Majora's Mask: Bombers' Notebook Unimplemented write into Z buffer with Rice Video plugin.

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Describe your system:
 - Windows 7 (32 bit)
 - Mupen64Plus version: v1.99.4
 - Plugins used: Rice Video and standard input/audio plugins

For visual artifacts, give:
 - ZELDA MAJORA'S MASK (MD5: 2A0A8ACB61538235BC1094D297FB6556)
 - Missing screen, flashing sprites.

Describe the problem:

Viewing the Bombers' Notebook in Majora's Mask is broken with the Rice video 
plugin. When you select it from the menu, the "spinning cursors" and the help 
text at the bottem of the screen will flash, but nothing else will show up. The 
flashing will continue untill you close the Bombers's Notebook with the B 
button.

In the console, the following warning is printed:

Video Warning: Unimplemented: write into Z buffer.  Was mostly commented out in 
Rice Video 6.1.0

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Phi...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2011 at 6:48

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confirmed with Rice Video on 32 bit Ubuntu with 1.99.4 (ppa packages).

With Glide64, a different (incorrect) behavior is observed with the bomber's 
notebook: the screen goes black.

Note: various other sprite bugs with this game and the Rice video plugin are 
not present in Glide64 (eg, time of day indicator, maps, and hearts are 
correctly displayed). 

Original comment by ericd...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2011 at 6:49

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This old thread on (defunct?) emutalk discusses the issuey from PJ64 days:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4dJrjs9_kBwJ:www.emutalk.ne
t/showthread.php%3Ft%3D19675

Original comment by ericd...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2011 at 7:10

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same issue reported on (also defunct?) ricevideo repo: 
http://code.google.com/p/ricevideo/issues/detail?id=5

i noticed the buffer flashing also as noted there

Original comment by ericd...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 7:03

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there is an uncorroborated report that the bomber's notebook screen used to 
work in a very old version of glide64:

http://www.emutalk.net/archive/index.php/t-7272.html 

Original comment by ericd...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 6:29

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Works for me using Glide64 on Mupen64+ v1.5 with Gentoo. I'm not sure how to 
get specific plugin versions though.

Original comment by Zakaq...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2011 at 6:35

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Works for me too with Glide64 on version 1.5 (ubuntu 10.04).

Original comment by ekz...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 1:41