Invisible Epona Bug Blocking Progress in Kakariko

[kaiji-exp]

Mods and Forks

• The bug occurs on an official release of Dusklight, without any forks or third-party patches installed

Dusklight Version

Version 1.4.1

Bug Description

In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, when I reach the Epona cutscene in Kakariko Village, Epona appears invisible. After the cutscene, Link is already mounted, but Epona still doesn’t show up during the taming sequence. This causes me to get stuck near the village exit in an infinite dialogue loop, where Midna repeatedly interrupts and prevents me from leaving Kakariko, effectively blocking progression.

Steps to Reproduce

Simply play through the game normally until you reach the point where you must leave Kakariko Village. The Epona cutscene triggers automatically as part of the story progression, and the issue occurs without any additional actions or special inputs

Expected Behavior

No response

Current Behavior

No response

OS / Architecture

Windows x86-64

Game Region

NTSC-U (North America)

Game Language

English

Graphics Backend

Vulkan

Texture Packs and Mods

I don’t have texture packs or mods installed

Logs and Other Files

No response

Additional Context

This issue was already there before 1.4.1

[Irastris]

Please provide more details about your operating system (version, build number, etc.), the first Dusklight version you encountered this on, and whether you ever used the save game with a fork such as Dawnlight. This is not something we've encountered on any of the release builds on any of our available hardware for testing.

[Abzol]

This sounds like the comment at the bottom of the report at #2071

Maybe it has something to do with the horse? Because there is another glitch in Kakariko. When epona arrives she is invisible and the game starts a loop with Midna talking to link

[kaiji-exp]

Operating System: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8655)

First affected version: Dusklight 1.3.1
Current version: 1.4.1

The issue has been present since version 1.3.1 and still occurs in the latest version 1.4.1.

I have never used this save file with any fork or modified version such as Dawnlight or any other variant