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I attached a ZIP containing 4 log outputs from R4356, R4357 and R4460 (regular
Dolphin, -d option): 3 attempts at starting Individual Festival mode, 1 attempt at
going to Party Games.

It seems to be compiling outdated code for some reason...

Seems to have been fixed between R5849 (5848 didn't work) and R5929. The PAL game is now working.

Please respond if this issue is still valid, or it will be closed.

I made one try on r6546 and it crashed with a "reading opcode from 0x00000000" sort of error message, AFAIK. I thought it was a regression.
However, I just retried with r5929 and I also got JIT freezing/hanging issues. I also retested r6546 and I can confirm the issues are the same (and sometimes as random) as in r5929... Weird... Here are some examples:

• starting Single Festival mode freezes the game (FPS drops to 0) AFTER the loading screen, with a black screen;
• starting Multiplayer Festival mode freezes the game (FPS drops to 0) not right after the loading screen, but right after selecting the No. of players.
• starting Winter games give different results: for example, some games such as Figure Skating go in-game fine until the "initial score table" is closed with the A button (before playable characters are loaded?)

So it seems the PAL game (still) has different JIT issues... :/

Issue 2470 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 2262 has been merged into this issue.

I have tried it in R7310 and it is still not working. Ingame menus work fine with OpenGL, but when you choose a game, it crashes. If you start it with D3D plugin, you only see some parts of the menu.

I'm running Windows XP Pro x86, with the PAL version of the game.

I have tested about 20 builds of revisions after r4356 (4357, 4460, 4525, 4632, 4800, 5015, 5284M, 5430M, 5692, 5847M, 5929, 6085, 6215, 6490, 6601, 6886, 7036, 7283, 7328 and 7451M).
Since these builds all failed to get to "Party Games" under normal conditions (no code cache clearing, no savestates), it should be safe to assume that the only revision that affected/changed the main issue is r4357...

What may the issue come from? What about the assumption that games should call "icbi" when code in memory is modified? (I dunno...)

Maybe it's not related but menus work in d3d11 (r7550 and 3.0), but in d3d9 you can see intro movie. Anyway, once ingame, when you select game, level loads, and when you click A to start, game crashes.

Tested in r7714. Once ingame when you select sport and character and level loads, it gives this warnings before Dolphin crashes.

• Backpatch: Currently only supporting reads. Attempt to write to 40b00034.
• Backpatch write - not trough EAX.

DmitriPilot3, try putting the dcbz hack back in and retrying the game:

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/diff?spec=svnb843378636c118d2e88a25e3e0661f07529af1f4&r=b843378636c118d2e88a25e3e0661f07529af1f4&format=side&path=/Source/Core/Core/Src/PowerPC/Interpreter/Interpreter_LoadStore.cpp

DimitriPilot3, please test out the game with the PowerPC branch:

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=cb2c55cd267d0c2d1a67873493e1d2413f7b4559&name=PowerPC

From what I remember (since the time I tested with the dcbz hack and other various stuff), so far nothing I had tried has affected this issue positively. Using your hack in the "PowerPC" branch resulted in the same crashing as with "master". To me, the game likely suffers from the same issue as issue 3165, but not with the same memory addresses.

Recently, I was inspired (from comwiz's test idea) to write "assertions" in Read_Opcode_JIT() to check if the contents in RAM are the same as in iCache and in the JIT cache. As a result, using the attached patch applied to "master", I see that the problem is within the JIT cache (not the iCache) at addresses starting with [816xxxxx]. Quick log to show this: http://pastebin.com/HKT090Sn
(all lines but the first one are a result from loading "Ice Hockey" in Single Player mode, which only crashes once I try to get past the 1st match's VS screen, despite all those previous "Opcode mismatch" lines)

Still, I don't really know why these mismatches occur and why they aren't fixed before execution. Is the time span between the writing of an instruction and its execution small enough? Does the JIT block remain valid somehow? Does a certain function just not have enough checks? ...

The easiest way to take the JIT cache out of the equation is to run the game in interpreter mode. The interpreter now uses the same icache code as the JIT so that will be a pretty good test.

Hey! dolphin just fixed this problem!!
Now we just wait the that revision out

When I try to use r5849 and r5929 , it still crashes.........

just synch from master 3.0.71-dirty. got this error still
https://min.us/mCa8RRmCV

When I run this game in interpreter mode, I just got a black screen............

Oh yeah! Great Job! =D

The fix is in 3.0-161: http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/download.html

This issue was closed by revision c0498ca8314e.