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Tested with build 1893

Describe the bug
Firstly, Trying to launch the game appears to work at first (once you set the compatibility mode to 256 color mode) but then after the intro video, the game crashes with an error. This appears to be related to the video codec used to play certain video files. The introduction and all game scenes are played back with msvideo1, but there are many video clips of Mario talking that use msrle instead. Every once in a while, the video tries to play instead of crashing, but when this occurs, there's no background and the video is very distorted. See screenshots.

Secondly, I tried to work-around this problem by setting Talking Mario=0 in the MARIO.INI config file so that the problematic videos in question wouldn't play at all. The game didn't crash when this was set, but did just sit at a black screen with the music playing.

Expected behavior
The expected behavior is to be able to launch RUNMARIO.exe, and have all videos playback without errors and be able to proceed through the game menus.

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 Professional
• Version 2004

Additional context
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