#1420 Build-A-Bear Workshop displays a black screen on colouring the house

[Blake Gripling]

Title says all. You can work around the problem by resetting the ROM, as your profile would be autosaved regardless of whether the house task is completed or otherwise, but of course to most players this would be seen as a show-stopper.

Here's a YouTube video of how the character creation mechanic should work, if it helps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1rZhZIegA

[rogerman]

The black screen issue can only be reproduced if 3D rendering is turned off. If 3D rendering was turned off, then seeing a black screen is expected behavior.

Was a 3D renderer (SoftRasterizer or OpenGL) selected when you saw the black screen? If a 3D renderer was in use, then we will need to look into this issue further.

[Huck Jones]

Yup, I did use a renderer. I think it was the OpenGL one; I'm not sure if it can be reproduced with the software renderer, but I'll let you know if it turns up the same, though I have a hunch it would glitch out regardless as Drastic uses a software renderer and suffers from a similar problem.

[rogerman]

Please confirm that at least SoftRasterizer works. That would be the most important thing here. Also, just know that OpenGL always runs the risk of failing, since it's dependent on 3rd-party GPU drivers that we have no control over.

[Huck Jones]

Looks like it's been fixed on the latest build then. Just did a run on an unmodified R5120 exe, and the bottom screen no longer turns black like it used to, regardless of renderer used (apart from the null one of course).

[rogerman]

Thanks for checking.

Closing, per using confirmation.