New NetHack release for the PSP NetHackPSP-1.0c.zip

**IveGotThePawa** · May 1st, 2006, 17:44

Originally Posted by megalodon

OK, first you re-create this FINE edition of Nethack, and then you DARE improving it even further in a matter of days, while taking suggestions?! What kind of coder are you?! You're supposed to be a lazy, apathetic bastar! Shame on you! :P

I'm so sorry... if only those big game comapnies could read this. They'd be sorry for not letting me in a couple of years ago. lol

Originally Posted by megalodon

I just sat at the doctor's office yesterday, and <FWOOSH!>, an hour just flew by me as my valkyrie went to level 8 and died a painful, painful death. And afterwards my wizard panicked and accidently zapped himself to death at level 5, while he was under attack by fierce rabid dogs.

Oh, man, I can't thank you enough!

You're my hero!

You are very welcomed. I did the same thing while awaiting to see the doctor. Unfortunatly, I totally suck when i'm not a Valkyrie and I always die painfull deaths in the mines. I would really like to be a successfull Ranger or Wizard, but it looks pretty damn hard.

But now, I have restarted an new Valkyrie and i'm up at level 13... Finished the mines (got my blessed luckstone), finished Sokoban (got my blessed bag of holding) and I was lucky enough to find a co-aligned altar in the mine's town so now I have a blessed rustproff Mjolnir to strike lightning uppon the wicked... Mouahahaha... Yendor, here I come.

(never got this far yet).

Pawa

**gnazzah** · May 1st, 2006, 17:54

I just died in the mines as a Valkyrie myself. Wearing a cursed ring of polymorph I did not have much chance. At the point of death I was weak from starving, blind, hallucinating and deadly sick. And currently turned into a steam vortex of all things.

**gnazzah** · May 1st, 2006, 18:23

Module attribs 00001000 suggest a kernel-mode app

I get this message when starting a game. Is that related to the fact that I cannot save? What does a savefile look like? Can I use one from an other port, like the one I've got in win?

**Genki** · May 1st, 2006, 20:00

Pawa

Yeah its coming pretty good already. I have a working keyboard emulation that comes up automatically whenever you have to type something. I just need to ajust it a bit and make it so you can also type any extended commands you like, even tho most of them are now mapped in the contextual menu.
Pawa

What I was thinking Is exactly that, when text is required, bring the keybaord up. BUt I was also think about having a button to bring the keyboard up, thatway you could just use commands from the keyboard?

Pawa

The only problem I have now for the mouse emulation, is to find a button that can be used the the left click. In the mean time, I've added the '_' command which lets you travel wherever you want real fast.
Pawa

Is it the smart move, where if something "interesting" is found you stop, or is it direct move?

Pawa

I think its already in there. I didn't test it myself, but VMU did. You can go check it out at http://virtuamunstaz.de/nh/
Pawa

I couldn't find anything about tilesets there...maybe I'm looking wrong?

Pawa

I'm not sure I understand this... I can reenable the in-game options, but not all of them will be available. I don't think I will work on a text editor / file manager as there is already some pretty good ones out there.
Pawa

What I'm talking about is a way to edit the nethack.rc file and the options files before the nethack game starts, via the psp. It 's really annoying to have to hook it up to the computer to change it.

Pawa

Do you have something in mind? Send me a screenshot or a sketch...
Pawa

If you've ever seen the Vulture's eye or claw intro's, maybe something like that?

Pawa

Pawa

What's wrong with SLASH 'EM

Pawa

I'd like to implement this someday, for the PSP. Go check it out :

http://www.darkarts.co.za/projects/noegnud/screenshots/
Pawa

Drools....Um..I couldn't find a windows download for that anywhere, you knwo where I could get one?

Yeah, I'm glad to help, Pawa, I know hat it's like to be a coder trying to get suuggestions, but only getting random useless feedback. haha

I'm off to go test the new beta.

**steve-b** · May 1st, 2006, 20:08

ok..i had edited the rc file to include potions, wands, scrolls, spellbooks in auto pickup, as I do in the windows version..the @ key turns autopick on and off, cause you obviously dont wanna wander round a shop and pick all these things up

One other thing, when engraving, can you get upper case letters? I believe the whole 'Elbereth' thing is case sensitive

**IveGotThePawa** · May 1st, 2006, 20:19

Originally Posted by gnazzah

I just died in the mines as a Valkyrie myself. Wearing a cursed ring of polymorph I did not have much chance. At the point of death I was weak from starving, blind, hallucinating and deadly sick. And currently turned into a steam vortex of all things.

LOL !

Talk about a big piece of bad luck!

I just ate a "quantum mechanic" monster... that thing slowed me down so much, I just can't get away from anything now... Good for me I have a -15 AC.

Pawa

**IveGotThePawa** · May 1st, 2006, 20:34

Originally Posted by gnazzah

Module attribs 00001000 suggest a kernel-mode app

I get this message when starting a game. Is that related to the fact that I cannot save? What does a savefile look like? Can I use one from an other port, like the one I've got in win?

Saved game are in a separate directory called save under the NetHackPSP dir. The filename of the saved game is usually a 0 followed by the name of your character. So if your character is Player1, you should have a saved filed like that

PSP\GAME\NetHackPSP\save\0Player1

if you don't have a SAVE folder under NetHackPSP, that probably the reason why it is not working. Just create one and try it again. I have tried it with the GTA eLoader and it works. I can save and reload.

Hope this helps.

Pawa

**IveGotThePawa** · May 1st, 2006, 20:46

Originally Posted by steve-b

ok..i had edited the rc file to include potions, wands, scrolls, spellbooks in auto pickup, as I do in the windows version..the @ key turns autopick on and off, cause you obviously dont wanna wander round a shop and pick all these things up

Sure, the version I am working on have the new feature of editing some of the Options available in-game in NetHack. Do you feel that this should be in the context menu? Are you doing this quite often, turning on and off the autopickup?

Originally Posted by steve-b

One other thing, when engraving, can you get upper case letters? I believe the whole 'Elbereth' thing is case sensitive

Well no uppercase for the BETA1 I have posted here in page 3 of this thread, but there is now in my current version

.

I need to add some more feature and find a way to correct those diagonal movements before releasing a new version. I hope it will not take too long. If it does, I'll release another BETA here before that.

Pawa

**steve-b** · May 1st, 2006, 20:54

an options screen would be more than adequate for the amount of times I buy stuff. I usually just have my pet steal it all

It is the only option I really turn on or off during play though.

As far as the spell casting/arrow shooting direction, could you have an on screen menu for that? I guess you would want to keep menus to a minimum for smoothness of gameplay though

I also think the mouse pointer should be hidden and the analog used for scrolling. The d-pad is good enough for moving the cursor for selecting where to move to or what object to stat on screen

**IveGotThePawa** · May 1st, 2006, 21:02