Virtua Tennis 2 / Tennis 2K2 Freezing and rebooting
Hey all,
Just got back into Dreamcasting after a bit of a layoff. My Dreamcast works a treat and I've been playing a fair bit of Virtua Tennis, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi and Sega Marine Fishing. Problem is... whenever I play Virtua Tennis 2 (CDI version), the game freezes or reboots after about a minute or two.
Before anyone says "Clean the PSU pins" - I've both recapped the PSU AND soldered the PSU pins so there's no chance of a contact issue there (when I first got it, most games spontaneously rebooted after 5-10 mins).
I don't think I'm alone: I've found a few other threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/u9y9n7/rp2_having_issues_with_virtual_tennis_2_for/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/virtua-tennis-2-dreamcast-freezes-after-1-2-mins-of-gameplay.500465/
Now, the first one seemed to be using an emulator, but the experience was identical, whilst the second suggested burning another copy. I've tried both Virtua Tennis 2 [DCCM] and Tennis 2K2 from the archive org SEGA Dreamcast SelfBoot CDI Collection. Same experience with both.
I seem to be having an inordinate amount of trouble with this game... which I wouldn't mind if it weren't my favourite DC game!! Any thoughts?
Cheers.