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Star Wars Arcade - Randomly Crashes on Attract Mode, both JP and US versions

a-barone opened this issue · comments

S32X Core version:
Release 20220607

Hi! In order to try and help with the scenario delimitation for the Star Wars Arcade bugs, I decided to use the attract mode as a reference since it requires less effort from the developers to reproduce a bug this way.

Since the attract mode uses in-game sequences, I believe that fixing it might as well fix the gameplay crashes reported by these two issues:
#31
#12

As cited in those previous reports, the crashes occur randomly but if you leave the attract mode running they will occur sooner or later; and they seem to occur more often/sooner in the Japanese version for whatever reason.

First, two videos showing the Japanese version of the game crashing on the S32X Core while running side-by-side with a real Genesis 32X setup:
Real Hardware (Left) | S32X Core (Right)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkemYXrGodk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1FY8c3-m8

And now, two videos showing the US version of the game crashing on the S32X Core while running side-by-side with a real Genesis 32X setup:
Real Hardware (Left) | S32X Core (Right)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9Rln-AURc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuv9oD-10DA