Zzap!Raine issue 13 ready!

[_MADrigal]

Hi all

Just letting you know that a new issue of Zzap!Raine has been in the works for about 6 months - and it is now complete!

Just like we did for Issue 12, also this new issue (13) is 1) in Italian, 2) printed and 3) commercial (not online or free PDF).

The magazine is dedicated to Capcom CPS-1 and CPS-2 games, a sort of challenge between the two platforms. 13 games reviewed. Plus a few articles such as the "Arcade milestones of 1983", "Arkanoid", "Taito F3 System board + multicart" and "Zzap!Test" that has 12 reviews of home computer/console games.

Total 60 pages including a A3 poster specially made for us. Cover also made specifically for this magazine.

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A crowdfunding campaign will commence soon and will last 30 days. I will post the link to the campaign once available.

Main page of Zzap!Raine with all issues: https://raine.1emulation.com/zzapraine/issues.html

Issue 13 editorial and magazine info page: https://raine.1emulation.com/zzapraine/issue13/index.html

Cover of the magazine: 

[Tux]

Nice picture !

I'd say it's hard to believe cps1 and cps2 share mostly the same hardware because usually there is quite a big difference graphically, so they probably improved the way they are making games quite a lot between cps1 and cps2, and this is the main difference, also cps2 uses qsound all the time when it's used only on a very few late cps1 games. You could say cps2 is a high end cps1, with encryption and the "suicide batteries" as they were called, not such problems in emulation but still... !

Anyway cps2 is just cps1 + encryption to make sure there would be no bootleg (and it worked !), and so they could spend more in it to have higher quality games.

It's not the same for cps3 which is a completely different platform, nothing in common with cps1 or cps2 except the fact that it's from capcom !