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I have a Chihiro type 3 512M set up netbooting Outrun2 SP just fine.

When I try to boot crazy taxi high roller 512mb it freezes at media board check.

When I try to run wangan games, they change the systems IP to 10.0.0.1 from whatever I had it set up netbooting on. This breaks the "time limit hack" and causes gateway not found error. I haven't tried just setting the chihiro to that IP to try to mitigate this because that seems like unnecessary work.

Any tips from anyone successfully netbooting either of these games? I have a PIC from mitsu, but I still have to leave triforcetools running to keep the system online.
 
I could never get CTHR working. 1GB or 512MB. People say it works, but I can't figure it out.
 
The wangan game changing the network ip once the game started is normal for networked games. I am suprised your outrun setup isn't doing this as well.
On Outrun, you can choose the upright cabinet. That disables the steering force feedback check and might disable in game networking as well.
The Wangan games probably never got released on an upright setting and always where a networked dual player. In that case, the cabinet trick won't work.

So, for wangan, you will need a another netboot pic so that you can disconnect the triforcetools program once the game is uploaded and started.
Some netboot pic's don't work on the chihiro 3 due to wrong oscillator settings of the pic configuration register. The chihiro 1 used an xtal,
and the 3 uses a ceramic oscillator for the security pic. I was under the impression that the chihiro couldn't run without the pic.
If it's indeed it's oscillator settings, it should be identical to having no pic at all.

CTHR needs to be patched to work on a chihiro 3. I documented this on another threat of this forum. HOTD3 Needs a similar patch.
After being patched, it runs on my chihiro 3 setup with custom bios. No idea if it will still run on original hardware, but it's worth a try.

If the file that is altered (boot.id) has an embedded hash check, it won't work on an original bios after the patch.
 
I have the PIC (it indeed won't boot without one). But even with the one Mitsu burned me the system cannot disconnect without crashing. He is the only one I know to claim to have a working type3 key.

OR2 keeps its IP and works fine. I leave tcpdump running to watch and troubleshoot.

If anyone has a working CTHR I'd be most appreciative.

Edit: I'll try this one CHIHIRO: CRAZY TAXI FIXED FOR CHIHIRO TYPE 3 and update
 
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Some CTHR patched images in the wild have the demo mode messed up.

The patch I made should work on the normal chihiro 1 CTHR image.

If all works well, ignore this
 
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