Quake GameCube Released - Quake Ported to Nintendo Wii/Gamecube

[wraggster]

PeterM one of our family of coders here at DCEmu has today released the first beta of his port of the classic game Quake for the Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo Wii. Awesome release :)

Quake on Gamecube now runs At 320×264 (PAL), demo 1 runs at comfortably over 70 frames per second. At 640×528, it runs at just under 30.

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/pquake/40267581.jpg

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/pquake/48449858.jpg

Heres info from the readme:

Digg this News (http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/Quake_Gamecube_Released)

http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/Quake_Gamecube_Released


Quake GameCube
Requirements
A Wii or GameCube.
A Datel SD Media Launcher or some other way of running programs from SD Card.
Installation
Copy Quake.dol to somewhere on your SD Card.
Copy the ID1 folder to the root of your SD Card.
Copy Quake's PAK0.PAK (and PAK1.PAK if you own the full version) into the ID1 folder on your SD Card.
Check that the ID1 folder and all files within it are named using only upper case.
Insert the SD Card and adaptor into slot 1 of your Wii or GameCube. Quake uses an SD Card library which is not compatible with slot 2.
Launch Quake.dol using your method of choice.
Credits
Original game by id Software.
GameCube conversion by Peter Mackay.
GameCube version testing by eke, org and plootid.
Contact
You can report bugs or suggestions using the project's issue tracker. Please make sure to check the existing issues before adding new ones.

Source code
The original Quake code was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). As Quake GameCube is currently in beta, source code is available on request. Once Quake GameCube is released, the source code will be made publicly available.

Download and Give Feedback to PeterM here at DCEmu via the Comments.
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[DJShrimpy]

Awsome, Wii needs moar brown

[PeterM]

Ooh I should add some notes:

The readme is a little out of date, sorry for missing out some of the testers. I think the Wiki has them all, but since TehSkeen went down I lost my PMs from the testers.

The resolution isn't actually selectable in this build. It's fixed at 640x480 for NTSC and 640x528 for PAL. However, the game runs faster now, at just over 30 FPS at 640x528, probably slightly higher for NTSC.

Sorry if there are problems with TV safe areas or font sizes - Quake was written for monitors, not televisions!

I don't think those screenshots are from the GC version - they look like GLQuake to me and the GC version uses software rendering.

Source code is available right now using Subversion.

I'm not sure I'll add hardware rendering since the game runs so well already and I'm getting bloody sick of Quake!

Anyway, enjoy the port guys! :D

[mr_nick666]

Thanks man :) Ive managed to avoid the upgrade and still enjoy my Wii/GC homebrew :D

[Moonmonkeys]

Good lord! I've only played a small section of this and i'm mightily impressed. I was expecting some jerky uncontrollable mess but the controls are tight, framerate smooth and saving your progress even works.
Good work fella and many thanks
:thumbup:

[Sabres]

Can I also play Mission Pack 1 "Scourge of Armagon" and Mission Pack 2 "Dissolution of Eternity" if I have those?

[zubiac]

they should work as they use the same engine, I guess.
try them

[wolfpack]

hmm... quake on the wii... sounds nice, wish i had one though.

[xernobyl]

GLquake port next? :D

[PeterM]

Maybe not "next" but perhaps some time in the future. I'm a bit sick of the Quake code by now!

[bochi]

Is there a way to run quake from a dvd. i don't own an sd loader. and i will like to make a dvd with quake and some other emu.

[xernobyl]

Is there a way to run quake from a dvd. i don't own an sd loader. and i will like to make a dvd with quake and some other emu.Not at the moment, and probably there won't be one since this version reads the .pak data from the SD card. I don't think the developer will bother with this anymore :D

[PeyeRate420]

maybe a front SD loader will be made even if its unofficial being that most things are going the way of the twilight hack now?!

[PeterM]

I'm looking for folks to continue this project and hopefully add proper Wii support.

So if any coders are reading this and would like to continue Quake, please get in touch.

[thedarkcookie]

Just post the source on teh skeen and im sure someone will take over