Zinc v0.5 Windows and Linux

posted in Emulator Release by slein on Mar 25th, 2002

Zinc v0.5 is out. Zinc is an emulator for Sony ZN-1 and ZN-2 and Namco System 11 arcade hardware. These systems are all based around the familiar PlayStation game console with varying degrees of modifications. It replaces the old Impact and S11emu emulators, which are now obsolete and no longer supported. Here's what's new: 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) -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 Zinc´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 ´G´. You can get it at the following pages: Multi Arcade Emulators Arcade Emulators for Unix/Linux Thanks to Tetsuo55 for the news.