Marathon for PSP

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September 11th, 2006, 23:59
Wally

Im pretty sure marathon relys on the SDL librarys (SDL, SDL_Mixer, SDL_Image, SDL_Net(Not ported to the PSP) and the LUA library for maps

There are other libraries im pretty sure
September 12th, 2006, 01:25
the_eternal_dark

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Aleph_One - the control list is there. I suppose you could map it kind of like how half-life or unreal tournament for dreamcast controls (since the same layout as psp control scheme), just an idea, should have been used in the duke nukem port too. If you get a chance to get a hold of a gp2x, try it out, the controls are awsome (speed could use a little work though).
September 12th, 2006, 18:15
Inigo Montoya

Quote:

Originally Posted by wally

Im pretty sure marathon relys on the SDL librarys (SDL, SDL_Mixer, SDL_Image, SDL_Net(Not ported to the PSP) and the LUA library for maps

There are other libraries im pretty sure

That's why I am trying to port the original, and then upgrade it till its comparable to Aleph One.
September 14th, 2006, 00:05
Mourningstar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

That's why I am trying to port the original, and then upgrade it till its comparable to Aleph One.

Thats good enough. ;)
September 14th, 2006, 05:57
Wally

Inigo Montoya: Do you mind posting daily logs?
September 22nd, 2006, 08:43
the_eternal_dark

im kinda lost with this one...
September 29th, 2006, 03:01
Mourningstar

Hello?

Anyone trying this still?
October 1st, 2006, 18:48
Zukan

Wow 5 pages of marathon! I've been asking for a marathon port in countless of other PSP forums, but nobody seemed to have even heard of the game before.
I grew up with the marathon games and being able to play any of them on my PSP would TRULY be like a dream come-true!

Major props to whoever is working to get this ported. You absolutely rock for even trying!
October 2nd, 2006, 16:06
Inigo Montoya

Attention Mortals

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but as I have said the Marathon Source is a bit hard to read, not to mention that college eats up time.

But I now have something close to a schedule for the first part of the port.

I have decided to start with getting the overhead map to work correctly on the PSP because aside from the physics the map seems to be the most non-trivial part of the engine. I believe if I can read in the map file and display the overhead correctly, including the different line widths for different types of polygons and coloring non-secret platforms red, then rendering the map correctly in will be simple. The hard part will be transparent textures and 5-D space.

I also had an idea for a slight tweek to the rendering engine that would allow for smoother vertical rendering; The Marathon engine dosen't actually render the BSP rooms as real 3-D polygons but instead simulates it while drawing. If it instead changed the rooms into real 3-D shapes when it loaded the map it would be able to correctly render the map at viewing agles greater then 60 degrees; something even Aleph One doesn't do. However, I am not sure if this would work with 5-D space or not(which would explain why Aleph One doesn't do this). The perfect time to test if this works with 5-D space would be while implementing the overhead map because 5-D space can be tested with only the overhead. I already know this works as a rendering technique because all other games with BSP tree maps render them as 3-D polygons.
October 3rd, 2006, 09:05
Cap'n 1time

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but as I have said the Marathon Source is a bit hard to read, not to mention that college eats up time.

But I now have something close to a schedule for the first part of the port.

I have decided to start with getting the overhead map to work correctly on the PSP because aside from the physics the map seems to be the most non-trivial part of the engine. I believe if I can read in the map file and display the overhead correctly, including the different line widths for different types of polygons and coloring non-secret platforms red, then rendering the map correctly in will be simple. The hard part will be transparent textures and 5-D space.

I also had an idea for a slight tweek to the rendering engine that would allow for smoother vertical rendering; The Marathon engine dosen't actually render the BSP rooms as real 3-D polygons but instead simulates it while drawing. If it instead changed the rooms into real 3-D shapes when it loaded the map it would be able to correctly render the map at viewing agles greater then 60 degrees; something even Aleph One doesn't do. However, I am not sure if this would work with 5-D space or not(which would explain why Aleph One doesn't do this). The perfect time to test if this works with 5-D space would be while implementing the overhead map because 5-D space can be tested with only the overhead. I already know this works as a rendering technique because all other games with BSP tree maps render them as 3-D polygons.

If and when you get your first bit of visual results, please post it in the submit news section. There will be a nice Coder tag with your name on it if and when that happens :)
November 7th, 2006, 01:05
Zukan

Hello, just checking in to see if there have been any recent updates on this project. I hope everything is going well with your port Inigo Montoya.
November 7th, 2006, 15:18
Inigo Montoya

I am still working on it...

Sorry, I don't have any updates yet. I'm very busy at school, but I should be able to finish the map code after finals.
December 6th, 2006, 23:19
Inigo Montoya

Finally...

Quote:

Originally Posted by wally

Inigo Montoya: Do you mind posting daily logs?

Finals are over! Now I can work on Marathon again. I will start posting logs as soon as I start working on it daily.
December 7th, 2006, 00:40
the_eternal_dark

Hell yeah! Good luck Inigo.
December 8th, 2006, 00:39
fabianvaz

thanx for all the work u putting on it man i hope u can finish this soon....:)
February 1st, 2007, 05:35
sirVimes

Non sequitor Is their any way to repair a bricked PSP?
February 5th, 2007, 13:44
SpooForBrains

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirVimes

Non sequitor Is their any way to repair a bricked PSP?

You're not going to get a sensible response in this thread Ask in the help thread and be as specific as you can about the details of the brick, and people will try to help you as best they can.
March 23rd, 2007, 22:26
silverstein101

inigo, please don't give up, i'm waiting lol
March 30th, 2007, 01:59
fenrir911

cmon please i wanna see this on the psp please please please.
April 11th, 2007, 02:28
hatebreeder

so is it safe to call this dead?
April 11th, 2007, 12:45
Wally

No.

That is all
April 22nd, 2007, 22:33
MrPeanut

This game has hype, I'm all over it!

I'll start analyzing the code for the SDL version of it. This isn't before I load marathon trilogy on my old mac and play for a bit :)
October 8th, 2007, 11:29
Passa

I'm assuming this is dead by now? :(

Would have been the best homebrew app on the PSP..
October 11th, 2007, 22:27
fenrir911

i agree to... man marathon would be awesome on the psp...
December 14th, 2007, 05:07
Wally

Hurray MrPeanut!

Lets hope you get somewhere!
December 14th, 2007, 06:07
ExcruciationX

Would that be wally bumping an old thread? No!

Marathon would be pwnage, and fun on the pisp (PSP, literal speech).
December 14th, 2007, 06:26
Wally

Yes im bumping an old thread, just to give this program a kick up the goat.
April 16th, 2008, 23:12
StyleFree

Okay I'm bumping up this old thread because I really want this to happen and Marathon needs to come back to the people who weren't even born around the time of Marathon. Tell me when you get it finished.
May 5th, 2008, 20:05
Inigo Montoya

I finally have a new computer, so as soon as final's are over I can port Marathon over. Now if only the source code were cleaner. Even the Aleph One code is spaghetti; how does anyone manage to add features? I'm adding a new step one to my master plan:

Clean up code, so that it is usable.

Edit: WTF is casino cash?
May 7th, 2008, 12:36
Wally

Oh some lame casino we have here now..

BTW... another dev is working on this, he has half of Aleph One compiling apparently :)
May 9th, 2008, 01:30
alentris

wow, can't wait
May 22nd, 2008, 03:15
Noobtaculus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

I finally have a new computer, so as soon as final's are over I can port Marathon over. Now if only the source code were cleaner. Even the Aleph One code is spaghetti; how does anyone manage to add features? I'm adding a new step one to my master plan:

Clean up code, so that it is usable.

Edit: WTF is casino cash?

So this is happening? w00t!
July 25th, 2008, 09:45
the_eternal_dark

Just reading through my subscriptions from when I was gone. HELL YEAHS!
September 23rd, 2008, 21:55
gunluva

Been almost two months. Dead?
September 25th, 2008, 09:14
Wally

Marathon is a hard port..

Wally
October 8th, 2008, 00:30
Tycho20

Quote:

Originally Posted by parabolee

It was made by Bungie and it stars (although confirmed but *unofficialy*) Master Chief!

It doesn't star Master Chief. It stars an unnamed cyborg mercenary. Furthermore the setting is about 100 years before Master Chief was born.
October 11th, 2008, 13:33
halo9449

Regardless, this will be full of win! I'm willing to wait patiently for something like this!... Provided it comes out within a year from now :D
December 13th, 2008, 05:10
Mk_BS

There's no need to wait a year :) I've just released the beta for my PSP port of Aleph One.
At the moment it is only working with Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity and it is 1.50 kernel too but i'll try to compile a slim compatible version as soon as i can and add support for the first game.

Prepackaged version of the game can be found here:
Marathon 2
Marathon Infinity

Readme file is included but it should all work out of the box (with a bit of luck :))

This one took me quite a lot of efforts, i hope it's worth it!
December 13th, 2008, 05:14
Noobtaculus

ohmy, greatest news in a while! thanks :D
December 13th, 2008, 13:34
PSPdemon

Mk_BS, i know you probably already tried this... and im not really a good coder....

but have you tried adding this to the makefile?

Quote:

BUILD_PRX = 1
PSP_FW_VERSION = 500

it should work :)

( i would make add it and try to compile it.... but my dev environment got wiped :( )

Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

edit: tried your builds on both my 1.5 psp and my 3.03 OE-C psp with 1.5 patch.... neither builds worked on either....

edit2: got it to work.... you had the file structure wrong.... the loader eboot should be the one with the % folder and the main data being without it.... swap the folder names and youre good to go :)

awesome releases....albit it locked up on me.

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