Street Fighter 2 lock-ups?

[lordofchaos]

When playing this game on real hardware (A1200 2MB CHIP, 32MB FAST 68030, WHDLoad 16.9) I seem to experience locks-ups on the loading screens. Usually I start a game, pick a character, have my first fight, loose that match and then pick another fighter. The game then hangs on the loading/VS screen. However if I stay with the same character and retry the fight then game loads?

I have also ran the game in WinUAE using my A600 config and cannot reproduce the fault.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by lordofchaos

When playing this game on real hardware (A1200 2MB CHIP, 32MB FAST 68030, WHDLoad 16.9) I seem to experience locks-ups on the loading screens. Usually I start a game, pick a character, have my first fight, loose that match and then pick another fighter. The game then hangs on the loading/VS screen. However if I stay with the same character and retry the fight then game loads?

I have also ran the game in WinUAE using my A600 config and cannot reproduce the fault.

Hangs and never recovers or hangs and then continues?

Streetfighter 2 halts the system interrupts when doing the disk id checking (Copylock is used for disk identification.

The reason it won't hang if you use the same fighter is because it doesn't do the disk id check as the data is already loaded, but will do it again if a new character is loaded.

Of course in WHDLoad, these checks are removed so it never hangs.

[lordofchaos]

Once the hang occurs it's permanent, I have to hit the F10 key and return to the wb

The exact series of events are as follows:

* Start game
* Select the keyboard controls
* Use default game parameters
* Pick Chun Li
* Loose first fight
* Continue with different character
* Load/VS screen hangs

Update!

I ran the game again today and got a different outcome...Instead of selecting the keyboard controls I picked joystick, Played a couple of rounds with Chu Li before dying, picked another character and was able to keep playing without the hang?...

I quit back to the menu, pausing and then esc. Started game again this time picking keyboard, game started, picked character (Chun Li) and game hung before fight even started? There's definately something weird going on with this game.

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Of course in WHDLoad, these checks are removed so it never hangs.

Are you saying your Street Fighter slave doesn't hang Galahad?

Anybody else encountered this issue with the WHDLoad version of SFII? Or maybe reproduce it?

[Galahad/FLT]

Sounds like a keyboard problem then, i'll look into it this weekend, should be a relatively easy enough fix.

[lordofchaos]

That's fantastic news Sir Galahad of Fairlightshire!

[Codetapper]

Galahad: Are you going to support the other version of Street Fighter 2 I sent you about 5 years ago? (It had a different MFM format, $1400 bytes/track compared with $1600 on the "normal" version). And do you still have those disk images or have you lost them?

[Retro1234]

Sorry to be a pain anyone know why this game won't work with a CD32 pad but will with a Sega pad thanks

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Codetapper

Galahad: Are you going to support the other version of Street Fighter 2 I sent you about 5 years ago? (It had a different MFM format, $1400 bytes/track compared with $1600 on the "normal" version). And do you still have those disk images or have you lost them?

Pass, no idea, i'd have to look.

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Sounds like a keyboard problem then, i'll look into it this weekend, should be a relatively easy enough fix.

Don't suppose you're had a chance to look at this yet Galahad?

[Mad-Matt]

If the Street Fighter 2 slave is being looked at again, The pal/ntsc selector could do with looking at as it causes the screen to do weird things inside whdload. All is fine running from floppy on a standard A1200/A600.

Its not documented anywhere as far as I have seen, but just press 'A' Key on the title screen to pal/ntsc select.