NFL 2k3 Freezes at start screen

[Najpanther]

I Have a steamdeck. Running dolphin from steamOS/emudeck. Straightforward issue. I simply wait for the game to load and take me to “press start” meanwhile, its stuck on “loading”. Before dolphins last update, i had no problems loading this game. Could that be the issue? Looking for help.

[cpba]

Could that be the issue? Looking for help.

It certainly could.

You should downgrade to earlier releases and see is the problem gets fixed, the easiest way to downgrade a flatpak is to use Warehouse, just open it up, find dolphin, select "Change Version" and try earlier versions until you find one that works.

If you'd rather use the command line, the update command can bring you back to any specific commit that's still on flathub. For instance, this would work for the last 2409 build from last month:

flatpak update --commit=46eea7a015759ebb691a308bb28e802289d14bcb4f7093e05af816e454f755c4 org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

You can get a list of available commits like this:

flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

In any case, report back with your findings.

[Najpanther]

I used warehouse and tried to downgrade dolphin and was met with this error "error: org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu/x86_64/stable not installed" .

[cpba]

@Najpanther That's a weird one, are you by any chance on the beta branch?

You can check that by running (you might need to remove the --user at the end depending on your install):

flatpak info org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu --user

If the Branch says "beta" you should switch back to stable, the beta branch is being retired as it doesn't make sense now that dolphin releases official dev builds.

You can follow the instructions here to switch back to stable:
https://github.com/flathub/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu/blob/master/README.md#beta-branch

[Najpanther]

i ran it and it says stable. Not sure what the issue is.

[cpba]

No clue, does downgrading from the terminal like this work?

flatpak update --commit=46eea7a015759ebb691a308bb28e802289d14bcb4f7093e05af816e454f755c4 org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu --user

Drop the --user at the end if you have a system install

[Najpanther]

I was able to downgrade it by just going to flathub, unfortunately its still freezing. I verified the iso and it's a good dump, idk why it's freezing. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next update.

[cpba]

I was able to downgrade it by just going to flathub, unfortunately its still freezing. I verified the iso and it's a good dump, idk why it's freezing.

How far back did you test?

Keep in mind that some of the flathub releases are created for cosmetic reasons (documentation changes, runtime changes, etc) and aren't built from different dolphin-emu releases. If you only went back a release it still might not be the one that originally worked for you.

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next update.

Dolphin now releases official flatpak builds of every dev release, you can try them out on this repo:

https://flatpak.dolphin-emu.org/dev.flatpakrepo

It's less convenient but there are also official single file flatpak bundles of every release in the downloads section of the website:

https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

Note that since the official builds are very recent, they don't go as far back as the ones on flathub.