Tyrian

[Sac (a.k.a Icaras)]

Ah Tyrian, I remember playing the hell of the shareware version back in the day, even more so when I got my hands on the registered version. Besides the main mode, I liked how when you went though the arcade mode, you kept get a new cheat code for a different type of ship. Playing as the foodship was amusing

Never did get a chance to play Tyrian 2000 though.

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You can soon play Tyrian on your homebrew-compatible PSP, it seems.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOZluArjk5E

[zellsf]

Yeah, OpenTyrian's progressing really well. Oddly enough, none of the OpenTyrian developers knew someone had ported it to the PSP though, nor were they given credit, though that might've been a mistake.

As for the article, I only see two things that are slightly wrong:
1: Don't mispell DOSBox
2: I don't know why, but each time I read the article, I feel like it's telling me that Tyrian 2000 can play the included CD audio, which it can't.

Minor grammar complaint: "Furthermore, he weapon pickups"

[Discoalucard]

The author revised the piece based on feedback from here, so he added a section on Zanac and other Compile stuff.

[dai jou bu]

zellsf said:

2: I don't know why, but each time I read the article, I feel like it's telling me that Tyrian 2000 can play the included CD audio, which it can't.

Yeah, I second that statement too. I forgot to mention it, but no matter how hard I tried, I could never get the game to stream directly from the CD instead of playing everything from the sound card.

[zellsf]

Links section, there should probably be a new line before "Lost Garden".

As for the Compile connection: the zip file the OpenTyrian developers got that contained the source code also had some written down passwords for Guardian Legend.

[ommadawnyawn2]

Can someone explain how the "smart bombs" work (where a bunch of small bombs appear, going in all directions from your ship); I'm assuming they're tied to the special weapons?

[dsparil]

You mean the guided bombs? They're a regular front weapon although some ships have them available as a "special move". They're also a rear weapon (in two varieties) in Full mode.

[ommadawnyawn2]

I guess I mean as a special move then, how is it triggered? It seemed to be done by letting go of attack after a certain time had passed but I wasn't able to do it consistently.

It looks like the micro bombs but there's a lot more of them. 

[dsparil]

It's hold down fire, right, down, left, release fire, up + fire. That one in particular is tricky to pull off. You need to do it very quickly, and it's hard to do consistently. Every ship has a different set of them, and many of them are easier to do consistently.

On that note, the "secret" Captured U-Fighter in arcade mode has a weird bug/feature where if you go back and then ram into a boss, it'll get destroyed in one hit! I've never seen it referenced anywhere, and it is a little tricky to pull off without practice. I'm leaning towards feature though since it's still in Tyrian 2000.

[ommadawnyawn2]

Can't believe I did that by accident in a bunch of levels along the way.