Gaming Elit or Freespace type-of-game

[Slipurson]

As the Title say, are there are Elite/Freespace type of games for the DS, where you fight, fly, trade etc etc for the DS (or maybe the GBA) ?

Did a search on the forum and didnt really find anything about this, but there must be someone else that would enjoy a game like this

 

[FAST6191]

GBA had elite ported (same guy now does bungaloo on the DS):
http://www.geocities.com/quirky_2k1/index.html

Also can I suggest the PC version of Frontier: First encounters it is the closest thing I have found to a modern Elite (X3 is not worth my contempt as far as I am concerned)
A version for newer PCs by Nic (one of the main people behind some of the xvid stuff):
http://nic.dnsalias.com/FFE.html


Also on the GBA is sea trader: rise of taipan which you might also want to have a go at.

DS wise there was a startrek game but it was not brilliant otherwise you are out of luck.

 

[Rayder]

GBA also had a Wing Commander game. That's pretty close to Freespace in terms of gameplay.

For DS......about the closest you can get to a Freespace-like game at this point:

Starfox
Time Ace
Jet Impulse (J)
DScent (homebrew) You know, as in Descent Freespace?

As for a game like Elite on DS......I can't think of any.....maybe a homebrew somewhere.....

 

[Slipurson]

Thanks for the nice replies, gotta have me a look at these games, actually havnt tried any of them before

Thanx again

 

[TrolleyDave]

This is great! Elite is one of my all time favourite games, now I can play it again. Which is the better port, the AGB or TNK version?

Also, it says that you need to add a header to it, can someone explain the easiest way to do it? It says to use the software from your flashcard but I use a 3-in-1 so that option's not available to me.

 

[FAST6191]

GBATA
http://www.gbadat.altervista.org/tools.htm
or the FAT toolkit:
http://www.gameboy-advance.net/rom_tools/f...nce_toolkit.htm
When it comes to headers.


As for version TNK is probably my favourite but that is just history talking

 

[Bri]

I haven't tried it myself, but apparently you can run the Commodore-64 version of Elite under the Frodo C-64 emulator.

Frodo is available here: http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/Frodoc64.shtml
You can get the Elite ROM here: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/c64/

-Bri

 

[TrolleyDave]

Don't hand out rom links on GBATemp, it's not that kind of forum. The C64 version hasn't been made PD as far as I know.

 

[Bri]

This one is posted by the original creator of C-64 Elite, so I assumed it was PD. I apologize if it's not.

-Bri

 

[TrolleyDave]

GBATA
http://www.gbadat.altervista.org/tools.htm
or the FAT toolkit:
http://www.gameboy-advance.net/rom_tools/f...nce_toolkit.htm
When it comes to headers.


As for version TNK is probably my favourite but that is just history talking

Cheers mate. The TNK version is the one that I was leaning toward as well but I thought I'd ask just in case the AGB was better!

 

[TrolleyDave]

This one is posted by the original author of C-64 Elite, so I assumed it was PD. I apologize if it's not.

-Bri

I just had a look and you're right, sorry about that.

 

[Bri]

Not a problem. Any way to restore the post?

Anyway...the Commodore 64 version of Elite can apparently be run on the NDS using the Frodo C-64 emulator. Do a search and you'll find information about it.

-Bri

 

[FAST6191]

If you need more info on the case of Elite copyright one of the authors (Ian Bell) has some stuff on his site: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/
Specifically http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/c2031200.htm although some of the legal stuff is covered in more depth on the first link.

 

[bluebright]

I like this topic. I might add to that PC list, Freelancer is an MMO space sim thats free and awesome.

EDIT: I mean free as in you don't have to pay monthly, its made by microsoft.

 

[FAST6191]

Can not believe I missed this one. Quirky has ported Elite to the DS, no release as far as I can tell but it does not seem too far off.
http://quirkygba.blogspot.com/

 

[mortys]

Freelancer is NOT a MMO, it's a single player game.
MS launch a dogfight online game called Allegiance.

 

[ratx]

Quirky has released a version of Elite AGB for the ds here: http://code.google.com/p/ds-elite/