Giana Sisters:
Fangames, Clones & Hacks
on the C64
Giana Sisters II
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Giana Sisters with more Levels from TNW (The New Wave). TNW also delivered a trainer for the game, quite helpful from Level 29 (combined) on.
There is always a new level and then one from the original game. The original Levels have the same layout, but every now and then more enemies than
normal appear. TNW also added some new bonuslevels (underground screens) and warp blocks and even a remix of the Giana Sisters Theme.
All powerups and warp blocks stayed where they belong in the original levels.
And the one jump in Level 12 (only new levels) sucks, but level 13 is where it starts! And it somehow ends in Level 34 with an impossible jump. If you know what to do there
leave a comment please ...
Joystick: Port2
Frankies Horror Trip I
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A hack of Giana Sisters by Sandy with new levels, some of them are mean. Somehow after every mean level there is
an ridiculously easy one. But the hidden path that is the right path in level 24 is mean, as is the warp block in level 25 that is hard
to avoid when going for the first bonus cave and then it teleports you back to level 22. And there is an interesting color scheme to the levels and some
music tracks are new or remixes.
33 new
levels at all.
Joystick: Port2
Frankies Horror Trip II
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Another hack of Giana Sisters by Sandy with more new levels, and the game is sometimes refered to as Giana Sisters 4.
All levels are mean again, but somehow I felt that Frankies Horror Trip I is harder. Well, either Sandy ran out of mean leveldesign ideas
or I'm just getting used to all the mean things. But don't get me wrong, these levels are still hard hard hard.
Especially when the path parts and only one is the right one and if you get in the wrong one you have to wait until the leveltime is up. You don't need
Giana Sisters skillz for this.
Speaking of this, this hack is only for professionals knowing exactly what to do and how and where to start which jump...
Again the classic number, 33 levels in this levelpack.
Joystick: Port2
Power Sisters 1
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Another Giana Sisters hack with new levels and again by Sandy. Also not bad but you will notice that Sandy got softer. Before some normally impossible jumps
there is help for you! For example if you have to jump a huge gap and on the other side the fire is already burning and you only have a few pixels
there to land in this hack there is a disappearing bridge in front of the fire to help you. So very often the hardest part of this hack is to withstand
the temptation to collect all the diamonds in one place and then find out to be trapped in a hole where you can't get out. This is nice but takes away a lot
of the totally meanness of the levels, but it's still fun to play.
Again 33 new levels.
Click through all options while the trainer menu shows with N or Y (or Z) to start the game...
Joystick: Port2
Gitty's Dreams I
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Written Gitty's Dream's in the scrolltext at the beginning, but this is no english. This hack features some more Giana Sisters Levels from
an unknown person.
The levelpack features 33 new levels for Giana Sisters Fans with a normal to easy difficulty setting that get a bit harder with higher level numbers.
So this is good for beginners.
Click through all options while the trainer menu shows with N or Y (or Z) to start the game...
Joystick: Port2
Gitty II
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Gitty 2 or Gitty's Dreams II brings you more Giana Sisters Levels to your C64. 33 all new medium difficult levels with some few mean parts. Some parts are just
annoying, like the hidden holes (and a (frequent!) warp back to the level that excessively celebrates this).
And the exit to level 5 is really where you think it is, but you have to jump to reach it. Some other times the exit is just small little black square.
Click through all options while the trainer menu shows with N or Y (or Z) to start the game...
There is another release of this game, with the same levels but without the trainer menu at the beginning. But there are some additional greetings in the start screen
of the game. This is called
Giana Remix then and was
released by Brego (of Paramount). Of course a trainer is useful with all the bonus levels featured here and this version has none, which is rather lame...
Joystick: Port2
I want more diamonds
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I want more Diamonds is a completely newly written Giana Sisters Clone by Gábor Gaspar.
The main character looks like Giana and collects diamonds. That's about it with similarities, the gamephysics, the enemies, the whole gfx, everything
else is different. Sometimes you think you know some of the nemies but still it is different.
You have a different shot that you get by collecting strange blocks, the ball and the punk Giana are not in this game.
But the graphics are nice, as is the new soundtrack. The difficulty is okay at first, even though you will have a hard time to find out what is
a level design element and what is an enemy. Also the rather clunky controls and gamephysics but also the mean collission detection make it harder
than it actually is.
And finally the hovering rocket in level 17 or the superfast rockets in level 19 take away the rest of fun you might have found in this game. And
having to slowly shoot through walls only totally kills the game. All in all you get 31 new level that are rather annoying than a real challenge.
Fun fact: There is even a hack of this clone out there, called
Mario goes diamonds.
Joystick: Port2
GIANA II (7A3)
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Giana 2 from the 7A3s. Side B includes 2 demos, the first demo is a rolling demo where you can do nothing but watch, demo 2 lets you play 4 Levels.
Side A is somehow broken, I couldn't start anything on it.
Joystick: Port2
The Great Giana Sisters III
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A vertically scrolling shooter that was made with SEUCK. Not very interesting or Giana Sisters like. Only the sprites are similar.
Just mentioned here for the sake of completeness.
Joystick: Port2
Little Sara Sister 1
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Another Jump n Run Clone, this time from Team Ice. Cannot reach the original, strange controls, bad graphics, but the soundtrack is nice.
Joystick: Port2
Little Sara Sister 1.5
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The Sequel for Little Sara Sister 1. Now even worse and with a soundtrack that is even more happy (but in an annoying way).
Joystick: Port2
Super Mario
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A hack of the original which is a clone of the Super Mario Bros. original. It's a vicious circle. Well, Giana was replaced by a Mario Sprite, all diamonds are coins,
every coinblock has a questionmark on it, the green scorpion like enemies are turned into Koopas and some more new sprites, but the levels are still the same Giana Sisters
levels everyone knows only in a Mario style.
Joystick: Port2
on the PC
Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams
The new Giana Sisters. From the company that once was Armin Gessert's Spellbound. Giana Sisters in 3D and colorful. Will be tested hard!
Contrary to all other titles on this page this is a commercial title by the original rights holders.
Giana Worlds 0.83
no further developement since 2001. Also called Giant Worlds. On this page are even more Giana Sisters Clones.
Giana's Return
nice remake from a demoparty.
You can find all
level passwords and hints for it on this page.
Giana Family
For Windows. Another nice clone. Sadly the color scheme is totally off when playing under win7. The controls are good, but not as good as the original. And the 2 included
levelpacks are rather strange with a lot of leaps of faith. But there is also a level editor included so you can create you own levels that are better than these mentioned
right now.
And netplay is possible too.
on the DS
Giana Sisters DS
The whole game as it should be on the DS. Don't confuse it with the new version on the DS. To be able to play this homebrew version of the game on your DS you need
a flash module for your DS so you can start homebrew code.
Online
Giana Sisters Flash Version
play it online
even more and more up to date (because it's easier to update there...)
check it out!
