Emulator

Ok, now I found out (these absurd revision numbers are driving me crazy), there were two revisions with the same description, so it is definitely as follows: intro works on Revision c0dd84cf7d04 (3.0-71) and intro gets stuck on Revision 11933bf6b5fd (3.0-77).

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"Strangely I cannot find r3.0-77 http://www.emucr.com/2011/09/dolphin-git-30-77.html on the changes description of the master branch...I think it should be there but there isn't and I don't know why because it should be an "official" master release (according to Mamario's site too), anyway the revision number on the exe is 11933bf6b5fdc23e28d15cf99959f18c0951f210"
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"and intro gets stuck on Revision 11933bf6b5fd (3.0-77)."

11933bf6b5fdc23e28d15cf99959f18c0951f210 == 11933bf6b5fd

you can paste the revision hash into the url and go right to the commit:
http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=11933bf6b5fd
http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=11933bf6b5fdc23e28d15cf99959f18c0951f210

both work

Also, I just played this game on the latest master and did not have any issue with this cutscene...considering you filed another issue I'm unable to reproduce, I am thinking either emucr's builds are crazy, or your setup is somewhat borked.

Try with the latest build from our website.

hatarumo is not the only one who got the DSI Exception. I too experienced it. After the introduction and the fight with the mechon when you take control of the main character the game just freezes and FPS drop to 0. When trying to load the a save game after the battle to get the Mechon M71 part when i start to engage a new battle with one of the other enemies it still freezes when pressing the attack button. The game works perfectly with builds until 3.0-76, which is the last build before I started to experiece these crashes and the dark sky textures.
My PC specs are:
AMD Phenom II 555 Black Edition, Windows XP SP3 32bit, nVidia Geforce GTX460.
Here is what shows in the log after the game freezes:
30:15:375 Src\PowerPC\Interpreter\Interpreter_LoadStore.cpp:208 N[PowerPC]: DSI exception in lmw
30:15:375 Src\PowerPC\Interpreter\Interpreter_LoadStore.cpp:228 N[PowerPC]: DSI exception in stmw

Are you also using some build from emucr?

No. I only use the builds that are on the Dolphin official site. The build from which i took the log is Dolphin 3.0 Git 179 (the latest).

:/ Maybe they are XP and/or 32bit issues then...

Probably. I hope that this issue will be fixed when the devs have time to check it.

These are the changes from r3.0-71 to r3.0-77 that may have caused the issue:

Dolphin Git changelog:

• disable ltcg for release build
• vs2010: Disable LTCG for realz
• Fix various cases in scissor rect emulation.
  Patch by delroth.
• apply to dx9 and dx11 backends as well
• Merge some scissor rect related code to VideoCommon.
• Merge branch 'scissoring-fixed'
  Fixes various cases in scissor rect emulation. This should fix glitches in various games, right now it's only known to (partially) fix Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings.
  Fix by delroth, port to D3D9/11 by godisgovernment, cleanup by me.

P.S. maybe issue 4906 and 4926 should be merged togheder because they're probably related to the same changes in the code?

It exist a solution in order to see the cutscene of the begining with the latest revision of Dolphin. You just have to disable Dual Core mode in Config. The game will run slowly but you'll see the cutscene, after that, you can always re-activate it.

It's not a solution because if you re-activate it you get DSI exceptions in-game as well