I encountered this issue earlier today while feeling the urge to play through Star Fox Assault, after having beaten Star Fox Adventures yesterday... However, upon launching the game in Dolphin; I was only met with a black screen.
I was kinda stumped, I tried to fiffle with my local settings to get it solved. No such luck.
So I ended up googling this issue, and the most current search result was this reddit entry from 1 month ago: Star Fox Assault black screen
I'll share what I wrote in response to that entry down below now:
Okay, so I've been doing some troubleshooting for the last hour.
I've gone through the Dolphin-builds and isolated where the problem was introduced.
I can launch the Star Fox Assault [PAL] iso in Dolphin-build 5.0-5951 with perfect compatability.
Dolphin builds 5.0-5968*, and a couple of hundred after that one just crash immediately when trying to launch that iso.
On the current builds - 5.0-9589 as of writing - the game's window opens as a frozen black screen that has to be force quit. totally un-playable.
(I should probably write in a report on this "Star Fox Assault's PAL iso crashes on current dolphin builds" on some support forum, I guess.)
*The patch note for 5.0-5968 is; "Abstract Staging Textures - VideoCommon interface for texture readbacks/uploads" if that means anything...
I was kinda stumped, I tried to fiffle with my local settings to get it solved. No such luck.
So I ended up googling this issue, and the most current search result was this reddit entry from 1 month ago: Star Fox Assault black screen
I'll share what I wrote in response to that entry down below now:
Okay, so I've been doing some troubleshooting for the last hour.
I've gone through the Dolphin-builds and isolated where the problem was introduced.
I can launch the Star Fox Assault [PAL] iso in Dolphin-build 5.0-5951 with perfect compatability.
Dolphin builds 5.0-5968*, and a couple of hundred after that one just crash immediately when trying to launch that iso.
On the current builds - 5.0-9589 as of writing - the game's window opens as a frozen black screen that has to be force quit. totally un-playable.
(I should probably write in a report on this "Star Fox Assault's PAL iso crashes on current dolphin builds" on some support forum, I guess.)
*The patch note for 5.0-5968 is; "Abstract Staging Textures - VideoCommon interface for texture readbacks/uploads" if that means anything...