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

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Same issue using Mupen64+ v1.5 with Rice Video on Ubuntu 10.04
No warning message in log nor in console...

But works using Glide64 !

Original comment by g.ge...@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2011 at 11:18

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I'm having the same problem on my mac (10.6.8 with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, dual 
core, with Intel HD Graphics 3000, and 32-bit color pixel depth). I'm working 
with the wxmupen64plus 0.1 combo.pkg version. It would be really nice if I 
could see the Bomber's Notebook (it either doesn't appear at all, or the screen 
turns black), and if the screen didn't darken during some cutscenes. Help?

Original comment by lochedl...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2012 at 8:56

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Issue 479 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by s...@narfation.org on 16 Feb 2012 at 7:17

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issue update: I used these plugins (mupen64plus-bundle-osx-1.99.4.zip), instead 
of wxmupen64plus 0.1, and they did not help at all. The same issues with the 
same plugins reoccurred. The Bomber's Notebook is still black in Glide; Rice 
and Arachnoid are both completely unplayable. (By the way, I am using a macbook 
pro). Is there any way to fix this? :/ Please help!!! I really want to play 
Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time! (which has pause screen lag issues on 
Glide64).

Original comment by lochedl...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2012 at 6:04

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The Arachnoid video plugin does show the Bomber's Notebook screen (at least in 
windowed mode and perhaps even often the second try!). I don't know what the 
main differences are between the plugins, if anyone would care to link/detail 
on that.

* Glide64 shows a black screen,
* Rice simply doesn't render anything (it's as if the entire notebook was 
transparent, or perhaps behind the startmenu).

My hardware is an Intel Core2 Duo running 64bit and graphics accelerated by 
(output from lspci):
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400

Original comment by ememe...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2012 at 7:20

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Issue 519 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by s...@narfation.org on 24 Sep 2012 at 6:34

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You can fix this in Glide64 by enabling the "Smart Framebuffer" option. At the 
moment there isn't an equivalent fixing option in Rice.

It also fixes the game being shown in the background while in the menu, for MM, 
but not on OoT.

Original comment by Willrand...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 9:07

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Even with Glide64 and Smart Framebuffer I can't see the notebook. There's just 
a black screen.

Original comment by eduardom...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2013 at 2:08

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I'm using a macbook pro and I tried using the "Smart Framebuffer" option with 
Glide64 and it worked perfectly! The notebook shows up just fine

Original comment by Eluci...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2014 at 3:35

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It works perfectly using glide64mk2!

Original comment by floux...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2014 at 9:32

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using the smart buffer option seems to fix this for glide64

Original comment by zogw...@gmail.com on 9 May 2014 at 12:33