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Well, I'm just assuming it's the same as in Resident Evil 1, Wii Edition, where it was looked into and they were erroneously turning it on. Sure, i haven't checked into why on this one to know for sure.

I can confirm it adds no subtle effects, only slowdowns. Also, it's only used when showing Leon at a close-up in the opening cutscene. It looks exactly the same with bounding box on and off.

Was there something more than pure program simplification as a reason for removing the option? Seems not to look like it.

It was to catch things like this, really.

Hello,

I'm experiencing a weird issue that I think might be a Dolphin bug.


I'm on Mac OS 10.12.6. Playing Resident Evil 4 Wii edition, NTSC USA, RB4E08.

In Dolphin 5.0-6081, everything looks normal and the game works fine.




However, in anything after that, there's a big black bar that covers part of the actual game. Also, if you compare the two images, you'll notice the part that's showing appears to be very slightly stretched.

Dolphin 5.0-6084



It does it in game, as well -

Dolphin 5.0-6243



The black bar is there the entire time, even on that warning screen. No other Wii game I tested has this problem in either version. The Dolphin versions I tested all had the exact same settings, including the same screen settings and everything else. It seems to be exclusively limited to Resident Evil 4 Wii, at least since every game I tested worked fine.

Basically, up to 6081 = fine. 6084 and up = black bar. I tried googling for this problem but there's too many people complaining about Re4's normal black bars and didn't find anything. I tested the latest build as of this post (6274) and it also has the black bar.


Now, if you are playing RE4 Wii in 6084 and up, you can actually prevent the black bar by turning on "immediately present XFB" and the black bar will not appear. But this setting isn't needed in the older versions, and I can't find any place where anyone at all is saying that this setting is needed for Re4, so I sorta suspect that this fixing the black bar problem is just a side effect of turning immediately present XFB on, and that setting isn't actually needed for RE4.

It also doesn't make sense to me that something changed and somehow now that XFB setting is needed, but then again, I'm not an expert on Dolphin or Wii emulation.

So, maybe this is either a bug introduced in 6084? I notice that the change for 6084 is "Fix PAL vertical scaling", even though this is definitely the NTSC USA version I'm playing here, maybe somehow RE4 wii is doing something weird and getting caught up in the PAL scaling fix?


edit: Just wanted to mention I played around a lot with various video settings and nothing fixed it. The problem also occurs in the software renderer.


edit again - so, hmm. In the older dolphin versions (I tried this in 5.0-6081) if you turn "immediately present XFB" on then the black bar appears. So, 6081 and earlier - immediately present xfb on makes black bar appear, 6085 and later = immediately present xfb on fixes black bar. That can't be correct/expected behavior?

what I do with that stripe of colors that comes out in RE4 Wii with the dolpin-master version-5.0-10238-x64

I have a mayflash dolphin bar. 2 compatible wiimote plus, conneted in Samsung s10e in dex mode. I tested in usa and eu variants, but nothing. The crash is not lineal, i could play around 20 min, but when start to crash, starting again only let me play a few minutes. Restarting the device, re connect the dolphinbar and controllers help but no much.


In other games like ghost squad, wii sports, CoD, ... doesn't have this problem.

How i could put a log to investigate the problem?


Thanks

One thing to mention is the fact how sometimes the lag is loooooooooooooooooooooong. try doing 3.0 as you dont get the sound lagging

Anyone know of a code or something to unlock the extra modes from the start?

Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition - Green/purple bar at the bottom of the screen






Menus green, and in-game purple, as can be seen in the images. Only happening in this game it seems. Any ideas on what's causing them and how to eliminate them?

Dolphin 5.0-13792  
Vulkan backend(tried others as well)  
3x native resolution(tried native as well)