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#Emulation

Getting some time with the emulators, this time with some arcade lightgun games on DEMUL.

It took me a while to get things to work, since loading up a ROM would just not work with whatever configuration I had set up. But once I found the right "files" (mostly BIOS related), the damn thing just started working. Don't ask me how it works, I just threw everything at the emulator in hopes that brute forcing BIOS files and validated ROMs at it would get it to eventually run. And they say emulation is easy. People don't realize that there is a lot of heavy troubleshooting just to get it to work.

Aside from some sound issues, and maybe some control issues, most of the games do work. The only ones I couldn't get to work were Sega Clay Challenge (I wanted to really try) and Ninja Assault (which is more control issues with reloading the guns). Also I really wanted to play around with the graphics, BUT I WAS WARNED NOT TO DO IT. Some forum posts specifically mention that changing some of the graphics setting will break the emulation, so I decided to err on the side of caution and just let it the emulator run in native resolution without any graphics enhancements in windowed mode. In the future maybe I'll try seeing if there is any way to mess around with that stuff, but it's just best to run stuff natively to prevent anything from going terribly wrong.

And the games themselves?

House Of The Dead 2 is a classic. Though the Naomi emulation is okay, I think you'd be better off emulating the Wii version using Dolphin. At least there you can upscale the graphics and even put in high quality textures.

I have no idea what Death Crimson OX is supposed to be. I never had a Dreamcast, so I've never played it the port either.

Lupin III - The Shooting is pretty interesting. Some of the later levels use some interesting mechanics (especially the chase level where you shoot the gun to move the car in thir person view). But using audio and clips from the show makes it copyright claim bait.

Confidential Mission is pretty cool. Sad to hear it never got as popular as Virtua Cop, but I really wanna see if the Dreamcast port (in emulation) is any good.

Ranger Mission kinda reminds me of a proto version of Ghost Squad. I might do a video of that game in the future. Probably the Wii port though, since the arcade version can't be emulated (due to it being on the Sega Chihiro hardware). Although, there is something I have heard will run those types of arcade games, I will need to investigate further...

EDIT: Small correction. I stated Ghost Squad ran on Lindbergh, but it actually runs on the Chihiro hardware. It's sequel, Ghost Squad Evolution, is the one that runs on Lindbergh hardware (which can be emulated using TeknoParrot, I'll try to check that out in the future when I have time).

Brave Firefighters is very cool. Shame the game doesn't quite work for me, but I think it might be the ROM I'm using. Need to do more searching I guess.

Sport Shooting USA surprised me. Never played it before, but now I really want to find a machine in real life and play it. One of these days I will.

00:00:00 - Video Intro
00:03:26 - Naomi: The House Of The Dead 2
00:11:59 - Naomi: Death Crimson OX
00:15:39 - Naomi: Lupin III - The Shooting
00:24:16 - Naomi: Confidential Mission
00:35:09 - Atomiswave: Ranger Mission
00:42:00 - Hikaru: Brave Firefighters
00:52:17 - Atomiswave: Sport Shooting USA
01:02:09 - Video Outro