Olivier Galibert‘s been playing around with data from Time Crisis 2 in a standalone OpenGL viewer, and I think he’s got the general sense of the data formats. This isn’t in MAME yet, but it definitely opens the way for MAME to have 3D in these games.

Incremental progress on Namco System 23 and friends continues. Got Rapid River to drop into attract mode, with these 2D graphics (and music and sound f/x): In other news, I found the coin input on Time Crisis 2 and was able to start a game, although without the 3D there’s not much there.

I got the inputs working for Time Crisis 2, which allows us to navigate the test menus.

Olivier Galibert and I have gotten farther with Namco System 23 and derivatives – most of the games now boot past the self-test. The original Final Furlong will actually drop into attract mode, although the only graphics visible is the blinking “Insert 2 Coins” message. Music and horsey sound effects play though. Time Crisis 2 drops into the test menu now, so we need to get the controls hooked up next…