OpenTyrianWii v0.9

[wraggster]

Nuvalo has ported Opentyrian to the Nintendo Wii, heres the release details:

This is a wii adaptation of TYRIAN, the game edited by Eclipse and published by
Epic MegaGames.The original game was programmed by Jason Emery, illustrated by Daniel
Cook, and its music composed by Alexander Brandon and Andreas Molnar.

This port is based on OpenTyrian project code (http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/),
maintained by mindless2112, syntaxglitch,emacs.hacker, yuriks.br.

This README file was based on the README found on the OpentyriamPSP project.

GAMEPLAY
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Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The player controls a space ship
fitted with different weapons and enhanced energy shields. Money is earned by destroying
enemies and grabbing bonuses, which is then used to purchase upgrades such as weapons,
shields, energy generators, and different ships from interlevel menus. The game is fast
paced and presents a variety of enemies and bosses.


CONTROLS
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[ANALOG/DIGITAL PAD] MENU NAVIGATION & SHIP'S IN GAME MOVEMENTS
[A] Button 1/ Start
[b] Button 2/ ESCAPE (Cancel)
[Y] Button 3
[X] Button 4
[Z] ESCAPE (CANCEL)
[START] ENTER (Start)

INSTALLATION
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To play with this game, you need a Wii homebrew enabled console (Twilight hack or Homebrew Channel). And you will
an SDCard .

To install this version of openTyriam:
- Copy the files "opentyriam-wii.elf" to the root directory of your sdcard, and rename it to boot.elf.
- Copy the directory tyrian and its contents to the root directory of your sdcard.

To play with this game:
- Insert the SDCard on the front SD adapter of your wii.
- On your wii, execute the file "tyrian.dol" using your favourite method for loading
aplications (Twilight hack or homebrew channel).


KNOWN ISSUES
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- Network play is not yet implemented.
- 2 player mode buttons are not mapped (might work, i diddnt tried it)
- The default SaveGame works, but the "Select new savegame" option doesn´t work,
as you cant type the name of the new gamesave.
- The Analog joystick does not work properly, use the Digital joy instead.
- No keyboard or wii joystick support
- Problems using TV in 480p or rgb components

TODO
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- Solve the gamesave option, in order tbe able to select a new savegame.
- Add keyboard/wii joystick

Thanks to:

- mindless2112, syntaxglitch,emacs.hacker, yuriks.br and all the people behind the Opentyrian poroject port
DENISKA for his README file.
- All the gc-linux team

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[iofthestorm]

Nice! Finally a homebrew game actually worth playing, even if it is a port of an (awesome) old DOS game.

[lincruste]

Hello, thanks for this information.

Since Opentyrian is GNU v2 licensed, aren't they supposed to release the source code and the license text or to make it available somewhere?
Just asking.

[AshTR]

Hello, thanks for this information.

Since Opentyrian is GNU v2 licensed, aren't they supposed to release the source code and the license text or to make it available somewhere?
Just asking.

Yep, they're supposed to. The OpenTyrian guys aren't pursuing that stuff yet but they probably will soon.

[masterchief929]

i'll have to try this later.

[FGOD]

is there any way to get old dos/win95 games converted to elf?

[mbv401920150]

I played in my old Pentium 1... these old days!

I wanted!

[GPF]

Yep, they're supposed to. The OpenTyrian guys aren't pursuing that stuff yet but they probably will soon.

Well just checked the developers's site and there is a link now to the source, looks like its a gc-linux port, or I am misreading the Makefile.

Troy(GPF)

[Gideon007]

is there any way to get old dos/win95 games converted to elf?

short answer: no
long answer: not directly
Some games are now open source and MAYBE it can be ported to the Wii/Gamecube. For other games there is an engine, like scummvm that can maybe be ported (scummvm IS ported).
Or if anyone ports Dosbox then maybe old Dosgames and Win 3.x games can be played on the Wii.

[malefactor]

It works, but saving doesn't. If you turn it off you have to start all over again