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24.12.02
Merry Christmas to all of you :)
As a little gift, a Turrican CD containing 23 Music-Tracks of Turrican 1-3 as mp3s is now available for download.
I call it Turrican Evolution and itīs especially meant to burn it on CD or for your MP3-player.
Of course thats the original Amiga-TFMX-sound recorded in good qualtity, not the commercial remake.
Get it at http://www.nemmelheim.de/ftp/ (then -->Turrican-->Turrican CD) or turrican_evolution_cd_nemmelheim.rar with Overnet.
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20.12.02
Turrican for GBA? Official Turricans?
You surely all know Rainbow Arts. Rainbow Arts once joined Softgold, and they joined THQ. So, THQ now owns the rights for Turrican.
I asked Rüdiger Moersch, PR-Manager of THQ Entertainment a few questions:
Will there maybe be a GBA port of Turrican?
Thereīs nothing planned at this time.
Since many games get "recycled" these days (e.g. Gods of Bitmap Brothers), wouldnīt that be a good opportunity for a portable version?
Surely this would be a possibility, but since as well economic as license-rightly interests have to be considered, it isnīt quite as easy as you maybe imagine.
Since Turrican 3d will no be released - can the Fan-community expect a new turrican title in not-too-distant time?
Everybody is wondering why a name this populars stays unused for so long.
Out of various reasons.
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07.12.02
A new vote, this time multiple votes are allowed and you may suggest other games.
News from Turricane 4 ever:
Now they are working at a demo version - and they finally found a pixel-artist.
More infos on their homepage!
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04.12.02
Finally I got a preview-version of Martin Konradīs GameGearTurrican.
It plays very smooth, and is a good mixture between Turrican 1 & 2. It features the full Turrican 2 weaponry (Powerline, Wheel, Mines, Bounce, Multiple and Laser). The graphics are quite simple but done with much detail, especially if you compare it to other 8 bit-systems.
I especially like that the collision is very exact and it controls and moves exactly like Turrican.
So, since gamboy Turrican is much worse playable than GGTurrican, itīll be the best portable Turrican available!
Some people wondered why Martin developed it for Gamegear and didnīt prefer a modern system like GBA instead. This has various reasons, some of them are:
he simply wanted to do a Gamegear-game, there is no Turrican for Gamegear available and he didnīt find anyone whoīd pixel graphics for a GBA-Version.
It is possible to transfer the game to a (flash-)cartridge to play it on a real Gamegear - Iīll report how this can be done soon.
For your pleasure, get 15 Screenshots (scaled x2) here.
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02.12.02
Some facts about Thornado (Factor 5īs unofficial Turrican-Sequel):
Regarding to Julian Eggebrecht (chatlog 05/2002) of Factor 5, they already invested a lot of time and graphics, but itīs layed on ice.
But they still want to do it in any case. So - itīs at least not dead.
(Found at http://www.spieleentwickler.org)
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01.12.02
I found (and scanned) an article about Manfred Trenz and how he came to creating Turrican in an old ASM-Maganzine.
Take a close look at the picture, Iīm really curious whatīs inside Manfredīs Turrican 1 File...
Also added two new facts about Turrican (at the bottom).
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28.11.02
Again, the vote reached the magic 100, this time Iīm a little amazed about the results.
The question was: Would you prefer a 2d or 3d Turrican?
| 2d |  79% |
| 3d | 7% |
| donīt matter | 14% |
To be more representative, this time I asked around in several boards a bit (including ones like giga.de) which donīt only have Turrican-Freaks or Retrogamers. I even asked some younger gamers, which surprisingly had the same opinion.
BUT: most would prefer backgrounds with 3d-Elements (like Duke Nukem Manhattan Project or Pandemodium).
Here some links to the interesting discussions: GAEB Retrozone
A new vote will come next week, mail good ideas to me.
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27.11.02
At request added the original sids from T32k (that little 32kb windows-clone).
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26.11.02
Added a new section in the SETA: In development. (See above, this note will stay there)
This should give you a good overview of all Turrican-related games in development.
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19.11.02
Good news from Pekaro:
Chris Huelsbeck allowed them to use the (TFMX-)Turrican-Soundtrack.
Additionally, there will be a cool option in their T2002:
you can use the Turrican-Soundtrack-CD for ingame-music!!
So, if you havenīt already got it, buy it at synsoniq, before itīs to late ;)
(Synsoniq is Chris Huelsbeckīs own label, so itīs a good way to say "thanks" for his great work)
At Poke53280 there are some brand new Hurrican-Screenshots, from a Temple-Stage.
They just started to do the final level-design and are coding the end-bosses.
(Release date of Hurrican may be early 2003)
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16.11.02
Turrican 1 Poster available!
Thanks to RetroMan for the Scan, I combined his one with Celalīs one and removed the folds.
Get it, as usual, at the Bonusfiles!
Thanks to Aky, thereīs a good shot of the Gameboy-Turrican-Cartridge available now.
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13.11.02
Added a great patch for the Gameboy-Turrican (GoodGBX-ROM-Set only), which makes the sprite look much more like Turrican!
Get it at the Bonusfiles!
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11.11.02
At http://online-club.de/~ARENA/ thereīs a nice interview with Torsten "Wizard" Giebl of Synthetic Software about their Turricane 4 Ever Project.
But nothing really new about the future of the project (still no GFX-Artist).
Thanks to Robert Konrad for the Tip!
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09.11.02
Added a new feature I missed since good olī BBS-Times: a Shoutbox!
(as usual to be found at the right side;)
Only one week more to go for the Hurrican-Highscore, then itīll be closed!
Also (quite) new:
Send a Retrocard(TM) to your friends! Of course, thereīs a Turrican Card!
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03.11.02
To make life easier for you, you can now reach this site at http://kickme.to/turri. If anybody sees any negative side-efects (pop-ups etc.) when using this redirector, please leave me a note.
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30.10.02
Some new shots of Pekaroīs T2002 are available.
Poke53280 totally remade their homepage, and there is a real cool Hurrican-Wallpaper available.
Since Iīve been asked: note that all games that I reported about here in the news until now will be non-commercial !!
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22.10.02
Since I want to print it on a T-Shirt for me, I finally completed the Turrican 2 Poster. So, now available complete and without folds !
Get it at the Bonus Downloads. Is anybody out there with an old "original" Turrican-Shirt ?
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08.10.02
Do you think you are a Turrican Master ?
Show us what youīre made of: if you send me a shot of your Hurrican Preview Highscore (get one with F12), Iīll put your name in the highscore (at the right border-->).
If your score is high enough !
Regarding to Martin Konrad, GameGear Turrican is still being developed, there may even be a new screenshot soon.
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06.10.02
The Hurrican Demo is now available at Poke 53280īs Homepage !
Martin Konrad is also looking for a graphics-artist for a Turrican related GBA-Game. More infos at Turrican Forever.
(I wonder what happened to his GameGear Turrican...?)
Also new: nemmelheim is now synSONIQ-Partner ! (Chris Hülsbeckīs Label, who e.g. publish the great Turrican Soundtrack)
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23.09.02
Yup. That was faster then I thought.
No big surprise, but interesting how few people prefer the Nintendo-Version(s).
The Question for this vote was: Which Turrican do you like the most ?
| Turrican 1 | 23% |
| Turrican 2 | 67% |
| Turrican 3 | 4% |
| Super Turrican | 2% |
| Super Turrican 2 | 4% |
And the winner is: =Robert Konrad= with vote Nr. 100 - and he wins: a new vote ;>
And: expect the public release of the Hurrican-Demo soon !
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23.09.02
Many new Bonusfiles, and added the complete Turrican 3 development-diary, including many pictures.
The Windstille projects is looking for a programmer, if you are interested contact them on their homepage.
After all this time, the great Turrican Forever-Page had itīs major update, the site is built dynamic now. But no new content so far.
And hey, now there are 97 votes - if we hit the 100, Iīll start a new one !
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