Project

General

Profile

Actions

Emulator Issues #13215

open

Saving Issue in Metroid Prime 3 (TAS)

Added by MaskedTAS about 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
% Done:

0%

Operating system:
N/A
Issue type:
Bug
Milestone:
Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
Regression start:
Fixed in:

Description

Game Name?

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Game ID?

RM3E01

MD5 Hash?

6a6fc8eb6873f80c5d240b0e89f8518c

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.

I'm currently trying to record inputs for Metroid Prime 3 on 5.0-19002. There's an issue that can happen where if I want to enter a save station or the battleship the menu doesn't pop up and I'm softlocked.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

The weird thing is that it doesn't always happen but when it happens once it will always happen from that point on. If I reload a previous Save State where the issue isn't prevalent yet, I'm able to save/enter the ship.
The only known fix I know of is playing from power on to finish, without loading a save state in between. The problem is that Prime 3 is prone to desyncs, and having to watch the whole run every time when trying to continue a full-game TAS to see if I got a desync seems very impractical.

Is the issue present in the latest development version? For future reference, please also write down the version number of the latest development version.

Probably yes, I'm TASing on 5.0-19002

Is the issue present in the latest stable version?

Probably yes, I tried this on 13178 and 17243 and it happened on both

What are your PC specifications? (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
OS: Windows 10

Is there anything else that can help developers narrow down the issue? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files, savefiles, savestates)

A fix someone recommended me is to save before the softlock, restart dolphin, then play input recording (last dtm) then load that save. This doesn't work in my case.

In the following video, I'm entering the ship at 23 seconds. The ship music is playing but I get a black screen and can't do anything. I enable wire frames at 28 seconds to show that the ship is (partially?) loaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKyvveLeMWQ

When trying to save, it looks like this
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/698756361801957386/1085540121799049216/RM3E01_2023-03-15_13-27-20.png?width=1088&height=609
instead of this
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/698756361801957386/1085548066553212978/RM3E01_2023-03-15_13-59-50.png?width=1088&height=609

Actions #1

Updated by JosJuice about 1 year ago

  • Subject changed from Saving Issue in Metroid Prime 3 to Saving Issue in Metroid Prime 3 (TAS)
Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF