And here I launch out in my turn for you present one of my three first creation of homebrew on DS made with PaliB. In fact this play was born yesterday in my head during a total trouble in front of my ordi (and yes it is the beginning of the holidays) thus I started and here are what I has just finished one hour ago. This play is the beginning of a being played MOD of pong has two out of only one DS.

And here I launch out in my turn for you present one of my three first creation of homebrew on DS made with PaliB. In fact this play was born yesterday in my head during a total trouble in front of my ordi (and yes it is the beginning of the holidays) thus I started and here are what I has just finished one hour ago. This play is the beginning of a being played MOD of pong has two out of only one DS.

And here I launch out in my turn for you present one of my three first creation of homebrew on DS made with PaliB. In fact this play was born yesterday in my head during a total trouble in front of my ordi (and yes it is the beginning of the holidays) thus I started and here are what I has just finished one hour ago. This play is the beginning of a being played MOD of pong has two out of only one DS.

grzywacz just released his first very early alpha release of a port of Battle for Wesnoth.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
http://www.wesnoth.org/

grzywacz

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Ok, I made it. You can download the alpha release from sf.net:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=89495

The cache has been pre-generated to speed up startup times. I recommend that you overclock your gp2x to 260MHz, otherwise it will be completly unplayable. Also, I've managed to break hotkeys (as described in readme) for this release, so you have to stick to sloppy mouse emulation only. Razz

Unpack the archive in /mnt/sd/wesnoth and "enjoy". See the included readme for more details.

The thread and download links can be found here:
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtop......18&start=15

There were some problems with the .tar.bz2 version, so alternative download is here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23812765...p2x-v2.7z.html

Well, thx to a guy named Evil Dragon it seems I'll get my DPad although donations have been quite weak (a little over 10 Euos so far). Now, this is very good and everything BUT I also received my first postcard with a beer label last week and those two things together convinced me to release Pipes 2.0 (and all future versions) for free. That doesn't mean though that you shouldn't donate if you like it or send that postcard with a beer label
There's been quite some improvements, most notable the size of the board can now be changed between 9 and 15 in width and height and let me tell you, a board sized 15 is tough. The Highscores should work with this just fine but I have only done so much testing.
I also added sounds (no music but that is next) and all the skins can now be configured as you like them e.g. which font they should use. Just check out the properties file in the skin dir, you'll see it's not hard.
There's a slight issue with speed e.g. the tiles turning a little slower than they did before but I'll work on that asap.
Unfortunatly old versions of the game are not compatible to the new version so please delete the Pipes directory on your SD Card before copying the new one over!

If you are interested, the download is (as always) at http://www.nagelfar.com/pipes/

nullDC v1.0.0 BETA User Manual
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1. What is it?
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nullDC is a plugin based Dreamcast emulator for x86 based computers running Windows Operating Systems.

2. Recomended System Requirements:
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- CPU: AMD Athlon XP/64/Turion at 2GHz or Intel Pentium 4 at 2.6GHz or equivalent.
- Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 TI or ATi Radeon 8500.
- RAM: 512MB
- Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003
- December Redistributable of DirectX 9c

The above requirements are considered as the absolute minimum in order to run the emulator as it was
intended to run. The emulator might be able to run on systems that do not meet these requirements
but with issues (like slow speed, GFX errors or Sound errors).

Notes:

- Some games have higher requirements than the rest and have speed issues even on systems that meet
the recomended requirements. In that case a faster CPU is necessary to reach full speed.

- Pentium 4 CPUs perform some tasks slower than other CPUs, thus the clock speed of 2.6GHz is needed.
On the other hand, Pentium M CPUs perform the same tasks much faster
(A Pentium M 750 at 1.86GHz should be enough to reach full speed).
Intel Celeron and AMD Duron (and probably Sempron) CPUs are slow and it's expected to perform worse than the rest

- Nvidia Geforce 4 MX video cards are worse than the TI series and they do not meet the minimum requirements.

- DirectX 9c has many redistributables. It's common to have an older version installed that misses certain necessary
files.
Be sure to download and install the December redistributable or the default graphics plugin will fail to Load.

- nullDC will run on Windows Vista. However, hardware requirements will be a little higher than the ones mentioned
above and there will probably be sound related issues (as with many other applications running on Vista).

3. Preperations/Other Requirements
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Before running the emulator make sure that you have the necessary Dreamcast BIOS and Flash files dumped from your
Dreamcast.
The BIOS must be named "dc_boot.bin" and the Flash must be named "dc_flash.bin". Both files must be placed in the "Data"
directory which is in the location where you installed the emulator.

The emulator will fail to run any game or software if you don't have these files.

Please note that original Dreamcast discs (GD-ROMs) are special discs that cannot be accessed by common PC DVD/CD drives.
Because of this it is not possible to run these discs directly on an emulator. The only way to run such a disc is
to make a backup copy (a dump) of it using some "special" methods either by using a Dreamcast or a modified PC DVD/CD drive.

4. Usage
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When you run the emulator for the first time you will be asked to select the plugins you are going to use.

Here is a list of the plugins that come with the emulator:

-PowerVR (Graphics) Plugins:

"nullPVR" is the graphics plugin that was made by the nullDC team.
"Chankast's video" is a port of the PowerVR (graphics) core that was used on Chankast (another great Dreamcast emulator).

-GDRom Plugins:

"Image Reader" is used to run images of discs (ie: cdi, mdf/mds, nrg).
"zNullGD" is used to run discs directly from the PC DVD/CD drive.

-AICA (Sound) Plugins:

"nullAICA" is the sound plugin that was made by the nullDC team.
"Chankast's AICA" is a port of the AICA (sound) core that was used on Chankast (another great Dreamcast emulator).
"Empty AICA" is an audio plugin that produces no sound. It has reduced compatibility but is faster than the rest.

-Maple (Input/Saves) Plugins:

There is only one available maple plugin available that covers all the maple related functions. It has 2 divisions.
Its first division handles each controller port and its second division handles the expansion slots of the peripheral
connected to each controller port. Each division has various states. Divisions and states are explained below.

Controller Division:

"nullDC Controller [WinHook]" connects a normal dreamcast controller using input from the keyboard.

"nullDC Controller [WinHook.NET]" connects a normal dreamcast controller using input from the keyboard but for
NetPlay usage.
*Refer to the NetPlay section for more information about NetPlay.

"None" acts like no controller is connected to the port.

Expansion Slots Division:

"nullDC VMU" declares that a VMU (memory card) is connected to the expansion slot of a peripheral.
"None" acts like nothing is connected to the expansion slot of a peripheral.

In case the above looks confusing... Imagine a Dreamcast, it has four ports, you connect a controller (peripheral)
to a port, then a memory card to the controller (the Dreamcast controller has two slots for memory cards etc.).
Maple uses the same structure. See? Simple.

-External Device (Modem/Broadband Adaptor) Plugins:

"nullExtDev" acts like no modem or broadband adaptor is connecter to the external device slot of the dreamcast.

After all the necessary plugins are selected and the "OK" button is pressed the emulator window and console will appear.

5.1 Menus
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Here's a brief explaination of the menu options and their usage. Whenever a menu option has an arrow next to it it will
expand revealing more options. If it doesn't have an arrow then clicking on it will pop up a configuration/message box.


Clicking on the "File" tab