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      Buenzli 2009 WIN32 PARTY VERSION 15.08.2009 - http://www.buenz.li .
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             Official page located at http://www.gianas-return.de


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                                                         _ _ ___\  About  /__
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Giana's Return aims to be a worthy inofficial sequel of "The Great Giana
Sisters". "The Great Giana Sisters" is an all time classic Jump'N'Run game made
in the late eighties mainly by Armin Gessert, Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck
and gained massive attention as a "Super Mario" copy, but it still had it's
very own charm and fanbase.

Giana's Return is 100% FREEWARE and does not cost you a single cent, should
you have paid for it please let us know so we can take legal steps and help
others to avoid a possible trap. You are not allowed to distribute the
download on any medias or online places without written permission. Official
mirrors are available and listed on the official homepage - Please respect
this! A contact form is available there.

Giana's Return was released a while ago but was in unfinished state. This
version here is fully recoded from scratch, with new graphics, new sprites,
storyline, new music and many other funky things never seen before. It's fully
pimped up for your retro feeling gaming pleasure!

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                                                      _ _ ___\  The Team  /__
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The Giana's Return Team consists of:

Rudolphe Boixel (Thor)           - Main Coder
Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote)          - Project Organizer & Level Design
Jane S. Mumford (Jayne)          - Graphics Artwork & Storyline
Alexander Oldemeier (Operator)   - Music
David Wuttke (AM-FM)             - Music
Adam Karol (Wizzard)             - Graphics Artwork
Simon Butler                     - Graphics Artwork
Virgil Metier (tHUG)             - Graphics Artwork
Christian Hildenbrand (DayDream) - Graphics Artwork
Denny Müller (Mulle)             - Beta Testing

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                                                         _ _ ___\  Ports  /__
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Windows 32-Bit (now released :) ) - Rudolphe Boixel (Thor)
Debian (unreleased)               - Rudolphe Boixel (Thor)
Playstation Portable (unreleased) - Rudolphe Boixel (Thor)
GP2x (unreleased)                 - Scott Smith (Pickle)
GP2x WIZ (Beta 4)                 - Ed Mandy (Flavor)
                                  - Scott Smith (Pickle)
Pandora (unreleased)              - Scott Smith (Pickle)
iPhone (unreleased)               - Benjamin Stark (ZodTTD)

If you think you can help us with a port that is not listed above, please let
us know. Contact us via our homepage!

If a port is unreleased yet, there is a good reason for it. Please do not bug
us about a release. It's done, when it's done!

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                                                 _ _ ___\  Helping Hands  /__
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Here we would like to mention a few people who gave us a helping hand:

Joachim Hesse - german journalist and one of many Giana lovers :)
Stig Remnes - holds a bunch of C64 game score world records, tested the game.
Robocop/ATL - giving feedback on few betas
dMG/dS! - for pimping up the readme file, 0ldsch00l as it should be!
Schrumpfkopf - for redrawing one object

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* 7 Worlds, with each 8 Levels - followed by a "big boss"
* Power Ups and Extras
* Oldschool style pixeled sprites and tiles
* Wonderful hand drawn backgrounds
* Illustrated hand drawn storyline
* Over 18 Tracks of Chipmusic!
* Multi-Language: German, English, French, Spanish
* Password and/or Savegame (depending on release platform)
* Hidden Warp Zones and Bonus Caves
* Hidden Trainer
* TOP 10 Highscore

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                                                     _ _ ___\  The Story  /__
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Evil Swampy and his followers have stolen the magic ruby, which made it once
possible for Giana and Maria to return from their dream. Many creatures are
after this ruby, but does it really have power, or was it just a coincidence?
As if this was not bad enough, Swampy fell in love at first sight with Giana's
sister Maria and shamelessly kidnapped her. She was just in the wrong place at
the wrong time.

Take over the role of Giana, go on the search for the magic ruby and most
importantly, save your beloved sister Maria and get home safe!

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Controls differ from each release platform. Just go and figure out on your own

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Giana is not helpless at all, just bump the star boxes with your head and hope
for a nice goodie.

Wall Breaker - Giana's hairs morph into a stormy hairstyle, you now can break
               regular bricks.
Thunder      - Thunder gives you the ability to shoot or increase your
               shooting power.
Clock        - Catch a clock, get 10 extra seconds!
Heart        - 1 UP

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The regular enemies are usually pretty weak, just as in the original game.
Most of the time it's enough to bump 'em with your feet.

Bosses are considered to be hard, so make sure you find all bonus caves, so
you can collect 100 rubies and gain an additional 1 UP. You will need them!

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                                                         _ _ ___\  Hints  /__
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* This game is probably not a true children's game, as the difficulty increases
  with each world - we believe you must be an experienced gamer to solve this
  game.
* There are warp zones, find 'em and save time! They are usually placed where
  you don't expect them. Try using enemies as trampoline etc...
* Most stages have up to three bonus caves, check each abyss carefully!
* A few jumps are difficult, try to jump at the last second!
* If a way seems to be impossible to pass, try a different approach! Things are
  not always what they seem to be.
* The last boss, Swampy, can not be destroyed physically - you must find the
  secret in order to defeat him!
* Did we mention there is a secret greeting mode? Go and find it!
* Did we mention there are other secrets? Go and find them too! :)

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_ _/  Giana's Return  \_____________________________                       _ _
                                             _ _ ___\  Copyright & Stuff  /__
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The game is based upon "The Great Giana Sisters" but does not use any ripped
resources from it. Thus it's not allowed to reuse elements of Giana's Return
in other programs, unless you have a written permission.

"The Great Giana Sisters" is a trademark of Armin Gessert / Spellbound AG,
Germany. The Team behind Giana's Return does not intend to break any copyright,
but only to bring a high quality fan sequel free of charge to all Giana fans
out there.

Giana's Return is known by Spellbound to exist and it seems they don't have
any major problem with this.

No one of the original "The Great Giana Sisters" team was involved in the
creation of this game, besides Armin and Manfred giving feedback on (for now)
very old betas of Giana's Return.

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                      \/         Ascii and design (C)2009 dMG/diViNe sTYLERs

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