Holy Feck, Zinc is out

by **RabidYak** on Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:39 pm

Almost fell off my chair when I strolled over to RG today and saw this on todays news listing, didnt think it was going to be out for quite a while yet.

Anyway for those that dont know, Zinc is the son-of-impact-and-s11emu emulator by R.Belmont and Co. that does all the stuff from the 2 afformentioned emus and then some.

Heres the info -

"zinc 0.5: Zinc 0.5 has been released! This is a 3D arcade emulator for Windows and Linux which replaces the old Impact and S11emu emulators and runs all of their games. New since the S11emu preview release and the final Impact:

Music in Psychic Force

Added Magical Date EX, Sonic Wings Limited, and Beastorizer (bootleg). Magical Date EX and Sonic Wings have full sound, Beastorizer is missing music due to a bad dump.

Sound effects should be improved (not fixed) in the SFEX games.

Now requires the real ZN-1 bios in a file called "firmware.zip". See the ROM descriptions included in ZincÂ´s readme for more info.

Fixed graphics glitches in Xevious 3D/G.

Improved graphics in Tekken and Tekken 2 (but not 100% correct)

Faster renderers courtesy Pete Bernert.

Brand new R3000 dynamic recompiler with CPU-specific optimizations and tunable performance parameters.

Block button in Soul Edge assigned to Â´GÂ´.

WARNING: Sonic Wings Limited may lock up your entire system if you let it go into attract mode after the title appears. To avoid this, insert coins and start a game immediately. Once you are in game there are no hazards and it plays great.

Let the gaming commence!

by **ivwshane** on Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:51 pm

I'm already trying out tekken 1&2 and soul edge. Tekken 2 doesn't work at all and in tekken 1 the background is messed up. I don't get any sound though. And soul edge works very well.

[ 24 March 2002: Message edited by: ivwshane ]

by **adidas** on Sun Mar 24, 2002 5:51 pm

I wonder where one might get firmware.zip? ABEM, perhaps?

by **RabidYak** on Mon Mar 25, 2002 6:40 am

Heres the game list, forgot to post it before -

Supported with both sound effects and music
Street Fighter EX (JP)
Street Fighter EX (ASIA)
Street Fighter EX Plus (USA)
Street Fighter EX Plus (JP)
Street Fighter EX 2 (JP)
Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (JP)
Star Gladiator 2 (JP)
Rival Schools (ASIA)
Justice Gakuen (JP)
Strider Hiryu 2 (JP)
Strider 2 (USA)
Kikaioh (JP)
Tetris The Grand Master (JP)
Psychic Force (JP)
Magical Date EX (JP)
Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (JP)

Supported but missing music
Beastorizer

Supported but missing all sound
Soul Edge (JP) Ver. A
Soul Edge (JP) Ver. C
Dancing Eyes (JP) Ver. A
Xevious 3D/G (JP) Ver. A
Star Sweep (JP) Ver. A
Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (JP) Ver. A

Supported but have serious problems:
Tekken (JP) Ver. A
Tekken 2 (JP) Ver. B
Sonic Wings Limited (JP)

As before, dont expect sound on the Namco games until somebody manages to crib some info on the generator chip.

The BIOS is on ABEM now, only 142k.

Right, i'm off to try and bag myself sets for Strider 2 and Sonic Wings Limited.

[ 24 March 2002: Message edited by: RabidYak ]

by **RabidYak** on Tue Mar 26, 2002 5:31 am

Just a few comments on some of the games

Sonic Wings Limited
Same thing as the other Sonic Wings games. Didnt play it long enough to get a full gander, but I should imagine it lacks any of slowdowns of its NG relatives.

Strider 2
Slight change of pace and style to the original, but its still the same sort of gameplay and its a pretty good game. A bit too easy for my likeing though.

Kikaioh
I got this off ABEM not knowing what it was and was nicely suprised when it turned out to be a kick-ass giant robot game rather then some shoddy Jap quiz/puzzle/porno game. Think of a 3D version of Cyberbots, but allot more fun.

by **Damian** on Tue Mar 26, 2002 5:56 am

Just tried Strider 2 and Soul Egge so far, will look into that Gundam type game though.

by **isamu** on Tue Mar 26, 2002 10:26 am

Yawn...wake me up when RR is supported.

by **Damian** on Tue Mar 26, 2002 10:20 pm

Ridge Racer? That is System 22.

by **isamu** on Wed Mar 27, 2002 12:43 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by DamianMoran:
Ridge Racer? That is System 22.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

DARN [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]...what about Rave? Isn't that 11?

by **adidas** on Wed Mar 27, 2002 6:58 pm

I've only tried Soul Edge, SFEXP2, and Rival Schools.

They all run too slow on my system to be considered worth playing.

by **RabidYak** on Thu Mar 28, 2002 12:19 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by isamu:
DARN [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]...what about Rave? Isn't that 11?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nope, they are all on 22.