutscenes in story mode. (I can confirm that this works on the latest version of dolphin with OpenGL). Not sure why this happens, but it can help us figure out how to fix this problem.

So it turns out the Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity 4th player screen breaking is not a tmem regression. Currently bisecting.

I believe all regressions are fixed by 5.0-15294?

I can't speak for all the games on the list, but I can say that Tak is fixed.