For years in Brazil everyone believed Zorax was one of the worst MSX games ever made, that the so called “parallax scroll” on the game didn’t exist… well, this myth is now busted.

Experimenting with the game code, I was able to beat the first level boss, and to proceed into the second level. And what a surprise, the second level has the parallax scroll!

Too bad this also revealed a problem in the adaptation (or in the original game, who knows): if you die in the second level, you’ll go straight into the 3rd stage, which is a copy of the first with different enemies.

So, the game may even be bad, but definitively not the worst of all…

Update:

I disabled the collision on stage 2, which allowed to record the whole level, and stage 3 as well:

Note that on stage 2 ending there is a bug, and the level boss won’t show – going straight into level 3. In the ending of level 3, after you defeat the boss (the same from level 1), the game freezes.

Pictures from the meeting, that happened yesterday on SESC Engenho de Dentro!
You can see some games, and even a network cartridge being used!
Watch it here!

The title says it all: this rare game from Zemina was found by our friends on SMS Power!
The game runs both on SMS/SG-1000 and on MSX!

Get it on our rare games section!

A new Retro Gamer Collection was released, and on it, we have some mention to MSX!
Not much is known so far, but you can get the magazine here.

The site GameReporter publihed a story about the MSX meetings on Rio de Janeiro!

Check it out (with even a video of the meeting) here (in portuguese)!
You can see a Google translated page here!

Looks like it was yesterday, the site was created… but it’s already 12 years, and MSX Files continues strong!
As usual, to celebrate this date, some presents:

In the rare games section, we have 2 new games:

– Baby Dinosaur Dooly, a rare Korean game
– Aprendendo a Contar, a rare Brazilian game

And another surprise: a (beta) improved version of JavaMSX emulador, with tape support,
more compatibility for games, improvements on sprite implementation… a lot of stuff!
Check out the new version of this emulator here!

A report about MSX was published on UOL, speaking about the 28 years of MSX!

Check out the story here! (Portuguese only)

You can see the Google translated page here!

Searching old brazilian magazines “Micro Sistemas” for information on MSX softhouses, I found the following published letter, on Micro Sistemas 92:

“We received, for review, an adventure from the reader Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, called CINCO ESTRELAS (Five Stars). The game was written in BASIC for MSX, and brings a series of inovations regarding more traditional adventures.

Totally graphic, the player viewpoint was relocated to the top, like, as if the player sees the view from above.This simplifies a lot the graphic representation problem of positioning and allows very complex games to be written. Without a doubt, a great idea. Another interesting point is the game controls, through pre-defined words.

Lisandro asks our opinion about his work and we decided to publish it as an incentive to other authors. The game is very interesting and captivates the player attention for a long time. All the graphic work was very elaborated, and the impression is that we are seeing a product ready for market.

Congratulations to Lisandro and we would like to review, soon, his program properly. Keep it up.”

Curious with the text, I decided to search the author on the internet, and with some luck I found his email. I wrote him asking about the game, and soon received an answer, which exceeded my expectations: the author had a MSX game, and adventure, but not Cinco Estrelas – but actually Cinco Estrelas parte 2, “A Vingança do Barão” (Five Stars part 2, “The revenge of the Baron”)!

Not only the game has the same style as the original 5 Estrelas (as described in the magazine), but this sequel is also written in BASIC – and even so, still keeps a fantastic gameplay.

Don’t waste your time, and get this game on our rare games section!

The brazilian softhouse list has just been updated, now with more screenshots: Alien, Ciência Moderna, DDX, Hi-Tek, Energy, Krull and many more! A special thanks goes to Paulo Maluf, for his incredible colaboration on this project!

Click here (portuguese only) to see the screenshots!

Video of latest Icon Games convertion from Coleco to MSX:

Soon available in Shockware format!

The list of brazilian softhouses has been updated, now with more pictures: Disprosot, Free Soft, MaxByte, MSX Informática (retrieved from one of my tapes!), MSX Força, Newsoft, OrionSoft, Riosoft and Sti.

Click here (portuguese only) to see the pictures.

Video from the convertion from tape to disk:

In the video you can see the game up to it’s end!

Just below, a video showing all characters from Drol being rescued:

Check out this video below, an improved adaptation of Zemina’s “Dr.Hello” (Dr. Mario clone) from SG-1000 to MSX!

Today MSX Files is 11 years old! And we have a lot to celebrate! Check out the news:

• A new MegaRAM game: Labyrinth!
• A new SG-1000 convertion: Drol – a cool game, which brought some surprises during the convertion!
• A game converted from tape to disk: North & South, an amazing war game which is part strategy and part platform game!
• The MSX2+ game prototype (show on video in the post below this one), with included source code!
• A new adventure game: Transylvania 3 on Icon Games webstore
• Another game: MineSX, also on Icon Games webstore

All of those games are on “Secret Files->Games->Our games” on the menu on the left – with one exception: the MegaRAM game which is on MegaRAM Project!

And to finish, a video from the newest game from Icon Games – in final stages of development:

Popeye Lingo Game – a game based on the one for Nintendo, but expanded with words in portuguese, spanish and including the japanese writing in romanji and katakana, which can be freely chosen to be the hint or the guessed word! And all of that in just 32kb 🙂

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