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Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit remain two of my favourites for music. As an aside, anybody know the best way to get Tyrian running on a modern win machine with mod

by Pxtl 10y ago

Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit remain two of my favourites for music. As an aside, anybody know the best way to get Tyrian running on a modern win machine with modern gamepads? I tried tyrian2000 and open Tyrian and no dice.

voltagex_ 10y ago
Don't forget One Must Fall: 2097 and Epic Pinball! https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 is the only one I've seen working. What issues did you have?
- Pxtl 10y ago
  Just took another crack at it, this time not bothering to cobble together the binaries and the nighly but just dl'd the stock package. Worked. Tempted to see if I can get the joysticks working in Destruct mode. No destruct joystick is a bit disappointing.
- pluma 10y ago
  Oh my god, I thought nobody else remembered those two. Epic Pinball to me is still the best pinball game in history and I played One Must Fall for hours on end despite not actually being a fan of the genre. EDIT: The soundtrack to OMF (1994) is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE EDIT2: Different company but same area: The Crusader series (No Remorse (1995)/No Regret (1996)) had a pretty awesome score as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xs8pQBcZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xs8pQBcZk And of course C&C Tiberian Dawn (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkyB3kTiPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkyB3kTiPQ EDIT3: For sake of completeness, here's Jazz Jackrabbit 1 (1994) and 2 (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L78lXPHro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L78lXPHro EDIT4: OMF was declared freeware at some point and works in DOSBox so you can play it online in the browser at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994 https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    The last I saw of OMF2097 it was very crashy in DOSBox. If anyone knows enough to debug why it's crashing, let me know.
animal531 10y ago
Maybe look into joy2key or similar emulators which will map keys for you from your keyboard to a gamepad.
frik 10y ago
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 plus addon. Great game and music. I also played the second game and the unfinished third (3D) one - they were interesting, but lacked in comparison to the first one. Another composer who had a similar music style was Chris Hülsbeck (Turrican, Giant Sisters, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FaAs4M3d0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FaAs4M3d0
ChoGGi 10y ago
There's OpenTyrian https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/wiki/Home voltagex_ already mentioned the freeware version https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 and if you just want the music http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/tyrian-original-soundtrack http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/tyrian-original-s...

by Pxtl 10y ago

voltagex_ 10y ago

Don't forget One Must Fall: 2097 and Epic Pinball! https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 is the only one I've seen working. What issues did you have?

Pxtl 10y ago
Just took another crack at it, this time not bothering to cobble together the binaries and the nighly but just dl'd the stock package. Worked. Tempted to see if I can get the joysticks working in Destruct mode. No destruct joystick is a bit disappointing.
pluma 10y ago
Oh my god, I thought nobody else remembered those two. Epic Pinball to me is still the best pinball game in history and I played One Must Fall for hours on end despite not actually being a fan of the genre. EDIT: The soundtrack to OMF (1994) is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE EDIT2: Different company but same area: The Crusader series (No Remorse (1995)/No Regret (1996)) had a pretty awesome score as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xs8pQBcZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xs8pQBcZk And of course C&C Tiberian Dawn (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkyB3kTiPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkyB3kTiPQ EDIT3: For sake of completeness, here's Jazz Jackrabbit 1 (1994) and 2 (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L78lXPHro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L78lXPHro EDIT4: OMF was declared freeware at some point and works in DOSBox so you can play it online in the browser at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994 https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  The last I saw of OMF2097 it was very crashy in DOSBox. If anyone knows enough to debug why it's crashing, let me know.

animal531 10y ago

Maybe look into joy2key or similar emulators which will map keys for you from your keyboard to a gamepad.

frik 10y ago

Jazz Jackrabbit 1 plus addon. Great game and music. I also played the second game and the unfinished third (3D) one - they were interesting, but lacked in comparison to the first one. Another composer who had a similar music style was Chris Hülsbeck (Turrican, Giant Sisters, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FaAs4M3d0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FaAs4M3d0

ChoGGi 10y ago

There's OpenTyrian https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/wiki/Home voltagex_ already mentioned the freeware version https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 and if you just want the music http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/tyrian-original-soundtrack http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/tyrian-original-s...