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Emulator Issues #7553

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Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune give "corrupt save" error

Added by scizor2120 over 10 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
% Done:

0%

Operating system:
N/A
Issue type:
Bug
Milestone:
Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
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Description

Game Name?

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune

Game ID?

Jeopardy: SJPE78
Wheel of Fortune:SFTE78

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong in few words.

Both Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune cannot properly read save files.

What did you expect to happen instead?

The game should correctly read the save files.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Step 1) Start either Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune
Step 2) Wait through the intro screens
Step 3) Get to the main menu
Step 4) The game is softlocked.
Step 5) Stop emulation
Step 6) Start Emulation again
Step 7) Wait through the intro screens
Step 8) Press A to get to main menu
Step 9) You will receive an error about the game being unable to read {GameTitle}

Dolphin 3.5 and 3.5-367 are old versions of Dolphin that have
known issues and bugs, so don't report issues about them and test the
latest Dolphin version first.
Which versions of Dolphin did you test on?

R7307 with DX11
dolphin-master-4.0-2474-x64 with DX11

Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which
versions of Dolphin used to work?

No version solved this issue

What are your PC specifications? (including, but not limited to: Operating
System, CPU and GPU)

Intel Core i7 4770k
12GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon 7950 3GB
Windows 7 X64

Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)

Pictures

http://i.imgur.com/0Xli4Bd.png
http://imgur.com/ViSh4ol

Fifo
http://www.mediafire.com/download/v8nmbtmk0gcqdeu/jeopardy.dff

Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy exhibit the same issue. I am just assuming that both games are broken for the same reason.

Actions #2

Updated by JMC4789 about 10 years ago

Is there any change in behavior?

Actions #3

Updated by scizor2120 about 10 years ago

Just checked with 4.0-3685. No change in behavior at all.

Actions #4

Updated by JMC4789 about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Accepted
Actions #6

Updated by scizor2120 almost 10 years ago

No change in behavior with these two games has occurred.

I used 4.0-5072, 4.0-4905, and 4.0-552. There was no difference in observable behavior with either game. I tested it multiple tests with 4.0-5072.

I make sure to fully delete the save folder before each test. The entire folder that contains the save files is deleted fully.

Actions #7

Updated by mimimi almost 10 years ago

Can you post a log file for this? Delete the dolphin.log file, and set Dolphin to log everything to file, with the verbosity of warning, play the game, and upload the dolphin.log file.

I can't do anything with this info, but maybe somebody else can.

Actions #8

Updated by scizor2120 almost 10 years ago

Here is a log file made during the Wheel of Fortune softlock.

Actions #10

Updated by parlane almost 10 years ago

Can you provide the log for the next stage, after the softlock. The softlock appears to be because it fails to launch the wii main menu.

Actions #11

Updated by scizor2120 almost 10 years ago

There is a second softlock that occurs when this screen appears http://imgur.com/ViSh4ol if one hits "Delete File". Here is a log from that event.

I attached another log file that occurs when one hits "Continue without saving/loading" .

I have no idea what the deal with these games is.

Actions #12

Updated by parlane almost 10 years ago

One of the files is 0 bytes :(

Actions #13

Updated by scizor2120 almost 10 years ago

I didn't understand how this file upload system operates, and did not realize I needed to keep the file locally until the actual post has been saved.

I thought when I attached it, it would attached.

Actions #14

Updated by parlane almost 10 years ago

I believe that is an issue with webbrowsers not the site itself :)

Actions #15

Updated by parlane almost 10 years ago

It looks annoyed that there is no system menu installed.

Actions #17

Updated by scizor2120 almost 10 years ago

After about an hour of messing with that guide and other guides, I think I managed to install a clean system nand to Dolphin. Note that I still received identical softlocks while using the NAND from my actual Wii from 2010.

I launched from the emulated system menu for the heck of it. It didn't actually make a difference in behavior.

Actions #18

Updated by lpfaint99 almost 10 years ago

something is wacky with Wheel of Fortune.
The legal text in the opening screens doesn't match what shows on the real console.
http://imgur.com/a/tqxBM

I can get the screens from the console if it would help, it contains actual copyright text.

importing a save made on the console loads the game.

Dolphin correctly creates most of the save's header block (first 0x60 of Wheel.dat) There is a missing u32 at 0xC-0xF

The rest of the file (starting at 0x60) is all null created by dolphin.
But the file created by the wii has content for the first 0x7B4 bytes

Actions #19

Updated by JMC4789 almost 10 years ago

Is it possible this is anti-piracy???

Actions #20

Updated by lpfaint99 almost 10 years ago

I'm uncertain.

I do not know at this point where things go wrong,
The call to CWII_IPC_HLE_Device_FileIO::Write(u32 _CommandAddress)
points to the a memory location that is null for all 0x53ba0 bytes that it is writing.

Searching in ram I found another memory location with the correct content for the save.

By switching those addresses through the debugger, it correctly creates the file,
but of course that doesn't identify the root cause or how to fix it.

Actions #21

Updated by JMC4789 over 8 years ago

I finally got Jeopardy, and I can say that the problem isn't that the save can't be read, but it's never saving. From the moment it loads it's unable to read/write to the NAND, it's pretty crazy spamming the same message over and over again.

Actions #22

Updated by JMC4789 over 8 years ago

I uh, played around in 4.0-9390 and it loaded the save despite error messages.

Can this be closed, or is Wheel of Fortune still broken?

Actions #23

Updated by JMC4789 almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to Fixed

Both games were working when I tested this for Wii Speak.

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