Emulator

Just checked and I am using the PAL version.

I'm having the same issue and would also like to know what to do, anybody that can help?

Not that anyone has taken any interest in this issue but I'm also not sure if it is the place to ask for help either. I'm not bagging you out, I am just not sure of the rules. Probabyl the best place place for discussion if you are not a dev is the forums, however if you have the time you could try to produce debug logs of what happens when the game is running and post it here.

This may help the devs take interest in this issue. I would do it myself but I've been super busy recently, Working and getting married etc...

There have been various gfx fixes recently, is this still an issue?

Yes it's still an issue, I posted about it to the game discussion thread the other day when I was at work and someone else checked, but I've just checked right now with mamarios 3.0-147 which is 2 revisions ago from the master branch and still have the same problems.

I've just tried it again for the first time in a while, this time on v3.0-415, mamarios build. You can now see the textures however they aren't right exactly, saturation looks blown out and transparency can be seen on the overlapping edges of each layer.

Also, something has caused in game problems, where you fall through the floor where ever you are placed and die repeatedly.

The last thing you mentioned sounds like a PPC emulation problem, could you do some regression testing to find out what commit caused that behavior?

It happened somewhere between here: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=dabb35afce2539b312935d2fcfe264018d24dbec&name=master and here: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=0bbb112298ebd3af09f5717e632414f70f3b3cc6

Uhm, possible revision ea2e0e90633535112c95e999634b1bb1111a98bd then? I don't think any of my texcache related commits would cause that.

This is kinda unrelated to the actual issue, but CCing skid anyway...

Cool, I'm just glad it only happened recently, I was not looking forward to going back to find it. Incorrect Texture/Shading issue still stands but colours are wrong. Gameplay is another problem...

So do you think the texcache branch somewhat fixed the textures but this other issue was introduced by skids commit? Is there any other info you need that I haven't provided?

Realising the numbering structure of mamarios builds I now beleive that the texture issue was introduced/"fixed" from a commit within the texcache-preload branch. I'll go back tonight and test each build from 413 back to 410 to find it. I'll also check to see if the fall-through-floor was present in 409.

We are most interested in the fall through floor issue TBH, as it's more likely PPC related than gfx.

Righto, so when I find out should I create a new issue or just report my findings here?

Here is adequate, skidau is watching anyway.

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=eb01a110c9573ae0e822eefd3cc8c58d92774588 helped this texture issue along a bit.

Could you provide a FIFO log of one frame in the game where the issue is visible?

Is this what you mean? It's for the textures right?

Can I go to a previous build to make this work?

You're welcome to test, but You may have to back around release of 2.0 But if you read above, it's kind of pointless as that fall through the floor thing has always happened - to the best of my knowledge.

"It's for the textures right?"

It records all graphics, it records the gfx pipeline basically.

Ah I see, so is the file uploaded above acceptable then or will I need to do it again?

@Just wanted to check parlane, was that file any help? I've just tested the latest revision and the issue is still there, it happens in all video backends including software so I guess it is PPC related - not that I know what I'm really talking about.

The file is okay. Just needs someone to actively work on the issue :p

Fwiw, sure that the software backend is affected? From my limited testing it seemed as if the software backend was doing fine apart from minor issues. It at least didn't have as bad saturation as the hw renderers.

Yeah, it seems the software backend has less saturation, it's below what I would say is normal. It's like DX9,11 and OGL are too bright and software is too dark. The falling through the floor issue remains, so still unplayable. I am currently testing on 3.5-78. Will have to check the latest revs.

Here is a comparison screenshot between Dolphin and the Wii:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/88961

Just wondering, is it possible this issue is related to lighting attenuation? I tried PR#1941-latest but there was no difference.

Pull Request 4598 allows us to record this glitch in fifologs, hopefully will lead to this bugs eventual demise.