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                             VERSION 0.99.7 (01-01-2010)    .
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             Official page located at http://www.gianas-return.de


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                                                         _ _ ___\  About  /__
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                                                     In memory of Armin Gessert
                                                                    1963 - 2009

Giana's Return aims to be a worthy inofficial sequel of "The Great Giana
Sisters". "The Great Giana Sisters" is an alltime classic Jump'N'Run game made
in the late eighties mainly by Armin Gessert, Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck
and gained massive attention as "Super Mario" copy, but 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! Contact information is available at it's official page!

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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

Porters:

Rudolphe Boixel (Thor)           - Windows, Ubuntu
Ed Mandy (Flavor)                - GP2x, Wiz (Initial Ports)
Scott Smith (Pickle)             - GP2x, Wiz, Pandora
Anthony Staude (Slaanesh)        - Dingux (Dingoo A320 Linux), GP32
Andreas Neukoetter(Anti)         - Mac OSX (10.6>)
Xavier Vallejo (Indiket)         - Dreamcast 

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                                                      _ _ ___\   Changes  /__
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General changes:
 - modified trainer (hidden)
 - updated greetings (hidden)
 - modified vscroll
 - enabled vscroll by default (if config.cfg is not present)
   otherwise change value vscroll in config.cfg manually to 1
 - added "fast" option to config file
 - level improvements: 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 43, 51
 - reverted desert background to a previous version
 - hidden diamond boxes have a flashing animation now
 - fixed appearance with the spanish "well done" screen
 - various graphic fixes
 - fixed text in german language version
 - rain or snow effects were gone after bonuscave, fixed.
 - ending shows an extra screen now with final score information
 - fixed screen shake if you get a powerup at the end or beginning of a level
 - backgrounds hue correction

Computer Versions only:
 - improved joypad/joystick control
 - keyboard support for entering name in highscore and passwords
 - added icon; by cmoses (thanks!)

Console & Handheld versions only:
 - improved music quality (reencoded music)
 - added icon
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                                                 _ _ ___\  Helping Hands  /__
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Here we would like to mention few people who gave us a helping hand:

Joachim Hesse, Stig Remnes, Robocop/ATL, dMG/dS!

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                                                      _ _ ___\  Features  /__
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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 has power, or was it just a coincidence?
As this is not bad enough, Swampy fell in love at first sight with Giana's
sister Maria and shamelessly kidnapped her. She simply has been at the wrong
place at the wrong time.

You take over the role of Giana, get back the magic ruby and most important of
all, save your beloved sister Maria and get home save! Good Luck!

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Standard controls for keyboard players:
Cursor up = Jump
Cursor left = Go left
Cursor right = Go right
Space = Shoot

Standard constrols for joystick/joypad/handheld devices:
Please play around and figure out on your own, it's usually pretty obvious.

You can manually modify settings in giana.cfg, please refer to config.txt for
details.

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Giana is not helpless at all, just bump the star boxes with your head and hope
for a nice goodie. Also unobvious stones which can be bricked, might hold a
surprise.

Wall Breaker - Giana hairs morph into a stormy hairstyle, you now can break
               regular bricks.
Thunder      - Thunder's will give you the ability to shoot or increase the
               shoot power. There are three strengts, indicated by the battery
               icons on the top of the screen.
Clock        - Catch a clock, get 20 extra seconds!
Heart        - 1 UP

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                                              _ _ ___\  Enemies & Bosses  /__
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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 beeing hard, so make sure you find all bonus caves, so
you can gain 1 UP each 100 rubies. You will need them desperately!

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                                             _ _ ___\  Copyright & Stuff  /__
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"The Great Giana Sisters" is a trademark of "Spellbound AG", Germany. The Team
behind Giana's Return does not intend to break any copyright, but 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 team was involved in the creation of this game, beside
Armin and Manfred giving feedback on (for now) pretty old betas.

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

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