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04-19-2009, 11:40 AM
djtwok

Does anyone own a working Jaguar CD Drive ?
04-19-2009, 05:35 PM
j_factor

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Originally Posted by jesus.arnold

The level designs are exactly the same though, so it's meant to be the original level designs with less bosses, enemies, secret areas and extra lives?! :confused:

I wouldn't say it's any kind of original Turrican game because all it is, is an "enhanced" port, I put enhanced into quotation marks because at the end of the day Super Turrican may well have a handfull of new stages, in-game music and a coupla' new bosses but it plays like crap, is coincidentally missing every single large boss from the C64 version, as well as large sections of the levels, and loads of the extra life secret areas.

Again, it's just not supposed to have those. And how does it play like crap? It's a differently-designed game, developed by Manfred Trenz alone. Level designs are taken from Turrican, Turrican II, and a few originals. There's no time limit, and you can run. It has multiple difficulty levels.

More relevantly, it has very good graphics for an NES game. Lots of action with very little flicker or slowdown. It runs very smoothly.
04-19-2009, 06:07 PM
tomaitheous

How come some of the Turrican (original or 2) for C64 in youtube videos lack music and just have sound effects?
04-19-2009, 11:30 PM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by j_factor

Let's have a video war!

Also the Salamander/Life Force comparison is silly. The C64 version is a port of Salamander, not Life Force. Level 2 is supposed to have a starfield background, as the original arcade version did. Also, the NES version is missing background graphics too -- look at the first boss for example.

I'd meant to respond to this reply, but didn't get back to it.

Play Salamander (on MAME) and you'll notice that level 1.3 has a blue cave, while the C64 version replaced it with a slightly visible starfield. The NES version does have the cave walls, but for some reason they included a black area as well. Did you notice how the ripple changed from brown to blue, on the C64 version, once the background colors changed to blue as well?

The NES version does take shortcuts as well, as should be expected, but I don't feel that the difference between the first boss of the C64 and NES versions are so drastic to really seperate which did a better job. The C64 version has one arm missing from the boss, while it has the roof and floor. And the NES version is missing the roof and floor, but has the second arm on the boss.
04-20-2009, 12:19 AM
j_factor

I'm not going to get any further on that, as I don't really consider myself an expert on the different versions of Salamander and Life Force. :p Besides, C64 versus NES is entirely moot when you can get Salamander Deluxe Pack for Saturn.
04-20-2009, 04:59 PM
jesus.arnold

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Originally Posted by j_factor

Again, it's just not supposed to have those. And how does it play like crap?

It makes you restart the entire level when you die, it gives you the same levels as those found in Turrican on the C64 and then breaks them by giving you unlimited rolling which basically alows you to turn into a gyroscope and roll for all the stages of the 2nd level completing them without actually needing to do anything, it has no impressive boss battles in it at all, many of the levels from Turrican that originally had alternate paths now force you to go one direction of the two paths, the music is abysmal apart from maybe 2 tracks.

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Originally Posted by j_factor

It's a differently-designed game, developed by Manfred Trenz alone. Level designs are taken from Turrican, Turrican II, and a few originals. There's no time limit, and you can run. It has multiple difficulty levels.

I don't actually recal seeing any of Turrican II in it so far but Wiki says it does so I'm sure there must be somewhere, all I remember was playing up to about the 10th stage and at that time I'd played through roughly the levels of Turrican C64 with loads of sections missing and shortened stages, half an original stage thrown in and 1 new small boss that tried to poke me with a downward protruding stick.

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Originally Posted by j_factor

More relevantly, it has very good graphics for an NES game. Lots of action with very little flicker or slowdown. It runs very smoothly.

the game runs pretty smoothly but is definately not without flicker, and I've yet to see anything even half the size of the fish boss (which is pretty much the full height of the screen) in it.
04-20-2009, 05:05 PM
jesus.arnold

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Originally Posted by tomaitheous

How come some of the Turrican (original or 2) for C64 in youtube videos lack music and just have sound effects?

Turrican on C64 doesn't have in game music except on shmup levels, I think there was some confusion due to some guy deciding to put in background music himself for his youtube video.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I'd meant to respond to this reply, but didn't get back to it.

Play Salamander (on MAME) and you'll notice that level 1.3 has a blue cave, while the C64 version replaced it with a slightly visible starfield. The NES version does have the cave walls, but for some reason they included a black area as well. Did you notice how the ripple changed from brown to blue, on the C64 version, once the background colors changed to blue as well?

The NES version does take shortcuts as well, as should be expected, but I don't feel that the difference between the first boss of the C64 and NES versions are so drastic to really seperate which did a better job. The C64 version has one arm missing from the boss, while it has the roof and floor. And the NES version is missing the roof and floor, but has the second arm on the boss.

I didn't carry on with the Salamander conversation because I'm fairly sure (but not sure enough) that i've heard there were a confusing number of different revisions made for the machine and I didn't know if I'd be able to check all of them on MAME.
03-16-2012, 11:47 AM
sheath

Moved from the 32X Retroinspection thread.

EGM April 1995: the Jaguar was positively handled:
http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_apr_023.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_apr_040.jpg
03-16-2012, 12:12 PM
sheath

EGM May 1995 Jaguar previews and reviews.

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_may_028.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_may_038.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_may_100.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_may_132.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...95_may_133.jpg
03-17-2012, 04:26 PM
sheath

Gamepro May 1995 reviews and previews and whatnot.

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...y_1995-092.jpg

http://www.gamepilgrimage.com/sites/...y_1995-099.jpg
03-18-2012, 12:51 AM
j_factor

What's the point of all these scans?
03-18-2012, 12:54 AM
sheath

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Originally Posted by j_factor

What's the point of all these scans?

Context, for continued discussion. Why do you ask?
03-18-2012, 05:05 AM
j_factor

Just seemed a bit random.
03-18-2012, 10:20 AM
havok666

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Originally Posted by sheath

Context, for continued discussion. Why do you ask?

Thanks, for posting them. I'm enjoying seeing them here and the 3DO thread.

As an off-topic aside, the small interview with Perry Rodgers he says that he managed the Punisher on Genesis.
03-18-2012, 02:20 PM
sheath

It all started in the 32X Retroinspection thread. Some were starting to assert that the 3DO and Jaguar were always seen as failures and thus the 32X had no valid reason for existing (it was created specifically to counter the Jaguar). So I started posting scans from magazines in 1994 and 1995 that contradict this revisionist history and adding the 3DO and Jag to the same thread made for too many pictures.

Plus, I'd like to talk about the 3DO and Jaguar more and intend to summarize and cite all of these articles in Game Pilgrimage's Console History section.

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