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       Official "Giana's Return" Webpage: http://www.gianas-return.de

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Giana's Return, copyright (C) 2002 - 2004 by 

Christian Nowak (aka CHN) ........ Code, Organizing, Beta-Test, Music, Sound-FX
                                                            Additional Graphics
Shahzad Sahaib (aka Kojote) ....... Leveldesign, Beta-Test, Organizing, Webpage
                                                 Promotion, Additional Graphics
Alexander Oldemeier (aka op3rator) .....................................  Music
Harald Prinzhorn (aka Arthus) ............................ Graphics, Animations
Rainer Sinsch (aka Myth) .......................................... Leveleditor

This game is 100% FREEWARE, no money in any form should be charged for it. Any
commercial use is strictly prohibited without written permission from Christian
Nowak (CHN) and/or Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote). Under commercial use we mean things
like: Putting the game on a magazines CD, selling the game on any kind of
media, offering the game on pages where you have to install a dialer to get it,
etc. Any manipulation and/or patching of the game is forbidden, only spread
official versions avaliable on www.gianas-return.de

"Giana's Return" comes without any warranty. Noone forces you to try this game,
run it at your own personal risk. We can't be hold responsible for possible
damages (hardware/software) to your handheld, console or PC! The original team
does NOT have anything to do with this game, so please only bug the developer
team of "Giana's Return" if you have questions. By running "Giana's Return" on
your system you fully agree to understand and accept everything in this doc-
umentation/license text.

All mentioned trademarks are owned by their respective copyright holders.

THE GAME
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"Giana's Return" is based on a game called "The Great Giana Sisters (TM)". The
original has been developed by Armin Gessert, Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck.
"Giana's Return" is not a clone at all, but based on the original. It features
6 worlds witch each 6 levels, which makes a total of 36 levels. Each world has
2 tunes, of course the game also has various sound fx's plus titlemusic, game-
over music and more. While the first world is rather easy you'll notice slight
increase of difficulty in later worlds which should make the game worth a
challenge. At level two and up you'll recieve passwords. There are not only
passwords to start at decent levels, no, there are even passwords for hidden
functions. One world is fully hidden.

Most of you should remember "The Great Giana Sisters (TM)" from it's old days.
The gameplay in "Giana's Return" is not much different. Try to solve each
level in time, collect diamonds to get an extralife (each 100 diamonds) and
try to gain extra items such as the Stonecrusher, the lightning (for beeing
able to shoot) or the pineapple (for autodetect shoots). Probably worth to
mention are also hidden bonus rooms which contain a lot of diamonds.

DONATIONS
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This game was produced in the team's sparetime. If you like it and play it
often, please donate something using paypal. A donation might motivate us to
port this game to other platforms/systems and/or improve it, you also help to
pay the hosting fees. If you would like to contribute something else, like a
special hardware for porting the game to this system, get in touch with us.
Thanks in advance!

We strictly want to point out that you don't have to donate anything if you
don't like. The game is freeware and has no limitations!

FEEDBACK
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Contact rules:
* DON'T ask when a new version will be released.
* DON'T ask when the game will be ported to system XY.
* DON'T ask for a diskimage of "The Great Giana Sisters (TM)".
  We do not support piracy!
* DON'T ask for the sourcecode of "Giana's Return", even not parts of it.
* DON'T ask for the leveleditor, it's for internal use only.

Feel free to let us know what you think about this game, we are happy about
any serious feedback. Found any bugs? Please let us know. Want to put the game
on a magazines CD? Write us an email with details. (Remember to read the
copyright notes on the top of this document)

CONTACT
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To get in touch with us please write to "feedback (at) gianas-return (dot) de"
Your mail will be automaticly forwarded to all five developers of this game.
Please allow a few days for answering your email, we are only humans like you.
In case this e-mail adress get's invalid, due whatever reason, have a look at
the contact section on www.gianas-return.de to get a new one.

HISTORY
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(05.03.2004)
Version 0.90B - Public Beta -

THANKS TO
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Armin Gessert, for allowing us to use his trademark and giving feedback on an
early beta version.
-> http://www.spellbound.de
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Chris Huelsbeck, for allowing us to use his original SID music!
-> http://www.huelsbeck.com/
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Machinae Supremacy for allowing us to use their well known and heavy remix of
their song "The Great Giana Sisters" (C64 titlemusic remix).
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/
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Max Scharl, for the GP32<->DC Link cable
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com
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