Super Paper Mario

Super Paper Mario is a RPG-styled platformer developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The gameplay is similar to the classic Super Mario games, but with the aesthetic qualities of the Paper Mario series, RPG-like elements like character dialogue and puzzles, and a blend of 2D and 3D platforming. The player starts out with only Mario, but unlocks Princess Peach, Luigi, and even Bowser through the game, and can change between them at any time.

The game was originally planned for the Nintendo GameCube in 2006, but Nintendo changed it to a Wii release due to declining GameCube sales.

Bounding Box Slowdown on NVIDIA Cards
On OpenGL and D3D11, NVIDIA cards are abnormally slow during bounding box effects even at very low internal resolutions. They get dramatically slower as the internal resolutions increase, even though comparable AMD graphics cards suffer no slowdown at all. This is due to Dolphin hitting a slow path on those graphics cards. Thankfully, the D3D12 backend doesn't run into this issue on NVIDIA cards, and provides performance equivalent to likewise graphics cards.

It is recommended that NVIDIA users on Windows 10 use or newer and the D3D12 backend to prevent slowdown and CPU/GPU desyncs caused by said slowdown. For non-Windows 10 users, a similar speedup is being worked on for OpenGL.

Problems When Using Older Graphics Cards
Revision introduced changes to the Vertex Loader JIT implementation of Bounding Boxes. This change requires GPU-specific features that are not present on older GPUs (older than 3rd quarter 2012). As such, graphics cards without Direct3D 11 or OpenGL 4.3 support are no longer supported. In essence, only computers with GPUs: Nvidia GeForce 400 series and newer, ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and newer, and Broadwell integrated GPUs (HD Graphics 5300+) are supported by Dolphin for games requiring certain bounding box implementations. Using newer revisions with unsupported GPUs will lead to graphical glitches and softlocks. If game-breaking bugs are experienced, use revision or lower as a workaround. For more information, refer to, ,.

Requires Bounding Box
A large portion of this game requires bounding box emulation. Without bounding box emulation, there will be graphical errors, crashes, and other issues throughout the game. It is not recommended to ever disable bounding box emulation while playing this game.

Missing Transitions
Some transition effects and most paper flip animations won't work properly. Disable EFB Copies to Texture Only to prevent that.

Wii Remote Volume
A weird thing happens when turning down the speaker volume by the use of the HOME Menu in relation to Tippi/Tiptron's pointing ability. When the volume is at 0, the volume of Tippi/Tiptron's pointing sound effects are amplified instead of muted. When the volume is maxed out, the audio is barely audible. See.

Z-Order Issues with Heart Pillars
The Direct3D backend has Z-Order issues with heart pillars. Use the OpenGL backend to avoid this. Fixed in recent development builds.

Pixls
The Pixls are only visible when you're moving or jumping. If you stand still they become invisible, until you start moving again. After moving through certain rooms (unknown which ones, or if it's just a certain amount), parts of them will be visible when you are still then that part will be cut out off when moving (i.e. the hat shows when idle, but not when moving). Fixed in.

Freeze at Chapter 6-1
In Sammer's Kingdom, the game gets stuck when King Sammer say "Vassals, to me!". The workaround is disabling Bounding Box Emulation when in Chapter 6-1. Be sure to enable Bounding Box again after this chapter, otherwise you'll experience various minor graphical glitches. This freeze doesn't occur if you re-enter Chapter 6 after beating the game. Fixed in.