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Sorry if I misunderstood by closing the last one, I thought the response meant that it was working.

I just played through the intro and everything worked perfectly I'm past Bowser's Castle talking to the Merlin guy.

I've 100%'d this game in Dolphin before. So, I'm fairly familiar with the quirks. My buest guess is that you have no discrete graphics card and Intel's default is doing something wrong.

JMC4789 wrote:

Sorry if I misunderstood by closing the last one, I thought the response meant that it was working.

No worries, I just want to know how to solve my issue so I can have some fun. :)

JMC4789 wrote:

I just played through the intro and everything worked perfectly I'm past Bowser's Castle talking to the Merlin guy.

I've 100%'d this game in Dolphin before. So, I'm fairly familiar with the quirks. My buest guess is that you have no discrete graphics card and Intel's default is doing something wrong.

So was unchecking EFB2TEXT forcing EFB2RAM?

Yeah, but that's set by default; so unless you were overriding the settings already, it should work.

Can you try using OpenGL + Single Core to get through the scene, maybe it will work there? Note: I don't really trust dualcore at all in Dolphin.

JMC4789 wrote:

Yeah, but that's set by default; so unless you were overriding the settings already, it should work.

Can you try using OpenGL + Single Core to get through the scene, maybe it will work there? Note: I don't really trust dualcore at all in Dolphin.

I'm actually fairly new to setting up Dolphin's Configuration Settings. I've set it to OpenGL, but how do I set it to Single Core?

Uncheck "Enable Dual Core".

EDIT: Never mind, I found the setting. It still hangs, but turning off Dual Core made my game faster, if that helps with anything. :/

that's actually good to hear that it's not a dualcore bug.

But, now I assume it's just Intel GPU problems. If anyone else could verify, that'd be great.

JMC4789 wrote:

that's actually good to hear that it's not a dualcore bug.

But, now I assume it's just Intel GPU problems. If anyone else could verify, that'd be great.

I doubt it would have to do with my graphics card, I can run games much bigger than Super Paper Mario without any kind of situation like this happening. Such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

That is irrelevant. Super Paper Mario uses a very specific feature, namely, bounding box, which is very tricky to emulate. If it's acting improperly, bounding box effects could possibly crash or freeze the emulator or game.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is very very vanilla when it comes to a game, I'm pretty sure most android devices can render it properly.

JMC4789 wrote:

That is irrelevant. Super Paper Mario uses a very specific feature, namely, bounding box, which is very tricky to emulate. If it's acting improperly, bounding box effects could possibly crash or freeze the emulator or game.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is very very vanilla when it comes to a game, I'm pretty sure most android devices can render it properly.

So if it is my GPU, is there ANYTHING I could do to run the game?

Can you look up what Intel HD GPU you have? I think I may have a lead on what is wrong.

For what it's worth, you can try using 4.0-5124 or lower (maybe 4.0.2) and deal with the graphical glitches which come with it.

This wiki entry should explain the situation more: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door#Problems_When_Using_Older_Graphics_Cards

Fog wrote:

For what it's worth, you can try using 4.0-5124 or lower (maybe 4.0.2) and deal with the graphical glitches which come with it.

This wiki entry should explain the situation more: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door#Problems_When_Using_Older_Graphics_Cards

So, I'll have to deal with graphical glitches, but the hanging should go away?

4.0-5124 shouldn't have glitches, but is slower, 4.0.2 is faster but has glitches.