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Game Name?
Cabela's African Adventures

Game ID?
SQAE52

What went wrong?
Hangs upon entering gameplay

What did you expect to happen instead?
Stability.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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detailed as possible.]

1. Launch game
2. Choose Galleries and enter gameplay

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?
4.0-127

Which version of Dolphin used to work?
n/a

What are your PC specifications (example: Operating System, CPU and GPU)?
Win 8 x64, Nvidia 660, Intel Sandy bridge

64 or 32 bit Operating System?
64

64 or 32 bit Dolphin?
64

Any other relevant information (e.g. logs, screenshots, configuration
files)
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I tried altering all the [Core] settings and it still froze every time. Tried all gfx backends and various gfx settings. I tried getting some output, but nothing showed up in the console/logger, despite my log configuration. Not sure what I'm missing there.

To clarify, entering gameplay in Galleries. Looks like Story mode is slightly more stable, but only in OpenGL, and even then it'll still hang after moving forward for a few seconds half the time.

Anyway, I've spent hours tonight troubleshooting this, toggling every setting possible and trying various builds. Thankfully I tracked this down and funny enough it actually started a few days ago (just my luck). Let me know if you need anything else on this!

4.0-321 and lower = perfect
4.0-322 = hangs on boot screens (very unstable)
4.0-323-324 = perfect
4.0-325+ = hangs in gameplay

Revision that broke it:
http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=954be9e2d9bfca8b33ac1cb36d3226bf2555f2c1