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Yeah the game crashes for me to but the crash is random for me.

I have exactly the same problem. The game worked perfectly until the Great Boogly Tree and then crashed while trying to enter the dungeon.

Versions: Dolphin 3.0-421 and 3.0-419

Experiencing the same issue, with Dolphin 3.0-415 on Win 7 x64.

Can anyone upload a save game? Also please find out which revision this started to occur in (somewhere between 3.0-188 to 3.0-415)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/34oo0t4609sz0o1/MemoryCardA.USA.raw

Here is the save file, you will though sadly have to walk to the great tree as I don't have a state saved. It's not far anyway.

Something in 3.0-413 r0bbb112298eb (texcache-preload branch) is causing this issue.

Here is a save state made using 3.0-413: http://www.mediafire.com/?ahj8arc42mrcfrk

Press A after loading the state to activate the bug.

It seems textcache-preload needs to have some features added in order to work properly with bounding box. If you check BPStructs.cpp, some of the registers changed by this merge were always thought to be related to bbox, although no one knew what relation they had to each other. This can be seen in revision 56ccfc5d9d4d .

Paper mario constantly accesses those regs, mainly during the parts where there are the x-nuts or punies appear.

I don't understand. I unchecked the bounding box on the game settings, and it still doesn't work when I enter the Tree. Is it absolutely necessary to use another save game? I kind of liked my own :(

it worked for me in 3.0-191, so I suggest you get that one from the archive and use it for Paper Maro. For the most part, you should be able to use your old settings.

But if I have to use the older Dolphin I will not be able to load my state from 458 right? It will have to be a downloaded save?

err... no? Just use your own save file. Save with a S-Block and copy your memory card file to the 3.0-191 memory card folder (User/GC, I believe). Alternatively, you could set your memory card path to the old one.

Oh I see! Sorry, started using dolphin today and am still learning how everything works! Thanks a lot!

Issue 5299 has been merged into this issue.

Turns out that Paper Mario has a few bugs in it. One of the bugs crashed Dolphin's TexPreload code. I have added a check for this condition (TMEM overflows) in rf30aebf8d7ba.

okay so i'm in the 100 trial tunnel my the thousand year door in the game i had to save
it in a document because i didn't want to lose my progress because as you know their are no save blocks in the tunnels so i died in the tunnel 91 so i used my save file and
went back to room 90 and i try going down the tunnel to room 91 and it keeps crashing same thing when i try to take the tunnel back up to the start what do i do D;

okay so i'm in the 100 trial tunnel my the thousand year door in the game i had to save
it in a document because i didn't want to lose my progress because as you know their are no save blocks in the tunnels so i died in the tunnel 91 so i used my save file and
went back to room 90 and i try going down the tunnel to room 91 and it keeps crashing same thing when i try to take the tunnel back up to the start what do i do D;