Virtua Cop 2 (1997) - Rea-Virtua-Cop-2-VR

SolKutTeR · 21. August 2026 um 16:42 Uhr

Kennt jemand noch diese Lightgun Perle, abseits von House of the Dead natürlich?
Vom User NeuralF gibt es nun eine erste PCVR-BetaMod für Virtua Cop 2 (1997).

Virtua Cop 2 VR (VC2VR) — beta
Beta release. Shooting, aiming, zoom and menus work end to end; some level sections still show draw-order glitches (see Known issues). Feedback welcome.

A native VR mod for the 1997 PC port of Virtua Cop 2. Not a flat screen in a headset — the mod intercepts the game's software renderer, reconstructs the real 3D scene from the geometry the engine projects every frame, and re-renders it for your headset through OpenXR, with the game's original textures, lighting and sky. Your motion controller is the light gun: point and shoot, exactly like the arcade cabinet.

Full 6DoF view of the actual level geometry (look around corners the flat game never showed)

Motion-controller light gun with a laser sight — where the laser points is where the game registers the hit, at any zoom level

The game's own cinematic zoom moments are mirrored in VR automatically

Menus, cutscenes and score screens appear on a floating screen you can click with the laser

No game files are modified on disk

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Requirements

Your own copy of Virtua Cop 2 for PC (1997). No game files are included in this mod and none ever will be.

A PC VR headset with an OpenXR runtime (SteamVR, Oculus/Meta Link, etc.)

Windows, x64

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Installation
The 1997 game loads its data from ..\BIN\ - one level ABOVE its working directory. A default install puts PPJ2DD.EXE in the game root next to the BIN folder, so launched from there it cannot find its own data (it then goes hunting for a CD and dies with not found <drive>:\...\MOTCMN.BIN). The fix is a subfolder:

<game folder>\
BIN\ <- game data, already there
PROJECT\ <- CREATE this folder

Create a PROJECT folder inside the game folder and copy ALL files from the game root into it - files only, not the folders (BIN stays where it is). Check that the game runs from there on its own. Always start it with PROJECT as the working directory - a shortcut with an empty "Start in" field brings the data error back.

Copy HGL_VIEW.DLL and HGL_VIEW.ini into that PROJECT\ folder too.

Put VC2VR.exe, VC2VR.ini and openxr_loader.dll together in any folder (they do not need to be near the game).

That is all - no wrappers or other third-party files are needed.

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Running

Start your VR runtime (e.g. SteamVR).

Start the game. The graphics selector lists the game's own renderers (Direct Draw, Direct 3D) plus Direct 3D + 3D view - that entry IS the mod (it proxies the game's Direct 3D renderer). Pick it. The choice is remembered in vcop2.ini, so this is a one-time step per install.

Start a level.

Run VC2VR.exe and put the headset on. The mod pulls the game window to the front by itself (the game pauses when unfocused), finds the game process and starts mirroring. Stand facing your monitor at that moment — the first head pose becomes the camera.

If the game itself dies on start with not found ...BIN\MOTCMN.BIN (or a similar .BIN path on some drive letter), it could not find its data: the BIN folder is not one level above the working directory - the exe is still in the game root, or the shortcut's "Start in" is wrong. See the Installation section; this is the game's own loader, not the mod.

If VR input works but no picture arrives (the --window title shows 0 triangles): the game is drawing through a different renderer. The mod's hooks install as soon as the game scans its renderer DLLs, but geometry only flows when Direct 3D + 3D view is the selected device - pick it again in the selector, or carry your old vcop2.ini over.

If the headset shows "waiting for the game": the D3D + 3D view mode was not selected, or share=0 in HGL_VIEW.ini. VC2VR.exe --window renders to a flat window instead of the headset, which is useful to tell a game-side problem from a VR-runtime problem.
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Controls

Trigger Fire (the hand that fired last holds the gun)

A / X Reload (Start / Enter in menus)

B / Y Back (Esc)

Thumbstick — flick up Zoom toggle (flick again to drop it)

Thumbstick — click Floating menu screen: auto / always / off

Grip (squeeze) Recenter view

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Configuration
VC2VR.ini (VR side): msaa, supersample, zoom (magnification cap, %), zoomspeed (glide speed), autozoom (follow the game's own cinematic zoom), hidecross (hide the game's flat crosshair sprite, the laser replaces it), aimreach (where the laser ends on a miss, metres), focusgame.

HGL_VIEW.ini (game side): units_per_metre (world scale; smaller if the world feels like a dollhouse, larger if gigantic), capture and rendering keys. Both files are commented.
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How it works (short version)
The game draws through a pluggable renderer DLL (HGL_D3D.DLL). This mod's HGL_VIEW.DLL sits in front of it, reads every textured quad the engine submits, and un-projects it back into 3D using the projection values the game is using that frame (the engine changes its FOV at runtime). Decoded textures, geometry and the engine's own depth keys go into shared memory. A separate 64-bit process, VC2VR.exe, renders that scene for both eyes via OpenXR — two processes because a 32-bit game and a 64-bit VR runtime cannot share one. Controller aim is ray-cast against the reconstructed scene and the hit is projected back through the game's live camera into the game's own light-gun input, so the laser and the game always agree on where you shot.
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Known issues

Occasional draw-order glitches on some level sections (engine blend/fog flags are not fully decoded yet).

Magnified view amplifies head shake — physics, not a bug; lower the zoom cap if it bothers you.

If the floating menu screen stays black, run the game windowed — the screen capture cannot see an exclusive-fullscreen window.

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Building from source
Cross-compiles from Linux with mingw-w64. OpenXR headers: include/openxr/*.h from OpenXR-SDK tag release-1.0.34 into ./oxr/openxr/.

x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -O2 -s -I oxr -o VC2VR.exe src/vc2vr.c \
-ld3d11 -ld3dcompiler -ldxgi -ldxguid -luser32
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -O2 -s -shared -o HGL_VIEW.DLL src/hgl_view.c \
-Wl,--kill-at -ld3d11 -ld3dcompiler -luser32 -lgdi32 -ldxguid

vc2vr.c builds the exact released VC2VR.exe. hgl_view.c is the full renderer of the released DLL, but the released binary additionally contains a small (~3.5 KB) joystick input module that emulates the light gun for the game; its source is being reconstructed and will land in this repo - until then a DLL built from this file renders but does not shoot. Use the released DLL.
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Legal
This mod contains no assets or code from Virtua Cop 2. It is a fan-made interoperability project provided as-is, free, for owners of the original game. Virtua Cop 2 is © SEGA. Not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA. openxr_loader.dll is from the Khronos OpenXR SDK (Apache 2.0).
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joe209 · 21. August 2026 um 17:01 Uhr

Wow ist das übel...sehr schlecht gealtert Ich war ein Fan von Mad Dog mcree damals auf cd-rom... Davon ne scharfe Neuauflage würde ich bevorzugen

Cannibalpinhead · 21. August 2026 um 18:50 Uhr

Zitat von joe209: ↑

Wow ist das übel...sehr schlecht gealtert Ich war ein Fan von Mad Dog mcree damals auf cd-rom... Davon ne scharfe Neuauflage würde ich bevorzugen
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Von Mad Dog gabs für die Playstation 3 ne Neuauflage die die Videos auf 720p hochskaliert hat und das man mit dem Move-Controller sogar ganz nett spielen konnte.. Das hat tatsächlich ganz ok ausgesehen...

Dürfte man evtl. in nem Emulator auch am PC zum laufen bekommen... aber VR wird damit wohl eher nicht drin sein.

SolKutTeR · 22. August 2026 um 09:28 Uhr

Ich finde es schon interessant, muss aber sagen, gerade bei diesem Titel würde ich lieber auf die EmuVR Umgebung zurückgreifen.

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