Updated Difficult to Emulate Games (markdown)

Difficult-to-Emulate-Games.md

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-Monkey Hero
+### Monkey Hero
  - DMA transfer timing or FMVs lock up
  - Commands spanning multiple blocks
 
-Hot Wheels Turbo Racing
+### Hot Wheels Turbo Racing
  - DMA timing or hangs on startup/ingame
 
-Syphon Filter (series)
+### Syphon Filter (series)
  - Infinite DMA linked list/chains
 
-Valkyrie Profile
+### Valkyrie Profile
  - Requires DMA timing otherwise battles time out/lock up
 
-Red Asphalt
-Dukes of Hazzard, The - Racing for Home 
-Little Princess - Marl Oukoku no Ningyou-hime 2
+### Red Asphalt
+### Dukes of Hazzard, The - Racing for Home 
+### Little Princess - Marl Oukoku no Ningyou-hime 2
  - Hangs in various locations if DMA timing is off
  - Locks up if DMA timing is off/CPU does not run
 
-Suikoden (version 1.0, not 1.1)
+### Suikoden (version 1.0, not 1.1)
  - Two releases, the old version corrupts palettes if you don't emulate fetch timing from the BIOS ROM
  - It executes a bunch of memmoves (running from uncached ROM), which can't complete too quickly, racing the DMA
  - Interestingly, version 1.1 spams printf during the same screen transition with a bunch of a's and a number suffix
 
-Deadheat Road
+### Deadheat Road
  - Kicks off a DMA chain involving a VRAM fill, which takes a while to complete,
  - then does a memcpy out of uncached ROM
  - then zeroes out some of the headers in the DMA chain before it finishes
  - Will hang emulators (if they don't properly handle infinite LLs) or the game will time out and skip a bunch of texture uploads in the loading scren
 
-Alice in Cyberland
+### Alice in Cyberland
  - HUD/UI will flicker during battles if draw and DMA timing is instant
 
-Battle Arena Toshinden
+### Battle Arena Toshinden
  - Runs too fast if CPU/GPU timing is off
 
-Bust A Groove Series
+### Bust A Groove Series
  - Audio will drift slowly over time with game if GPU frame rate is incorrect
 
-Championship Motocross 2001 featuring Ricky Carmichael
+### Championship Motocross 2001 featuring Ricky Carmichael
  - Sensitive to DMA timing - rider will be missing from bike if incorrect
 
-Evil Dead - Hail to the King (USA)
+### Evil Dead - Hail to the King (USA)
  - Needs timer0 clocked from dot clock emulated
 
-NASCAR 2001
+### NASCAR 2001
  - Main menu music will drop in and out if SPU interrupts are not re-triggered after enabling
 
-Skullmonkeys
+### Skullmonkeys
  - Requires GPU coordinate truncation/sign-extension otherwise objects will be missing
 
-Formula One 99
+### Formula One 99
  - Requires CPU icache emulation
 
-Spyro 2 PAL
-Spyro 3 PAL
+### Spyro 2 PAL
+### Spyro 3 PAL
  - Libcrypt protection is really nasty - the cop0 instructions to grab are xor-obfuscated, and written immediately before execution
  - Naive icache implementations will break - you need to handle partial line fetches from non-16-byte-aligned addresses
 
-Parasite Eve 2
-Disney's Treasure Planet
+### Parasite Eve 2
+### Disney's Treasure Planet
  - Sensitive to MDEC timing
 
-Pro Pinball Series, True Pinball
+### Pro Pinball Series, True Pinball
  - Requires interlaced rendering (line skipping) otherwise hangs on startup
 
-Dead or Alive
-Mr Driller G
+### Dead or Alive
+### Mr Driller G
  - Requires interlaced rendering, otherwise artifacts on screen in various locations
 
-Vampire Hunter D
+Vamp### ire Hunter D
  - Screws with GPU packets after enabling DMA, requires CPU to run in parallel otherwise menu will be black
 
-Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
+### Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
  - Triggers interrupts by setting cop0 bits in software, can be tricky for recompilers
 
-Remote Control Dandy
+### Remote Control Dandy
  - Requires VRAM transfers to be masked to 9 bits
 
-Shadow Master
-Threads of Fate
+### Shadow Master
+### Threads of Fate
  - Branches in branch delay slots, fun times for recompilers
 
-Tales of Phantasia
+### Tales of Phantasia
  - Battle transitions will finish too quickly if GPU draw timings are not emulated
 
-Silent Hill
-Ghost In The Shell
-TwinBee RPG
-Duke Nukem - Land of the Babes
-Ultraman - Fighting Evolution
+### Silent Hill
+### Ghost In The Shell
+### TwinBee RPG
+### Duke Nukem - Land of the Babes
+### Ultraman - Fighting Evolution
  - Various graphical errors if mask bit is not emulated correctly
 
-Megatudo 2096
-NBA Jam Extreme
-Zero Divide
+### Megatudo 2096
+### NBA Jam Extreme
+### Zero Divide
  - Requires semi-accurate CPU timings (icache/fetch) and GPU draw timings, otherwise games run too fast
 
-Moto Racer
-Frogger
-Pandemonium!
-Adidas Power Soccer 98
-Armored Core
-Auto Destruct
+### Moto Racer
+### Frogger
+### Pandemonium!
+### Adidas Power Soccer 98
+### Armored Core
+### Auto Destruct
  - Sensitive to DMA timing (and CPU/DMA slices), otherwise controller input is dropped