Tyrian Hints & Cheats

Tyrian Cheat Codes

Super Arcade Modes

Enter the following at the title screen:

Cheat Effect
techno Play as The Experimental PQZ
unknown Play as the TX Silvercloud
stormwind Play as The Elemental Stormwind
stealth Play as the Ninja Star
weird Play as the Food Ship Nine
enemy Play as the Captured U-Ship
nortshipz Play as the Nort Ship Z
destruct Play the Destruct mini-game

Game Enhancing Cheats

Enter the following during gameplay:

Cheat Effect
F2 + F3 + F5 Invincibility
F2 + F6 + F7 Level Warp

Command Line Parameters

To use these codes go to your Tyrian directory in a DOS prompt and type "file0001" followed by one of these parameters

Cheat Effect
NOROBERT Alternate method of selecting items in the upgrade menu.
DEATH Constant death mode. Your ship explodes when you enter a level but it keeps scrolling until the end. For testing purposes.
NOJOY Disables joystick detection.
NOSOUND Disables sound effects, but not music.
YESXMAS Enables christmas mode in 2.01 only. A lot of the ships and weapons have their graphics changed to a christmas theme.
ULTRAMID Fixes problems with GUS MIDI.
MAXVOL Force Tyrian or SETUP to set the card's main volume to maximum if it is able to instead of reading the current value.
FLICKER Forces Tyrian not to wait for a retrace (enabled by default if Windows is detected).
NOKEY Forces Tyrian to send keys to the BIOS just in case some other device driver needs input. It still uses the keyboard input driver, though.
LOOT(SQUARE) Instead of typing (SQUARE) hold down alt and type 254 on the numeric keypad and a square will appear. This will start your games with 1 million credit
CONSTANT Makes your ship fire continuously while sweeping from side to side. Press C to toggle invincibility. For testing purposes.
BORDER Network border mode (apparently useless).
RECORD Records every level played and saves the last one to DEMOREC.? (? being a number in sequential order of the demo being recorded).
MAXJOY Sets joystick sensitivity to maximum.
WEAKJOY Forces Tyrian to average the signals coming from the joystick.
VOLUME Works like MAXVOL.
JUKEBOX Type "setup.exe JUKEBOX" instead of "file0001.exe JUKEBOX" to use this one. Goes straight to setup.exe's jukebox, hitting escape exits to DOS.

Misc. Codes

Type one of these codes to unlock the effect.

Cheat Effect
Press shift + G on the difficulty selection screen. Alternate Impossible Mode
After enabling Impossible and Suicide modes put the cursor on either of them on the difficulty selection screen and press L+O+R+D simultaneously. Alternate Lord Of The Game Mode
After enabling Impossible mode on the difficulty selection screen press shift + ]. Alternate Suicide Mode
Type ENGAGE at the main menu. Cheat codes and command line parameters are disabled Alternate Super Tyrian Mode
Hold down, Fire, Fire Armour Repair
Right, Left, Down, Hold up, Fire Atomic Bombs
Left, Right, Down, Hold right, Fire BattleShip-Class Firebomb
Right, Down, Left, Hold up, Fire Companion Ship Warfly
Up, Hold left, Fire Diagonal Left Lightning Shot
Up, Hold right, Fire Diagonal Right Lightning Shot
Hold up, Fire Forward Lightning Shot
Down, Right, Hold up, Fire Gerund Companion Ship
Left, Right, Hold down, Fire Guided Bomb Cluster
Hold fire, Right, Down, Left, Release all, Up Mine Spray
Up, Hold down, Fire HotDog Blast
Down, Hold up, Fire Ice Blast
Up, Left, Hold down, Fire Invunerability
Hold left, Fire Left Lightning Shot
Left, Up, Down, Hold right, Fire MicroSol FrontBlaster II
Left, Hold fire, Down, Right, Up Post-It Blast
Up, Right, Hold down, Fire Proton Canon Indigo
Left, Up, Right, Left, Right, Hold left, Fire Proton Canon Tangerine
Up, Hold fire, Left, Down Proton Field
Hold fire, Left, Right Repulsor
Hold right, Fire Right Lightning Shot

Game Enhancing Cheats

Enter the following during gameplay:

Cheat Effect
F2 + F3 + F5 Destruction Mode (shields reduced to 0 after one hit)
F2 + F3 + F10 Extra Money

Tyrian FAQs & Walk-Throughs

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