Throughout these last few months, I've been keeping you in the loop about the latest developments of Turrican for the MSX by TheGeps, Bitcaffe, and Toni Galvez. Well, if you're hoping for some more news on this game, then as of today some new footage has surfaced, showing just good this work in progress Turrican looks on the MSX. For those of you that haven't heard of this all time classic before. 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.
Here is what the creator says about this rather cool looking Turrican for the MSX1 which features a top quality soundtrack by Bitcaffe (aka Gabriel Caffarena). "I can hardly believe how much work I've been able to accomplish lately on this release of Turrican for MSX! Today I'm presenting a brand new build: I've reorganized much of the code, preparing the ROM structure to accommodate the full game (and will continue working on it if Factor5 approves its release). This has caused the file to grow to almost a MB! And it could grow even bigger, but that's another story..."
"The new features you'll find, while watching the video and waiting to try the demo for yourself on File Hunter in the next few days, are quite exciting: I've finally introduced hidden blocks that contain powerups and additional special weapons (weapons and a shield haven't been implemented yet). Now you can finally activate the 3-way and 5-way bullets, the phaser, and extend the rotating laser properly. Getting the powerups! Davide has also introduced new gfx elements: a restyle of the "eyes" and, finally, his bats, replacing mine (which were flying around the screen until yesterday). The bat management routine has been improved and speeded up. What more can I say? Enjoy!"
And that's all we have on the game so far, but we will keep you up to date as we get more from the developer!
- TheGeps coding
- Toni Galvez (Has a lot of projects running) will take care of the fixed screen pictures (we plan to put in there some original ones) and additional gfx
- Davide Bottino (gfx artist in charge)
- Soundtrack by Bitcaffe (aka Gabriel Caffarena)
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Always a joy to see the MSX as it reminds me of the graphics on my Texas Instruments Home Computer I had back in the day. Really cool also to see a game I recognize.
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