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Title: Time Crisis 2 on MAME
Post by: purbeast on April 25, 2025, 11:08:03 am

I found out recently that TC2 has been working well on MAME for a little over a year or so now aside from some graphical issues.

This morning I upgraded my GroovyMAME to the latest version and tried running TC2 on there.

It runs and plays however it is running like it is in slow motion or underwater.  But aside from that, everything appears to be working fine from the few minutes I played.

Does anyone know how to fix this?  Or is this a hardware issue?  My PC hardware running this is probably like 10 year old tech at this point so perhaps that is the issue?  I haven't had any hiccups on any other games though just this one.

Title: Re: Time Crisis 2 on MAME
Post by: lllll44 on April 26, 2025, 02:11:38 pm

yes, thats the issue. its need a strong cpu. i play it on a 5800h cpu laptop from 2021 and its running well only if i with 7/10 frame skip.
also: you can disable the annoying flash with this code:

<mamecheat version="1">
<cheat desc="Stop Screen Flashing on Shooting">
<script state="run">
<action>maincpu.pw@80090EEC=2400</action>
<!--  Program code cheat by Pugsy  -->
</script>
</cheat>
</mamecheat>

save it as and xml file and put it in a "cheat" folder inside mame. also enable "cheats" in mame or in the ini file.

Title: Re: Time Crisis 2 on MAME
Post by: purbeast on April 26, 2025, 05:23:30 pm

Quote from: lllll44 on April 26, 2025, 02:11:38 pm

yes, thats the issue. its need a strong cpu. i play it on a 5800h cpu laptop from 2021 and its running well only if i with 7/10 frame skip.
also: you can disable the annoying flash with this code:

<mamecheat version="1">
<cheat desc="Stop Screen Flashing on Shooting">
<script state="run">
<action>maincpu.pw@80090EEC=2400</action>
<!--  Program code cheat by Pugsy  -->
</script>
</cheat>
</mamecheat>

save it as and xml file and put it in a "cheat" folder inside mame. also enable "cheats" in mame or in the ini file.

Okay cool thanks.

I actually already have a bulit in screen flash cause I'm playing on a CRT monitor with Happ 45 light guns so I need the screen flash lol.

My buddy is giving me a more powerful CPU than I have as well as much more RAM so I am hoping that it will help out.