PROP CYCLE, RAVE RACER, TOKYO WARS, DIRT DASH, TIME CRISIS, ACE DRIVER, CYBER COMMANDO, RIDGE RACER 2, CYBER SLED, TIME CRISIS 2, CRISIS ZONE and ANGLER KING
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1. Put the MAME ROM sets into the "roms" folder (don't unzip them):
     Prop Cycle   propcycl.zip
     Rave Racer   raverace.zip  and  namcoc74.zip
     Tokyo Wars   tokyowar.zip
     Dirt Dash    dirtdash.zip
     Armadillo Racing  adillor.zip
     Time Crisis  timecris.zip
     Ace Driver   acedrive.zip  and  namcoc74.zip
     Cyber Commando  cybrcomm.zip  and  namcoc74.zip
     Ridge Racer 2   ridgera2.zip  and  namcoc74.zip
     Cyber Sled   cybsled.zip  and  namcoc67.zip  and  namcoc68.zip
     Time Crisis 2  timecrs2.zip
     Crisis Zone  crszone.zip
     Angler King  aking.zip

2. Double-click PropCycle.exe, RaveRacer.exe, TokyoWars.exe, DirtDash.exe, ArmadilloRacing.exe, TimeCrisis.exe, AceDriver.exe, CyberCommando.exe, RidgeRacer2.exe, CyberSled.exe, TimeCrisis2.exe, CrisisZone.exe or AnglerKing.exe.

That's it. The first start takes a few seconds while it unpacks the ROMs.
Nothing needs installing. Keep the "mesa" folder beside PropCycle.exe: it is
a software OpenGL that Prop Cycle uses only when Windows has no real graphics
driver to offer (a virtual machine, Remote Desktop) -- slower, but it runs.


KEYS -- PROP CYCLE
------------------
  5             insert a coin
  Enter         start
  Arrow keys    steer and lean
  Esc           menu  (File > Restart or Exit, volume, controls, levels)
  F12           screenshot

KEYS -- RAVE RACER
------------------
  5             insert a coin
  X / Up        gas            Z / Down   brake
  Left / Right  steer          A / S      shift down / up
  V             change view    Esc        menu (free play, volume, ...)
  F11           fullscreen     F12        screenshot

KEYS -- TOKYO WARS
------------------
  5             insert a coin           Enter      start
  Left / Right  steer (or A / D)        Up / Down  forward / backward pedal (or W / S)
  X / Z         right / left trigger    9          service
  Enter (in a battle)  view: chase -> far chase -> cockpit
  R / F         left stick forward / back   I / K   right stick forward / back (tank style, as Cyber Sled)
  Esc           menu: Display (widescreen, window mode, resolution, frame rate ...),
                Audio (volume), Controls (rebind the keys)
  F11           fullscreen              F12        screenshot
  Two joysticks: Esc -> Controls, the rows at the bottom (see TWO STICKS below).

KEYS -- TIME CRISIS
-------------------
  The MOUSE is the gun: move it to aim.        Left button   shoot (also starts the game)
  Right button / Z   the foot pedal: step out of cover to attack, step back, reload
  5   insert a coin (a game costs three)       9 service       F2 the operator's test switch
  Esc menu     F8   a white border round the picture (some light guns need it)     F11 fullscreen
  A light gun that acts as an absolute mouse (Sinden, Gun4IR, OpenFIRE, Reaper, AimTrak) works as is: shoot just OUTSIDE the
  screen (or hold R / the gun's side button) to reload. Arrow keys / a pad's right stick aim too.

KEYS -- TIME CRISIS 2
---------------------
  The MOUSE is the gun: move it to aim.        Left button   shoot
  Right button / Z / X   the foot pedal: come out of cover (let go to take cover and reload)
  5   insert a coin                            9 service       F2 the operator's test switch
  Esc menu     F8   a white border round the picture (some light guns need it)     F11 fullscreen     F12 screenshot
  Reload: shoot off the screen, hold R / the gun's side button, or let go of the pedal. A pad: a stick aims, A / RB shoots,
  B / LB is the pedal. Recoil guns: the solenoid goes out as MAME's network output (Hook Of The Reaper, MAMEHooker): copy
  hotr\timecrs2.txt into Hook of the Reaper's defaultLG folder (see hotr\README.txt). Display > Recoil outputs turns it on / off.
  Its settings are in tc2.cfg and its rankings in tc2_backup.nv beside the .exe; the log is tc2.log.
  CRISIS ZONE: the same keys (crszone.cfg, crszone_backup.nv; the log is tc2.log too).

KEYS -- ANGLER KING
-------------------
  The MOUSE (or the arrow keys, or a pad stick) aims the rod.   Left button / Space / Enter   cast and select (starts a game too)
  R / Left Shift (held)   reel the line in              W / S, PageUp / PageDown   the game's menu up / down
  5   insert a coin     9 service     F2 the operator's test switch     Esc menu (Subtitles: English for the Japanese captions)
  A pad: a stick aims, A casts, B / right trigger reels, the shoulders select, Back coin, R3 the menu.
  Keep aking_subtitles.txt beside AnglerKing.exe. Its settings are in aking.cfg and its records in aking_backup.nv; the log is tc2.log.

KEYS -- DIRT DASH
-----------------
  5             insert a coin (a game costs two)     C          select (view change / confirm)
  Left / Right  steer (or A / D)                     X          gas (throttle)
  Z             brake                                Q / E      shift down / up
  M             motion stop                          9          service
  Esc           menu: Display (widescreen, window mode, resolution, frame rate ...),
                Audio (volume; front speakers / road speaker mix), Controls (rebind the keys)
  F11           fullscreen                           F12        screenshot

KEYS -- ARMADILLO RACING
------------------------
  The MOUSE is the trackball: roll it to run (it is captured while you play; Esc releases it).
  A USB trackball is a mouse and works as is. Arrow keys or a pad's left stick / D-pad roll the ball too.
  5             insert a coin (a game costs four)    Left button / 1 / Enter   start
  9             service                              F2         the operator's test switch
  Esc           menu: Display, Audio, Controls (trackball sensitivity and orientation, rebind the keys)
  F11           fullscreen                           F12        screenshot

KEYS -- ACE DRIVER
------------------
  5             insert a coin (a game costs two)
  X / Up        gas            Z / Down   brake
  Left / Right  steer          A / S      shift down / up
  V             change view    F2         the operator's test switch
  Esc           menu (free play, volume, controls, force feedback; Debug: developer screens left in the game)
  F11           fullscreen     F12        screenshot

KEYS -- CYBER COMMANDO  (Cyber Sled's layout)
----------------------
  5             insert a coin (a game costs two)
  Arrow keys    drive (both sticks; Left / Right turn on the spot, Shift + Left / Right strafe)
  E / D / S / F the left stick            I / K / J / L   the right stick
  Z             gun                       X           missile
  C             change view               F2          the operator's test switch
  Esc           menu (free play, volume, controls)
  F11           fullscreen                F12         screenshot
  Pad: the left and right sticks are the cabinet's two sticks, A / RT gun, B / LT missile, Y view.
  Two joysticks: Esc -> Controls, Enter on "Left stick up" and push the left joystick forward, and so on
  for every direction of both sticks and every button (see TWO STICKS below).

KEYS -- RIDGE RACER 2
---------------------
  5             insert a coin (a game costs three)
  X / Up        gas (it also confirms in the menus: there is no Start button)
  Z / Down      brake          Left / Right  steer
  A / S         shift down / up
  F2            the operator's test switch (press again to leave)       9   service
  Esc           menu: Display (widescreen ...), Audio, Controls; Debug: the game's developer screens
  F11           fullscreen     F12        screenshot
  Pad: left stick steer, A gas, B brake, shoulders shift, Back coin, Start or R3 menu.

KEYS -- CYBER SLED
------------------
  5             insert a coin             1 / Enter   start
  Arrow keys    drive (both levers; Left / Right turn on the spot, Shift + Left / Right strafe)
  E / D / S / F the left lever           I / K / J / L   the right lever
  Z             gun                       X           missile
  C             change view               F2          the operator's test switch
  Esc           menu (Online: a battle against a friend over the internet or your network; Debug: developer screens)
  F12           screenshot
  Pad: the left and right sticks are the two levers, A / RT gun, B / LT missile, Y view.
  Two joysticks: Esc -> Controls (see TWO STICKS below).

TWO STICKS -- CYBER SLED, CYBER COMMANDO AND TOKYO WARS
-------------------------------------------------------
  Tokyo Wars drives the tank the same way: each stick is one track. Both forward = forward, both back =
  backward, one forward and one back = turn on the spot (half and half = a curve). Its rows are each
  stick's forward / back, each stick's trigger and a start / view button; the wheel and pedals keep working.
  Esc -> Controls binds each stick's up / down / left / right, the tank rows and every button.
  Enter on a row, then press a key or button, push a hat or move a stick (Esc cancels).
  Left clears a row, Right puts its defaults back.
  A row takes two keys, two gamepad inputs and two joysticks (e.g. the trigger on each stick for Gun).
  Two joysticks of the same model show as "#2" for the second one plugged in: plug them in in the
  same order each time. "Stick deadzone" sets how far a stick moves before it counts.

A game controller works in all of them; a wheel with force feedback works in Rave Racer and Ace Driver.


PROBLEMS?
---------
"... needs its ROMs"            The zips are not in the roms folder, or they
                                are the wrong game. You need the MAME sets
                                "propcycl" (World, PR2 Ver.A), "raverace"
                                (World, RV2 Ver.B) plus "namcoc74", and
                                "tokyowar" (World, TW2 Ver.A),
                                "dirtdash" (World, DT2 Ver.A), "adillor"
                                (World, AM2 Ver.A), "timecris"
                                (World, TS2 Ver.B), "acedrive" (World, AD2)
                                plus "namcoc74", "cybrcomm" (Japan, CY1)
                                plus "namcoc74", "ridgera2" (World, RRS2)
                                plus "namcoc74", and "cybsled" (World, CY2)
                                plus "namcoc67" and "namcoc68".

"Windows protected your PC"     Click "More info", then "Run anyway".
                                (The games are not signed.)

Slow or stuttering              Open the game's log (raveracer.log, tokyowars.log, dirtdash.log, adillor.log, timecris.log, acedriver.log, cybrcomm.log, ridgeracer2.log, cybsled.log,
                                propcycl.log beside the .exe). The line "[HOST] OpenGL: ..." says which
                                graphics chip is used: on a laptop with two of them it must be the
                                fast one (NVIDIA / AMD card). If not, set it by hand: Windows Settings >
                                System > Display > Graphics > add the .exe > Options > High performance.
                                "llvmpipe", "GDI Generic" or "Microsoft Basic Render Driver" means no graphics
                                driver is installed. Plug the laptop in; a 60 Hz screen mode is smoothest.

Black screen or won't start     Update your graphics driver. In a virtual
                                machine Prop Cycle falls back to the "mesa"
                                folder (software rendering) -- keep it beside
                                PropCycle.exe.

Something else                  Each game writes a log beside it, from its
                                last start: propcycl.log / raveracer.log / tokyowar.log / dirtdash.log / adillor.log / timecris.log / acedriver.log / cybrcomm.log / ridgeracer2.log / cybsled.log.
                                It says what went wrong.

Settings on the command line (a shortcut's "Target", after the .exe): --set KEY=VALUE for any line of
the game's .cfg file, for that run only (e.g. --set widescreen=1 --set volume=50), and --fullscreen.
Time Crisis II and Crisis Zone also take --host, --join, --server ADDR, --name NAME, --instance 2 (a second
copy on this PC) and --pos X,Y[,SIZE] (its window): two copies side by side for a LAN game.

Keep the folder somewhere you can write to (Downloads, Desktop, Documents --
not Program Files): the games unpack their ROMs and save settings there.

Needs Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
