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Game Name? Super Monkey Ball - Step and Roll

Game ID? SMBE8P (However for one reason or another, this shows the game as being a Gamecube title "Super Monkey Ball" in the wiki, which is incorrect).

What went wrong? The game initially runs fine, and the "Sega" logo comes up. You're then greeted by a screen where you are asked to "Press A", which should then lead you to the main menu. Upon pressing A, the screen turns black, FPS goes down to 0 and the game/Dolphin seize to function any longer. In older builds, this also produces a error message, which I have attached within the games thread on the Dolphin Forums: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-super-monkey-ball-step-roll--29741

What did you expect to happen instead? For this issue not to occur.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
[Don't assume we have played the game and know its level names. Be as
detailed as possible.]
Simply load up the game as above and the problem shall be replicated.

Dolphin 3.5 and Dolphin 3.5-367 are old versions of Dolphin that have
known issues and bugs. Have you tested with the latest version from
http://dolphin-emu.org/download ? Yes

Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Too many! The game stops working from build 3.0-436 and above.

Which version of Dolphin used to work? Build 3.0-433 and below

What are your PC specifications (example: Operating System, CPU and GPU)? Windows 7, Intel 4670k CPU, AMD 7950 GPU.

64 or 32 bit Operating System? x64

64 or 32 bit Dolphin? x64

Any other relevant information (e.g. logs, screenshots, configuration
files)
Build 3.0-433: The game runs fine.

Build 3.0-436: The game no longer works.

This is the next build following 3.0-433. The build says it "Fixes issue 2917 and possibly others like 5232". Ever since this implementation, the game has stopped functioning.

To clarify:

This game hasn't worked since build 3.0-436 on wards to the (current) latest Development build 4.0-296.

Build 3.0-433 and below are unaffected

I hope this is enough information to enable this issue to be looked into further. I'm obviously more than happy to help in any way possible. Many thanks in advance!