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Title: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: lirogames on August 20, 2023, 06:48:25 am
hello everyone, I searched here in the group, and I didn't find anything, I would like to know if it is possible to play these beautiful games in a link, both on the same pc and via lan .. ..
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: buttersoft on August 20, 2023, 06:42:42 pm
IIRC it's not working. There's some more info in this thread - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,161667.0/all.html
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: Super-Becker on September 02, 2023, 07:36:58 pm
In Cruis n World I can't put it in manual shift. No choice option appears. The game starts directly on automatic. I already tried to solve it in the test menu but there is no option for that. Can someone help me?
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: Hydreigon on October 03, 2023, 09:56:43 pm
The above info is no longer true. Someone else opened an issue in Mame regarding networking on this family of hardware (in reality it's a CPU mailbox bridged together similar to the Naomi multiboard system). There's even worse problems for other games that do not support LAN.

midvunit.cpp linking (Cruis'n World, Cruis'n USA): https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/9958

Bus network topology support: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/9101

You can view a list of all the unsupported LAN capable games I listed here: https://github.com/Hydreigon223/mame/wiki/Arcade-Networking-QA

In Cruis n World I can't put it in manual shift. No choice option appears. The game starts directly on automatic. I already tried to solve it in the test menu but there is no option for that. Can someone help me?
Use Cruis'n World v2.4 instead of v2.5 because the latter was developed as a conversion kit for Hyperdrive arcade cabinets. Midway programmed this version to skip the transmission select due to Hyperdrive cabs not having a shifter to begin with.
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: Super-Becker on October 04, 2023, 08:19:06 pm
Hydreigon, thank you very much!
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: jorgenjl2 on November 01, 2023, 05:21:59 pm
I don’t have a manual option in my Crusn World so I will have to check that out.

I added custom race leader code to Crusn USA and Cruis’n World. As soon as these are linkable I will make sure the code works for two (or 4 for World) players. I will post the code tomorrow in case anyone else wants to do this for games that don’t support it back in the day.
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: jorgenjl2 on December 05, 2023, 04:36:50 pm
Just in case a Mame developer or people working on Crusn link mode see this forum post, I noticed that the dip switch settings in the Mame tab menu show question marks for the dip switch related to link lan mode. I looked at the manual and the dip switch 6 is the link lan mode and dip switch 7 is not used even though Mame acts like it may be a lan option. Dip switch 8 is the master/slave switch though.

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Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: jorgenjl2 on July 11, 2025, 05:36:41 pm
It looks like someone started to get Crusn USA Mame linked. It’s a work in progress but that is great news. This and the R San Francisco Rush project is awesome. I wonder if gpt5 will help when it comes out help speed up the development time on linking these.


https://youtu.be/HrLVG2da8MU?si=fffa24NnFI7RRA27
Title: Re: Cruis n usa and Cruis n World (MAME) link 2 players?
Post by: SailorSat on July 20, 2025, 07:50:17 pm
Well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kI2SaRrCB0

The best way I can describe how that link works is "crazy".
Still need to find a proper way to "frame sync" the thing =)