Emulator

Game: Mario Kart Double Dash - GM4E01

Sometimes (About 50% for me) the characters you choose will be severely darkened when using OpenGL or D3D9. I tried messing with the texture cache and EFB Settings.

Not sure, but this may be related to - code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6169 where there is a similar darkened character problem in the two back-ends.

Here is comparison screenshots

http://i.imgur.com/fqXcQ8T.jpg

Reproducing this is relatively easy, just select any characters (I find Wario to trigger it the most) and go into a race. If it doesn't happen, try again. Using 2/4 player increases your chances of it happening because it happens per viewport. It can happen in one player, though.

I tested this is 3.0, 3.5 and 3.5-1251. This has always happened to my knowledge.

Here's a Fifolog to make seeing the issue easier - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8ubm4gjmb4fwr2b