QUAKE2DS prerelease 1

**anthonyharris** · February 12th, 2008, 22:06

This is amazing. I have g6 slot 2 card, it has 32 megs of mem. runs on slowest, but even that is pretty fast, v.playable. well done

**Mourningstar** · February 12th, 2008, 22:13

It doesnt work that well on my G6.

A lot of lag/slowdown and pop-in textures...

Oh, and I can only get it working on the "Slowest" setting.

**neilgalloway** · February 13th, 2008, 03:24

Thanks for the new NDS file Simon, but it goes through the same steps and then ends up at a black screen. In the top left hand corner of the top screen there is a blinking white block cursor.

If I press a few buttons I can get the keyboard to pop up, then it just shows grey blocks on the side of the screen. I ended up getting out my camera and trying to capture some screen shots on rapid fire.

Here is the final screenshot I captured before it went to the black screen.

Here is the screen shot of the screen afterwards.
I notice it says "basedir is write protected". Does this matter. I can't seem to change the folder properties. I will try to make it non-readonly but it reverts back when I look at it.

**chanmasta** · February 13th, 2008, 18:55

Hey I need help. I downloaded Quake II DS and done the baseq2 and all the pak files but can't find the config file. What is it called? It won't let me download it either. Plus I can't find the Quake2.nds file.

**simonjhall** · February 13th, 2008, 19:54

@neil, what happens if you run the build from the original zip file - if you get the guru meditation, a) what's the message at the top b) what's the $pc, c) what's the $lr, d) what are $r1, 2, &3?

@chanmasta, visit my web page (in the q2 downloads section). The config file I use is in there.
in fact (off the top of my head) the url is:
http://quake.drunkencoders.com/q2/downloads/config.cfg

**SweetFA** · February 13th, 2008, 21:18

Works great on my CycloDS evo with the 3-in-1 on slow speed.

**tirges** · February 13th, 2008, 23:40

Hm, for my M3DS-Real with Rumble-RAM-pak it reads:

top screen, just 1 character:
]

bottom screen:
X (a flashing X/+) ata at ARM7: 02697400
...sound enabled
==== InitGame ====
----- Server Initialization ----

spawning entities
0 entities inhibited
0 teams with 0 entities
--------------------------------

====== Quake2 Initialized ======

0.0.0.0:0: client_connect

_____________________________

Installation
Map: demo2...

ds_abort()

Not very helpful I reckon but hey ;-)

What kind of info would you need to be able to support this RAM pak?
Or could you only add it if you physically had one?

cheers

**neilgalloway** · February 14th, 2008, 01:41

Hmmmm, now that I have been messing around with it, I have different symptoms. Simon, I tried the original Quake2.nds file and it stalls on the load screen. Here is the message when it starts to turn bad..

about do die:
Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
DS video shutting down
...done
Sys_Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
link register is 0202a398

Here is a screenshot since I'm in photo mood.

**wiseguy109** · February 14th, 2008, 02:31

Any chance of getting rumble support in this or Quake 1? Also is there any way to configure it so that you jump by tapping the touch screen? also great job on this I never thought it would be possible to get Quake 2 running on the DS.

**neilgalloway** · February 14th, 2008, 05:58

Okay, I wiped my original install and went from scratch with the original instructions and the original quake2.nds file.

The values you asked for Simon are:
- message at the top: Guru Meditation Error! data abort!
- the $pc: 02011CD0
- the $lr: 02079308
- the $r1: 00000000
- the $r2: 0000005D
- the $r3: 00000000

Here is my screenshot again (the top screen is completely white BTW):