Equipment

Tyrian weapons

Tyrian 2000 has 46 front and rear weapons, each with 11 power levels. 18 are sold as front guns and 12 as rear guns (2 in both bays); the other 18 are never sold in shops and come with special ships or secret modes. In the shops, power 1 costs from 500 to 1,100 credits. The shop shows the price of the next power level as you press Right.

Weapon list

Weapon	Bay	Price (power 1)	Energy / volley	Firing modes	Sold in episodes
Pulse-Cannon	Front	500	30	1	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Multi-Cannon (front gun)	Front	750	40	1	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mega Cannon	Front	1,000	120	1	1, 2, 4, 5
Laser	Front	900	20	1	3
Zica Laser	Front	1,100	90	1	3
Protron Z	Not sold	900	50	1	none
Vulcan Cannon (front gun)	Front	600	20	1	1, 4, 5
Lightning Cannon	Front	1,000	70	1	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Starburst	Rear	900	20	1	2, 3, 4, 5
Multi-Cannon (rear gun)	Rear	750	40	2	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sonic Wave	Rear	950	50	2	1, 2, 3, 4
Protron (rear gun)	Rear	650	50	2	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Protron (front gun)	Front	600	50	1	1, 2, 4, 5
Wild Ball	Rear	800	60	2	1, 3, 4
Vulcan Cannon (rear gun)	Front and rear	500	20	1	front 4; rear 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Missile Launcher	Front	850	50	1	1, 2, 4, 5
Fireball	Front and rear	1,000	50	2	front 4; rear 1, 2, 3, 5
Mega Pulse	Front	900	60	1	2, 3, 4
Heavy Missile Launcher	Front	1,000	90	1	1, 2, 3, 4
Rear Heavy Missile Launcher	Rear	1,000	90	1	3
Rear Mega Pulse	Rear	900	90	1	1, 3, 4
Banana Blast	Not sold	950	20	1	none
Banana Blast Rear	Not sold	1,100	20	1	none
HotDog Front	Not sold	1,100	40	1	none
HotDog Rear	Not sold	1,100	40	1	none
Hyper Pulse	Front	1,050	50	1	1, 2, 4, 5
Guided Micro Bombs	Rear	1,100	60	1	1, 4, 5
Heavy Guided Bombs	Rear	1,000	80	1	1, 2, 4, 5
Scatter Wave	Rear	900	40	1	2, 4, 5
Guided Bombs	Not sold	800	40	1	none
Shuruiken Field	Not sold	850	40	1	none
Poison Bomb	Not sold	800	40	1	none
Protron Wave	Not sold	750	40	1	none
The Orange Juicer	Not sold	900	40	1	none
NortShip Super Pulse	Not sold	1,100	40	1	none
NortShip Spreader	Not sold	1,100	40	2	none
NortShip Spreader B	Not sold	1,100	40	1	none
Atomic RailGun	Not sold	1,101	30	1	none
Widget Beam	Front	950	40	1	4
Sonic Impulse	Front	1,000	50	1	4, 5
RetroBall	Front	1,000	50	1	4, 5
Needle Laser	Front	600	50	1	5
Pretzel Missile	Not sold	50	50	1	none
Dragon Frost	Not sold	700	50	1	none
People Pretzels	Not sold	50	50	1	none
Dragon Flame	Not sold	50	50	1	none

Prices and energy from the item table; 3 weapons fire differently in episodes 4 and 5 (see their pages). “Not sold” weapons come with special ships or secret modes.

Reading the tables

Level cost is the purchase price for power 1, then what each further power level costs. It grows with each level: the weapon's price × 1, then × 3, × 6, × 10… Total paid adds the purchase price and every upgrade so far, which is also what you get back when you sell the gun.
Frames / volley is the time between two volleys at Normal speed (35 frames per second). Shots / volley is the number of projectiles fired each time.
Damage per shot lists the projectiles of the firing pattern. freeze shots stop an enemy without damage, chain shots deal 1 damage on impact and set off a secondary blast that does the real damage (missiles and bombs work this way), and pierce n shots go through enemies and deal n damage to each.
Est. DPS is a rough damage-per-second figure that assumes every shot hits a single target. It counts chain shots as 1 and ignores their blast, and spread, homing and piercing shots behave very differently in practice.
Power use is drawn from your generator's energy each volley. If the generator cannot keep up, the gun fires less often.