Especially this week a lot of progress has indeed been made, like for example what I was saying in the wii thread...we now have multiple sound effects!!!
The most important thing for the installer was that it was stable enough to run on the 3DS and just basically do it's job. I was thinking of looking in a few specific places but right next to it in the same directory is not a bad place to start. Good idea!
There is indeed not much difference to the GC/Wii version of the game, I am glad you say it's just as smooth even though it has the background music playing on the 3DS. And until I configured it to play at a really low quality it felt like the game was in slow motion. I will make sure to fix the issues you found with the installer for the next release.
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I have done a little research on the issue you mentioned about not working on soundhax and I think the 3dsx executable format relies on services provided by Rosalina. From what I could tell all the different mods that are currently listed on the well known tutorial website (was not sure if I could link to it here) they all lead to various steps to install Luma3DS. And those guides also reminded me that part of the Finalizing Setup page makes you run the DSP1 app that creates a dspfirm.cdc, but I expect that you know this already and have that file in place. Just making sure
...but this indeed shows the issue perfectly. I did also experiment with scaling the interface which can be seen by the 32.000 number at the bottom screen. As we discussed before it looks bad with lots of issues and artifacts but it does help seeing where you go. There are different ways I have in mind for a zooming function like this:
Fan of your work, man! (or woman).It's been a while since the last release...almost two years! While I did work on the game every now and then there was not enough to release a new version...at least that's what I was thinking back then. I have been rewriting a LOT of things and while still not complete, it's working "ok" enough. It's missing a few things since the last version....but I am going to release an ALPHA version of it anyway! Just for the sake of showing progress.
It was actually @niuus that asked me last week about the project in the Wii thread. I told him that among other things I had an almost complete version for the PlayStation 2...but did not release it. He encouraged me to add USB support and no matter what state it was in he would test it! In about two days I added the USB drive support and posted an ALPHA version with a lot of warnings here in the PlayStation 2 thread.
While he was having fun with the current glitches in the game engine....flying though walls etc...I tried fixing a few things and adding a couple new features. While none of it actually finished or good yet...yesterday I posted another update for the PS2. Also with a little side note asking if I should also release this version for the other platforms, of which the 3DS is one of course. The others are Wii and GameCube. I was unsure if I should be doing that but @KleinesSinchen said I should do it! But in a kind of fun way here.
So a special thanks to both @niuus .and @KleinesSinchen for their feedback and getting me back into the project again.
PLEASE BE AWARE THIS IS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT DEMO!
- If you do not have a previous v0.3 install please do that first! see here
- little note! Without the original ZIP file...you require the 12MB setup.exe in the root of your SD card now.
- Hopefully, the instructions helped to install the game files. I know it's not that easy anymore. I am sorry about that.
This is still NOT a complete game! But there are a few minor improvements:
- Like I have said above, and in the spoiler block, this version is an ALPHA version. Things are missing or broken since v0.3!!
- If the installation for v0.3 worked for you then just copy the 3dsx attached to this post onto your SD card. It should find the game files and work fine.
THANK YOU
- One way platforms are working perfectly!
- Batteries can be collected without counting them multiple times!
- Except super batteries! Sometimes they don't get counted!!
- There was a surprise added to v0.3.4 on the PS2....unfortunately it's not working on the 3DS!!
If the above did not scare you away...then please enjoy the release of preview v0.3.4 for the 3DS!
Thank you for your feedback, it's really valuable to find hidden mistakes I overlooked. It's no problem it took a while this time..no worries.
The 3DS version I think had sound from the beginning already. At least in v0.3 it was there and at that time the first and only one that actually had the background music playing. The recently added Wii U and unreleased Switch ports also have music and sound effects.
I have rewritten large parts and that broke drawing the objects as you have noticed that have multiple sprites. Also the drawing priority was wrong which is why BatteryMan walks behind the battery holders.
That's why this was an ALPHA version, things are broken...hahaha
. But thank you for pointing them out. I have already fixed them while working on the Wii U version but not sure if the uploaded one had that fix. ....which is no excuse off course and I'll make a note to fix that right away! Hahah, that would be so useful on whatever kind of mobile or portable device these days!!
Thank you so much for testing the 3DS alpha release. Hopefully the next version will be a lot better again
Not quite from the beginning -- I mixed something up. On my damaged test O3DSXL is an even older version without any sound at all. Now I remember that the predecessor of the current release actually had sound (and is on my O2DS). Got confused. Too many consoles... The missing sound on the PS2 version made me forget this. Aging is my Nemesis. My brain only gets worse.The 3DS version I think had sound from the beginning already. At least in v0.3 it was there and at that time the first and only one that actually had the background music playing. The recently added Wii U and unreleased Switch ports also have music and sound effects.
Sounds good. I'm impressed how fluid it looks on 3DS.I have rewritten large parts and that broke drawing the objects as you have noticed that have multiple sprites. Also the drawing priority was wrong which is why BatteryMan walks behind the battery holders.
No big deal. Just cosmetic.The game and installer share about 95% of the code compiling structure I setup...and I forgot that the name shown in HBL is a compiler option!
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