20th March, 2010

A couple of controversial items arrived here yesterday....
Thanks to Tom for the loan of a Death Smiles PCB which came all the way from wintery Switzerland.
These emulated screenshots are very preliminary with some graphics issues similar to the Espgaluda II issues shown below in the 5th January news. Don't let that bother you because at this stage you won't be playing this game in any emulator anyway.
Of course they were done by the same dev as well :-)

Time Crisis 4 runs on Namco Super System 256. The main board appears to be identical to the regular System 256 but it won't run System 256 games so the actual difference is unknown. There's a small LAN board at the right and an extra sound board plugged in on the left side at the front (both are optional, it works without them too), plus a 40GB HDD sitting at the back. All the pieces are bolted to a single piece of wood which is especially nice because it has a little handle cut out at the top of the board for dumpers to easily carry it :-)
The small board at the front in pic #1 is the I/O board. It contains only 1 microcontroller. However the game will boot with the regular Namco System 246 I/O board. I've done a reference video and that will appear on youtube soon.
Note that this is not an emulation target, at least not yet and possibly not for several years. However this and the above Death Smiles are both 'archived' ;-)


Source:guru.mameworld.info