bloody roar 3 is pretty likely to be doable once we start poking at the specifics of the drive requirements. The only thing I can find that prevents 246 games from running on a 256 in 246+ mode is the ATAPI support that is completely missing from the 256.
time crisis 4, there used to be an Italian seller that advertised on AO I think, that had some "modified" TC4 that worked on normal 256.
I'm not 100% skeptical, but I don't think it's as easy as it was made out to be.
We do know that the add-on hardware of the super 256 (the audio board) is unnecessary for the game to work.
That said, the super 256 seems to operate a bit faster than the normal 256, and has more buffer ram. Now, if the buffer ram isn't required to be filled at launch, it might work, albeit with slowdown or somewhat slower gameplay by bypassing the check.
If it does need the ram, like Wangan Midnight, it's likely to be a long and arduous process to get it to work, at best. Right now we suspect that neither version of Wangan Midnight will be hacked any time soon to operate in the normal ram footprint, in part because the operations of the namco components on the board are a bit of a mystery.
time crisis 4, there used to be an Italian seller that advertised on AO I think, that had some "modified" TC4 that worked on normal 256.
I'm not 100% skeptical, but I don't think it's as easy as it was made out to be.
We do know that the add-on hardware of the super 256 (the audio board) is unnecessary for the game to work.
That said, the super 256 seems to operate a bit faster than the normal 256, and has more buffer ram. Now, if the buffer ram isn't required to be filled at launch, it might work, albeit with slowdown or somewhat slower gameplay by bypassing the check.
If it does need the ram, like Wangan Midnight, it's likely to be a long and arduous process to get it to work, at best. Right now we suspect that neither version of Wangan Midnight will be hacked any time soon to operate in the normal ram footprint, in part because the operations of the namco components on the board are a bit of a mystery.