![]() The Atomic, your front gun in Super Tyrian mode, also falls into this category as well, more so given that the ]. They look and sound very nice, and most of them can deliver splash damage, but they often do a lot less damage than cheaper and easier-to-find weapons such as the Pulse Cannon that you start out with. * ]: Compared to the American box art at the top of this article, the Australian box art, viewable ], has a darker palette, and shows a ship in the shape of a Gencore Phoenix/Maelstrom with more realistic proportions from a low angle, giving the viewer a full view of the ordnance it's carrying, while it has just launched a missile and its guns are blazing, complete with smoke and muzzle flash effects. ] ], a in-universe as its shielding being disrupted by a gravity field, thus when systems are activated, it draws a lot of power from the shields. ]ĭeveloped by Eclipse Productions (now World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic Megagames (now Creator/EpicGames), ''Tyrian'' is an addictive VerticalScrollingShooter. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them. All such entries have been commented out. ![]() If there ever was a Menu% category, it would likely be the least fun cat.%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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