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Just to clarify, using the same source and r6364, this game was working perfectly as of Dec. 09, 2010.

Would you please determine which version actually broke this game? Also, please remove the images as they do not tell us anything more than what your description does and the project space on google code is limited.

I cannot determine which version actually broke the game. I was using r6364 and had not updated in a few months. When I went to update on Mar. 28, 2011 to r7414 it did not work. I attempted to find old versions, such as r5618, to see if the problem existed in all versions.

Should I got through all the available Mac OS X builds available on the Dolphin site, (r7167 to r7430), to see if one works?

I'm using OSX as well and can confirm it doesn't work on any of the available OSX builds.

According to your testing, the culprit revision should be between r6365 and r6722.
That may not be much, but try using the earliest build (r6677) on this page: http://dolphin-mac.cdi76.com/?list=1

Also, does this issue only occur on OSX, or does it occur in other platforms (without projection hack)?

I tried r6677 from the link you provided and unfortunately the problem persists. I get great speeds, then it gets to the credit screen and is black. The options boxes show up (New Game, Continue, etc.) but there are no graphics. I have proceeded through picking a character and the same begins but the graphics never kick in.

I only own a Mac, so I have not tried it on any other platform than OS X.

Hi. I have the same problem as N.K.Donnelly (as well as stuck on OSX) so I'll just add my two cents in.

I just updated to the latest revision (r7506) just to see in the off chance that they managed to solve this problem, if only accidentally. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case again as the default settings once again failed me. Frustrated, I tried fiddling with the settings. Nothing I did to OpenGL changed anything. Frustrated, I decided to give up.

However, checking on the main settings of dolphin, I found that there is an alternative to OpenGL which is Software Renderer. Since I had nothing to lose, I tried it out and found out that it had horrible FPS (only around 6). However, to my surprise after hearing the opening music for 15 seconds, the opening video suddenly showed up! There's a delay of around 15 secs between the start of the music and the start of the video (which widens at it goes on) and FPS count decreased to almost 0 but still, it's there!

Hopefully, its a start of some progress around this issue.

I recently set up Boot Camp on my MacBook, and tried out the v 2.0 beta of Dolphin as well as some Windows builds. Harvest Moon: Magic Melody runs on the 2.0 beta with a bit of lag, but nothing insurmountable - it even runs at 90% intermittently!

The problem of no graphics, but functioning sound and controls, occurs in the Windows builds; I tried r7533, r7546 and r7526.

I hope this helps pin down the problem.

I got it working in r7547 for Win7 64bit. This fix still caused some issues, but hopefully it'll be some help regardless.

On a clean install, I changed the Video Backend to Direct3D11 (under config/display). Then I unchecked Ignore Format Changes (under graphics/hacks). My whole screen proceeded to go black, and I got two errors on my screen - one from my comp itself, and one that I believe was from Dolphin.

http://img6.imageshack.us/i/hmmmdolphin7547errora.jpg/

Dolphin stopped working and was forced to shut down, so I restarted and opened again. The black screen was gone; I could see both the menus and the background.

http://img839.imageshack.us/i/hmmmdolphin7547a.jpg/
http://img829.imageshack.us/i/hmmmdolphin7547b.jpg/

However, tried unchecking the Ignore Format Changes and Video Backend (to Open GL, have yet to try Direct3D9) and running, then switching back to the fix (Direct3D11 & checked Ignore Format Changes) and will occasionally get this error, coming up right after the nintendo screen.

http://img823.imageshack.us/i/hmmmdolphin7547errorb.jpg/

The second error is seemingly random, I have yet to find any way of surefire duplication. The first error happened both when I came across this fix on my regular install, and then again on the clean install I described above.

So it does work, albeit sloppily with random errors. Hopefully a better fix that doesn't cause errors can be found; error two wasn't a problem, but error one was especially worrisome.

Pardon my terminology then. OpenGL always has the black screen; the option to uncheck Ignore Format changes is greyed out under the OpenGL backend, and that's the only option that I've found that brings the graphics back - and I played with all that didn't have [EXPERIMENTAL] in the description before finding the unchecked Ignore Format Changes workaround.

Thank you for the info of the video driver crash bug, and my apologies; I just assumed it had something to do with the game, seeing as I had that crash both times before the black screen was gone.

After testing just now however, with r7552 (my current install), the Direct3D9 video backend, and an unchecked Ignore Format Changes, I was able to get the graphics with no video driver shutdowns. Checking Ignore Format Changes once again (leaving it on Direct3D9) the graphics once again disappear (sans menu).

I can test Direct3D9 on r7547 (something I did not do before) but I suspect that it would still work. The real catalyst seems to be the unchecked Ignore Format Changes, which OpenGL is incapable of.

Hope this is coherent enough to help find an actual fix. =)

I wanted to confirm that HM is working again in r7723. I'm also running 10.7. I'm guessing it has something to do with the GLSL stuff.

Thanks for the heads up! :)