Turrican 3 AGA

[zzbylu]

Awesome!
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[Scuba-cheese]

Very nice!

Some assets seem higher color than I remember from the Amiga and Sega versions, are these from Super Turrican or perhaps the cancelled PC version?

There is also this java game called Apocalypse 3000 that seems to use higher color assets from the PC version should you need them.


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[Muzza]

Art is a mix of cancelled PC-DOS version and megadrive versions.

[basementApe]

Very cool!

I may be wrong but I think the MD version only uses 64 colors? If so seven bitplanes should be totally fine

[earok]

It's looking very very cool

[Gzegzolka]

My dreams come true I hope You will finish it and it will be as great as Turrican 2 project.

[jotd]

You know that the T3 sources are available right?

I love when other platforms assets are reused to make a more colorful game!

[VincentGR]

That hook was keeping me away from this game, but this is not the point here.
Muzza is doing a great job as always.
What about the colour scheme from the MD version?
OK, we have a 32bit machine, but the MD was a sprite beast, so with less colours could be doable.

[sokolovic]

Originally Posted by VincentGR

OK, we have a 32bit machine, but the MD was a sprite beast, so with less colours could be doable.

The OCS version is already a port with less colours and it fits on a standard A500 (no extra ram) and one disk.
An A1200 with fast ram should be able, I hope, to have a version at least on par with the MD one, the A500 one being not too far from it IMHO.

[basementApe]

MD is limited to a 9-bit color range so an AGA version could in theory have an improved color scheme. You'd need to be A: A color maestro and B: Willing to go over *all* the graphics to change colors around though

[JoeJoe]

That looks really great, amazing. I only say "Turrican Muzza"

[saimon69]

Going to screw things a bit but personally i would like a REAL Turrican III, mean: get rid of the hook mechanism and reinstate the rotating laser - that might include to change platforms layout a bit but fine for me

[TCD]

Originally Posted by saimon69

get rid of the hook mechanism and reinstate the rotating laser

It's so good to see that I'm not the only one that thinks that way

[Cris1997XX]

Not gonna lie, I agree with what people said here. 7 bitplanes should be more than enough to replicate the Mega Drive's graphics. Plus you get more colors from the hardware sprites, so...that wouldn't be a problem anyway. Only one thing, in the case of a CD32 port you should really add an options setting for the MD soundtrack

[sokolovic]

Originally Posted by TCD

It's so good to see that I'm not the only one that thinks that way

I'm pretty sure that this is a vast majority. Nobody likes the hook system

[TCD]

Originally Posted by sokolovic

I'm pretty sure that this is a vast majority. Nobody likes the hook system

I get that it's less of a control problem on the MegaDrive, but who thought that the hook is a 'cool new feature' to add? Anyway, looking forward to see what Muuza will come up with

[VincentGR]

Originally Posted by sokolovic

The OCS version is already a port with less colours and it fits on a standard A500 (no extra ram) and one disk.
An A1200 with fast ram should be able, I hope, to have a version at least on par with the MD one, the A500 one being not too far from it IMHO.

Indeed, that's why I said to have fewer colours :-)
64 would be enough, and some copper tricks.

[roondar]

I think it's quite interesting to see this. Nice to see you working on it
Like some others have suggested, did you consider using AGA Dual Playfield instead?

[pink^abyss]

Converting Super Turrican for AGA would be refreshing.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by pink^abyss

Converting Super Turrican for AGA would be refreshing.

I think it contains too much SNES specific elements, like huge rotating zooming sprites for bosses.