LoneWolf DS - Fire On The Water v1.0 Released

[wraggster]

news via tehsken

Michoko has released a very anticipated follow up to his original remake of the Lone Wolf adventure book. These books contain a battle system that were originally played using dice and paper - much like old school D&D, but not as complex. One can make their way through this book and the outcome and path would be different depending on the choices and battles you fight/make.

This new book is the second of the LoneWolf series and if you liked the original LoneWolfDS - Flight from the Dark you'll enjoy this one. These homebrew are some of the best to hit the Nintendo DS and should not be overlooked.


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2008/07/12 : v1.0
- Fixed merchants items in section #181
- Added a note in the equipment section explaining you can't own more than 50 crowns at once
- Fixed a bug which allowed to pick 3 items as your starting equipment instead of 2
- Fixed a bug in section #91 where you could pick an infinite number of meals
- If you had lost your backpack from previous book, it is now again available (your King is a generous
man)
- If you load a saved game from book I, your endurance is now fully restored.
- Now you get the correct amount of gold when starting from a previous save.
- Fixed section #12 and the handling of the Sixth Sense bonus, which was incorrect.
- Added a "loading" message at launch, some people thought the game had crashed while it was just initializing.

Download Here --> http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/index.php

[DSmanic!]

wtf? I get 'Loading please wait' and it stays on it. I got a Evo.

[Michoko]

DSmanic,

I'm developping LoneWolfDS on a Cyclo DS Evolution, so I'm sure it works on it :P

What kind of SD card are you using?

Thanks
Michoko

Edit: do you also use a SLOT 2 linker in addition to the CycloDS ?

[Markzilla]

Hey Michoko, did you see my notes in the GBADev topic?

[kennyk]

Excellent job, it plays perfectly on my M3 Real. Thanks for all the hard work.

[DSmanic!]

DSmanic,

I'm developping LoneWolfDS on a Cyclo DS Evolution, so I'm sure it works on it :P

What kind of SD card are you using?

Thanks
Michoko

Edit: do you also use a SLOT 2 linker in addition to the CycloDS ?

I got a EZ Flash 5 and a SanDisk 8G SD,
Incidently, Ideas wont play it either.
Funny, I had no problems with Flight from the dark.

[Michoko]

I got a EZ Flash 5 and a SanDisk 8G SD,
Incidently, Ideas wont play it either.
Funny, I had no problems with Flight from the dark.

DSmanic, can you please try to launch it without the SLOT 2 expansion inserted then? It may be related to a bug in the latest EFSlib version. If if works, I'll try to release a fixed version soon.


@MarkZilla: thank you for your report, I'll have a look at it!

Michoko

[DSmanic!]

DSmanic, can you please try to launch it without the SLOT 2 expansion inserted then? It may be related to a bug in the latest EFSlib version. If if works, I'll try to release a fixed version soon.


@MarkZilla: thank you for your report, I'll have a look at it!

Michoko

Yep, took the EZ Flash out and it worked! Looking forward to that fix!

Also have you considered doing any other fantasy role player books like Deathtrap Dungeon? The Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series were my all time favourites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathtrap_Dungeon

[Michoko]

Ok thanks for the report!

About Deathtrap Dungeon, I'm afraid it's the same problem as with other books, all this material is copyrighted... Only the LW books are currently available for free on the web.

[TechRat]

Ok thanks for the report!

About Deathtrap Dungeon, I'm afraid it's the same problem as with other books, all this material is copyrighted... Only the LW books are currently available for free on the web.

I know there are some fan-created Fighting Fantasy books out there. This site has some:

http://www.ffproject.com/

Perhaps you could talk to those authors about adapting their stories. Of course, I'm sure you're very busy (there are plenty of Lone Wolf books left if you're planning to adapt more), which leads to my next question. Have you given any thought to creating an editor of some kind so that users can adapt their own stories?

Edit: Speaking of Fighting Fantasy, I've noticed that the books are being republished and sold today. There are even new ones coming out! But.....they won't sell them to US residents!

Edit of the Edit: I just remembered that Home of the Underdogs has a gamebook page too.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/gamebook.php
There are a few free ones out there, and some of the others may be public domain now. I'm not trying to pressure you or anything. I just want to offer some ideas. After all, even if you stopped making these after Fire on the Water, we'd still be left with two of the best DS games available, homebrew OR commercial!