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sajiimori · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 2226

On the bright side, it'll be a lot faster when you're done. :)

Lazy1 · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 786

Schtee · Joined: 13 Nov 2006 Posts: 3 Location: London, England

Woo to you sir. Good stuff you've got going on there. Quake/Q2 would be the pinnacle of all DS ports, I feel. Hope this all works out well.

simonjhall · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1314 Location: Laaaandan

Yeah, I'm having problems with Quake 2 at the moment as I've got the demo playing, but I can't actually get into the game... The level-change message from the client to the server just doesn't seem to get through.

I'm also going on holiday tomorrow for a few weeks so don't expect me to reply if you wanna know more!

Lazy1 · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 786

Any plans to release the latest source for people to hack around with?

simonjhall · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1314 Location: Laaaandan

OOPMan · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

Did you play through on the DS version, or PSP version?

It's nice if you can actually play that far on the DS version :-)

Anyway, good luck with the project...
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Devil_Spawn · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 228

simonjhall · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1314 Location: Laaaandan

OOPMan · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:31 am Post subject:

Vegas? You poor poor man...
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josath · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1379

simonjhall · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1314 Location: Laaaandan

off topic: just got back from my trip and the time spent in Las Vegas was awesome! Having one of the tires on our coach blow out in the middle of the night in the middle of the Mojave Desert wasn't too much fun though... Also a bit hairy when another tire decided to blow on the way to LAX!

Time to get back to work with Quake...

OOPMan · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

Woot :-)

Go get 'em :-)
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simonjhall · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1314 Location: Laaaandan

Guys, just for a laugh (and I'm bored of the endless Quake 2 slog) I'm just gonna put a little vid up of Quake 1 running on my DS.

I'm too lazy to edit the Quake config file, so this is it running UNLIT AND UNTEXTURED.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/simonhall/quake.avi
It's about two megabytes in size.

I'm still messing around with the model loading and networking, so I've still not bothered with changing it to fixed-point fp (so it's using software-emualted fp) nor attempted to use the DS' 3D hardware to make it run faster.

Back to Q2... (why couldn't they have put more RAM in the DS?!)

PeterM · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 97 Location: Edinburgh, UK

Thanks for the video. I'm on really crappy dial-up so it'll take a while before I can see it. :-)

Edit:

I saw the video, very neat!

Does the game load textures and just not render with them, or not load them at all? I ask because when I was porting Quake to the PSP I didn't have to fight against memory limits at all, but I could see that getting the memory usage down below 4MB may be difficult.

Did you employ any special tricks to get the memory footprint down?

BTW good luck with Q2 -- AFAIK nobody's been able to get that running decently on PSP yet so it'll be very very impressive if you get it doing on the DS (and I may just have to pinch the code!)
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