[BUG]: Midway Arcade Treasures 2: w/ Automatic renderer, main menu black after backing out of Xenophobe

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Describe the Bug

In Midway Arcade Treasures 2, SLUS-20997, backing out of the game Xenophobe, to return to the main game selection list, ends up on a black screen if I am running the game using the Automatic renderer setting. The problem is not encountered when using the Software renderer.

Reproduction Steps

• Start Midway Arcade Treasures 2 from the PSCX2 Game List
• From the PSCX2 top menu, do: Game Properties - Graphics - Renderer - Automatic (Default)
• From the PCSX2 top menu, do: System - Reset
• Press Start when prompted at the MAT2 title screen
• At the MAT2 game selection menu, press Up twice on the controller to highlight Xenophobe
• Press X to start Xenophobe
• Press Start when prompted on the loading screen showing the game's controls
• Press Start to start Player 1 in the game
• Press Start to bring up the "MENU - PLAYER 1" in-game window
• In the "MENU - PLAYER 1" in-game window, select "EXIT GAME"
• Select "YES"
• Press X to continue at the "Settings and Scores Lost" screen

== A small rotating arcade cabinet, in a tiny gray background, is shown on a black screen background. This is part of the bug--normally, it would be a gray screen background, not black.

A number of videos play; if you press X or Start individually to skip them, the third one, a demo video, keeps repeating between black screen pauses

• Press X or Start repeatedly, without waiting for the next video to appear

== You end up on a black screen. It is the MAT2 game selection menu, but shown as a completely black screen--you can tell you're on the game selection menu because the menu scrolling sounds play when you press Up or Down.

From here, pressing X will start whichever game is highlighted, unseen. Once loaded, the selected game will display correctly.

If you switch to the Software renderer instead:

• From the PSCX2 top menu, do: Game Properties - Graphics - Renderer - Software
• From the PCSX2 top menu, do: System - Reset

the problem will not recur: the loading screen after EXIT GAME will have the correct gray background, and you will go straight to the main game selection menu screen, without any videos popping up, or black screens.

This seems to happen when exiting other games in the collection, not just Xenophobe, but I did not test most of them.

Expected Behavior

Selecting EXIT GAME from one of the collection's games should show a tiny arcade cabinet revolving in a gray screen background, followed by the collection's (visible) game selection menu, and there should be no intervening videos.

This correct behavior can be seen by using PCSX2's Software renderer rather than the Automatic renderer.

(On an actual PS2, the screen resolution can switch when going from a game to the game selection menu in MAT2; this tended to disrupt recording on an Elgato HD60, for instance. That resolution switching may be involved in what's going on here.)

PCSX2 Revision

v1.7.5725

Operating System

Windows 11

If Linux - Specify Distro

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CPU

i7-10750H

GPU

GTX 1660 Ti

GS Settings

Emulation Settings

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GS Window Screenshots

Logs & Dumps

At black background behind revolving small arcade cab:

Midway Arcade Treasures 2_SLUS-20997_20240422100057.gs.zst.zip

At black screen between repeating videos:

Midway Arcade Treasures 2_SLUS-20997_20240422095639.gs.zst.zip