EAB/Lemon Super League 2008: Round 6 - Turrican

[Graham Humphrey]

EAB/Lemon Super League 2008: Round 6 - Turrican (http://hol.abime.net/1533)

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8215/turrican01yo6.png http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9899/turrican03bg9.png http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7323/turrican09yy2.png

Rules:
- The round starts now (Sunday, June 8) and will end at 11:59pm UK time on Saturday, June 28.
- Score as many points as possible.
- Post screenshots of your score in this thread, and write your score underneath. You can enter as many times as you like within the round's time frame.
- No cheating of any kind (including score leeching) - this includes save states. If you suspect a contestant of cheating then don't post it in public (anyone who does so will have their posts edited or deleted) - please PM either me or mihcael and we will investigate it. If we find anyone guilty of cheating then they will be banned for the entire season.
- Please only post your score on either the EAB or Lemon forums. If you have already played this year you have to post your score on the same forum for the whole season. If you are new, the one you post on first will be your "team" for the whole season. However you are welcome to discuss the compo, game etc. on the other forum if you wish.
- No continues allowed.

For the full rules and FAQ, click here (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=33736).

To see how the Lemon guys are doing, click here (http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5239).

To check the current league table and previous rounds' results click here (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=34801).

Download Links:
ADF (http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=roms&dat=257&action=showrom&id=343211), WHDLoad-installed (http://www.whdownload.com/games/Pack-T-2007-01-30/Turrican_v1.0_0092.zip).

Have fun and remember if you have any questions then feel free to ask. Anyone can join at any time.

Final Scores: (EAB members in blue, Lemon members in red)

1. john4p - 2,126,250
2. blade002 - 1,957,650
3. TodaysForgotten - 1,759,350
4. Predseda - 1,480,700
5. RickD - 1,432,200
6. CHook/OTT - 1,419,200
7. TheCyberDruid - 1,310,450
8. Biscuit - 1,278,950
9. Graham Humphrey - 662,000
10. neuroflip - 525,850
11. adolescent - 379,100
12. bLAZER - 318,700
13. mailman - 252,200
14. kilgoresmudge - 233,600
15. klx300r - 158,200
16. Simon Humphrey - 140,950

[bLAZER]

Played a couple of times and this is my best crappy result
81500

Wohooo!, I'm no. 1 !!!

[bLAZER]

153250

:banghead I had two lifes left but I shot down the ground that's apparently the only way, and there was no place to die. So I waited until the time ran out (for about 5 mins!) and thought that maybe the ground will reappear, but nopes. :banghead

[blade002]

153250

:banghead I had two lifes left but I shot down the ground that's apparently the only way, and there was no place to die. So I waited until the time ran out (for about 5 mins!) and thought that maybe the ground will reappear, but nopes. :banghead

There is NO way to get stuck in Turrican. there is "always" a way to continue on, you just need to try harder to find a way out. Keep trying! :great

[adolescent]

First try. Anyone have a link to a manual? (Or tell me what keys do what, other than the first two on the joystick, space and alt...)

50,850

[blade002]

First try. Anyone have a link to a manual? (Or tell me what keys do what, other than the first two on the joystick, space and alt...)

50,850

What do you know how to do so far? That way we can figure out what we need to tell you :)

[TCD]

First try. Anyone have a link to a manual? (Or tell me what keys do what, other than the first two on the joystick, space and alt...)

50,850

Hi adolescanet,

the manual is here (http://hol.abime.net/1533/manual) (the english section starts on page 17). Like blade said if you have any specific question just ask :)

[TCD]

For some reason I don't like the rocket-backpack level... ;)

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/79/turrican1990rainbowartsti6.png

393.700

Here are some 'tips' for people that play Turrican not so often :

1. At the very start turn left and walk as far as possible. Jump up and gain one extra live :)
2. Use the spread shot. The laser has more fire power, but it's easier to shoot flying enemies with the spread shot.
3. Use the beam whenever possble and turn into the 'wheel' when there are spikes on the ground.
4. Always have the spacebar ready for power lines. They help a lot in certain situations.

[john4p]

Better yet: use a dualshock-controller.

My setup:

Triangle - single fire (=> beam & mine)
Circle - power line / wheel [SPACE]
Cross - jump [UP]
Square - auto fire
R1 - grenade [ALT]

[Graham Humphrey]

I really suck at this...

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1299/turricanscore1rr9.jpg

64,950

[bLAZER]

There is NO way to get stuck in Turrican. there is "always" a way to continue on, you just need to try harder to find a way out. Keep trying! :great

This was just at the beginning (to the left) in world 2. As it was such a small area to explore I doubt that I missed something...

[TCD]

Better yet: use a dualshock-controller.

My setup:

Triangle - single fire (=> beam & mine)
Circle - power line / wheel [SPACE]
Cross - jump [UP]
Square - auto fire
R1 - grenade [ALT]

Okay, that's better. But I need the old Competition Pro feeling to play that game ;) But you're right. Having the extras mapped to the gamepad is a lot more comfortable :great

[TCD]

:banghead The second rocket backpack level... Now I know why I voted for Turrican 2 ;)

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9870/turrican1990rainbowartsmo6.png

543.100

[RickD]

Turrican is one of my favourite game. :D
That's not my best score, usually i manage to finish it with more lives left (>30-40). :p

1,432,200

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1681416815

[TCD]

Woah! Congrats Rick! That's a really nice score :great
I think TodaysForgotten now got a pretty good challenge ;)
I will try to complete it myself, if only there wasn't the damn rocket backpack level...

[RickD]

Thanks ! "backpak levels" are where i lost most of my lives. :)

[TCD]

Thanks ! "backpak levels" are where i lost most of my lives. :)

They are certainly the hardest part of Turrican. You get plenty of lives in the level between the two, but it wasn't enough for me... ;)

[blade002]

Oh man!, this is going to be one hell of difficult competition! I know i chose Turrican and i do love the game, but i had forgotten just how BIG part 1 was! I honestly think the maps in part 1 are far bigger than in part 2 !!. I don't know how many times i can sit there and finish it !! :shocked:crazy

I made a number of errors, and i know i could have done quite a bit better, but......

Anyway, i completed it, and here is my score guys.

1,628,550

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/Turrican.jpg

[TCD]

:bowdown I'm unworthy, I'm unworthy, I'm... ;)
This round will definetely kick ass :D
Congrats blade! :great
I thought RickD was doing nice (okay also thought I did :p), but this is a great score!

[blade002]

This was just at the beginning (to the left) in world 2. As it was such a small area to explore I doubt that I missed something...

You silly man :D .. Yes if you shoot those small floors away to the far left at the start of World 2, you won't be able to go up into that spot, but you don't need to go that way, because all that is really up there is just a bunch of bonuses ( which will help your score though :) ) .

What you need to do is go back the way you came to the far right of the play area and beneath you, you will find bits of the same kind of floor. Just hold down your fire button ( with autofire off if you have it ) and rotate the beam you have to destroy the floor below you, so that you can progress!!.. :great

:bowdown I'm unworthy, I'm unworthy, I'm... ;)
This round will definetely kick ass :D
Congrats blade! :great
I thought RickD was doing nice (okay also thought I did :p), but this is a great score!

Cheers Druid !!.. but no, you are definately worthy!! ... its actually possible to get roughly 18 lives from the first 2 levels on the first world :) Having that little backlog of lives should see you through the Jetpack levels ( there are 2 of them don't forget! .. lol )

I am sure someone is going to topple my score very soon though! :blased

[TCD]

Cheers Druid !!.. but no, you are definately worthy!! ... its actually possible to get roughly 18 lives from the first 2 levels on the first world :) Having that little backlog of lives should see you through the Jetpack levels ( there are 2 of them don't forget! .. lol )

I am sure someone is going to topple my score very soon though! :blased

I know there are two of them : First score -> died in the first, second score -> died in the second :crazy
Thank you for cheering me up mate, I needed that now ;)
It's the first day of the round and there are two big scores. As I said this round will be really wicked! I hope I can at least do better than the 12th place last round :)

[Graham Humphrey]

What a fantastic score Blade.

But please can you start using multi-quote, I'm working overtime just merging all your posts ;)

[blade002]

I know there are two of them : First score -> died in the first, second score -> died in the second :crazy
Thank you for cheering me up mate, I needed that now ;)
It's the first day of the round and there are two big scores. As I said this round will be really wicked! I hope I can at least do better than the 12th place last round :)

Don't stress mate, you will absolutely kill it in this round!, your top score is actually quite good from this early in the round!, so if its that good now, then i am pretty sure you are going to finish it before you know it. ;)

I think the reason why i finished it this quickly though, is because i had Turrican on the C64 and probably finished it about 40 times in 1990, and then when i got my Amiga in the same year, i probably repeated that again! So even though its been a long time since i have really sat down and played it, the layout of the game has seemed to have stuck in my mind! When i was playing it tonight i could remember small bits of the map here and there which REALLY did help to get me through it!. :)

Good Luck my friend! :spin


What a fantastic score Blade.

But please can you start using multi-quote, I'm working overtime just merging all your posts ;)

Thanks Graham and real sorry about not using multi-quote. I guess its just force of habit. :p

[TCD]

1. john4p - 1,918,450

:shocked
Okay, well, that's just... well... OMG! I think when I finished it the last time without using a continue I got around 1.300.000, so I thought 1.600.000 was really good, but THAT is a big, fat, hairy score! :D
Congrats john! :great
So TodaysForgotten really got a huge problem ;)

[Graham Humphrey]

Indeed, it is an excellent score so well done John!

I made my comment about Blade's score before I saw the Lemon thread so it's still fantastic but not quite as much :p

[TCD]

To see how the Lemon guys are doing, click here.

Could you update the link Graham? I think I'll print out the screenshot with johns score and hang it over my bed :D

[blade002]

Shit! :(

Back to the drawing board. :help

[Graham Humphrey]

Could you update the link Graham? I think I'll print out the screenshot with johns score and hang it over my bed :D

Ah, so you spotted my deliberate mistake... ;)

Link now put in, thanks for reminding me.

[TCD]

Ah, so you spotted my deliberate mistake... ;)

Link now put in, thanks for reminding me.

No problem and thank you! The screenshot got the right poster format :D Now I feel a bit stupid about giving tips on playing Turrican ;)

[john4p]

I think when I finished it the last time without using a continue I got around 1.300.000, so I thought 1.600.000 was really good, but THAT is a big, fat, hairy score! :D
Congrats john! :great
Thanks! 1.3 million points IS quite good, actually. I'm much more proud having achieved this here (a couple of months ago) than my score from today:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6872/001oz5.png

It's much more important to me to finish with as many lives left as possible than reaching a high score. As you see my record is finishing with 68 lives (69, to be exact: one in play, 68 in reserve). In the end I just had a score of 1.3 million.

Today, when I made 1.9 million points I only finished with 47 lives left. I had to sacrifice some lives to timeouts because for points you have to go everywhere in the levels. I hate playing for points in Turrican. I much rather would play for "who finished the game with most lives left".
At least the lives at the end are worth additional points, too.

[Graham Humphrey]

The big problem with playing for who finished with the most lives, of course, is that not everyone can finish it ;)

[adolescent]

A little better.

379,100

[Graham Humphrey]

Dammit, now I need to pull my finger out if I'm to avoid the wooden spoon...

[john4p]

The big problem with playing for who finished with the most lives, of course, is that not everyone can finish it ;)
Of course lol.

But you could use the score as tie-breaker. So if two people end the game with 50 lives the one with the better score wins. And if two people
die before the end they "finish" the game without any lives - so that only their score would be tie-breaker...

But now it's too late to change the rules anyway...

[blade002]

@john4p: Awesome job on your score! And Awesome job on the Chaos Engine as well !! :) I will see if i can find time today to try and beat in you Turrican, but i know its going to take a bit more caring and a bit more careful planning on my part to do it!. I actually lost most of my lives in the "Aliens" style levels towards the end of the game.


Update: I just played half way through again, but made some absolute blunders so i turned it off. lol.. I could have scored higher than my previous score but not as much as John4p if i had of kept going, so i will try another time but next time will be different! :evilgrin

[bLAZER]

Better score from me:
318700

That boss wasn't very nice, lost 4 lives and didn't kill him...

[john4p]

@blade: Thanks. I also find the alien-levels the hardest: those blood-drops are especially annoying if you try to collect most of the diamonds.

I don't mind losing to you. I just hope you also finish better than TF... ;)

Good luck, m8!

[CHook/OTT]

631,100

The jetpack levels cost me around 12 lives :sad and then got finished of by the big square rock boss facey thing on level 4-1 even though i shot the 4 skulls and stood in the gap??? :banghead

[blade002]

@blade: Thanks. I also find the alien-levels the hardest: those blood-drops are especially annoying if you try to collect most of the diamonds.

I don't mind losing to you. I just hope you also finish better than TF... ;)

Good luck, m8!

Yeah those blood drops are a massive pain! :banghead

When it comes to winning and losing though, as you know, i am of the same sentiment, like with the Chaos Engine when i was knocked down to 4th spot, but when i realised it was you that came out on top in 1st place, then it was all ok ;)

Actually Turrican is really good for me right now, because it takes alot of things off my mind while i am playing because right now i am under extreme stress and pressure!. Gotta love the Amiga & Turrican for that, they transport me to a world ( and a happier time ) that not even GTA4 could! :)

[Graham Humphrey]

A bit better, still not very good though and there are far too many leaps of faith for my liking.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/2714/turricanscore2mc8.jpg

140,150

[CHook/OTT]

I explored the levels a bit more 2nd time round. I finished it but with only 5 lives left and world 4 is horrid, The amount of times i killed myself jumping up into spikes/drops going for all the gems really pissed me off :mad

anyway: 1,419,200

[blade002]

I explored the levels a bit more 2nd time round. I finished it but with only 5 lives left and world 4 is horrid, The amount of times i killed myself jumping up into spikes/drops going for all the gems really pissed me off :mad

anyway: 1,419,200

Yep, i was saying this earlier to John4p in regards to the Aliens Blood Drops level ( aka World 4 ) and yes the spikes too are a huge pain!!...

[Graham Humphrey]

Getting better (though I still don't think it's a very good game), that boss on level 2-2 did for me though - how on Earth are you supposed to beat that...?

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4448/turricanscore3mg0.jpg

324,900

[bLAZER]

Oh no, you beat me! I also died on that boss.. and also wonder how to kill him.. I lost about 4 lives...

[CHook/OTT]

that boss on level 2-2 did for me though - how on Earth are you supposed to beat that...?

Is that one the fish?

[Graham Humphrey]

Er, I think so. Sadly I can't fully remember (and I only played it this morning...)

[blade002]

Er, I think so. Sadly I can't fully remember (and I only played it this morning...)

If you mean that boss where you are stuck on the left hand side of the screen and you cant move anywhere while the boss slowly gets closer and closer with its large claw like pincers, then its actually very easy to kill... actually if you do it the right way, you could kill it after it moves only an inch.

Just stand there, hold down the fire button and just give it a constant stream of your beam while pressing space bar to use your power walls, and then when you are out of those, just keep hitting alt and grenade the bastard!. With this method you really cant lose!. Actually even without the power walls or grenades, your beam should be enough to destroy it :)

[Graham Humphrey]

That's it Blade, thanks!

[bLAZER]

I used my beam and power walls for 4 lives.. but he still didn't die...

[TCD]

I used my beam and power walls for 4 lives.. but he still didn't die...

Try to stand as far left as possible (near to the spikes). There is a position where he can't get you, but you can easily use your beam to destroy him (like blade said). Even if you lose one live to find the right position to stand, you wont lose more lives because he drains your energy.

[TCD]

I've managed to get through the pesky jetpack level :D
With my last life I was doing quite good and then I just descended a bit too far... ;)

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4243/turrican1990rainbowartsyd2.png

893.350

[blade002]

I've managed to get through the pesky jetpack level :D
With my last life I was doing quite good and then I just descended a bit too far... ;)

893.350

Oooooh yeah, that little spot there where you died is a bitch!.. all those little silver things drain your energy and there is no where to go except up!, but until you get up, there is no hope!... i lost about 2 lives on that one spot when i got to there last week :(

I used my beam and power walls for 4 lives.. but he still didn't die...

As CyberDruid said, do as he said :D

One thing you must not do is panic! Get up as far left as possible so you are level with creature and just let rip with the beam and STAY THERE!!.. Don't move!.. then let rip with your whole arsenal again!... and you WILL beat him this way :)

[TCD]

Oooooh yeah, that little spot there where you died is a bitch!.. all those little silver things drain your energy and there is no where to go except up!, but until you get up, there is no hope!... i lost about 2 lives on that one spot when i got to there last week :(

I almost got lost in the second alien level ;) I jumped down on that spot and had to discover there was no floor :D The acid drops are not so bad, but these flying skulls and falling rocks are hard to avoid. Hopefully I will be able to finish the game before this round is over :)

[bLAZER]

One thing you must not do is panic! Get up as far left as possible so you are level with creature and just let rip with the beam and STAY THERE!!.. Don't move!.. then let rip with your whole arsenal again!... and you WILL beat him this way :)

I haven't bothered playing again but if you look at my screenshot at the first page, as I can remember I couldn't move more to the left... and I shot him with the beam and <space bar> as much I could with 4 lives...

[blade002]

I haven't bothered playing again but if you look at my screenshot at the first page, as I can remember I couldn't move more to the left... and I shot him with the beam and <space bar> as much I could with 4 lives...

I can see part of your problem in that screenshot and the problem is that your beam is a bit too short!.. you need to try and get there with a longer beam from collecting the bonus tokens scattered around throughout the whole game. Generally speaking, i try and get there with a full length beam so it reaches all the way to the end!.

BUT.... of course if you lose to many lives inbetween your last lot of tokens then your fire power is going to be diminished. What you should do before you get to that boss next time, is test your beam to see how long it is so you know where you stand in the fight, and then if its too short again, you will need to run up about half way, beam him as much as you can before he gets too close , then run a couple more inches back, beam him again and then when he is only a couple of inches away from you, jump up to the far left again so that you are level with him and them beam the shit out of him once more and then use all your power walls and grenades!!.

Other than that. your screwed! ;)

[john4p]

Actually Turrican is really good for me right now, because it takes alot of things off my mind while i am playing because right now i am under extreme stress and pressure!. Gotta love the Amiga & Turrican for that, they transport me to a world ( and a happier time ) that not even GTA4 could! :)
Yes - it's a timeless classic. I actually haven't bothered at all with current-gen games. After Playstation 2, X-Box and Gamecube I didn't buy any new consoles.
I'll wait until I have a 1080p (full HD) TV or Beamer before I buy the PS3.

Still I have a PSP and currently enjoy Crisis Core (but mostly play emulators on it).


@bLAZER: Almost always you will have the laser as weapon when you reach this boss. Just press repeatedly the firebutton (FAST) - he'll soon go down (faster than with the beam plus the laser is always "long enough" ;)).
Of course you can also use your extras to make him go down even faster: grenades are stronger, so you should first repeatedly push ALT until you have no more of these before you push SPACE to use the powerlines.

[mailman]

252,200

I am stuck in Level 2-1. How to progress lower? How to destroy these green pads underneath me?

[john4p]

Hold fire until you have the beam - then use left/right to move the beam below you.

[TCD]

I am stuck in Level 2-1. How to progress lower? How to destroy these green pads underneath me?

Use the beam to destroy them. In case you use autofire disable it and hold down the firebutton to activate the beam.

Edit : :crying Why I always have to be second ;)

[blade002]

252,200

I am stuck in Level 2-1. How to progress lower? How to destroy these green pads underneath me?

You "are" aware of the beam are you not? hold down the fire button with autofire off, and the beam comes out, then push the joystick left or right until the beam is facing down so that you can destroy the platforms beneath you. :)

If you have played Turrican 2, its the same thing.

[mailman]

Damn, I forgot about the beam!:banghead

Thanks

[Graham Humphrey]

I did too, took me several minutes on that level figuring out what the heck I had to do.

[blade002]

Yes - it's a timeless classic. I actually haven't bothered at all with current-gen games. After Playstation 2, X-Box and Gamecube I didn't buy any new consoles.
I'll wait until I have a 1080p (full HD) TV or Beamer before I buy the PS3.

Still I have a PSP and currently enjoy Crisis Core (but mostly play emulators on it).

Well i do want to upgrade my PC's video card to run some newer games, but financially my priorities need to sit elsewhere right now, like paying off my $24,000 loan which is mostly a study loan. :( ... not good having that hanging over your head, but i am VERY happy with my Amiga and always have been. :)

About the best thing i think of for having a proper spec PC though is to have a link up via a network for a 2 player action when a friend comes over. Went to a friends house about 3 weeks ago and we link up his notebook and his billion $$$ PC .. lol... to play.. oh shit what was it called again?.. i have forgotten now.. lol... will think of the name later :)


Edit : Why I always have to be second

What do you mean mate :confused

Damn, I forgot about the beam!

Thanks

How could you forget mailman!?? Its TURRICAN !!... You should be tortured for this :evilgrin

I did too, took me several minutes on that level figuring out what the heck I had to do.

And you should be tortured next! :D

[TCD]

What do you mean mate :confused


john4p just answered the question of mailman some seconds before me ;) That happened to me several times. I should take some typing courses :D

[blade002]

john4p just answered the question of mailman some seconds before me ;) That happened to me several times. I should take some typing courses :D

LOL.... don't worry mate, i have been stalking John4p recently and i am rearranging the size of my car boot for his imminent demise :evilgrin So you won't need to worry about it again in the future ;)

[TCD]

LOL.... don't worry mate, i have been stalking John4p recently and i am rearranging the size of my car boot for his imminent demise :evilgrin So you won't need to worry about it again in the future ;)

Thanks a ton blade! :D
But I think it's too late for this round... but than again he might be good at X-Out aswell :evilgrin

[blade002]

Thanks a ton blade! :D
But I think it's too late for this round... but than again he might be good at X-Out aswell :evilgrin

Well i haven't played the game since last weekend and the score i got, i got on my first shot. so there is STILL hope for us!!.. :) As for X-Out, have a little faith my friend, we can do it :)

[TCD]

Well i haven't played the game since last weekend and the score i got, i got on my first shot. so there is STILL hope for us!!.. :) As for X-Out, have a little faith my friend, we can do it :)

Oh yeah blade, make a score above 2 million! I would love to see that :) (and I will make a poster and hang it over my bed :D).
As for X-Out : I really hope it gets voted! Haven't played it for a while, but I think I'm still not bad at it. Would really be fun to play it under competition pressure :)

[Graham Humphrey]

And you should be tortured next! :D

It's torture enough playing Turrican :D

[mailman]

WHDLoad slave for Turrican is buggy (at least on my configuration). When there are too many bullets on the screen, the game quits with Access Fault. It is similar to Alien Breed 2 slave bug in which you could not use rebounders because when there were too many of them the game quitted. It is very difficult for me to play it...

[bLAZER]

Then don't use WHDLoad.... the load times are short.

[Graham Humphrey]

If I remember rightly mailman has a PPC card and stuff like that so playing it from floppy is not an option ;)

[mailman]

Graham i s right. But still, I will be trying not to fire so much and maybe I will manage to go ahead (once I reached the second world).

[TCD]

Graham i s right. But still, I will be trying not to fire so much and maybe I will manage to go ahead (once I reached the second world).

Good luck mailman! It's a shame the WHDLoad version isn't flawless :( So you always have to think about how you play and you never know if the game crashes anyway. I really hope you manage to reach the later level and do a great score :)

[john4p]

Under WinUAE the WHDLoad-version works flawlessly...

[blade002]

Oh yeah blade, make a score above 2 million! I would love to see that :) (and I will make a poster and hang it over my bed :D).
As for X-Out : I really hope it gets voted! Haven't played it for a while, but I think I'm still not bad at it. Would really be fun to play it under competition pressure :)

I shall do my best mate!, and i think it will be attainable if i play smart :), and i really do hope that X-Out does get voted as well because that game really is quite a challenge and it has things that other shootem-ups normally don't that really does up the competition pressure as you inferred, plus it has music by Huelsbeck :cool

And i haven't played it in quite a while either ( at least not properly )

It's torture enough playing Turrican

If you consider playing Turrican torture, then you were obviously a tortured man "before" you started playing it :D

The man needs medication i say!!!! :agree:cheese

[mailman]

Under WinUAE the WHDLoad-version works flawlessly...

Because you emulate some slower processor.

[john4p]

Probably (actually I emulate a 68040 processor with AGA and full collision detection, but without JIT - because that mostly ruins ECS-games).

Umm...did you try the WHDLoad-version of the CDTV release? Maybe that one works better for you?

edit: Just saw Killergorilla only released a CDTV-version of Turrican II, but not I.
Well, then I suggest you also use WinUAE or E-UAE to play this game.

[Graham Humphrey]

A little better but that horrible boss at the end of 2-2 still defeats me.

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6731/turricanscore4lj5.jpg

347,400

[blade002]

Well a couple of problems this time round. first off, i stuffed up by accidentally leaving the 2nd Alien level within about 2 minutes after arriving in it, which meant a whole level full of points completely lost and my Uncle has come across from Perth to see me and he came home last night really drunk and was trying to talk to me while i was playing the last world .. :banghead :p Although i did manage to finish with 44 lives left over :)

So if i find time today i will try again.... Here is my score for the time being though :)

@CyberDruid: I will get back to you about your music post soon mate.. ive actually hardly been on the net the last few days... too caught up :crying

1,792,600

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/dsc00744.jpg

[TCD]

@blade
No problem mate, I know what it's like :)
Nice score nonetheless. Really seems that you can do it (get 2 million points) :great I will have another try today and maybe I finally get through it.
Have a nice and a bit stressful weekend blade.

[Graham Humphrey]

Good score Blade.

I think John should be worried ;)

[TCD]

Yes! I've made it :D
Only had 6 lives left and missed some opportunities to score, but I'm through :)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4449/turrican1990rainbowartsuw7.pnghttp://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8272/turrican1990rainbowartsps3.png

1.310.450

[john4p]

Congrats to blade and cyberdruid!

@blade: If you hadn't "skipped" 4-2 I bet our scores would've been almost identical...

[TCD]

Thank you john :)
I think it could be possible for me to do another 200k points. It's really astounding how much points you get in the alien levels. The last enemy is quite easy, but I forgot that I need to switch side when the first face is destroyed ;). Still can't understand how you finished it with 68 lives left :D

[john4p]

Still can't understand how you finished it with 68 lives left :D
Well, there's also luck involved, because you get random lives in world 3. Sometimes you can get 20 lives in world 3, sometimes only 5 or so. So the lives count in Turrican is not as significant as it's in Turrican II which doesn't have random "one-ups".

[blade002]

Damn that was hard, but i managed to beat you John4p :) I tried to get brave and gained 4 extra lives in the jetpack levels which paid off, plus this time around i managed to finish the 2nd Alien level in full and its absolutely smothered in gemstones! plus i also finished with 41 lives left.

Ive gotta tell you though mate, your a hard man to beat! :shocked

Here is my FINAL score! :D

@CyberDruid -: I got him! :great


1,957,650

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/dsc00746.jpg

Good score Blade.

I think John should be worried

Yes, John should be worried !! :lol

[TCD]

:bowdown blade!
You did it! Congratulations for that mate :great
Now I think we see the 2 million in this round :agree

[blade002]

:bowdown blade!
You did it! Congratulations for that mate :great
Now I think we see the 2 million in this round :agree

Cheers mate! :)

And yep, any second now TF will jump in with the 2 million :blased

Yes! I've made it
Only had 6 lives left and missed some opportunities to score, but I'm through

Shit, i just realised that you managed to finish it !!

WELL DONE !!, Its quite a decent score was as well... :)

[TCD]

Cheers mate! :)

And yep, any second now TF will jump in with the 2 million :blased

Yeah, he doesn't show us how he's doing until it's the first place... :nervous
But that scores (from you and john) are pretty high, so it wont be easy to get over them. I guess john just fired up his Amiga and is playing again ;)

Edit : Ah thanks blade! If I find the time I'll make some more attempts. Maybe I get get about 1.5 million :)

[Graham Humphrey]

Well played Blade!

[john4p]

Very nice indeed. Seems like this is your game after all!

[blade002]

Very nice indeed. Seems like this is your game after all!

Thanks :) but just like before, coming 2nd to you would have been fine in my book! But this time around i wanted to see if i could finally make it to 1st place, and without TF here, it seems that i could!, although it would have been nice if he had of joined in, just to make it a little bit more interesting. :great

Well played Blade!

Thanks :)

[Graham Humphrey]

Blade, TF can still join in, there's still a week to go... methinks you're being a tad premature ;)

I'd be surprised if he didn't enter. A tough ask for him to win though.

[blade002]

Blade, TF can still join in, there's still a week to go... methinks you're being a tad premature ;)

I'd be surprised if he didn't enter. A tough ask for him to win though.

Oh damn you are right! :shocked:shocked:shocked how the hell did i confuse that one????

Maybe i should edit my post so that TF cant read it! .. :lol:lol:lol

[Graham Humphrey]

That's classic... you'll have to put the champagne on ice for another seven days :lol

[blade002]

That's classic... you'll have to put the champagne on ice for another seven days :lol

With the way TF plays, the champagne will need to go on ice permanently !! :p

And he "will" be able to beat it! There are still a few minor errors here and there that i made that can pip him over my score, so if he does, it will mean that i will need to do it ALL OVER AGAIN !! :bash:cheese

[john4p]

Okay, I had a couple of goes today and this was my best effort (here's your poster, Cyberdruid ;)):

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7996/098na1.png

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/5017/099lk6.png

If I hadn't collected (almost) all the diamonds I would've finished with more than 70 lives left.

[TCD]

:bowdown john that is awesome man :great
I can't believe it. Yeah that really makes two good posters for me ;)
You scored 200k more than the last time. I don't know where you get all those points, but I bet you know every spot in Turrican :)
Now I really wanna know what TF does when he sees this score :D
Btw : Ever thought about playing for EAB in the next season? ;)

[Graham Humphrey]

Now I really wanna know what TF does when he sees this score :D

Scream?

[TCD]

Scream?

:D
It's really exciting to see how the scores get higher and higher. I bet blade will scream too when he sees johns score ;)

[john4p]

Btw : Ever thought about playing for EAB in the next season?Nope - you already have TF, mailman, blade and Graham.
Lemon can only always count on Biscuit (plus Simon for Jump 'n Roll and racing games, I guess...).
So someone has to keep the Balance of Power...

[blade002]

All i have to say is "SHIT" .. LOL .. Phenomenal score John4p, you really deserve a lot for praise for that :)

But i will STILL try to beat it!. Not sure how you managed 65 lives, so it looks i will have my work cut out for me. Its not over till the fat lady sings, and right now she is very fat and she is signing like a fat lady that can ummmmm.... sing!.. hehe.

[Graham Humphrey]

Go on Blade, do it for the team ;)

[john4p]

Thanks, blade. I really hope you can further improve - because I really don't think anything below 2 million can stop TF (your achievement so far is still great, of course).
And I really would like to see you beat TF this round...

Really! ;)

[TCD]

@blade
Yeah do it man! I really wanna see how high the scores can go :D
I wish you the best of luck for it :great

@john
You're right. If you weren't on their side it would be a pretty lame competition. But somehow you guys managed to beat us the last rounds ;) Let's see how this round turns out...

[Graham Humphrey]

Finally defeated that wretched boss and made it all the way to level 4-2 :D

662,000

[TCD]

Finally defeated that wretched boss and made it all the way to level 4-2 :D

662,000

Hey Graham nice one :great
I think you can get through it too, once you get familiar with the alien levels. See the game is not so bad eh? ;)
Btw : Akira? Where is your try?

[Graham Humphrey]

Well put it this way, I won't be playing this game ever again as soon as this round's finished ;)

[TCD]

Well put it this way, I won't be playing this game ever again as soon as this round's finished ;)

Fair enough mate. :D

[Graham Humphrey]

So have we all given up then ;)

[TCD]

No, I just am a bit busy right now and there is football tonight... but I'll have another try before the round is over. I will never score as much as john or blade, but hopefully will beat some of the 1.4m players :p

[TodaysForgotten]

These are some nice scores. Unfortunately, i've been devoting my time to other things and for the last 3 days i've been working on not effing up in Mutant Storm. I finally beat the game today. I have what, 2 days to master turrican? Should be interesting...

[TCD]

Good luck to you TodaysForgotten!
The score john has achieved is damn good, so I'm really looking forward to see your score. Maybe I have to cancel the poster order for johns score ;)

[Graham Humphrey]

I like the way everyone automatically assumes TF is going to win - he's only won a single round so far ;)

Boy have I talked that one up :D

[TodaysForgotten]

I like the way everyone automatically assumes TF is going to win - he's only won a single round so far ;)

Boy have I talked that one up :D

technically 2. (:

[john4p]

Technically 2? Do you mean Jump 'n Roll?

[Graham Humphrey]

Well if he hadn't posted that video on YouTube it would have been two wins, probably :D

Drifting vaguely back on-topic: a couple of days left for this round...

[blade002]

My uncle who is staying with me till next week has made it difficult for me to try Turrican again and he went to bed only about 1 hour ago.. so now i am going to crash out for about 4 hours and reawaken at about 5 in the morning here to attempt Turrican once more!.. it might just give me enough time before the compo times out 4 hours after that at 9am my time!.

Fingers Crossed and wish me luck :)

[TCD]

I wish you the best of luck blade :great and a good night :)
Had a try today, but I think I'm not getting through another 2 hours of sweating blood to gain a higher score :D

[TodaysForgotten]

since my score is going to be late. Im at 1.6m right now. Just giving a heads up for those possibly waiting to see what i post before doing another run. i think i have one level left.

[TCD]

Not bad TF! I'm really looking forward to see your score. There are not many points to get in the last level, so you better have some lives left to push your score ;)
Good luck to you!

[TodaysForgotten]

uhm. I got into the ship just as time ran out and now the ship isnt there. I had 27 lives (dont know where you all found 60+ lives) I only lost 10 lives and i missed about 15k in mario brothers bricks. So i guess its 5k per life? giving me 1,759,350?

[TCD]

Yup, that should give you 1.759.350 points. I think you found a really rare bug in the game :)

[john4p]

That's correct. Very good result considering you haven't played the game all that much.

There are quite a few secrets where you can find 3, 4, 6 and 7 lives at once. I'm glad you didn't invest too much time in this game - because I'm sure you would have found them... ;)

Plus world 3 is like an extralife-lottery: sometimes the giant "Super Mario"-blocks contain up to 3 lives - and there are a lot of this blocks in that world. Also in the jetpack-stages the enemies on rails can drop 1-ups.

[blade002]

Its all over for me.. i made one crucial screwup in the extra lives department by destroying a block that takes you to the top on a lift where there are 6 extra lives and every point counts in this compo.. so thats it for me... I could start again, but i wont have enough time before the compo ends.... Actually my uncle was supposed to be going out to see his mate for the entire weekend and last night when i heard the key in the door i can recall just saying to myself..... oh FUCK @$@%@%@%^!@^!Q^#Q@^#$^$#Q@^Q@#$^#@^^!Q%^!Q%^ !... sigh....

Great Job John4p ..

[TCD]

Bad news blade, but you really showed us that you are a great Turrican player :great Really a pity that you didn't had more time to play it. However your score is still really great and john had a hard time beating it (I guess ;)).

[TodaysForgotten]

That's correct. Very good result considering you haven't played the game all that much.

There are quite a few secrets where you can find 3, 4, 6 and 7 lives at once. I'm glad you didn't invest too much time in this game - because I'm sure you would have found them... ;)

Plus world 3 is like an extralife-lottery: sometimes the giant "Super Mario"-blocks contain up to 3 lives - and there are a lot of this blocks in that world. Also in the jetpack-stages the enemies on rails can drop 1-ups.

Yes. I screamed on the one level where 3 lives popped from the bottom of the blocks. I also missed the 1ups in the upper left of one stage. Infact i know i missed those extra lives and a few other blocks.

I also noticed a couple of lives fall on the jetpac level.

I don't know if i would have cared to find them all. I didnt know the game wasnt so straight-forward. It's all in fun though, no?


Thanks Cyber :)

[blade002]

Bad news blade, but you really showed us that you are a great Turrican player :great Really a pity that you didn't had more time to play it. However your score is still really great and john had a hard time beating it (I guess ;)).

Thanks CyberDruid :) The key here really is finding time to play it, since Turrican really is a HUGE game as you know. Here's hoping that Turrican gets pick again sometime in the near future but this time "without" interruptions! ;)


uhm. I got into the ship just as time ran out and now the ship isnt there. I had 27 lives (dont know where you all found 60+ lives) I only lost 10 lives and i missed about 15k in mario brothers bricks. So i guess its 5k per life? giving me 1,759,350?

Actually the 60+ lives is kind of beyond me as well !?? .. The only way you could really get that many is to hardly ever lose a life ( except for the time outs of course ), so John4p must have played EXTREMELY well to have not lost probably maximum 5 lives just from being killed by the enemy !!

Update-: yeah your right John, the extra lives can be a bit of a lottery sometimes, but i think its just mostly down to your playing skill since its not easy to grab all those lives without being wiped out!!

[blade002]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN4P !!! :xmas:xmas:great:great

And don't stress about turning 30. It could be worse, you could 34 like me!! ... now THATS depressing!!! :laughing:laughing:laughing

[TCD]

Happy Birthday john!
I turned 30 this year too and I say it's not much of a difference ;)
Have a great birthday and have a drink on your old competition buddies :D

[blade002]

uhm. I got into the ship just as time ran out and now the ship isnt there. I had 27 lives (dont know where you all found 60+ lives) I only lost 10 lives and i missed about 15k in mario brothers bricks. So i guess its 5k per life? giving me 1,759,350?

Well considering you hardly had a chance to play Turrican TF, you definately did an amazing job getting the score that you did, and i am sure you would have most likely destroyed my score had you have had enough time to play it more!

[john4p]

I don't know if i would have cared to find them all. I didnt know the game wasnt so straight-forward. It's all in fun though, no?Yes, the play areas are huge and often non-linear.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN4P !!! :xmas:xmas:great:greatHappy Birthday john!
Thank you! :spin

And don't stress about turning 30. It could be worse, you could 34 like me!! ... now THATS depressing!!! :laughing:laughing:laughing
Hahaha! :laughing Well, I could imagine we'll still be playing Amiga games in 50 years. So it's not all over yet... ;)

I turned 30 this year too and I say it's not much of a difference ;)Okay - that's good news.

Have a great birthday and have a drink on your old competition buddies :DCheers! :great

[Graham Humphrey]

uhm. I got into the ship just as time ran out and now the ship isnt there. I had 27 lives (dont know where you all found 60+ lives) I only lost 10 lives and i missed about 15k in mario brothers bricks. So i guess its 5k per life? giving me 1,759,350?

So what should I do here then - count the score in your screenie or the score you've worked out here (considering you've been incredibly unlucky there)?

EDIT: Either way you'll be in third place though...

[Graham Humphrey]

Right I've decided to go for the score TF should have had, but bizarre circumstances prevented... either way it's pretty inconsequential...

And with that, another round's over... well played all.

Score updates and new round threads to follow shortly...