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Time for a shoot’em up side-scroller – Rendering Ranger: R² [Rewind] is now available on GOG with a 10% launch discount until March 27th, 1 PM UTC!

You are the Rendering Ranger, a special forces soldier defending Earth from a devastating alien invasion through nine levels of action platforming as well as blisteringly fast horizontal shooter stages. Originally developed for Super Famicom by Manfred Trenz, creator of the Turrican series.

Now on GOG!
As a kid I really loved the Turrican games, so I'm definitely going to play this today.
I really appreciate GOG publishing games from Limited Run Games.
I would really like to see other Carbon Engine ports on GOG like Clock Tower and the Jurassic Park Collection.
Ok, big fan of turrican so this has now been bought.

Not been able to extract the rom yet for use in other emulators, but the emulator used seems really decent, with great options for image scaling - everything you could wish for, wide, integer scaling, 4:3 resolutions. The audio is quite nice too.

haven't figured out how to rebind the keys though.

A really decent package.
The best thing I can say about the name is that at least it's alliterative. Otherwise, "rendering ranger" makes me think of this kind of rendering, not the software kind that was probably the (probably not very serious or thought-out) inspiration for the name. XD
Post edited 13 hours ago by HunchBluntley
It is serious:
• Gigantic bosses in sprites converted from pre-rendered 3D models
That was still something of a novelty at the time. Very few people are going to think of fat rendering, but then according to your forum title you are a language geek.
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eric5h5: It is serious:
• Gigantic bosses in sprites converted from pre-rendered 3D models
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eric5h5: That was still something of a novelty at the time. [...]
By "serious", in this case, I meant something like an in-universe reference (like the other word in the title is). I kinda consider meta-references right in a game's title to be inherently unserious. :)
I know it was once much more common for game titles to contain a reference to some (usually new-fangled) technology that the game in question was employing, but honestly, I've long found that practice to be dopey technophile bait -- even 30 years ago.
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eric5h5: [...] Very few people are going to think of fat rendering[...]
Depends on where they're from, background and age, I'd wager. ;)