We haven’t found any serious problems with v0.998 Windows (beta) on our own yet, but we still need you to provide more feedback. So far we only received one feedback via the comments in an older post.

Please slide down a bit, download the v0.998 beta for Windows and check if you find any bugs. Even if nothing is VISIBLE for you, this version contains changes in the playback engine for music and sound effects. We can’t go further with development with just one positive comment as it would be too unsure if there has been an oversight.

We got an offer from Frank W. to port Giana’s Return to AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS 1.x, 2.x and probably other AmigaOS based systems which we gladly accepted. He has not started the work yet, as we try to do the last tweaks and fixes to the main core. Once this is done the above mentioned systems should be served too.

On a side note we want to remind everyone again, that this project is free of charge and done in the team’s spare time. Please understand that certain things might take a lot longer than you would expect from a professional team. The whole team is busy with real life, job, university and their own families.

Here is an beta version of Giana’s Return v0.998 for Windows: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0PLUGOEI – You will require the full v0.997 installation, the zip only contains an updated exe.

The main and only change is that we do use modplug for playback instead of mikmod. Please report any bugs, if we don’t hear from you guys out there… we will consider this beta a v0.998 final and go on with the next minor steps.

Other ports will be updated as soon as we know that our main version (read the Windows version) is fine.

Our organizer is very busy at the moment, therefore no news since 2 weeks. Now I am on keyboard to discover some secrets on Giana’s Return. You know the ARMIN cheat? Here we have one, too :)

See comments…

…following us on Twitter might provide you with secrets about Giana’s Return you always wanted to know?

We got mail from “anotherguest” who is famous for several ports to the Symbian OS platform. He is very interested in porting our little game, so should we go for it? :)

http://www.twitter.com/gianasreturn/

The “Bad Monkee” guys behind the iPhone version/port of the OFFICIAL Giana Sisters sequel, announced the release of “Giana Sisters APP” for 9th February 2010.

Here is a review of the Giana iPhone APP in German language: http://apfelbiss.net/exklusiv-review-giana-sisters/

We were quite amused when we have found out, that a webpage holds all level codes of the Giana’s Return Windows release. As you guys might find it sooner or later on your own anyway, here is the link.

PS: Don’t try those on any other release, because each system release is having own passwords :) (Nasty, eh?)

PSS: There are also a bunch of other “cheats” not listed on that page linked above

Slaanesh ( http://www.slaanesh.net/ ) has released the initial port of Giana’s Return GP32. It runs pretty well and most of you might be astonished about the result. You can get the download from the dowload section.

Gianas.fxe is for NLU/FLU and BLU GP32’s
Gianas+.fxe is for the BLU+

All the data files must go into /gpmm/gianas on the GP32’s SMC.

Please give us feedback on this release and thanks to Slaanesh for his effort to port this to the GP32, it wasn’t an easy task!