#TYRIAN 2000 SDF MAIN GUN HOW TO#
#TYRIAN 2000 SDF MAIN GUN FULL#

Seasonal Rot: Episode 5, included in Tyrian 2000.Scrappy Mechanic: If you choose to play with anything besides a mouse, be prepared for a bad time when you notice that your ship has a bit of momentum any time you release the movement controls, which can make precision maneuvers difficult.You can still play the game with the mouse. If there ever was a Menu% category, it would likely be the least fun cat.Soh Jin, a secret level in the first episode had destructible 'red blocks' that did massive Collision Damage if you bumped into them.A good number of players consider it to be this as it is very short, contains no new music, the new weapons and ships are no match for the stuff that the first four episodes have to offer, and much of the artwork was not done by Daniel Cook, the original sprite artist for Tyrian. Basically my 7 year old monitor sucks and can't stay in sync to such an odd value.ĥ) There's a lot of menuing and screen transitions in this game! Probably at least 4.5 minutes worth. This also explains some of the weird inconsistent frame counts on certain specials, and my odd screen tearing and sound issues that I don't see on real DOS with a CRT. so close range kills and the top screen warp are at most a 20-30 second time save. It does eventually slow down the game and cause various sound issues though!ģ) Playing with Ctrl + F12's 5% CPU overclock on the normal MAX setting in DOSBOX does nothing to FPS.Ĥ) There's little time difference in killing the first boss quick or leaving the top behind.ġ) Kill Bosses any way you like for speed.Ģ) Play any detail setting you want - no affect on speed.ģ) Changing the dosbox CPU game settings does not affect FPS positively.Ĥ) The FPS is 47-48 on turbo. Weirdly enough, this is seemingly confirmed by Jason Emery himself in this thread that I didn't notice till now: Ģ) Playing with fixed CPU cycles does not increase the FPS, no matter how high or low you go. So in my testing with the debug cheat, Tyrian runs at 47-48 FPS in Turbo.ġ) Tyrian runs at 47-48 FPS in turbo, not 35 FPS. Spoilers, it's about 100 and 200 frames respectively.

#TYRIAN 2000 SDF MAIN GUN FULL#

And in case you were wondering how many frames it takes to get full shields, and out of invulnerability, that's in there as well. I also test out how many frames it takes for the SDF to fire of the screen and recharge, and for the Plamsa to be off the screen. If executed well, you might save about a minute over the course of the 30 levels with bosses where this is applicable, but obviously some level layouts might make this unsafe to do. It might actually be faster to just use the close range and top screen warp time saves and not really care about this. Whether this actually saves a huge amount of time is doubtful though, as, I'm guessing the boss is vulnerable shortly before that. You should also be able to get a quick kill on the first boss (AKA, kill it without leaving the top part of the boss behind to finish off) if you wait for it's firing noise every time.

#TYRIAN 2000 SDF MAIN GUN HOW TO#

The game doesn't appear to know how to handle that with the pause cheat so it just acts as if they were all deployed on the first frame. I'd thought the game skipped ahead, but with some further testing it turns out that you can literally deploy all of the plasma on single frames, so it looks like 6 frames in total. On top of all of that, Plasma Storm is definitely the fastest way to kill a boss due to piercing and it's rather unique instant deploy. On average, being close to the boss saves about 10 frames, and being close to the top of the screen seems to save 8-10 frames. Tyrian looks like it runs at 30 frames per second. You can frame step with one of the cheat codes - Num Lock + Backspace. Tyrian is a pretty unique game in that it has a common TAS and speed runners tool built right in. So yeah, both of these things do save time.

Tyrian 2000 sdf main gun