Great Giana Sisters, items usage revealed!

[rolfhorror]

(Updated the joy move)

Maybe this is old news, but after 20+ years I've found out how to use the items.

BOMB = press and hold fire, move joy to Right Bottom diagonal.
Direction: ( \ )
Effect: kills all badguys on screen (the ones that are killable).

CLOCK = press and hold fire, move joy to Left Bottom diagonal.
Direction: ( / )
Effect: freezes badguys; they stop moving, including piranha.
Timer dont stop though.
Can only use them one time, until you pick them up again, they are not infinite.

Found this out by accident, when moving joy in game-frustration.
I did not know this until now, lol.

About the ARMIN cheat, I never did get it to work. I guess the function was accidentally overwritten with other stuff, when the game was cracked by crackers. I've never played an original copy so I don't know.

BTW. the TOSECs below has IN-GAME CLOUDS(which are missing in other cracks):
Great Giana Sisters, The (1988)(Time Warp)[cr HQC][t Skyline].zip
Great Giana Sisters, The (1988)(Time Warp)[cr Skyline][t Skyline].zip

Game manual:
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=grea ... ra957t.jpg

If anyone is interested I've found the ActionReplay addresses for lives, weapons, time etc., although there are trainers out there, it's fun to play around witth the code. Let me know and I'll post them.

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[OLDGAMER]

cheers i will boot it up and give it ago again

[Predseda]

Ahaha - never knew it

[Ggaribaldi]

Me neither, thanks! So thats the usage of these items? Guess the bomb kills everything on the screens and the clock stops the time?

[comiga]

I cant say I new about that! I will have to remember that for next time i play it!

[wiser3]

Here's what little i know about this game:

To skip levels, hold down the 'A', 'R', 'M', 'I', and 'N' keys.

On level 3 stand at the end of the row of blocks and jump up to hit an invisible block; this will warp you to level 6.

[rolfhorror]

yes I've read that the ARMIN level skip was like on the C64, holding all keys down at same time, but it never worked on my A500, there must be a way, hmm..
And there is warp blocks at several levels:
Check them out here, its the same as C64:
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Great ... sters#Tips

[Im[a]gica]

Thanks for the info. You all just convinced me to boot it up again.
Played it to death when it came out

[Bebokus]

Who cares, this game sucks anyway. But thanks for the info

[Dan Locke]

Who cares, this game sucks anyway.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

I will never understand how anybody thinks that that hideous, plagiaristic piece of garbage is any good at all, let alone some kind of "classic".

[OLDGAMER]

Who cares, this game sucks anyway.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

I will never understand how anybody thinks that that hideous, plagiaristic piece of garbage is any good at all, let alone some kind of "classic".

It is a classic so nuts to you

[Dan Locke]

It is a classic so nuts to you

It's a shoddy attempt at copying a classic. If The Great Giana Sisters is a good game, The Humanoid is a good movie.

(The Humanoid is to Star Wars what The Great Giana Sisters is to Super Mario Bros..)

[OLDGAMER]

ok very good point but i find it a fun game to play

[Jams]

the g sisters is kewler then all mario games together every1 knows that mario is a giana clone

[Hazard]

Who cares, this game sucks anyway.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

I will never understand how anybody thinks that that hideous, plagiaristic piece of garbage is any good at all, let alone some kind of "classic".

It's fun, especially for those without a NES (most of the UK at the time).