New release
Fixed (thanks to Caydr for reporting alot of those) :
- Animated 2D objects were inverted
- Animated 2D objects had artifacts
- infinite turning when not using touchscreen (be sure to select ‘DS Pad only’)
- invisible robots are now see-through
- fixed loadgame menu not displaying all games (removed the savegame’s image)
- fixed end level sequence not using the proper texture for the planet’s surface.
- fixed end level sequence displaying cross hair.
- fixed ‘misaligned twin grate’ problem.
New stuff :
- New menu navigation scheme :
- A - accepts
- B - cancel
- Customized menus for DS (removed joystick options, etc.)
- New in-game menu
- Allows access to options menu, load/save game and abort game
- Enter using Start, freeing Select to be used
- Can now use touchscreen keyboard to name savegames (oops)
- Fully customizable HUD including user defined softkeys (see readme.txt)
- Removed the multiplayer submenu (for now…)
- Substantial speed increase in more visually complex levels.
Have fun!
I’ve also added a donation page for those interested. All donations will be used to improve the game (ie. to add multiplayer, I need a second DS and card).
Edit : Yes, I’ve removed the minimap to further increase the framerate. However, it is easily reactived by adding a section similar to this in you .csk file :
[automap]
x=50
y=240
w=150
h=100
type=automap
May 6th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Hello, Wanted to say thanks for the the awesome DS port. This runs faster on the ds than it did on my computer.
Also wanted to say, I own a EZV flashcart, the type that had the pallete problem before. The new version is playable but when I try to load a save game I get a solid red screen on the top and a white screen on the bottom. Any clue? Thanks again, seriously considering a donation.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
sorry to double post but I get a red screen on the bottom and white on top, the reverse what I said previously.
May 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
You are the KING! Sending you some beer money as promised!!!!
May 6th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
$200, I hope that can buy you the DS and card! More to come when multiplayer works, especially if you can make it work over TCP/IP, a matchmaking system, etc, but even plain old ad-hoc would be amazing.
May 6th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Hey, I had an idea for you about how to implement the afterburner if you ever get Descent 2 running on here… it doesn’t seem like such a leap. Anyways, push the “forward” button, then the “backward” button at the same time. Because why would you ever use em both at once?
I’m posting your site everywhere I know.
May 6th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
-Cloaked enemies are still mostly visible
-”select” can now be used as a key while setting up the controls, but it doesn’t actually work ingame
-automap’s gone. Possibly intentional though, after reading the readme
-after exiting level 9, I hit start and a briefing came up for a brief instant and then I got the white/red screen crash
May 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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May 7th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
-Seems briefings (where new robots are shown) crash the game randomly as they start
-Either save or load is borked somehow. I can’t load my savegames, I just get red/white screen.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Do I need to patch the DLDI on those?
If I don’t patch, I get two black screens
If I do patch and replace the normal DLDI by my r4’s, I get error:cannot open file descent.tex or descent.txb
Suggestions?
May 7th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
sorry, found the reason. http://blog.dev-scene.com/kayvenm/page/2/
Need:
descent.pig
descent.hog
They’re on the original game, right?
(AFK for a day or two..
digging through piles of floppies)
May 8th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Man, this homebrew just keeps getting better. Many thanks for this new addition!
May 9th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Anyone tested this with the DLOTW expansion? (Level of the worlds)
Those were fanmade levels, I think..
Tested “Arena”. working.
Found a bug in the display of “new game”. normally, there’s only one option.
If you put in other .hog files, it lists all of them. But the display just messes up when you move from mission to mission. (not writing the names at the right spot)
No major glitch so far in the levels themselves. One black/red screen followed by a shut down. Seems to happen when crashing in the wall too much. (I’m a bad pilot!)
May 10th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
-2D object (for instance, a homing missile pickup) collision detection seems to be sub-par compared with PC-based Descent, from what I can remember. Various pickups get half-stuck behind a wall. You can still get them, but the clipping doesn’t look so good.
-There’s a “quit” option in the main menu! There’s probably some other stuff there that can be removed, I forget specifics
-There is no way to disable weapon autoselecting. This was a Descent 2-only feature, I think… not found in Descent 1. But it’s probably not difficult to implement. The problem is just that you will frequently do things like pick up a mega missile or something, go into battle, then kill yourself thinking you still have homing missiles selected. This doesn’t apply to the “No energy = auto select Vulcan cannon”, since that’s always helpful. A “disable weapon autoselect” checkbox is all that’s needed.