Turrican (128K)

[vasilisk]

I get no message. It crashes immediately. Also I see you are trying to load parados from inside the ROM folder. Copy the ParaDOS 1-2.ROM outside the ROM folder and try to load it from the settings menu.

[Jean-Marie]

I deleted the file from the folder, and it showed me this message telling me in french that PARADOS is missing from the ROM folder.
I surmise that you don't see the message because the author has not yet translated it in English.
It is possible that all error messages only show up on French versions of Windows.

[Jean-Marie]

Eh, I'm getting good! About time, I'm 53, lol.

[OneVision]

Work in progress ...

https://i.postimg.cc/43HhPcTr/image006.png
https://i.postimg.cc/qRf657Jg/image007.png

[OneVision]

[dodogildo]

Very bad ass. I like it. 

[OneVision]

Work in Progress

[abalore]

Work in Progress

Very nice, it would be awesome to see the running animation side by side with the original for comparison.

[OneVision]

Ola ! 

[abalore]

Ola !

Wow dude! amazing improvement!

[jackic]

That is really quite the improvement for this game!

Do you think there could be the possibility to map the special attack (return key) to the second button of a joystick/joypad?

That would further improve the experience when playing with a joystick.

Thanks!

[Jean-Marie]

Yes, I can do that for version 2. In the meantime, if you can poke your memory, try :
POKE &DE5D,9
POKE &DE5E,&20

[dodogildo]

Do you think there could be the possibility to map the special attack (return key) to the second button of a joystick/joypad?

That'd be amazing..

[jackic]

Thanks, there are so many games that would benefit of this... Turrican 1 and 2, Dragon Spirit, the list would be really long.

[OneVision]

I'm rather a member of the team : Button 1 fire, Button 2 jump. 
And by the way, how would the game be playable on the GX with only 2 buttons ? I guess it's not, and only playable on a PLUS.

[jackic]

Yes, I can do that for version 2. In the meantime, if you can poke your memory, try :
POKE &DE5D,9
POKE &DE5E,&20

Thanks, just in case this can be of help to someone, you can achieve this on original hardware extracting "turrican.scr" and changing the offset 12A0 from "02 04" to "09 20", I did this by basically by brute forcing, couldn't have done it without the pokes.

I'm rather a member of the team : Button 1 fire, Button 2 jump.
And by the way, how would the game be playable on the GX with only 2 buttons ? I guess it's not, and only playable on a PLUS.

Well, you can use both buttons for attack and "special attack" and jump pushing up or, alternatively, map button 2 for jumps and the up direction for "special attack". but then you will not be able to do the spin attack, achieved by crouching+"special attack".

[OneVision]

Yeah Turrican is very special with lots of extra weapons and therefore many keys/buttons to activate.
Anyway, having to jump by pressing UP is not ideal and is the reason why so many arcade conversions or gameplays were somewhat "flawed" back in the days of 8-16 bits europeans computers.

I remember being able to play Turrican on my A500 with a Megadrive pad (3 buttons then) but still having to press up to jump was very awkward. 

[nikos_a]

Doesn't work for me. 6128 with ULifAC and |PARA activated, I see file contents, do the RUN"TURRICAN" but I get a black screen 

[Jean-Marie]

You don't even see the loading screen?