Time Crisis 2 GUN4IR Setup + Arcade Accurate Recoil

After waiting patiently in hopes of recoil outputs getting added to the arcade version of Time crisis 2 - the Gun4IR community took it upon themselves to add it in! Well, one guy did anyway. Thanks to user FatherOfDucksAndMonkeys from the Gun4IR discord he made a luascript that allows mamehooker to finally be able to access the arcade recoil outputs from TC2 (along with a bunch of other lightgun games)

This is a video showing off my modded Time Crisis gun with the recoil outputs in action. This can be seen with how the gun stops recoiling once you run out of ammo and your gun firing automatically in the machine gun sections, just like the original arcade :)

You can grab FatherOfDucksAndMonkeys lua scripts here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kFQt...



Due to the fact you have to use a lua file in conjunction with mamehooker it can be a little tricky to setup. First things first you’ll need to load the game via a bat file while also using the -autoboot_script parameter to point MAME to the timecrs2.lua file

For example, your .bat file should look something like this:

cd C:\Users\MrG\Desktop\MAME 0.281
mame.exe timecrs2 -autoboot_script “C:\Users\MrG\Desktop\MAME 0.281\luascripts\timecrs2.lua”

Obviously you’ll need to change it to where your mame.exe and luascripts are located specifically on your pc but you get the idea.

Now this is all explained pretty nicely in the readme file that comes with the scripts but the tricky part is that mamehooker won’t recognize/auto-generate the recoil outputs for the game’s mamehooker .ini file (at least not as of the latest ver of MAME) which means we have to add it ourselves - along with the code needed to pass the outputs to the gun


To do this underneath the [Output] section in the timecrs2.ini file we must add this line:

P1_CtmRecoil=nll |cmw 1 F0x2x0

You’ll have to change the number after the cmw part depending on what com port your gun4ir gun uses - in this instance mine uses com port 1

So assuming your guns com port is 1 your entire timecrs2.ini file should look like this:

[General]
MameStart=cmo 1 baud=9600_parity=N_data=8_stop=1, cmw 1 S6M3x1
MameStop=cmw 1 E, cmw 1
StateChange=
OnRotate=
OnPause=
[KeyStates]
RefreshTime=
[Output]
P1_CtmRecoil=nll |cmw 1 F0x2x0
lamp1=
lamp2=
lamp3=
lamp4=
lamp5=
lamp6=
lamp0=
lamp7=

Make sure you have mamehooker running in the background before running the bat file and you should be all set. Happy shooting :)




Also don’t forget to turn recoil on in the gun4ir GUI otherwise it won’t work - I tend to forget this sometimes after I turn off the recoil when playing other games :)


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