Virtua Cop 3 WORKING on 128MB Xbox

[FrankMorris]

User called root670 posted a tutorial & tools at assemblergames.com how to convert Chihiro dumps to Xbox format: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/sh ... stcount=31

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Progress history regarding Virtua Cop 3:

UPDATE 1: Garcimak confirmed that VC3 works without freezing in 128mb Xbox!

Gameplay wise, breaking through the game is already possiblewith the
analog controller haven't tested any longer no freeze so far.

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UPDATE 2: Cbagy confirmed that even Xbox light gun work with it!

Gun's work fine

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UPDATE 3: Apparently VC3 is working in 128mb Xbox but with low frame rate (??).. What a letdown

i tried it on 2 128ram xboxes and the result is the same verry slow not playable i dont know mybe iam doing something wrong too bad my trusty xbox died on me 3 month ago and no repair for it so i cant tested to see if its a CPU power problem or somthing else

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UPDATE 4: Garcimak told us some good news regarding the speed! It is still unknown if the CPU actually makes the difference in the speed..

The speed was normal during 1st level (on a trusty 1.4G /128MB ) i'll try ta make a video for all to see ASAP.
sorry further testing later as am away from home without a gun to play cross hair by analog make it hard to enjoy...

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UPDATE 5: First video of Virtua Cop 3 running on Trusty Xbox!

current gameplay with joypad sight
[youtube][/youtube]
You can see this is awful to play without light gun...

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UPDATE 6: For some people VC3 runs out of the box on 128MB Xbox, but for most who've tried (including me) "simple" workaround is still needed:

1. Launch MameOx emulator
2. IGR back to dashboard
3. Launch vc3.xbe

I forgot who figured this out, but it works. MameOx somehow correctly sets the Xbox in 128MB mode and allows VC3 to run. And it seems to be only Chihi game which plays and it does it flawlessly..

Now it's just matter of someone to look what is so special in MameOx source and reproduce that to its own default.xbe and then make it launch vc3.xbe automatically.

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[cbagy]

Damn Frank great find, shame it doesnt work properly.

[garcimak]

Well it doesn't actually run very well as it crashes before entering in-game, but it is fun to experiment

5. However, the game crashes when entering a mission.. Probably because of insufficient RAM (?)

6. Someone with 128mb upgraded Xbox should try it, and report back

Great news, thanks!!!! it is WORKING on a 128mb upgraded Xbox.
Looking into chihiro's catalog...

[darknior]

Woaw ... incredible to see that ... maybe it is possible to fix it to never crash with 64 Mo ?
Using Virtual memory ...

[yougottabecrazy]

Woaw ... incredible to see that ... maybe it is possible to fix it to never crash with 64 Mo ?
Using Virtual memory ...

Virtual Memory in a game that was edited at the hex level is beyond the scope of most devs that aren't professionals (and surely even then, it's a BITCH)... but it would be more than amazing to see it happen. I'm more curious of the games that ran with the 64mb and can be converted, as it might open a good number of options to add to your X-Box library, and aid in the evolution of the Chihiro and X-Box emulation.

[xcalibur]

i can tell you that crazy taxi 3 is the only game that used 64mb of ram on the arcade board all the rest used a lot more. as far as i am aware the the arcade could support up to 512mb.
outrun 2 sp for example used 512mb.
http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=729

i wonder if this would work on a jtag 360?

[Neobomb]

i wonder if this would work on a jtag 360?

There's an idea

[darknior]

Woaw ... incredible to see that ... maybe it is possible to fix it to never crash with 64 Mo ?
Using Virtual memory ...

Virtual Memory in a game that was edited at the hex level is beyond the scope of most devs that aren't professionals (and surely even then, it's a BITCH)... but it would be more than amazing to see it happen. I'm more curious of the games that ran with the 64mb and can be converted, as it might open a good number of options to add to your X-Box library, and aid in the evolution of the Chihiro and X-Box emulation.

Yes ... i dream one day we can emulate an xbox on PC
Like that i can use all my emulation stuff on a PC with a virtual xbox with 128 or more ram lol
And use a real XBMC to read 1080p HD films :p

But i dream ... snif ...

It is why maybe the x360 is a solution ... if one day all the xbox stuf running 100% on it !!!
Yesterday they publisht around the web a new solution to make JTAG x360 ... it is a really good news

[FrankMorris]

it is WORKING on a 128mb upgraded Xbox.
Looking into chihiro's catalog...

Great!! Do you mean you tried it yourself?

If it works, natural next step would be try it with Xbox light gun. It's definitely worth a try, as we seem to have good luck in this

[cbagy]

I have a gun Frank that's why im dissapointed it won't work on a standard Xbox.
Even thought about downsampling the video's and audio to give it a try but i fear this won't help at all. I love lightgun games, my favourites.