Ziriax 100% (Ultimate Edition)

[Retroplay]

Originally Posted by jdryyz

WHDLoad version works on this machine. I want to see the excellent Ross trainer though!

There's a WHDLoad version of Ross' Ultimate Edition.
http://grandis.nu:81/eabsearch/searc...xclude=&limit=

[jdryyz]

Thanks!

[xboxown]

Originally Posted by ross

Hi all, i'm proud to present "Ziriax - Ultimate Edition":


It's a 100% ADF working version of the 1990 game by "The Whiz Kidz", trained and enhanced.
Actually is the only full working version existing.


All is born in this thread:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=88891, from message #5 onward.

There is also some old posts about it:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78527, http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=66749
and an interview with the original programmer:
http://www.abime.net/interviews/view/interview/id/74

Now game make use of the 2nd joystick button for the weapon selection and
use memory above 512kb to cache data and cut down loading time.
A complete trainer option screen [+6] is at disposal with a selectable new "max power-up",
start level, invincibility and other cheat.
Finally a proper end of the game can be reached.

Fixing this game was a fun journey, i've discovered even some bugs not directly related to the game .
Yes, there was several bugs.. Anyway the game engine is really good!





More significative patches:
- support all Amiga (ocs to aga, 020+, every memory configuration)
- do not crash anymore on level 3 or other "strange" situation
- end of game/credit part is reachable
- high scores table works properly
- standard 880k ADF, fast loading
- use extra-memory if available

The history of this game has been very troubled, so it deserve to be properly preserved.
A big thanks to all involved (credits in the initial intro).

In The Zone! Enjoy!

I looked at the zone and I couldn't find it there.

[Superman]

Originally Posted by xboxown

I looked at the zone and I couldn't find it there.

Look again I just reupped it for you

[xboxown]

Hey...there it is!! Hehehe Thanks for re-UPPING it to me

[haynor666]

I started this version yesterday. Very hard game but I'm slowly moving forward. Thanks for work Ross and StingRay.

BTW. I have small graphician errors during playing. I tried to test disk straight from disk but to my suprise game didn't start on EC030 with 32Mb Fast.

[hooverphonique]

Is it just me, or does it say 'Ross 128b' in the logo!?

[ross]

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

Is it just me, or does it say 'Ross 128b' in the logo!?

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[malko]

Funny planet's name and a really interesting documentary

[acd2001]

Today, i was playing with Ziriax 100% CRC32: A54E4F25, on WinUAE 4.3.0 quick start a500 and on level 3's boss the game crashed.
I restarted using trainer (only invincible and jump to level 3 directly) and
crash again.
I have a savegame and, not always, the game crash with WinUAE HALT3

[DamienD]

Just a suggestion, try using a Quickstart "A500 - 1.3 ROM, ECS Agnus, 512 KB Chip RAM + 512 KB Slow RAM".

[ross]

Originally Posted by acd2001

Today, i was playing with Ziriax 100% CRC32: A54E4F25, on WinUAE 4.3.0 quick start a500 and on level 3's boss the game crashed.
I restarted using trainer (only invincible and jump to level 3 directly) and
crash again.
I have a savegame and, not always, the game crash with WinUAE HALT3

hmm, something wrong in this emulation setup..
Cycle exact is not ticked.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ross

hmm, something wrong in this emulation setup..
Cycle exact is not ticked.

Yup, that's an absolute must for all A500 / A500+ / A600 games

running the whdload version on my CD32, most of the enemies seem to have corrupted gfx, will try the adf tomorrow and see if thats the same.

[acd2001]

ECS + cycle exact = no more crash
I don't understand why quickstart mode don't include cycle exact !?

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by acd2001

ECS + cycle exact = no more crash
I don't understand why quickstart mode don't include cycle exact !?

It does. But you have to pull the "Compatibility vs Required CPU" slider to the most left = Best compatibility.

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by malko

Funny planet's name and a really interesting documentary

Also one of the starting points available in Elite: Frontier on the Miggy

Originally Posted by xubidoo

running the whdload version on my CD32, most of the enemies seem to have corrupted gfx, will try the adf tomorrow and see if thats the same.

Unfortuantly the ADF is a no go, while i can mount the ADF in workbench, its is a nDOS disk so i cant play it, as i cannot reset my CD32 and have the ADF load instead.


Might just be a whdload/030 problem , have tried a few ways of loading with tooltypes etc and nothing changed, game runs and sounds fine, is just the enemy graphics that are corrupted.

[ross]

Originally Posted by xubidoo

Might just be a whdload/030 problem , have tried a few ways of loading with tooltypes etc and nothing changed, game runs and sounds fine, is just the enemy graphics that are corrupted.

What is the slave you are using?
Can you post a picture of the corruption?

am using the whdload version that retroplay posted above.
Sorry about the poor quality, its on a crt tv, hopefully u can make it out, its on virtually all enemies

https://imgur.com/SQjfglN

https://imgur.com/YiiugLP

also does it quite badly as the huge ship at the start slowly flys across the screen (ship sort of flickers on and off with an orange-ish type background behind the ship), but each time i tried to get a pic it didnt show up gah

Running on machine in my sig, no problems with other games.