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Just to clarify: CPU->EFB Acces and Copy EFB to Texture are 2 different things, as far as I concern...

Anyway... never played it, but it's good to hear some game that has never been worked on, working like that =)... It's just like Fifa 2010 South Africa World Cup, for Wii, which, as far as I know, has never been worked on by the devs and the only thing missing in the game is the sound on HLE (but lle ok)...

You would think they are the same thing, maybe a bug
but from what i seen in the code its not.
just a different way of saying "let CPU copy the EFB to texture access"
remember, you can also copy it to ram, which would be CPU access as well.

Regardless, the two options are in different places, and do the same thing
in fact, one replaces the other in the Properties list for games.

which to me just says its supposed to be the same thing.

You can see that "Enable CPU -> EFB Access" is really different from "Copy EFB to RAM" by playing SMG... You'll notice that with CPU > EFB thing you can touch the stars in the domes, for example... While even with EFB set to Copy to Ram you can't do that...

Now, if you're referring to those EFB options on game properties, saying that there's no point of having these options on properties and also in the graphics plugin... well... there's a point... that's for profiling the games so you don't have to reconfigure the emulator everytime you're emulating a different game...

@frango0010
no, just no, i didnt say that at all.
in fact i think game profiling is incomplete at this time.
Also if you notice, one of those options you just listed isnt in configuration
but ONLY in game properties, read each one carefully, theres 3 types, not 2 as
you are stating.

go to dolphin, read each one carefully please.

Fine, so what settings did you actually change now?
Have you enabled EFB access?
Have you enabled EFB copies to texture OR EFB copies to Ram OR did you disable EFB copies altogether?

In other words: With which settings does it work but which settings break it? And please mind the terminology, efb access indeed is sth else than efb copies. Also, you usually shouldn't mess around in the game properties unless you know what you're doing (the options are all accessible in the normal video config as well, the game properties is only there to tune the settings for each game).

Ah, he's right. The "blackness" goes away if you disable EFB Copy altogether (no Texture, no RAM).
However, there are quite a few other gfx glitches ingame.

Issue 5637 has been merged into this issue.

Uh, so using EFB to RAM and unchecking "ignore format changes", is this issue in particular resolved now?

@NeoBrainX
Honestly, im not certain, mid 2011 is about the last time I have used Dolphin.
There was just too much jumping around in the DEV and it was a big mess.
Although im told its better now I have no desire to play Wii.

I would hope (this post was in 2010) that its fixed now, if not they have bigger issues
then they used to.