Paper Mario freeze issue

[HunterRequiem]

All right, I'm playing paper mario, and when I try to enter Shooting Star Summit, the game freezes with a blank screen.

System specs:
AMD Phenom 9950
Nvidia 9800 GTX+
4Gb RAM
XFX Mobo &etc

I'm using the Rice video plugin, and Jabo's sound and input plugins. The file I'm using is [!] certified.

[rswedlow]

Can you send a save state?

[Emmett]

Are you using any cheats? Cheat codes for Paper mario have been known to cause issues.

[HunterRequiem]

Here's the save state.

And no, I'm not using any codes.

[rswedlow]

Myself I made it through and met the star dude on top of the summit from your save state you uploaded here.
I couldn't re-produce this for myself, but I see there may be two causes for it.

Lacking of or bad update signal from graphics processing plug-in
A unique combination of RDB settings, maybe one opposing your processor type

For the GPU one, it's decent that for this game you are using Rice's Video Plugin, but this one is also very sensitive to frame/object updating controls. When your screen is black, you say it freezes, but by any chance did you still hear sound?

For the RDB one, Project64 reads many game-specific settings on main memory from Project64.rdb. This issue is not decided with the following RDB update.
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=49385

Replace the one stored with Project64.exe with this file.
In some cases loading a save state preserves old format, so also try to load your progress internally without save states to fully replace with the effects of changes in the new RDB.

If none of this helps tell?