de Blob 2 has the same engine as de blob and shares a lot of the same
issues. I copied the settings used for de blob. It seems defer EFB
copies was the main culprit, but force texture filtering could also
cause problems.
At extreme angles, there is severe shadow zfighting with fast depth
disabled. Enabling it causes it work on all backends without issue.
Verified in OpenGL, D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan.
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor has rendering issues in the upper left
part of the screen. While we can't completely fix it, by disabling
Store EFB Copies to Texture only, we can make it from a missing box to
just a couple of lines being visible that make up the copy region.
Disables Store EFB Copies to Texture Only. As this game has a lot of
water, the water not rendering correctly provides a pretty significant
gameplay issue.
Baten Kaitos will crash with certain items in your inventory if you
scroll over them in the shop screen. SyncGPU does not fix the issue,
but single core does.
Specifically, 'Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem', 'Scooby-Doo! Unmasked', 'Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures', and the Wii version of 'Happy Feet'.
The JIT cache causes problems with emulated icache invalidation in these games, resulting in areas failing to load.
These games are erroneously zeroing buffers before they can be fully copied to ARAM by DMA. The responsible memset() calls are followed by a call to DVDRead() which issues dcbi instructions that effectively cancel the memset() on real hardware. Because Dolphin lacks dcache emulation, the effects of the memset() calls are observed, which causes missing audio.
In a comment on the original bug, phire noted that the issue can be corrected by simply nop'ing out the offending memset() calls. Because the games dynamically load different .rel executables based on the character and/or language, the addresses of these calls can vary.
To deal generally with the problem of code being dynamically loaded to fixed, known addresses, the patch engine is extended to support conditional patches which require a match against a known value. This sort of thing is already achievable with Action Replay/Gecko codes, but their use depends on enabling cheats globally in Dolphin, which is not a prerequisite shared by patches.
Patches are included for every region, character, and language combination. They are enabled by default.
The end result is an approximation of the games' behavior on real hardware without the associated complexity of proper dcache emulation.
https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/9840
JMC47