I honestly have no idea how hard it is to get any of this manufactured, but I can remember seeing some retro-based Kickstarters with pledge rewards where you get stuff on a 3,5" diskette.
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Turrican (Remaster?) to be revealed during Opening Night Live (Gamescom) - developed by Factor 5
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Im just excited to use freeze beam and hidden platforms that dont exist in mega turrican to explore in super turrican. Plus the bombs are different and its a bit harder. Mega has more polish and content but i never has a snes and im eager for the shift in gameplay. No rope will make things way different so hidden platforms sound exciting to me since i love exploring in turrican.
Gotta play em all with a turrican title! Each port had distinct differences that often completely shifted movement and combat experiences.
Gotta play em all with a turrican title! Each port had distinct differences that often completely shifted movement and combat experiences.
Director's cut was previously exclusive to the Analogue Super Nt
Oh wow...didnt realize which versiona some of these were till i saw the sixaxis post.
Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 includes…
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Btw if yall are hurtin hard for games like Turrican remember we have seen 2 very stellar remastered releases in recent years of euroshooters.
One is the unreleased 1994 psygnosis game hardcore now renamed ULTRACORE ($20) and the other was the 2012 legend Gunlord that got remastered with new content as GUNLORD X($10).
Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 includes…
- Turrican (Amiga)
- Turrican 2 (Amiga)
- Super Turrican (SNES)
- Super Turrican Director's Cut (SNES)
- Mega Turrican Score Attack (MD/GEN)
- Turrican 3 (Amiga)
- Mega Turrican (MD/GEN)
- Mega Turrican Director's Cut (MD/GEN)
- Super Turrican 2 (SNES)
- Super Turrican 1 Score Attack (SNES)
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Btw if yall are hurtin hard for games like Turrican remember we have seen 2 very stellar remastered releases in recent years of euroshooters.
One is the unreleased 1994 psygnosis game hardcore now renamed ULTRACORE ($20) and the other was the 2012 legend Gunlord that got remastered with new content as GUNLORD X($10).
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Regular PC HD (high density) 3,5" floppies at 1,44 MB are still being made, but Amiga used DD (double density) diskettes with lower capacity. Some models can theoretically read HD floppies formatted to the specific 880 kB setup, with one of the holes in the floppy covered, but it's probably a hassle to try to make a product that will work on everyone's Amiga.
Edit: Also, they renamed Hardcore? I knew that it was coming out eventually, but I missed the rename. That's a Digital Illusions game, it was being developed simultaneously with Benefactor and Pinball Illusions back then, until Psygnosis cancelled it.
Yup. Threw me too trying to find it. Kept looking for hardcore because the original announce trailer about it did not mention a renaming. Then lo and behold a year late I find its out already under the ULTRACORE name for $20.
Trying to find more Turrican like titles tbh. Really liked Gunlord X. I wonder if indies have made any solid ones?
Strange that the C64 versions isn't on the collections. That was the original platform, after all.
I'm still kind of interested in the collections, but I'd agree with the general consensus that they are priced to high. I'll probably buy them digitally in an inevitable sale further down the line.
I'm still kind of interested in the collections, but I'd agree with the general consensus that they are priced to high. I'll probably buy them digitally in an inevitable sale further down the line.
Yea I beat Gunlord X on Switch and I loved it, great homage. Ultracore is pretty good too but not as good.
Then there's the fan game Hurrican which is quite good too.
Then there's the fan game Hurrican which is quite good too.
For someone who's only ever played Super Turrican and enjoyed it (but wouldn't put it on the level of other run 'n guns, frankly), which of the two collections is worth trying? It's one of my favourite genres but I am not spending 100 euros on 1 extra game + reversions of games.
The first with Turrican and Turrican 2 on the Amiga
They're the pinnacle of the franchise for most people
Personnaly I love Turrican 3/Mega Turrican (which is much much better than its Super NES version Super Turrican) but if you were to only get one, it would be it.
I guess it is not on XBox as the franchise is/was only quite popular in Europe and Xbox is not really a relevant platform here (except maybe the UK).
Bumping this because Turrican Flashback Collection is available on the EU PS store:
Turrican Flashback Collection
A legendária série Turrican está de volta Experiencia 4 jogos de ação clássicos nesta inovadora coleção com níveis altíssimos, música excecional e controlos modernizados. Esta é a derradeira experiência de jogo retro Descobre todos os segredos, ergue-te contra as máquinas e participa no 30º...
store.playstation.com
Retrogamer actually did a really cool feature on Turrican a month or so back and Factor 5 did mention that the collection is being used to gauge potential interest in a sequel to the series so I'm not giving up hope quite yet.
Thanks for the heads up. Will get this at full price to support them. Not sure if I should go with the Switch version instead...
Sweet, hope people who never played enjoy. It's a bizarre as hell release though with like 3 different collections and none with all titles together, but Turrican Flashback is ideal for me for having the main trilogy (1, 2, Mega) plus Super thrown in as well, which I never played or fancied tbh, but I'd love to be surprised.
I'll get the physical version though probably.
I'm curious how the original holds up, because no one ever mentions it, and while I obviously liked 2 better, I still really loved the first game.
The first one holds really well to this day and is a highly sought after title on C64/ST/Amiga
Oh, that's good to hear then lol. I'd happily play and usually enjoy anything on the Amiga back in the day, so I wasn't sure if it was genuinely good, or just enjoyable for me back in the mid 90s.
Turrican 2 is still a great game. Only one things really annoys me - no knockback or invincibility after taking a hit, so you can be killed by just standing in an enemy for a bit.
I was never any good at these games but I will buy this if it helps breathe life in to Factor 5.
EA, Nintendo or somebody should be signing whatever needs to be signed to make their Gamecube catalogue available again. I don't even care if they're ports with zero enhancement.
EA, Nintendo or somebody should be signing whatever needs to be signed to make their Gamecube catalogue available again. I don't even care if they're ports with zero enhancement.
What kind of save system does this new collection have, considering the original 1+2 on Amiga had nothing? Was thinking about it earlier and it was basically the Demon's Souls of the day, considering if you wanted to complete it you had to do a multiple level/boss run on a single playthrough.
Most platform/action games had no real save functions back then. Playing the entire game in one run was the norm.
I wouldn't say Turrican (any of them) are close to Souls games even back in the day. The levels are huge, and there's no saving, but lives are plentiful, as are weapons and power ups. I have no problems clearing any of them. And yeah, as said above me, action games seldom had any sort of saving (maybe a password system or secret level select if your very lucky). Its just how games were back then.
Im half tempted to grab the PS4 version for some fun this weekend. I've already got the Switch physical releases of both parts on order, but could be tempted to double dip if the trophy list isnt rubbish.
Im half tempted to grab the PS4 version for some fun this weekend. I've already got the Switch physical releases of both parts on order, but could be tempted to double dip if the trophy list isnt rubbish.
Yeah, true, but maybe it was the fact that I was, like, 12 years old or something, but T1 and 2 seemed way way harder than the norm for longer stretches. But, eh, anyways... :)
So, any word on saving system?
It's a simple emulator rom compilation, it has rewinding and a save state. They didn't modify the original games.
Trophy mode disables these assists.
Turrican 2 isn'T a hard game by any metric, it'S just a very long game
Turrican is harder though
Turrican 3 is very easy
Hmmm, okay, cheers. :) Not sure whether to pay full price or wait for a sale. I used to love 1 and 2, but haven't played them in 25+ years, so wondering how much I'll like them now. :/
It is fairly expensive for what it is, 19.99€ would be the sweet spot. I think Turrican 2 is still great, first game is abit rough and never got into the console versions :D
I bought it mostly just to show support and hoping someone will eventually make Turrican 4.
Great that it's on PSN. Bought the physical which is due in a few months but downloading this to show support for a new Turrican game. One of my favourite action game series from the past. Amazing soundtracks too I own all the cd's and remastered soundtrack from the composer. :)
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Broke down and grabbed it on the PS4 (well, PS5 in my case). So far so great. While its only 4 of the games (wish it was all of them, including the C64 and NES releases but hey) it still seems like a pretty decent series of ports so far. Tried Turrican 2 as I know that game rather well, and it plays like a dream. The addition of a proper jump button is probably the best QoL change I could have asked for. Extra lives are everywhere, more so than I remember - if you explore off the main path chances are a 1up or two are there.
Options wise, the screen options are pretty darn good. Aside from the usual screen ratios and screen filter, I was surprised at just how tweakable the CRT/scanline filter is, its really in depth.
Honestly, I only have two issues with the ports so far and neither are really a problem. First off is I can't view the trophies. I can unlock trophies (you get one for using the super smart bomb, another for beating the optional UFO boss on stage 2) but the list doesnt appear. Oh well, that'll be fixed soon Im sure.
The second issue is that the game loads so darn quick that the music that plays when the levels load in Turrican 2 only plays the first couple of notes and that's it, because then the level loads. Its a weird complaint, but I really loved how that music built the tension back in the day.
Otherwise, colour me impressed.
Options wise, the screen options are pretty darn good. Aside from the usual screen ratios and screen filter, I was surprised at just how tweakable the CRT/scanline filter is, its really in depth.
Honestly, I only have two issues with the ports so far and neither are really a problem. First off is I can't view the trophies. I can unlock trophies (you get one for using the super smart bomb, another for beating the optional UFO boss on stage 2) but the list doesnt appear. Oh well, that'll be fixed soon Im sure.
The second issue is that the game loads so darn quick that the music that plays when the levels load in Turrican 2 only plays the first couple of notes and that's it, because then the level loads. Its a weird complaint, but I really loved how that music built the tension back in the day.
Otherwise, colour me impressed.
Wait what? Did you buy it digital or should the physicals be arriving now?
I see it on the UK store but I don't see an option to purchase or a price. Does anyone know how much it will be? I'm mainly only interested for Turrican 2 which is the one I'm most familiar with. Played lots of the first and some of the third, but none of the others or the console ports.
£24.99, not cheap by any means. For pretty much any other series I'd wait for a sale, but Turrican is up there as one of the best series ever for me, so I dont mind supporting them.
Oh wow, that is quite a lot unless this is an exceptional collection. Thanks for the info but I think I can happily wait for a steep sale.
Ouch. If this had the C64 versions as well, I'd be more willing to pay that much.
