OpenTyrian changelog

If you've greatly enjoyed Deniska's OpenTyrian, then you're in for a treat. For those who aren't still acquainted with the game, OpenTyrian is a well-made vertical scrolling shooter, much like the classic old-school arcade shooters.

The homebrew developer just recently released a new patch which fixes some issues with music emulation. Here's the complete changelog for your reference:

some tweaks in music emulation code resulting some speedup
based on the latest (647) revision of OpenTyrian
better OSK support

As always, just download the file from the link below. Enjoy!

PSP Homebrew Developer Deniska has come out with a patch for the newly released game, OpenTyrian. The patch fixes some bugs and features improvements on the video. To install the game, overwrite the previous EBOOT.PBP from version 0.5.

Here's the changelog for OpenTyrian v0.6 (patch):

• ~10% speed increase due to new rendering routine.
• Better smoothing/scaling in full-screen mode
• Original size mode fixed
• Data cubes text scroll fixed
• Black screen on startup bug hopefully gone
• Fixed the startup title screen animations
• Slightly better key handling in main menus.. still needs some work

Another homebrew game that's sure to be a hit on your Sony PlayStation Portable is OpenTyrian PSP version 0.5, coming from Sony PlayStation Portable homebrew Deniska. As we all know, it's a PSP port of the shooter game Tyrian, with the title originally released on the good old DOS platform, and in itself, it was a pretty solid game. Now, with the additional feature of it being ported over to the Sony PlayStation Portable, it's gotten even better.

So, how does one play Tyrian on the PSP? Quite simple. You control a ship that can pretty much destroy anything in its path, but its destructive capability relies heavily on it not being destroyed itself. Blowing up your enemies gives you money, which you can spend upgrading your ship's various features (weapons, shields, energy generators, even different ships). With detailed levels and bosses, Tyrian is definitely a fun ride from beginning to end.

The controls are also simple. The analog pad navigates the menu and moves the ship in any direction you want. The Triangle face button is the game's OK button, as well as the button that you jam on to dispense multicolored wrath upon your foes. The other face buttons (namely Square, Circle and X) serve as joystick buttons 2, 3 and 4, and can be reconfigured whichever way you like in set-up. Select serves as the in-game setup menu as well as a BACK button, and Start functions as the convenient and time-stopping PAUSE button.

If one has any questions regarding the installation of the game, the one simply needs to refer to the readme file bundled in the archive, so you'd best give that a thorough read through before doing anything else. With that said, enjoy!