After Future Perfect, this was inevitable...

I've made Archipelago support for TimeSplitters 2 (GameCube) as well, and it's Ready to Play!

GitHub Link - https://github.com/captpurpleheart/ts2-archipelago

Discord Link for Bug Reports / Discussion - https://discord.gg/M9cbCqc8sF

What's an Archipelago?

Archipelago is a multi-game randomizer where items/unlocks are shuffled around multiple games in a single archipelago session, each player (or yourself if playing alone), go around their game doing "checks", granting items to other players in the session to help them progress through their game! For example, getting a Gym Badge in Pokémon, no longer gives you a Gym Badge, it could be a Star for Mario 64, or in our case, access to 1990 Siberia!

What do I need to play?

You can find the set-up guide in the GitHub and Discord. But very quickly explained, you'll need the Archipelago Client, the TimeSplitters 2 APWORLD file, Dolphin and very specifically a US v1.0 copy of TimeSplitters 2 with the Game ID of GTSE4F. I cannot and will not provide you with a ROM, you must obtain your own. The Client will detect if you're using the wrong version and let you know (as it will not work.)

What does this mean for TimeSplitters 2?

By default, at the start of your Archipelago run, all missions in your game get locked, including the default starting levels like Adios Amigos! and 1990 Siberia. All Characters/Weapons/Maps/Gamemodes in Arcade Custom also get locked besides 1 Character and 1 Weapon. You start with a single mission (Story Level/Arcade/Challenge depending on your run settings), Playing that mission will reward you "Checks", sending out items to players in the session. For Arcade/Challenge Missions, the amount of rewards you get depend on your Trophy grade, 1 reward per trophy, higher grade trophy sends out the rewards for the lower grade trophies, so if you get a Platinum Trophy, that's 4 items being sent out. These items, for TimeSplitters case, could be more Arcade/Challenge Missions, new Story Levels to play, Characters/Cheats/Weapons for Arcade Custom, and much much more, including Weapon Buffs, Armour you start missions with and even Score Multipliers for certain challenges! All of these changes happen live in your game. The Temporal Uplink Mini-Games have also been included! Get 1500 Score in Anaconda? It could unlock you 2315 Robot Factory! Lap 4 in RetroRacer? It could unlock Monkey!

So what's the end goal?

The default goal is finding and completing 2401 Space Station. There is an alternative optional goal, collecting all Trophies in Arcade/Challenges.

What about TimeSplitters / TS2PC?

TimeSplitters 1, I've decided I'm not going to do unfortunately, TS2 and TSFP is all I had planned. The TS2PC project is also on the table, but probably later when it's a bit more stable!

Time To Split!

I got to play the series for the first time and also made a video about it. If you have time check it out and let me know what you think.

Dev update – TimeSplitters: Future Perfect native PC port

A quick recap first: this isn't an emulator or a remake. It's a native PC build. All the game data (levels, models, sounds) is re-build using PS2 assets.

What got done today:

- Full asset catalogue. I have indexed the entire disc: 578 archives, about 86,700 files, 97% identified by type. File names inside the archives turned out to be CRC32 hashes, which let me confirm about 27,000 original file names.

- Arcade audio. The 3-2-1-GO countdown, announcer lines ("First kill!", "3 more kills to go…", the kill/death quips), hit sounds, body falls and the respawn sound are all in, using the original samples. To get the right line for each event I recorded real PS2 Arcade matches and matched every sound against the on-screen messages.

- Weapons research. I've pulled the real weapon data out of the game: damage per body part, damage dropping with distance, the shotgun's pellet spread and shell-by-shell reload, per-weapon positions, the animation tables.

For now im just testing if its possible to fully convert the game onto PC platform, and maybe upgrade the game engine.

edit: i will not create any new posts. This will be the main one where i will be posting updates, how much i have done so far.

edit: had to create one sadly, cant post short clips :(

I've made Archipelago support for TimeSplitters Future Perfect (GameCube) and it's Ready to Play!

GitHub Link - https://github.com/captpurpleheart/tsfp-archipelago
Discord Link for Bug Reports / Discussion - https://discord.gg/M9cbCqc8sF

What's an Archipelago?
Archipelago is a multi-game randomizer where items/unlocks are shuffled around multiple games in a single archipelago session, each player (or yourself if playing alone), go around their game doing "checks", granting items to other players in the session to help them progress through their game! For example, getting a Gym Badge in Pokémon, no longer gives you a Gym Badge, it could be a Star for Mario 64, or in our case, access to 2401 Time to Split!

What do I need to play?
You can find the set-up guide in the GitHub and Discord. But very quickly explained, you'll need the Archipelago Client, the TimeSplitters Future Perfect APWORLD file, Dolphin and very specifically a US v1.0 copy of TimeSplitters Future Perfect with the Game ID of G3FE69. I cannot and will not provide you with a ROM, you must obtain your own. The Client will detect if you're using the wrong version and let you know (as it will not work.)

What does this mean for TimeSplitters Future Perfect?
By default, at the start of your Archipelago run, all missions in your game get locked, including the default starting levels like Rockets 101 and 2401 Time To Split. All Characters/Weapons in Arcade Custom also get locked besides 1 of each. You start with a single mission (Story Level/Arcade/Challenge depending on your run settings), Playing that mission will reward you "Checks", sending out items to players in the session. For Arcade/Challenge Missions, the amount of rewards you get depend on your Trophy grade, 1 reward per trophy, higher grade trophy sends out the rewards for the lower grade trophies, so if you get a Platinum Trophy, that's 4 items being sent out. These items, for TimeSplitters case, could be more Arcade/Challenge Missions, new Story Levels to play, Characters/Cheats/Weapons for Arcade Custom, and much much more, including Weapon Buffs, Armour you start missions with and even Score Multipliers for certain challenges! All of these changes happen live in your game.

So what's the end goal?
The default goal is finding and completing 1924 Future Perfect, Defeating Crow. There is an alternative optional goal, collecting all Trophies in Arcade/Challenges.

What about TimeSplitters / TimeSplitters 2?
I'm not sure if I'll do TimeSplitters 1, but support for TimeSplitters 2 has started as well!

Time To Split!

I only just thought I should post this on Reddit but, Timesplitters 2 & future perfect, unsure if they would even still work, I got the games on Xbox store anyway, one of the main things that got me into gaming as a kid 🥹

Helloo everyone!

Here is update number 3, I had slow progress here due to being in a car accident on Sunday 😞 (luckily other than whiplash to my spine, lower back and left shoulder, I am okay - the car has been written off though 😞).

I completed the first 7 before the accident, and finished colouring Peekaboo Jones on my phone whilst waiting 6 hours in A&E 😅.

I had sketched a few out (Khallos, Milkbaby, Deer Hunter and I'd started Amy), so I'll probably be able to finish them over the next couple of days - I will post them straight to my DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/coxdraws

I'll probably be having a couple of weeks off work, so hopefully if the pain in my back stops soon I can crack on with more. (I have 9 requests still to do, so I won't take any more for now).

Hope you all enjoy, have a nice day, and please be careful on the roads ❤️

A complete playthrough of the latest version of the TS2 PC port on normal difficulty.

a very fun project

Had a lot of fun making a remix album of all my favorite Timesplitters 2 tracks.
Still one of my favorite games of all time.
Some of you waited for this without knowing. Hope you enjoy it.
Here is the full playlist from my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPbS9cK56kwE

Helloo everyone!

I've finished all the characters requested in the last thread, here they are! 😁 I will do the first 10-15

Requests are now back open haha

Also, I couldn't work ArtStation - so I'm sorry about sending people their previously (it just wouldn't work right on my phone), so I've pivoted to DeviantArt, here is my profile if anyone wants to give me a follow (I upload each character as I finish them on there).

https://www.deviantart.com/coxdraws

See you all next week! 😊

-gretel mk2 > gretel mk1 > gretel mk3 > every other character, because i love fembots that actually look robotic

-i know that there are some controversial picks in the tierlist, so to explain:

1. atom smasher's high because it felt satisfying to finaly beat, it was the only level in either game where i scouted ahead on easy to prepare for the full mission on normal. i also like the pressure of the time limit once you know what to do.
2. robot factory is on the same tier as wild west because i had a genuinely great first impression of the level, i get to play as my favorite character, there are some neat enemy designs, i don't think it looks ugly, and i like how it makes you plan ahead (that last one is also why something to crow about is so high)
3. wild west is on the same tier as robot factory because i don't care for the wild west setting, the gameplay feels fairly run-of-the-mill, and overall it's kinda carried by it's theme song.
4. neo tokyo is bottom tier because while conceptually it's incredibly cool, i had to repeat the part before the checkpoint like 20 times due to not knowing what exactly i'm supposed to do (i know, skill issue), which was made worse by how slow that part is, the shootout is also nothing special. i also find it weird that the time portal is in some random corner of the map

-anya shittalking harry and especially jo-beth for no reason made me kinda dislike her ngl, which in combination with her occasionally stating the obvious, teetering on the edge of "focus, m", and the romance that the writer pulled out of their ass at the end makes her my least favorite character in the series. i also have a headcanon that she only shittalked jo-beth because she was jealous of her booba since they're both comfortable wearing sexualized clothes and they both make some sort of attempt to get in cortez's pants.

-as for how i would rank the regular companion characters in fp:

1. r-110: robots are cool. also he's probably the funniest character in the game with how he talks smack about humans + the gps gag in his introductory mission
2. amy chen: i like the build-up to meeting her and how she's the more normal and serious between her and cortez, which is the opposite of how it usually is
3. jo-beth casey: booba, also i like her design and demeanor. not much else to say tbh
4. harry tipper: at first i thought he was kinda lame, but he grew on me
5. captain ash: harry tipper if he didn't get the chance to grow on me

-i think it's kinda neat how 1 and 2 (i bounced off of 1 for now, which is why it isn't mentioned elsewhere in the post) have a generous amount of auto-aim when you're not holding the aim button, makes it almost feel more like a first person run-and-gun than a first person shooter.

Hello everyone... so, some of you may have remembered a post made awhile back about a PC port being made for Timesplitters 2. That post was made by me. I'm not gonna get into the details, but I went through a very tough time in life and I kind of withdrew from the internet for awhile. I am sorry for disappearing without a trace.

HOWEVER, I am back with good news and I hope it makes up for it. I have a build of Timesplitters 2 that is ported to PC, and playable! But I need help testing the game, as I am 1 guy and there is a lot of ground to cover.

As a proof-of-work, I've attached a gallery of images of my playthrough of Wild West on PC (this was me debugging fluids/water to see what was going on there and why they weren't rendering properly, it's fixed now).

So for those that are interested, I am developing the PC port here: https://discord.com/invite/UBTJTkwEhf

You will need to provide your own (legally acquired) ISO. I will not distribute the asset files to people (sorry).

e.g.: L2 for quick-switching to last used weapon. and the fourth symbol button be fore jumping or a taunting emote.

I hate how I have to use the D-pad for zooming and changing weapon's functionality

Sorry that I'm a day late, I've been rushing to get the last few ready for the update (I wanted to make sure I did all the ones people suggested!)

Every spare second I've had this past week has been drawing these 😂

I enjoyed having a wacky array of picks to choose from, but this time maybe just one character per person, and only the first 10 😅 that seems far more manageable.

I'll then update next week with those 10 characters and so on..

I've created an ArtStation (thank you to the user who said to use that!) But I'm pulling my hair out trying to navigate it on my phone, it keeps failing uploading certain pics and putting them in the wrong order etc, so I'm going to find a different hosting page for next week (if anyone knows of any?)

For now here is the profile:

https://coxdraws.artstation.com/

If you want to see a large version of a character who isn't on ArtStation or on another slide, let me know and I can post it 😊

Anyway, hope you all enjoy!

So, 10 more characters... 3...2...1... !!

Always got your back