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Zanzibar-S. A game in between Metamachy and Zanzibar-XL with 36 pieces per side. Preferred by some to the -XL version.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Nov 24, 2023 02:45 PM UTC:

I uploaded all the files in chessbase to the Jocly installation on CVP, and added their names to jocly-allgames.js. This made them appear in the list of "other Jocly games". Some of them got stuck on selecting them in 3D mode, which appears to be a consequence of missing or incomplete piece models. I copied the new chessbase/res/fairy subdirectories, which made most new games work, except for Gigachess II and Wild Mirza. It tured out the problem there was missing *-normal-map.jpg and *-diffuse-map.jpg for the crowned-rook and the wolf. There existed such files, but without the hyphen (*-normalmap.jpg). This made all the games run.

There seems to be a problem with the crowned-rook and wolf, though, as these are now wildly painted. Probably because of a collision between pieces you created anew, and pieces of the same name that already existed in my fork. Furthermore, the wolf looks like an archbishop, in Wild Mirza, and I cannot imagine this was intentional. We do have an excellent wolf, but amazingly enough I did not use that in Werewolf Chess. (This uses the Eagle for the Werewolf.)

The 2D board for Zanzibar S is very large. It does not even fit on my desktop's screen.