Zenohell - 22/05/16 Potential bugfix for Intel iGPUs

[The Coop]

Is the copy sold at Groupees being updated as well? I haven't seen a notification there yet.

[Kaiser]

Is the copy sold at Groupees being updated as well? I haven't seen a notification there yet.

I've just updated the game both itch.io and groupees, the game still remains DRM free by the way despite the implementation of the Steam API, it simply doesn't activate the Steam API without the API DLL which is not provided with the game in DRM free versions.

Enjoy.

[BPzeBanshee]

For those on Steam who found file saving broke again after the patch that fixed Steam screenshots, you're not going mad, the build somehow reverted to before the fix. This has been corrected and you'll probably want to delete your score.znh and unlock.zd2 files again for good measure.

For those not on Steam, proceed as normal.

[Kaiser]

Zenohell is 75% off on Steam again, until January 4, however be aware, this is the last discount you'll be getting in a long time on this game

[Emuser]

Sometime after Christmas, I'll see about showing off some ZOR mode footage, it's nuts.

[emphatic]

BTW2. I always meant to ask you guys this. What does the robotic voice say when you pick up power ups? I could swear I hear "extend" when getting a P item, and instead "power" when an extend is earned. Bomb is "bomb" I guess, no problems there. Or maybe it's all in my head:)

The extend SFX should say EXTEND and the power up SFX should say POWER UP. Bomb sfx is BOMB. My youngest daughter did these, she's a natural born robot.

[BPzeBanshee]

BTW3. The medals going offscreen thing still occurs during stages, but not at stage clear screen anymore. Specifically, with my route and play habits it *always* happens during stage 3, when the small trains show up for the very first time. Which means something explodes a bit too violently before that point. Maybe you should do the y coordinate bounding everywhere, if you care to fix this. Not that it matters too much.

I'm going to need screenshots with the debug display turned on to nail this down I think mate. The y co-ordinate bounding is already happening everywhere as far as I know.

[Drachenherz]

I had it on my wishlist for some time, and never watched the video on steam with sound on. It looked okay. I just watched the video again, this time with sound.

2.50 for this game at the current steam sale...

And this aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacid soundtrack...

Killer! Sold!

I cannot say anything about the gameplay yet, but Emph... Loving your soundtrack!

Now, on for a couple of shots, it's been a while...

[emphatic]

[CRI]

steam features don't work for me at this game.
i can't take screenshots and don't unlock achievemts.
bought this game on 4th january so my unlock.zd2 and score.znh is not dated before 12/22/15.
really don't know what i'm doing wrong.

[BPzeBanshee]

It's likely the unlock.zd2 and score.znh won't be related in your case since it's the Steam-specific features that aren't working which aren't stored there (or anywhere locally). I'll also state the obvious and say that if you bought it from itch.io or a similar site the Steam-specific stuff won't work anyway but I imagine that isn't the case here.

If you enable the debug display in Configure Options > Misc Settings, there should be a display on the bottom right that looks something like this:

If the Steam API is detecting the game and initialising properly that's what it should show. Let me know what it's doing for you.

Also what OS are you using CRI? Also please send a screenshot of the game's folder if possible - if screenshot support worked in any form there'll still be a file in the game directory for it.

[CRI]

looks like you can already see the problem in debug mode.
on your screen there are 4 lines while my debug screen only shows 3. (the steam:1 is missing)
see here:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4232 ... oh_png.htm

here a pic of the folder:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4232 ... ky_png.htm

i bought the game directly via steam at the winter sale. i'm using win7.
bought the game with my pc at home and now trying to play it on my laptop.

[BPzeBanshee]

Is Steam on your laptop actually detecting the game as present though (ie did you redownload it on there)?

For me and everyone else I know the game runs and loads the API just fine so I'm not sure what exactly is happening.

[CRI]

yes steam is detecting the game and i downloaded it directly from my library. (even uninstall and redownloaded)
it's a mystery why this don't work.
tomorrow i will be home and then i will try the game again to see what it will do on my home pc.

i can enjoy the game even without achievements and steam screenshoot feat.
only thing thats a bit sad is no cloud save. have to unlock anything again home.

anyway guy's this game is awesome. really like the fast gameplay.
and emph that soundtrack. it's fucking killer!

[emphatic]

I had some issues with the game installed in a folder path containing the character "ö". Might be something similar?

And thanks!

[Obiwanshinobi]

Won't it run on WinXP at all? On mine it isn't, without any error message.

[BPzeBanshee]

It definitely should, but you might need to install latest Visual C++ redistributables that XP allows. Also make sure you're running Service Pack 3.

Also, no error message at all or just the generic "has encountered a problem" message?

[Obiwanshinobi]

Some Steam-looking windows displays text message, but disappears so quickly I can't read it. Then nothing happens.

[Kaiser]

Zenohell's once again on a discount, it's 60% off currently and this will be your last chance to get it cheaper until mid-summer, if you do give it a shot, please leave a review on the steam store page , it helps tons!

[CStarFlare]

Been playing this a bit. Couple of bugs to report:

The Boss Rush score table displays 0 where the stage should be - strangely, the default scores seem to be set as Stage 3.

The pause menu seems to occasionally become disabled - it seems to always work immediately at the start (not that I test it there very often) but I make a lot of stupid mistakes in stage 2 and I'd say a quarter of the time I need to just throw away my life stock because the enter key does nothing.

I'm assuming the final ship is unlocked by clearing the EX stage?

[Kaiser]

Been playing this a bit. Couple of bugs to report:

The Boss Rush score table displays 0 where the stage should be - strangely, the default scores seem to be set as Stage 3.

The pause menu seems to occasionally become disabled - it seems to always work immediately at the start (not that I test it there very often) but I make a lot of stupid mistakes in stage 2 and I'd say a quarter of the time I need to just throw away my life stock because the enter key does nothing.

I'm assuming the final ship is unlocked by clearing the EX stage?

The pause menu issue is well known, sometimes graphic drivers can cause it to not work at all or occassionally at times, we'll still look into it but it's the classic issue all over again probably (classic because we dealt with it way too much in internal testing)

Also you get the final ship by GETTING to the EX Stage and to get there you have to 1cc the entire game, should work whether you credit feed through the EX stage or game over early on in it.

[emphatic]

Question: Would people be interested in an OST release? If there's enough interest, I could edit the in game music to a better listening experience and release it on Bandcamp or iTunes.

In lossless format, and without the brickwall mastering that fits better for games than just listening.

[AlexMdle]

Been looking for the OST for months.

[CStarFlare]

Also you get the final ship by GETTING to the EX Stage and to get there you have to 1cc the entire game, should work whether you credit feed through the EX stage or game over early on in it.

Ah, turns out I had it - but between the ship's name and Sprite I didn't look closely enough to realize it. Good stuff. :3

[Kaiser]

Ah, turns out I had it - but between the ship's name and Sprite I didn't look closely enough to realize it. Good stuff. :3

So I looked at the high score bug and it's actually not a bug, I just forgot to interpret boss rush scores as either stageless or as Stage B, the fix patch should be up in a day or two when I finally upload it.

[Kaiser]

The Boss Rush score table displays 0 where the stage should be - strangely, the default scores seem to be set as Stage 3.

While I was unable to figure out the pause issue (it may be a driver issue with graphics cards, some drivers have problem with GM games from my experience), I Fixed the scoreboard, now it longer displays the stage number in the boss rush tab.

[CStarFlare]

So if I'm clear, Boss Rush will now give no indication of progress - will it indicate a clear?

[Kaiser]

So if I'm clear, Boss Rush will now give no indication of progress - will it indicate a clear?

I don't think I put in an indication of a clear because this was a one-off mode (though it unlocks the 5th ship), so it's more of a thing that score determines how far people got Heh. (They should be glad I didn't include the EX stage bosses too, but I didn't want to be a complete A-hole or spoil those)

[CStarFlare]

Sounds reasonable. Thanks!

[Kaiser]

Zenohell once again is on a sale, it's 50% off until May 2 due the Anime Weekend, it also nicely coincides that our next game, Zenodyne R got greenlit today!