Battle for Wesnoth DC - SDL porter needed!

[Cap'n 1time]

if you wanted to decide whats its most comparable to, i would say it was more like final fantasy tactics... But at the same time not really at all like fft. Once again, its very unique.

[guymelef]

looks like crystal warriors for the game gear

[Christuserloeser]

Shining Force or Warsong (aka Der Langrisser) are good comparisons I guess

[quote author=GPF link=board=Dev;num=1087024756;start=0#7 date=06/14/04 at 00:47:47]also the SDL_net lib has not been ported to the dreamcast. I don't know much about this game is it multiplayer on the same machine or just across a network?[/quote]

Network, yes, but it should be possible to also play the game against a second player with two controllers on one Dreamcast as it is a round based strategy game - Do you remember the secret two player mode from Shining Force 2 (MegaDrive/Genesis)?
Just that you'd still have other enemies with this game, where in Shining Force 2 you'd only have the Shining Force itself and the Runefaust army.

@GPF:

I've posted your thoughts at the Dreamcast topic in the Battle for Wesnoth dev forum:

http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtop...?p=22887#22887


Chris

[Cap'n 1time]

I am kinda curiouse as to how the controls would look. Any ideas?

[Christuserloeser]

Dave the lead programmer has confirmed his interest in a DC port over at dcemulation.com:

http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=51757

Hi,

I'm the lead developer of Battle for Wesnoth.

We'd be interested in a Dreamcast port of Wesnoth, however Wesnoth uses rather modern C++ (heavy use of templates, exceptions, etc). I don't think it'd be feasible to convert it to conservative C++ or to C.

So, is it possible/easy to port a C++ program to the Dreamcast?

David

@1timeuser: Controls could be like in Master of Monsters, Shining Force or Warsong (Genesis/MegaDrive)

Chris

[wraggster]

maybe a slightly modified version for the Dreamcast is a possibility then

[Christuserloeser]

Would be great! This thing could be a commercial homebrew 4 DC and a really big hit too if it supports multiplayer (at least 2-4P on one DC)


Chris