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September 10th, 2006, 21:50
wraggster

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Nethack for Nintendo DS 10/09/2006

wosret posted a new version of his game for the Nintendo DS, heres whats new:

New features:

The MAIL bug that caused crashes and strange items to appear should now be fixed when compiling under Linux.
The tileset data has been moved to main RAM. This means no more limits on tile sizes, but you must be sure to set tile_width and tile_height correctly or the game will probably crash. Also, keep the tiles a reasonable size or you may run out of RAM for the game to use.
Some help files have now been included with the binary distribution. All the options on the help menu should work now.

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September 10th, 2006, 21:53
JKKDARK

sweet, I need to try this game :)
December 9th, 2006, 05:15
RenegadeXwarS

Is this work with Ds-Xtreme?
December 9th, 2006, 10:10
canvasch

so what's this thing do.. is it like a browser or something?
December 11th, 2006, 02:20
heydrude

i tried it on my xtreme and it didn't work.
i'm getting a passcard just to play this game.
hope it works with my gba flash card on my ds.
December 11th, 2006, 02:45
Junixx

Quote:

Originally Posted by canvasch

so what's this thing do.. is it like a browser or something?

It's an old ASCII game
December 11th, 2006, 14:23
canvasch

cool.. i'll try it out then.. i play a couple of muds (DBE and Duris) so this should be fun for me :D
March 15th, 2007, 17:57
sistersigh

Are the tiles and text supposed to be this tiny? This is awesome work, and I'd love to carry Nethack around with me, but the graphics are so small as to make the game unplayable for me. ASCII mode is almost usable, but is there any way to "zoom in," so to speak?
March 20th, 2007, 21:53
andyrob_24_7

Spercard

Yes, this looks cool. But on my Supercard, the tiles and text are all squished and unreadable.

So near so far!
March 21st, 2007, 12:12
Mr.Peanut

On the author's site there is an alternate tileset that is slightly larger, but it is an ascii tileset. Make sure if you have a ds-lite that you are not in sub-pixel font mode which will be illegible. The problem is that nethack and variants are based on a standard terminal size with a width of 80 characters. The closest the ds can get to this is 64 characters with a font width of 4 pixels. If you want another alternative, try Donnie Russell's GBA ports of hack and rogue. With just one screen of smaller size they are a lot more legible, at the expense of a touchpad keyboard, but I personally find touchpad keyboards a pain in the arse for gaming.
March 27th, 2007, 21:39
peffer

Hi

I'm using a r4ds but nethack does not work :(
April 2nd, 2007, 08:30
Mycroft
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Peanut

On the author's site there is an alternate tileset that is slightly larger, but it is an ascii tileset. Make sure if you have a ds-lite that you are not in sub-pixel font mode which will be illegible. The problem is that nethack and variants are based on a standard terminal size with a width of 80 characters. The closest the ds can get to this is 64 characters with a font width of 4 pixels. If you want another alternative, try Donnie Russell's GBA ports of hack and rogue. With just one screen of smaller size they are a lot more legible, at the expense of a touchpad keyboard, but I personally find touchpad keyboards a pain in the arse for gaming.

On my DS Lite I have:
- POWDER - Actively being developed, there is a DS version as well as the original GBA version (it is an original roguelike developed for the GBA, not a port), DLDI support, http://www.zincland.com/powder/, I recommend giving it a look
- DSCrawl - Port of Linley's Dungeon Crawl, DS support, not clear if it is actively being supported and I doubt it has DLDI compiled in, but it is well done and fun, http://www.nightmode.org/dscrawl/
- NetHack for the DS - Actively being supported, latest version is from March 17, 2007 with DLDI support. Unfortunately, I also find the text for NetHack for the DS is too small to be useful for me, alas :( http://stuartp.commixus.com/nhds/
- AGB_Rogue - The classic ported to the GBA, http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/Dow...GameBoyAdvance
- AGB_Hack - Another classic ported to the GBA, http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/Dow...GameBoyAdvance
May 8th, 2007, 16:53
Mr.Peanut

I have tried all the above and still find AGB_Rogue the most playable in terms of controls. This will change once I start using the button mapping function of NetHackDS. My only complaint with NetHackDS is the colour of the small fonts, which I would prefer to be a retro terminal green.

I simply can not stand playing DSCrawl because the control scheme is counterintuitive, especially for movement.
June 2nd, 2007, 02:36
DSbeatsPSP

doesn't work on mine either and it sure sounds cool
June 15th, 2007, 02:21
TServo

I can't get it to work in my DS either.

I'm using a DS Lite, with an M3 DS Simply card.

Tried patching the .nds file with either the R4TF.DLDI (which is supposed to be M3 DS compatible) or the M3SD.DLDI. Also just tried the .nds unpatched (generic).

Everything results in the "Can not read file system" error screen on launch (at least, I think that's what it says... the font is so small and blurry it's unreadable).

Has anyone gotten NetHackDS to work from an M3 DS Simply?

NetHack has always been one of my favs on other platforms. Sure would like to get it to work on the DS.
June 20th, 2007, 05:17
rtrxggg

what is this any way some kind of browser or something?
June 20th, 2007, 05:35
llxwarbirdxll

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtrxggg

what is this any way some kind of browser or something?

Is it that hard to skim through a couple of pages to find that out?
June 20th, 2007, 06:33
Sir_Voe

Quote:

Originally Posted by TServo

I can't get it to work in my DS either.

I'm using a DS Lite, with an M3 DS Simply card.

Tried patching the .nds file with either the R4TF.DLDI (which is supposed to be M3 DS compatible) or the M3SD.DLDI. Also just tried the .nds unpatched (generic).

Everything results in the "Can not read file system" error screen on launch (at least, I think that's what it says... the font is so small and blurry it's unreadable).

Has anyone gotten NetHackDS to work from an M3 DS Simply?

NetHack has always been one of my favs on other platforms. Sure would like to get it to work on the DS.

I downloaded the latest version from here..
http://stuartp.commixus.com/nhds/
Put the .nds file and the folder on my M3 Simply and DLDI patched it with the R4 patch. Working fine so far. BTW, good to see a fellow MST3k fan:D