Tyrian item numbers: weapons, sidekicks, ships

Introduction

The twelve item bytes of a Tyrian save slot are numbers that count into the game’s item table, which is kept in TYRIAN.HDT (and, for the fourth episode of Tyrian 2000, in TYRIAN4.LVL). The numbers start at 1; 0 means that nothing is fitted. The names below are the ones in that table, read from the Tyrian 2.1 / Tyrian 2000 data on this machine; the two copies of the table are identical. The table’s own columns (cost, power, graphics) are in OpenTyrian’s description of TYRIAN.HDT.

A number outside a table (a ship above 13, say) is shown by the explorer as “not in the table”.

Weapons (front and rear)

Items 0 and 1 of a slot. The same table serves both ports; some weapons come as a front and a rear entry (Banana Blast, HotDog, Mega Pulse).

No.	Name	No.	Name	No.	Name
1	Pulse-Cannon	15	Vulcan Cannon	29	Heavy Guided Bombs
2	Multi-Cannon	16	Miscellaneous Option Weapons	30	Scatter Wave
3	Mega Cannon	17	Missile Launcher	31	Guided Bombs
4	Laser	18	Fireball	32	Shuruiken Field
5	Zica Laser	19	Mega Pulse	33	Poison Bomb
6	Protron Z	20	Heavy Missile Launcher	34	Protron Wave
7	Vulcan Cannon	21	Rear Heavy Missile Launcher	35	The Orange Juicer
8	Lightning Cannon	22	Rear Mega Pulse	36	NortShip Super Pulse
9	Starburst	23	Banana Blast	37	NortShip Spreader
10	Multi-Cannon	24	Banana Blast Rear	38	NortShip Spreader B
11	Sonic Wave	25	HotDog Front	39	Atomic RailGun
12	Protron	26	HotDog Rear	40	Widget Beam
13	Protron	27	Hyper Pulse	41	Sonic Impulse
14	Wild Ball	28	Guided Micro Bombs	42	RetroBall

The weapon’s power level (1 to 11) is a separate byte of the slot (0x31 and 0x32).

Special weapons

Item 10. The game’s table has 46 entries.

No.	Name	No.	Name	No.	Name
1	Repulsor	17	Pulse Blast	33	MicroSol Option3
2	Pearl Wind	18	MegaLaser	34	MicroSol Option4
3	Soul of Zinglon	19	Missile Pod	35	MicroSol Option5
4	Attractor	20	Minefield	36	MicroSol Option6
5	Ice Beam	21	Post-It Blast	37	Invulnerability
6	Flare	22	Drone **	38	Atom Bomb
7	Blade Field	23	Repair Player 1	39	Seeker Bombs
8	SandStorm	24	Super Bomb	40	Lightning Zone
9	MineField	25	Hot Dog	41	SDF Main Gun
10	Dual Vulcan	26	Lightning UP	42	Ice Blast
11	Banana Bomb	27	Lightning UP+LEFT	43	Repair Player 1
12	Protron Dispersal	28	Lightning UP+RIGHT	44	Pearl Wind
13	Astral Zone	29	Lightning LEFT	45	8-Way Microbomb
14	Xega Ball	30	Lightning RIGHT	46	Protron Field
15	MegaLaser Dual	31	MicroSol Option
16	Orange Shield	32	MicroSol Option2

Generators, shields and ships

No.	Generator (item 5)	No.	Shield (item 9)	No.	Ship (item 11)
1	Standard MR-9	1	Structural Integrity Field	1	USP Talon Light Fighter
2	Advanced MR-12	2	Advanced Integrity Field	2	SuperCarrot
3	Gencore Custom MR-12	3	Gencore Low Energy Shield	3	Gencore Phoenix
4	Standard MicroFusion	4	Gencore High Energy Shield	4	Gencore Maelstrom
5	Advanced MircoFusion	5	MicroCorp LXS Class A	5	MicroCorp Stalker
6	Gravitron Pulse-Wave	6	MicroCorp LXS Class B	6	MicroCorp Stalker-B
		7	MicroCorp LXS Class C	7	Prototype Stalker-C
		8	MicroCorp HXS Class A	8	Stalker
		9	MicroCorp HXS Class B	9	USP Fang Light Fighter
		10	MicroCorp HXS Class C	10	U-Ship
				11	Silver Ship
				12	Nort Ship
				13	The Stalker 21.126

The spelling “MircoFusion” is the game’s own. The saved games examined here hold only ship numbers up to 13.

Sidekicks

Items 3, 4 and 7 (the sidekick series). The ammunition shown in some names is part of the game’s own name for the sidekick.

No.	Name	No.	Name	No.	Name
1	Single Shot Option	11	Buster Rocket (ammo 30)	21	Companion Ship Gerund
2	Dual Shot Option	12	Zica SuperCharger	22	BattleShip-Class Firebomb
3	Charge Cannon	13	MicroBomb (ammo 60)	23	Protron Cannon Indigo
4	Vulcan Shot Option	14	8-Way MicroBomb (ammo 30)	24	Companion Ship Quicksilver
5	Wobbley	15	Post-It Mine (ammo 20)	25	Protron Cannon Tangerine
6	MegaMissile (ammo 5)	16	Mint-O-Ship	26	MicroSol FrontBlaster II
7	Atom Bombs (ammo 20)	17	Zica Flamethrower	27	Beno Wallop Beam
8	Phoenix Device (ammo 8)	18	Side Ship (ammo 100)	28	Beno Protron System -B-
9	Plasma Storm (ammo 10)	19	Companion Ship Warfly	29	Tropical Cherry Companion
10	Mini-Missile (ammo 100)	20	MicroSol FrontBlaster	30	Satellite Marlo

Other numbers

Where	Values
Episode (`0x33` and item 8)	1 Escape, 2 Treachery, 3 Mission: Suicide, 4 An End to Fate, 5 Bonus (“Episode ?”)
Super Arcade mode (item 2)	1 Ninja Star, 2 StormWind - The Elemental, 3 The Experimental PQZ, 4 Captured U-Fighter, 5 FoodShip Nine, 6 TX SilverCloud, 7 Nort-Ship Z; 254 Super Tyrian; 255 arcade
Input device	0 any, 1 keyboard, 2 mouse, 3 and up joysticks

Not described

Known, not yet covered

Reference: the table’s other columns (cost, power, the weapon patterns each port fires, sidekick ammunition and graphics, ship armour) are not repeated here; they are in OpenTyrian’s description of TYRIAN.HDT.

Unknown

Reference: which front and rear weapon numbers the game allows in which port: the table does not say, and the saved games examined hold only a few combinations.

Tyrian item numbers