Zillions of Games file for Shogi

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This is a zip file of a rules file for Zillions of Games and its accompanying graphics. Zillions of Games is a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules and graphics for.

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:

Download the .zip file
Extract the contents of the .zip file to your Zillions of Games folder
Be sure to keep the folder structure intact when you extract the files.

Shogi is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Orthodox chess, .

Author: Fergus Duniho.

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Notes

This zip file contains ZRFs for Shogi, Mortal Shogi, and Kamikaze Mortal Shogi. They are bundled together because they share most of the same graphics. The Shogi ZRF is an optimized and finetuned ZRF, written by Fergus Duniho, that plays better than the one that comes with Zillions. It also includes new and improved graphics, designed by Fergus Duniho. These include symbolic pieces, pieces with images of Chess pieces, single-character Japanese pieces, and diagrammatic pieces. It also includes a checkered board and a marble board. Besides these, the graphics that come with Zillions may also be used. The ZRFs for Mortal Shogi and Kamikaze Mortal Shogi were both based on the one for Shogi, and so they share the same improvements.

Other Information

The board used for this game has 9 row(s), 9 column(s), 81 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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Shogi

. Optimized ZRFs for Japanese Chess and some recent variants.

Jean-Pierre Avy wrote on 2004-05-10 UTCGood ★★★★

In fact, it is only the images contained in the repertoire '
Abstract-Shogi ' which put problem.
I opened the file ZRF and I abolished all the links corresponding to this
repertoire and, then, the ZRF opened normally.

Fergus Duniho wrote on 2004-05-04 UTC

Yes, I think it has helped. XNView revealed to me a significant difference between those you can view and those you can't. You can view the regular bitmaps, but you can't view the RLE bitmaps. RLE is a form of compression used for bitmap images, but if I remember correctly, whether you can view RLE bitmaps depends upon whether your graphics card supports RLE. I will put together a new zip file later using only regular bitmaps.

Antoine Fourrière wrote on 2004-05-04 UTC

I have Windows XP and the bmps I cannot open with Zillions are also those I
cannot open with Microsoft Paint. They usually date back to 2000 or 2001,
such as the hex6x6.bmp file for Glinski, or the boards for alf-grandchess,
alf-courier, alf-chinese... as I wrote in a comment for the Omega Chess
zrf.

Anyway, I cannot open with Microsoft Paint the bmps which belong to the
following subdirectories:
Abstract-Shogi/Flip (the bmps in Abstract-Shogi are all right)
Abstract-Shogi-Big, except the King
Abstract-Shogi-Big/Flip, except the King.

Hope this helps.

Since I don't have Windows XP, I cannot investigate this matter myself.
But you can help me out. First, download this file:

http://www.chessvariants.com/programs.dir/zillions/Shogi-test.zrf

This file is just like the official Shogi.zrf except that only the
alldrops tuning is available, which eliminates the need to define two sets
of pieces, and the piecelist macro is no longer used to list the images
for each piece. Instead, each piece has its images listed separately.

After you download this file, follow this procedure:

Open the ZRF with Zillions. When it complains about a specific graphic
file, add the complete name of that file (directory + file name) to a
list. Then edit the ZRF by replacing the image that doesn't work with one
that does. It doesn't matter what image you use here. It could be the
same piece everytime. Any piece you already know works will do. Repeat
this procedure until Zillions no longer complains about any graphic files.
Then send me the list of images that would not work under Windows XP.

This list will help me figure out what is wrong with the files that don't
work. I may then send you some test files to see if I'm on the right
track.

Jean-Pierre Avy wrote on 2004-05-04 UTCPoor ★

The new Shogi's ZRF does not work under Window XP.
The Images can not be loaded.

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