Visual artifacts in Paper Mario

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Describe your system:
 - Operating System (be specific): CrunchBang 11 with testing Debian repos
 - Machine type (32-bit or 64-bit): 32-bit
 - Mupen64Plus version: 2.0.0
- Plugins used:
Video plugin - 'Mupen64Plus OpenGL Video Plugin by Rice' v2.0.0
Audio plugin - 'Mupen64Plus SDL Audio Plugin' v2.0.0
Input plugin - 'Mupen64Plus SDL Input Plugin' v2.0.0
RSP plugin - 'Hacktarux/Azimer High-Level Emulation RSP Plugin' v2.0.0
 - Game: Paper Mario - MD5 - A722F8161FF489943191330BF8416496 - CRC - 65eee53a ed7d733c

Describe the problem:
There are quite a lot of graphical glitches happening in this game, and I've 
noticed them on other video plugins with other emulators too, unfortunately I 
cannot use Glide on this machine as it's too slow on it's integrated video 
chip. Here are a few things that I caught so far in the game:

- the characters show up as just black silhouettes in dark rooms - 
https://i.imgur.com/fr1vN4A.png - https://i.imgur.com/Lj9kuoH.png - 
https://i.imgur.com/oH7dCzb.png
- some textures aren't cut out to their mask (for example instead of the flame 
on a candle you only see the rectangle with the texture, or when casting 
electric shocks at the enemy the enemies are covered by the texture instead of 
wrapping to the outlines) - https://i.imgur.com/kBbOqxP.png - 
https://i.imgur.com/Lj9kuoH.png - https://i.imgur.com/XZCN3aj.png - 
https://i.imgur.com/7cmCjVN.png - https://i.imgur.com/3srgwgj.png
- quick flicker and corruption on some backdrops, especially in battles - 
https://i.imgur.com/YDEfAw2.png (the right texture disappears) - 
https://i.imgur.com/cHcl15w.png (and now it reappears)
- character graphics sometimes get blurry when blinking or doing certain 
actions, also they jitter or have the wrong "animation" frames being displayed
- "missing" graphics on the screen, especially on title cards - 
https://i.imgur.com/MxDoyMF.png
- corruption and pixel garble on the screen when entering a battle or when 
dialogue boxes with transition effects pop up or in the in-game menu (start).
- https://i.imgur.com/v1X0uWL.png - https://i.imgur.com/sBfnLYp.png - 
https://i.imgur.com/CGNZziG.png
- slow down when entering some battles or entering some houses, and also when 
colours fade, also audio crackling is present during those times, but that's to 
be expected. Might be a plug-in configuration or gfx card issue.

I've tried to fiddle around with the video settings but so far they haven't 
caused any positive outcomes. 

Video settings: http://pastebin.com/AK3cLvsX

Hope my explanations made sense, if not feel free to ask for more details.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aekk...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2014 at 4:04

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I have this problem.

Any fix ?

Original comment by gigi...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 1:23

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Most likely they won't make a quick fix unfortunately, the video plugin would 
probably need a work-through.

Original comment by aekk...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2014 at 11:00