QuakeDS release 3

[Sigma83]

This is absolutely amazing! I dunno how u managed to make this work with such a small amount of ram available but major props on the job well done. IDSoftware should hire u . I'm running it on my Supercard DS One and so far no bugs. I didn't even realize you incorporated the touch screen till I read the gameplay instructions...double wow!. I plugged my ds audio out into surround system to appreciate the quality work on the sound as well, sounds fantastic.

This is one lucky ds community to have such quality coders working on these quality apps .

[simonjhall]

@RamZee, you say that holding down L makes the game not give you a RAM warning. What exactly is in the qdsopts.txt file?

[iso jussi]

Simon, Can you tell me if this works correctly on M3 CF?

I have heard that the DLDi file of M3 CF on DLDIwiki "fails read aligment test". Could I play this not even patching the file? Or would it work by patching it with eg. Gba Movie Player's DLDI file?

[simonjhall]

I have no idea about the CF but it works fine on the SD :-)
Does your card support auto-patching? If not, you must patch it with something which you know works. Does homebrew work for you on this card? It should hopefully just be fine!
Dunno if it will work with the gbamp dldi. However I did develop large chunks of the game with both the gbamp and m3 simply, so they're the best cards to have :-)

[mikeb]

Nice i been waiting but i think level 2 or level 3 has slow down during the end is this normal?BTW im using a r4ds and ez flash 3in1.

[simonjhall]

Are you using the exram build? Don't use it unless you need it. And yes, there's plenty of slowdown in the game!
One of the disadvantages of not being able to get designers to make levels that fit the hardware...

[mikeb]

what do you mean unless i need to?

[simonjhall]

Have you had a read of http://quake.drunkencoders.com/exram.html
It tells you all about the differences. Basically if you're just going to play regular Quake, use the normal build. That build has been finely tuned to play it as best as possible and the exram one is just for when you wanna play big mods and total conversions.
The RAM in your slot-2 card is very slow, and this is what's killing your framerate.

[iso jussi]

Simon, with the dldi file of m3 cf I have had problems (eg. lameboy doesn't work), but that's cause it's known to have problems (which you might already know) but the prerelease 2 worked on my card even though the file was patched to GBAMP.
I remember someone on this same forum, with the same card, M3 CF, had "freeing precaches" error but someone (might have been you) sent a fixed QuakeDS file on the thread, which was the file I used, the GBAMP-patched one.

It worked/works as good as it's supposed to, so I wonder if I can just patch it to GBAMP again to make it work.


I hope you won't misunderstand this question as it's not very clear.



After all, maybe I should just give it a try before coming here to ask this kind of things, but I'm pretty careful with my M3 after I broke my GBAMP caused by my own stupidity.

[mikeb]

oh ok thanks can u name some good mods (not links to them)