MrThunderwing

That's interesting to know about the 'Boot ID' thing, thanks, that's got Virtua Cop 3 working again at least, but OutRun 2 Beta now throws up a different error message. Unfortunately, my PC is way too old and creaky for Xemu (I had setup it up, prior to having to do a full destructive Operating System restore, and everything ran in slow mo. It was tricky enough to setup I never bothered trying again after I fixed my PC and got it working again). Like I mentioned previously though, no biggie, I've tons of other ways of playing different versions of OutRun2. I just like to check in on the Chihiro version from time-to-time because of it's completely unique Testarossa design compared to all the other games.

They were (but not perfectly), but not anymore. No idea how long ago an update broke them (them being OutRun 2 Beta and Virtua Cop 3). CXBXR used to just bypass the bios screen and launch straight into both games. Now the games won't launch without the bios, but get stuck after booting. Edit: Hrrrm, the main developer of CXBXR doesn't seem to have updated his Patreon page since 2023. Looks like this is likely never going to be fixed. Best keep hold of your old versions of it!

I haven't tried any new versions of CXBXR in years, just downloaded the latest version and was getting the error message about no chihiro media board but fixed it with the advice above (thanks for that!). Now I'm getting an "Error 22 Communication error occurred between main board and media board" error. In old versions it would just load straight into the game without issues. Anyone encountered this and found a fix? The Googles are revealing nothing. (No biggie if not, I just wanted to see if Outrun 2 worked on it now without the last couple of graphical bugs it had).

Thanks dude. I realised after I posted this you could just get PacMan Museum Plus on the PS4 for dirt cheap now, which has got tons more games and Battle Royale doesn't have the big border on it (plus it's less of a faff to get 4 controllers working than using x360ce), so I just bought that. Thanks for the reply though!

Hey gang, I'm a bit confused by this instruction above. I'm playing on a big screen TV not a cocktail table, so I want the non rotated version, but the instructions are saying to rename these .dll files to the same name as .dll files that already exist in the folder when I unpacked the RAR file. If I remove either .dll file the game just loads normally, rather than straight into Battle Royale. If I try to rename d3d9-norotate.dll to d3d9.dll, it wants to make a copy called d3d9.dll (2). Does anyone know what you need to do to un rotate it, please?

Absolutely loved this game on PS2 with my Guncon 2. I never played it in the arcades (although I think there was one at a retro arcade I went to not long ago, but I just didn't get around to playing it). Is there much difference between the arcade and PS2 game? The graphics would probably be on a par on the home system with the arcade by this point?

You absolute ruddy legend!!! That's fixed it for me. My old version of the game read the save from a totally different location directly on the C drive, I hadn't noticed the "Save" folder in the actual game folder. Stuck the bin file in there and all is now working, DLCs and everything. thanks for you help with this mate, it's really greatly appreciated

Thanks, I'm trying some experiments at the moment. Can you let me know what your path to the save file is please? If I can match up the steam folder number in C:\ProgramData\Steam\ I might be able to bypass the Saving error that way.

OK, the game still crashed if I try to create a save file, buuut, if I continue without saving I can get in game and I can see that Ryo is there, so that's worked. @stuart2773 can you show me what the path to your save file looks like please? I'm wondering if I just manually create a folder with the right ID and put the save file bin in it it might just work that way... the path to my old one looked like this. C:\ProgramData\Steam\RLD!\212480\storage Just, FYI, this is what my folder with the files transferred across looks like. There's some additional files in there that aren't in my old version. Do any of these extra files need to go anywhere else?

Hrrrm, first try at getting this working has been unsuccessful. I saved it to the default location on the C drive it wants to go on (my other version's on a backup drive). Microsoft Defender tried deleting the Steam API, but I undid that and made an exception for the folder to stop it doing it again. Swapped all the bits from the ZIP into the same folder with the EXE. Initially me double clicking on it was doing nothing, but right clicking and run as administrator got it up and running, but when it got to the 'create new save file' bit the game crashed. I deleted my old Save file folder in case that was causing an issue, but same thing happened. Just trying again with another installation of the ISO to my back-up drive instead of C

Bam! Amazeballs! Downloading as we speak, thank you! Did you just manage to find this today with a bit of Google-ing? I've been searching high and low for it with no joy at all.

Cheers. The Afterburner course is just one of the regular stages in the base game. I can't recall off the top of my head if it's instantly playable or if you need to unlock it, but if that's a screenshot from your game, you should have every stage in the game unlocked if you've got all those characters.