Qiezei's just posted video of one of his latest acquisitions, Sintax's
Metal Slug X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjnT__KIkYQCompare to the infamously obscure
Zook Hero 3 by Sintax, which Sky League has dumped but not released:
http://www.efgcw.com/?dp-bbsthread-716.htmlCombined with the fact that
Metal Slug X uses music from
Mega Man 2 (of course they chose the ear-splitting-est one)... yeah, I think this might be yet another of Sintax's sprite hacks of their own games.
Edited to add: Yep, one of the backgrounds is even identical to Sky League's screenshot. Lazy sprite hack ahoy!
On the bright side, though, at least we have a definitive answer to whether
Zook Hero 3 is anywhere near as good as VFame's entries in the series. (Namely, "No.")