Quake2 DS Screenshots and News

[Mr_Biggs]

sorry bud, but im in america and underage. how about a case of A&W?

[WermerSkoch]

Sort of an unrelated question, but figured I'd ask since everyone's talking about RAM expansions... Simon, you mentioned that the 'full' supercard has 32 mb RAM expansion... Does anyone know if this ram expansion is compatible with the opera browser (or do you have to have the official opera expansion...?)? I'm here in the states so I don't have it available to me, but I think it's been released in EU, right? Anyone tried this?

[souLLy]

Yo man, I live in London! Y'know there's gonna be a launch party for Q1, right? Or at least a pub trip ;-)
Now if I could get a free beer from every person who downloaded pre1...

Sounds like a plan to me, I'll definitely try to be there.
Perhaps we have a plan right there, ds beer bounty's for finishing projects... I forsee Web Browsers, Flash Players, and Playstation Emulators in the very near future

[DanTheManMS]

WermerSkoch, the Opera browser will not recognize the RAM of the Supercard/M3, so you need to get the official RAM pack. I'm not really sure where you would find JUST the slot-1 cartridge for sale, but whatever.

There's a way to make it recognize the Supercard/M3 RAM, but it requires the rom and is therefore beyond the scope of this forum.

[DancinWookie]

ps1 emulation isnt happening. this guy isnt emulated these games, he's porting them. much different than emulation.

great work tho.

There is always some emulation in every port. Nothing is perfect... I just think its possible to render and run a playstation game with not as much problems. I'm dying to play my old system again. I have the first original psx so trust my ambition. These guys got the PSX to run a on pda, http://www.fpsece.net/download.htm, why not use it to get a PSX to run on a DS, especially with the new graphics engine they are releasing soon. Ram is also not used up as much on the emulator giving it an even larger bonus. The PDA emulator is written in arm code so even more easier to attempt translating it towards a nintendo ds. I'm just saying it's possible nothing more, and Quake 2 just proves it more.

[Junixx]

Ever looked up the specs for the main PDA though? the RAM was 64 MB, all you need to know is that and you can see why its not possible on DS

[Tripsk8er333]

Sorry to bring up the "Stupid Question" again , but I never got a defenitive Answer for my question. Is it possible, in a SLOT-1 Device "M3 DS SImply" , to set a side an amout of memory to allow the game to use this as RAM of some sorts? And is it even possible to code a program to do this?

[DanTheManMS]

The M3 Simply does not have any RAM that can be used. Only slot-2 devices have this.

Technically, it might be possible to use a slot-1 device as a page file, like how a chunk of your computer's hard drive acts like RAM, but this would be very difficult due to the DS's lack of a Memory Management Unit, and it would be ill-advised in the first place since it would create way too many reads and writes to the card. It wouldn't be fast enough to be useful anyway.

[Tripsk8er333]

Does anyone know where I can Get the RAM Expansion Card I need for this ?
And will it work with the M3 DS Simply?
Also How much is it.
WIll any other game projects in the future use this?

Thanks.

[souLLy]

you need a slot 2 card, so something like the M3 lite is what you want. You can buy them at all the flashcard resellers around.