For years in Brazil everyone believed Zorax was one of the worst MSX games ever made, that the so called “parallax scroll” on the game didn’t exist… well, this myth is now busted.

Experimenting with the game code, I was able to beat the first level boss, and to proceed into the second level. And what a surprise, the second level has the parallax scroll!

Too bad this also revealed a problem in the adaptation (or in the original game, who knows): if you die in the second level, you’ll go straight into the 3rd stage, which is a copy of the first with different enemies.

So, the game may even be bad, but definitively not the worst of all…

Update:

I disabled the collision on stage 2, which allowed to record the whole level, and stage 3 as well:

Note that on stage 2 ending there is a bug, and the level boss won’t show – going straight into level 3. In the ending of level 3, after you defeat the boss (the same from level 1), the game freezes.