Port list

[Tachikoma_Pilot]

Id love to hear some developers thoughts on the following list of things I've looked at, are any of these possible?

Games

Ur-Quan - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Armagetron Advanced - http://armagetronad.net/
The Battle for Wesnoth - http://www.wesnoth.org/
Frets on fire - http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
micropolis - http://code.google.com/p/micropolis/
NetHack - http://www.nethack.org/
Secret Maryo Chronicles - http://www.secretmaryo.org/
StepMania - http://www.stepmania.com/
Stendhal - http://arianne.sourceforge.net/
Volleyball manager - http://www.vm.e-siatka.pl/index.php
Warzone 2100 - http://wz2100.net/
Xbattle - http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/xbattle.html
Vulture's - http://clivecrous.lighthouseapp.com/projects/11282/home
Oolite - http://oolite.org/
Neverball - http://icculus.org/neverball/
Egoboo - http://egoboo.sourceforge.net/
Abuse - http://abuse.zoy.org/

Im also a begging programmer just really starting out, and would like you to recommend a easy game to port so as to learn. :)

I'll be looking for guides on setting up a development environment starting a little later.

Im currently just finishing reading up on selfbooting, IP.bin 1st read etc.

Thanks for your time ;)

[Guaripolo]

ok let's see:

Stepmania - I love dance games (specially pump it up) and want to make a piu simulator for DC. I don't know if stepmania can work on DC, it requires a lot of power process (me and my brother are very familiarized with the theme making and stepmaking and i can tell you that SM isn't an easytoport game, the source is a mess).

Frets on fire - That was my idea and i want to do it, but someone says to me "hey, we will make this port so stay away moth*******************). :D:D:D

Neverball - Is ported by CHUI, you can try his working beta, is one of the best 3d homebrews available.

The rest, i don't know, but someone can follow this list.
Thanks for the list, it is always necessary that people can suggest good "material" to port. Bye!

[Jareth247]

I, too, would LOVE Stepmania on the DC. Especially if one can use the same song packs as the PC version.

[Indiket]

Wow, quite a long list for demanding :)

The Battle for Wesnoth - rather imposible because it uses sdl_net (not ported to dc) and phyton (among other things).

Ur-Quan - this can be ported, but be warned for performance, because it uses libogg and libvortis. These can be uses for DC, but they require a bit of CPU. Also, we have to check for ram uses.