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Ed Oscuro
02-06-2006, 05:11 AM
As some of you know, Osman is a kickass Strider clone by Mitchell Corporation (very tough, too). The game's planner was the planner for...Strider, of course.

Hooray! Don't know if the INP files are compatible with the new MAME, but the site's worth a look regardless:

http://wolffang.jp/kouryaku/cannondancer/cannondancer_top.html

(The secret to navigating a Japanese site is to hover over a link and look at your status bar to see what the URL is, in English.)

Meanwhile, I recorded two of the best (and easiest to record) tracks from the game. Here they are:

Surfboard and Prague theme (http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/osman_prague.ogg) (sorry about the "boop" at the beginning; it's a robot - unavoidable as I wanted to start the track cleanly as opposed to from the middle at the sea stage)

Final boss theme/Credits music (http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/osman_abdulla.ogg)

Also, not quite related...Here]s a guy who looks like Kirin (the hero) dashing up a rock face (http://www.devilducky.com/media/36803/). His name? Dan...Osman. RIP man.

roushimsx
02-06-2006, 05:54 PM
Hot!

I never thought this game would get emulated because of the protection and I was overjoyed when I was proven wrong. Fantastic little underdog that never got the attention it deserved (and quite a bit better than the Strider 2s released on Genesis and Playstation). Shame it never got a home port :(

That page is pretty darned nice and has some extremely handy screenshots/strategies.

GaijinPunch
02-06-2006, 11:51 PM
There's actually a strategy DVD sitting around somewhere in my house, that I've never watched. I've since sold my PCB.

Ed Oscuro
02-08-2006, 12:40 PM
There's actually a strategy DVD sitting around somewhere in my house, that I've never watched. I've since sold my PCB.
Strategy DVD? Sold PCB??? Argh!

GaijinPunch
02-09-2006, 12:02 AM
Yeah... the game was just too fucking hard for me to enjoy. I don't mind difficult games, but I have to be in love w/ them to put the time in to enjoy them.

I'll look around for the DVD... I'm sure I still have it.

Ed Oscuro
02-10-2006, 11:09 AM
I'll look around for the DVD... I'm sure I still have it.
Please do :D

I agree the game's pretty hard, and yet you can get through it pretty quickly (a bit too much so). I think a bit of memorization + strategy goes a long way.

They really didn't need to take out continues for the final bosses...well, had they used some extra memory space to make the final boss actually interesting it wouldn't end up being such a letdown.