Paper Mario TTYD crashes at beginning of chapter 5, help?

[kdawn1212]

I am new to Dolphin, so I'm hoping I can get some help on here. I've been playing Paper Mario TTYD for the last few days and recently I've gotten to a point where it seems to make Dolphin crash. It's always the same point, at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Mario is on the ship and it becomes surrounded by pirate ghosts. Right after Flavio yells, "Forget that! Make a path!," Dolphin crashes and I get a message from my Mac saying "Dolphin quit unexpectedly".

I'm using Dolphin 3.0-201 on my Mac OS X 10.7.1; I've tried using 3.0-199, limiting FPS to 25, and changing the CPU emulator engine to "interpreter" and "JITIL experimental recompiler" with no luck. I don't really know what to do or anything to try. Any advice?

[mbc07]

Are you using EFB Copy to RAM? Also, try disabling Bounding Box calculation to pass through this cutscene (don't forget to enable it back, because Paper Mario TTYD will have various GFX issues without this)...

[kdawn1212]

Are you using EFB Copy to RAM? Also, try disabling Bounding Box calculation to pass through this cutscene (don't forget to enable it back, because Paper Mario TTYD will have various GFX issues without this)...

I don't know much about Dolphin, so how would I know if I'm using EFB copy to RAM? and how do I disable Bounding Box calculation?

[LordVador]

Are you using EFB Copy to RAM? Also, try disabling Bounding Box calculation to pass through this cutscene (don't forget to enable it back, because Paper Mario TTYD will have various GFX issues without this)...

I don't know much about Dolphin, so how would I know if I'm using EFB copy to RAM? and how do I disable Bounding Box calculation?

EFB Copies to RAM : Look into Graphics/Hacks/EFB Copies
Disable Bounding Box : Click right on your game/Properties/Uncheck the option if necessary

[KHRZ]

At that point I too had crashes, after a some tries it randomly worked. This was around ~r2000 though. (If you can't fix it hope for luck?)

[kdawn1212]

Are you using EFB Copy to RAM? Also, try disabling Bounding Box calculation to pass through this cutscene (don't forget to enable it back, because Paper Mario TTYD will have various GFX issues without this)...

I don't know much about Dolphin, so how would I know if I'm using EFB copy to RAM? and how do I disable Bounding Box calculation?

EFB Copies to RAM : Look into Graphics/Hacks/EFB Copies
Disable Bounding Box : Click right on your game/Properties/Uncheck the option if necessary

Mine says EFB Copies to Texture. Should I change it to RAM?

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Now I'm apparently having a separate problem. I tried unchecking the box for Bounding Box and it did not work, I also changed EFB Copies to RAM and that didn't work either. Now, when I try to open the game, it goes to the main screen and closes. When I click on reopen, it asks me if I want to restore Windows. If I click Restore Windows, it says "wxWidgets Debug Alert: Externals/wxWidgets3/src/osx/cocoa/evtloop.mm(216): assert "Assert failure" failed in DoDispatchTimeout(): unkown response code Do you want to stop the program? You can also choose [Cancel] to suppress further warnings"

If I press Yes, it says Scanning for ISOs for a few seconds and then Dolphin closes again. If I press No, it goes to the screen where I can open Paper Mario.

The only way I can seem to open Paper Mario without it immediately crashing is to go to Open and then click on the ISO from there.

Any advice?

[mbc07]

Try purging your ISO cache (delete the folder User\Cache, inside Dolphin's root directory). If it doesn't work, Delete your config files (delete the folder User\Config) and reopen Dolphin (you'll need to set up Dolphin again after doing that)...

[kdawn1212]

Thanks for everyone's help...it seems to be working now, I downloaded an older version (r7719 specifically) and it made it past the point where it used to crash.