Turrican - A hit platformer gets another tease for the MSX1 by TheGeps with new music by Bitcaffe!

A rather famous game for this heads up article is none other than Turrican. A game which has had countless mentions on IRN throughout the years on multiple systems, has now appeared as another update work in progress video by TheGeps for the MSX1. Turrican was originally released in 1990 by Rainbow Arts and programmed by Manfred Trenz with an incredible soundtrack by Chris Huelsbeck. The game featured great shooting action, powerful weaponry and amazing game play that is still loved to this day.

EAB forum discussion linked here

Here is what the creator says in regards to the latest footage posted above in brief. "I present the new work in progress of my Turrican! I only added a few things, but I assure you that it was not trivial to do so. First of all the first level music has been updated and I have to say that Bitcaffe (aka Gabriel Caffarena) did a really good job. As for my efforts, however, I have implemented the management of the destructible background elements (in the case of this level, the "blocks" at the entrance to the cave at the bottom left) and the rotating laser". 

"I am quite proud of the handling of destructible elements because I have made it more precise than the C64 and Amiga game versions. I will publish soon a comparison video to show you the difference. The "playable" demo of this update will soon be available to try online, as usual, on File-Hunter. Remember to set the video on YouTube to 720p50 to avoid skipping frames (important to have a correct view of the rotating laser, which alternates at each frame)".

And that's all we have so far on this new update for Turrican for the MSX1, but for any further news we will of cause let you know on IRN!  

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8 comments:

  1. Love the tunage!

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  2. Thanks for sharing! And thanks you all for all your comments. I'm sure that Bitcaffe loves your comments too 😀

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    1. You're welcome dude!! Keep up the great work man :D

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  3. Background graphics look like a really lazy C64 conversion. Hope there's some improvement.

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    1. Early days man, still a long way to go for this I'm sure!

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  4. A Fantastic conversion so far! Great graphics and beautiful music! For a simple msx it's really well done! Buy try to emprove the main Sprite,ok? It seem way similar to the zx spectrum One...and Bren McGuire deserves Better!!

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  5. Yep, till now I've been working alone on this but now a skilled gfx artist started to work on sprites 😉
    Stay tuned!

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