Time Crisis (timecrsa) support?

[StormedBubbles]

I see timecrsa on the game list and hoped to try it out. I do get the warning "game does not work" in a verbose log, and the actual behavior is a fail of these initial checks on the game's boot screen:

DSP RAM NG C00008H
SUBCPU START WAIT NG

Would it be possible to get Time Crisis to load into the game? At least the initial loading phase doesn't seem to be a Namco System 22-wide issue. I can get Air Combat 22 (airco22b) and Ridge Racer (ridgeraj) to load.

Unfortunately, the corresponding timecris doesn't work in any of the later MAMEs available on RetroPie for pi either:

• 2010: Freezes completely at the check screen, requiring a reboot from SSH
• 2015: Actually gets past the check screen but freezes immediately after, requiring a reboot from SSH
• 2016: Passes the DSP RAM check but fails the SUBCPU START WAIT CHECK. I am able to exit the emulator. Tricks for bypassing this issue on PC do not work on pi
• .235 ("current" from binary): Same as 2016

[mahoneyt944]

Hmm I suspect if it doesn't work that far up the line it might be because of a deeper (missing chuck of emulation) issue. One solution might be to use the PlayStation version of time crisis instead as it's probably much better all around, though I have no idea where their lightgun support is in that core.

[StormedBubbles]

Lightgun support is good in lr-pcsx-rearmed (up to 2 players) and lr-duckstation (only 1 player I think). Time Crisis and its PS1-exclusive sequel Project Titan both work very well on the pi hardware, but I will jump at any chance to go for the arcade version when I can avoid the long load times of the PlayStation 😃

[meowthed]

it might require a lot of elbow grease since it's running PS1-based hardware.

0.133: hap fixed gun and crosshair positioning in Time Crisis.
0.132u5: Skeleton081983 fixed graphics corruption in Time Crisis. Fixed sprite rom loading.
0.131u3: Fixed sprite roms addresses.
27th November 2008: Guru - A gun for Time Crisis arrived this week, for when I eventually get the Time Crisis PCB we bought years ago wired up and working. I recently repaired it so the actual PCB is working now (hey, it only took 5 1/2 years to get around to that job so not all is lost! and I acquired the full wiring harness and gun board for it from Jomac a few weeks ago. For monitor and power supply repairs HE DA MAN!
0.128u4: Roberto Zandona fixed Time Crisis, which unable to start due to improper initialization.
0.127: Roberto Zandona fixed SubCPU start wait fails test in Time Crisis and clone.
0.124u4: Atari Ace fixed MAME simply quits after pressing F3 in Time Crisis and clone.
0.107u1: Luigi30 and Nomax changed dipswitch 'DIP4-8' to 'Service Mode'.
11th April 2006: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for Time Crisis from BTribble. In both regular and hi-res 512 version.
0.100u1: R. Belmont added real MCU-managed controls and coinage for Time Crisis.
0.99u8: Phil Stroffolino minor tweaked Time Crisis to fix crash. Fixed sound1 rom address to ($800000).
0.99u7: Fixed sound1 rom address to ($800000) in clone Time Crisis (Rev. TS2 Ver.A).
0.85u2: Added M37710 (16MHz) CPU4 and C352 stereo sound. Changed region cpu4 to user4 and user2 to sound1.
10th May 2004: Phil Stroffolino corrected the polygon layer scaling in Time Crisis.
0.82: Phil Stroffolino make clone Time Crisis (Rev. TS2 Ver.A) playable with some gun aiming problems? (or is it just a calibration issue?).
0.81u8: Added 2x TMS32025 (48MHz) CPUs. Changed region cpu2 to cpu4 and input to 1 Player, 2 buttons and Light Gun. Fixed dipswitches.

[capitaineflam25]

I'd love it too ❤