Bibin
Frequent Poster
Wound up with this thing, when I thought I was buying a Sexy Parodius PCB.
It looks like the hardware has been mostly recreated using FPGAs and other PLCs. That's cool and all, it's neat to see someone do it, but the game suffers slowdown seemingly at random, and more importantly, the audio system looks 100% reimplemented rather than simulated - what sounds like sampled audio is called by the game engine, and a lot of tracks are cut off and don't loop properly. Many songs play at the wrong times too (Mambo/Koitsu's theme plays when Vic Viper's should play). No audio loops properly, and it sounds like someone held a mic up to the game for all audio. A lot of samples are missing too, like voices.
The ROM, modified as it is, seems to incorporate both the asian release and the japanese release (confusing designation, I know, but bear with me, that's how they are named). The title screen is the english sexy parodius logo, but the cutscene text is still japanese... weird.
If anyone knows anything about this, that would be awesome.
I've taken some pictures viewable here:
http://mikejmoffitt.com/img/fakeparo
If anyone can translate the korean and chinese (yes, both!) that would be helpful.
It looks like the hardware has been mostly recreated using FPGAs and other PLCs. That's cool and all, it's neat to see someone do it, but the game suffers slowdown seemingly at random, and more importantly, the audio system looks 100% reimplemented rather than simulated - what sounds like sampled audio is called by the game engine, and a lot of tracks are cut off and don't loop properly. Many songs play at the wrong times too (Mambo/Koitsu's theme plays when Vic Viper's should play). No audio loops properly, and it sounds like someone held a mic up to the game for all audio. A lot of samples are missing too, like voices.
The ROM, modified as it is, seems to incorporate both the asian release and the japanese release (confusing designation, I know, but bear with me, that's how they are named). The title screen is the english sexy parodius logo, but the cutscene text is still japanese... weird.
If anyone knows anything about this, that would be awesome.
I've taken some pictures viewable here:
http://mikejmoffitt.com/img/fakeparo
If anyone can translate the korean and chinese (yes, both!) that would be helpful.
