Treat alpha as 0 if alpha is 1 for blending

This removes the white box in fortune street again, without causing Mario Kart Wii to regress.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Software/Tev.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Software/Tev.cpp
index ee0a789ec6..6905920405 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Software/Tev.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Software/Tev.cpp
@@ -714,6 +714,19 @@ void Tev::Draw()
   if (!TevAlphaTest(output[ALP_C]))
     return;
 
+  // Hardware testing indicates that an alpha of 1 can pass an alpha test,
+  // but doesn't do anything in blending
+  // This situation is important for Mario Kart Wii's menus (they will render incorrectly if the
+  // alpha test for the FMV in the background fails, since they depend on depth for drawing a yellow
+  // border) and Fortune Street's gameplay (where a rectangle with an alpha value of 1 is drawn over
+  // the center of the screen several times, but those rectangles shouldn't be visible).
+  // Blending seems to result in no changes to the output with an alpha of 1, even if the input
+  // color is white.
+  // TODO: Investigate this further: we might be handling blending incorrectly in general (though
+  // there might not be any good way of changing blending behavior)
+  if (output[ALP_C] == 1)
+    output[ALP_C] = 0;
+
   // z texture
   if (bpmem.ztex2.op != ZTexOp::Disabled)
   {