FRONTIER 1337 - A port of FRONTIER Elite II for PSP

[brainbeat]

hi been playing your port v0.1c, can get it to work sweet on eloader, after figuring out hoiw to get to diffrent galaxys (been a while) i docked and the officer said tailight were illegal press p to pander or any key to give him the finger it became totally unpassable from that screen (could you possibly add a keyboard to the game so in could give him the finger) excellent port by the way it runs better that on my amiga 500+. that allways crashed.

[Atien]

Hi everybody, I've just finished my exams once and for all.

Originally Posted by steven1980cad
Will there be any updates to make the game faster?

Yes. I now have the time to try improving the game speed. I already enabled the ogg musics. But as the game is still slow, the music crackles a bit...
The only way to get a huge speed increase would be to write a a68k->MIPS asm converter. The original GLfrontier code uses a a68k->i386 asm or a68k->C file (the one I used for the PSP port). But generating a C file from a68k makes a huge file (8Mo of code that isn't optimized at all). But writing an as68k converter to MIPS ASM is too difficult for me as I know almost nothing in ASM...
So I'm playing a little more with the code and I will release it soon so anyone can take a look at it (and maybe improve it too ).

brainbeat, thanks for your cheers. You only have to press the 'select' button to get rid of the police.

[gbgunner]

This port is great, but can you change the fire button to something a bit more easier to use???

[gbgunner]

Any chance of some instructions, as me for one hasnt played this game for about 20 odd yrs..lol

[steven1980cad]

Hi atien,
Glad to see your still working on the port,

Is it possible to get the save game, and load game working as well :-)
This could be a pain because of the keyboard?

just some results from my psp,
im using a FW2.5 with the Bock eloader i noticed i had to convert the 1.5 eboot to 1.0 eboot with psp brew to get it working. Works fine now.

[firestorm]

Very Nice port... i always been a big fan of the Elite/Frontier Series... Its great to now have a portable version


Im gonna ask what everyone else is secretly thinking...
any chance of an FFE port? Although this would take alot more work to get to a usable framerate... heh... maybe ill have a crack at it in a few years

[D0N]

Great work Atien! Keep up the great work!

[bwlfp]

Wow wow wow
Braben's labour of love on a portable, I can hardly believe it. Fantastic, Sony should be thanking people like you Atien . Manual available on
http://www.mdibb.net/lotf/index.shtml
and (better)
http://www.hooplah.com/encounters/files.htm
Recently downgraded from 2.6 to 1.5 to play this game. Useful tutorial:
http://jfturner.free.fr/pages/tutorial.html

[Atien]

Thanks
I would be so happy to play frontier at fullspeed, but I'm not at ease with all this assembly things, so I must pass the torch...
After some cleanup, I released the sourcecode of the game so anyone who have the time and the skills to speed it up can take a look at it.
If anyone is interested, please tell me!

[JazzMX5]

Very Nice port... i always been a big fan of the Elite/Frontier Series... Its great to now have a portable version

Im gonna ask what everyone else is secretly thinking...
any chance of an FFE port? Although this would take alot more work to get to a usable framerate... heh... maybe ill have a crack at it in a few years

Blimey. If I had FFE on my PSP, at a decent framerate, I don't think I'd need any more games for at least a couple of years! Well, if it had all the JJFFE fixes, let's be brutally honest here.

Still, Atien, you rock for even attempting something as ambitious as this.

I guess nothing ever came of the source release, though... it's at times like this I wish I could code anything past 10 PRINT "Bollocks"; 20 GOTO 10.

PSP versions of FFE and MidWinter II: Flames of Freedom... yeah, I think my life would be more or less complete at that point! :thumbup: