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Liero is an old-school earthworm action game. Pick your five weapons, and unleash your inner fury.

Author(s): Joosa Riekkinen, Erik Lindroos and others
Website: http://liero.be
Port: Artur "zear" Rojek
Download: http://www.gcw-zero.com/file.php?file=liero.opk
Source code: https://github.com/gcwnow/liero

Changelog:
03/10/2014 - first official release
* Extracted essencial game data from the DOS LIERO.EXE, removing the necessity of requiring that file
* Replaced certain non-free data files with free assets from the LieroLibre project
* Added $HOME support
* Various fixes for GCW Zero
Special thanks to mth for the help with data extraction.

08/10/2012
* Replaced Jamfile with a Makefile
* Digging with left/right + jump
* Removed upscale support
* Missing #include added to text.hpp

Default controls:
In-game:
D-PAD - move/aim
A - jump
B - fire
Y - change weapon
A+Y - ninja rope
A+D-PAD left/right - dig
SELECT - display menu

Main menu:
A/START - select menu item
B/SELECT - go back
L - Load options from config file
R - Save options to config file

Text edit mode:
D-PAD left/right - previous/next letter
D-PAD up/down - change selected letter
R - remove last letter
A/START - store text changes
B/SELECT - reject text changes

In order to modify the availability of weapons in game (selectable, bonus, disabled), go to options->weapon options.
The default is set to provide a balanced gameplay.

To support custom levels, copy them to the following directory (as seen from FTP):
/home/.liero/

What happens if I set Player 2 to be a human?

You have a very awkward way of playing against your friend (until we get OTG)

It really looks like it was made for CGA or VGA.

It's made for 320x200.

This game is a lot of fun, thanks Zear

This game is great, I'm already addicted! I can't wait until we can have two players on it. 

I don't have a problem with the text or characters, but the map is way too small to be useful for me; I can barely even see the pixel that is supposed to be each worm. Is there a way to enlarge the map, maybe using some of the blank screen space?

Maybe it could be scaled to 320x240 to use the full screen. It should be easy now with hardware scaling. I don't know, but maybe it looks better that way...

Fair enough, I understand why that isn't an option. However, I only meant that I would want the map at the bottom larger, not the play area. Maybe it will be more visible once it can be connected over hdmi.

Thank you - looking forward to playing this sprawled on the couch later on...

Is there a way to expand the weapons? I remember playing on pc back in the day and it more weapons.

I guess someone must of done that. Because I remember over a dozen weapons.

Here I found a site with the weapons list.

http://liero.150m.com/weaponlist.html