Zero/ZX legacy collection info from PAX

[Techim]

I saw this on the Megaman subreddit. Sharing here since it might be useful input for those who don't browse Reddit.

Reddit post as mentioned

I talked with some of the Capcom representatives at the PAX booth on Z/ZX legacy collection. Here's everything I know...

First, the entire game is using original source code. The representative assured me that there was no emulation going on. The demo felt completely lagless, so I believe this. He said that this was the most common complain that fans had about the other collections so this was why they tried to address it in this release.

On the zero titles, you can switch from english to japanese editions. I'm not knowledgeable about what this actually means, but I think it's meaninful for some people. Speedrunning I guess?

Every game has plentiful language options. I remember english, japanese, french, german, spanish, and Italian choices, maybe a couple more.

ZX and ZX Advent have an option for "remastered voice acting", using original recordings to clean up the lines so they aren't as crunched as on the DS. If you're worried (or hoping) that the voice line quality is changing at all, don't be. It's still as cheesy as ever. Time to find out where the booty is! The game TOLD me that this option was available for both ZX and ZX advent, but I only heard voices in ZXA. Maybe if I changed ZX to japanese language the remastered japanese voice acting would have been there? I didn't think to try it at the time.

The original sprite/smoothing filters are generally pretty good. Zx and zx advent also seem to have remastered the cutscenes!

Music player and gallery were disabled for the demo. The representative I talked with said that pre-order bonuses will include 10 new remixed tracks. 6 of these are from each game (departure, trail of powdery snow, esperanto, and trap phantasm are 4 of them) and can be set to replace their respective track in-game. The remaining 4 are just for listening purposes in the music player. I asked if the ZXtunes/mythos remastered tracks would be in the game....the rep gave me a deliberate non-answer answer. I'm inferring that this is a licensing issue, as I was told Inti creates had zero involvement with the collection.

- The Japanese version of the game has blood when slicing your enemies while the US version has it removed from attacks and walls in the background

- filters are optional

- save stations are toglle-able. you can choose whether to use them at the beginning of a game file

Casual scenario is basically like X Legacy Collection's Rookie Hunter mode, with other name.

Pre-order gets you a short playlist of selected remix tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_tfKkv3wOY&feature=youtu.be

Footage of the demo at PAX
https://youtu.be/u8eyNDLYd3k

[MangorushZ]

Hey thank you for this, can't wait till 2020 to purchase this collection, always love me some Mega Man games, still hoping one day we will get Mega Man & Bass on Steam some day.

[Lunaedge]

oh god I SO hope they let you switch to the japanese VA/version on ZXA. I always felt like playing that with japanese VA.

[Schneitizel S. Sekai]

Hi ! Thanks for the info :)

On the zero titles, you can switch from english to japanese editions. I'm not knowledgeable about what this actually means, but I think it's meaninful for some people. Speedrunning I guess?

Every game has plentiful language options. I remember english, japanese, french, german, spanish, and Italian choices, maybe a couple more.

These languages are for ZX games or even Zero? (Zero games did not have a French, Spanish, Italian translation etc... Only in English)

[Sith_1ord]

Great news. Hope it will be possible to play with English text and Japanese voices.

[Red]

First, the entire game is using original source code. The representative assured me that there was no emulation going on.

Maybe SOME people around here will finally shut the ♥♥♥♥ up about the whole emulation stuff they've been whining about around here.

[Sith_1ord]

Originally posted by Red:

Maybe SOME people around here will finally shut the ♥♥♥♥ up about the whole emulation stuff they've been whining about around here.

How naive of you to think so.

[Kaed✩Wolf]

That's wonderful news!

Originally posted by Sith_1ord:

Great news. Hope it will be possible to play with English text and Japanese voices.

I hope someone make it happens.

[CrowRising]

I already got this pre-ordered. Looking forward to playing it when it comes out!