Hey, I am kind of having the same problem as you. My Super Mario Sunshine looks perfectly fine but my Wind Waker looks exactly like your Mario Sunshine. Everything in the distance is blurry and pixelated right?
I've been trying to find a solution too, I'll post it here if I ever find a way to solve it.
For your DX9 plugin question I'm not sure but my video card is DX 10.
Also, you said "The problem is much like The Zelda Windwaker problem you'd have throughout the game if there wasn't a Twilight Bloom Hack.", I tried Windwaker without bloom hack or EFB turned off on my friends laptop and it was all clear rather than blurry and pixelated like ours.
Right now I isolated some of the problem though. When I rolled back my ATI driver, the pixelated blur problem was gone completely w/o having to use Twilight hack or turn EFB off.
So maybe it could be ATI drivers that is conflicting with Dolphins? I'm not sure.
I'm going back home today and I will try it out on my PC and tell you if the problems are the same.
(I'm using the same revision that you're using)
edit: For Galaxy I haven't tried testing it yet.
-> Just tried out Mario Sunshine again on my laptop and it seems a bit pixelated from the heat wave effect blur. I can't tell if its the same as yours though but it looks normal (worser graphics than on the gamecube but doesn't seem like a glitch for mine)
I've been trying to find a solution too, I'll post it here if I ever find a way to solve it.
For your DX9 plugin question I'm not sure but my video card is DX 10.
Also, you said "The problem is much like The Zelda Windwaker problem you'd have throughout the game if there wasn't a Twilight Bloom Hack.", I tried Windwaker without bloom hack or EFB turned off on my friends laptop and it was all clear rather than blurry and pixelated like ours.
Right now I isolated some of the problem though. When I rolled back my ATI driver, the pixelated blur problem was gone completely w/o having to use Twilight hack or turn EFB off.
So maybe it could be ATI drivers that is conflicting with Dolphins? I'm not sure.
I'm going back home today and I will try it out on my PC and tell you if the problems are the same.
(I'm using the same revision that you're using)
edit: For Galaxy I haven't tried testing it yet.
-> Just tried out Mario Sunshine again on my laptop and it seems a bit pixelated from the heat wave effect blur. I can't tell if its the same as yours though but it looks normal (worser graphics than on the gamecube but doesn't seem like a glitch for mine)