Hi and welcome everyone,
Back during the last two weeks of January I started working on a port of Quake for the Nintendo DS. Progress was slow at first because a lot of the code had to be reworked and from the inherent hardware limitations of the DS. However in the two weeks I worked on it I did get pretty far and it is playable. Unfortunately I have quite a bit on my plate and I had all of the intensions of getting back to work on DSQuake but I haven't yet and it has been sitting on my computer for months now.
So what is working? Well it’s playable like I said with decent frame rates 20-30fps. No sound and no net code yet. No textures yet either but I did manage to color the triangles appropriately by peeking into the textures and using that for a temporary basis. Also the controls are basically the same as the Metroid Prime Hunters game for the DS.
Initially I had wanted to finish the entire port my self and post it for everyone to play but today I changed my mind because the project is simply not progressing at the rate I wanted. So in the interest of playing one of the greatest games ever made on one of the greatest consoles ever made I'm looking for a few clever programmers to help the cause.
-john
posted by DSQuake @ 7:50 PM
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Actually I think the game would speed up, there are alot of optimizations that could me made. Also, the DS has two processors, the arm9 and the arm7, currently I'm only using the arm9. The arm7 would take the burden off of the main cpu for the sound, and maybe the wifi. :)
Hi DSquake!
well done, I though let's post a nice comment. Unfortunately I haven't got any knowledge of the quake engine porting.
However, I would like to give you support by saying: carry on :D you've come a long way! Furthermore,perhaps I can help you getting experienced coders for your DSquake port :D maybe there are interested guys at my f2au forum(which has 392 users).
I can send them your search in a good porter and perhaps you will find one.. the f2au community is willing to help and to spread the news!
Best regards,
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penpvdbs @ home.nl
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This is a port of Quake to the truest sense so strafe jumping and bunny jumping are possible. Also, loading game mods would also be possible because it is the actual game engine with the Quake virtual machine included.
As for the Quakeworld stuff I don't know. I wouldn't imagine much has changed other than netcode. I think it could be possible to merge the netcode into DSQuake. But like I said I don't know, I haven't looked at the QuakeWorld source.
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