Quake2DS Prerelease 1

[stormwolf18]

yes, memory is broken at some point (0x9f0330e).

ill try with the retail version, hold on

Edit : Same result with the full version, damn.

 

[teonintyfive]

Sys_Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
G6 Flash, tried Slowest and Slow, gonna try Slower

edit: same thing.
I'm booting through DSChannel, I'll try through the DS-X menu

edit2: ARGHHH, I WANT TO PLAY IT, still not workin'

 

[ocarson]

For those of you fantasizing about a half life ds port, realize that the half life engine has never had its source released. Quake 2 is only possible because id are nice enough to GPL some of their old code.

Yes I know the half life engine was based on the quake 2 engine, its still not happening.

 

[teonintyfive]

Yes I know the half life engine was based on the quake 2 engine, its still not happening.

Wrong. The Half-Life Engine, known as GoldSrc, is a heavily modified version of the Quake 1 engine.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Yes I know the half life engine was based on the quake 2 engine, its still not happening.

Wrong. The Half-Life Engine, known as GoldSrc, is a heavily modified version of the Quake 1 engine.

...using parts of the Quake 2 engine.

 

[simonjhall]

@people with G6 problems,
as I said I've never ever tried it with the G6, so hopefully y'all can help me out

When the game starts (just go with auto detect and the slowest speed) how much memory gets detected? Is it 32 megs? Does the number count up to 32 when it's detecting the memory?

From the error address you've given I wouldn't worry too much about it. Quake never uses that much memory, so that part of the memory will never be used.
I'll bet money the problems you're getting are dldi/fat related. Is there an alternative driver you can use? Can you turn off auto patching on your card and try a different driver? Later firmware?
In the event of you still not being able to work, do you have a slot-1 card you can put the data on?

 

[stormwolf18]

yes it goes up to 32 after choosing G6, auto-detect doesnt always work.
using the latest dldi driver (0.19) with latest firware.

 

[test84]

Does mission packs work with this?

 

[Loop]

Works great on G6 Real (8Gb) with EZF 3in1 card

retail pak files
auto select with memory on 'slow'

only problem is....
whenever I try to load a saved game I get a red screen with lots of text
talking about a "meditation error" or something!?!

anyone need a config file for lefties?

 

[teonintyfive]

Yes I know the half life engine was based on the quake 2 engine, its still not happening.

Wrong. The Half-Life Engine, known as GoldSrc, is a heavily modified version of the Quake 1 engine.

...using parts of the Quake 2 engine.

Fo real?
Nah.

Also, I replaced my retail pak's with the shareware ones and now I'm getting Guru Meditation error...

 

[Daimos]

I'm using a DSTT (1.7) with an Ewin expansion pak. I'm using the shareware pak files, and it gives me a Guru Mediation Error. Won't detect at all on Slow speed.

 

[teonintyfive]

My oh my, this is one buggy release.
Anyone who installed shareware files and it works, care to share your files packed on a rar or 7z or whatever?

 

[cracker]

My oh my, this is one buggy release.
Anyone who installed shareware files and it works, care to share your files packed on a rar or 7z or whatever?

Here is the shareware install that I took the pak from. It should be noted (also in a previous post) that I am able to run the game fine with the m3 Perfect miniSD and EZ4 Lite Deluxe but get a Guru Meditation Error with the EZ3in1. I'm not sure if this is because of the pak or not since I haven't tried extracting the files or a different pak.

 

[PBC]

Was using EZV with 3-1. When i was using version 1.68 of the firmware I got guru meditiation error...

After i updated to 1.70 firmware the game worked fine.
EXCEPT selecting 3-1 NEVER works. AUTO detect finds ram fine.
ALSO people having trouble with guru med thing should try different demo paks. might have helped me...

 

[simonjhall]

Although the guru meditation is a critical error, it's not as critical as it sounds. I meant to turn it off, so you can actually see what the error was - I'll upload a build later with the guru stuff turned off.

Things I've learnt from this:
- ewin, if it works it works - I've no idea what this card is and can provide no support for it until I get one myself
- m3 real, seems to have dldi and arm7 initialisation issues
- g6, ram should work, but I've never tested the card so take it with a pinch of salt
- supercard dldi often corrupts the data stream when used with huge files, try extracting all the files instead and removing the paks
- always use the auto detect option with your card UNLESS the game fails to do the 0..2..4..6..8.. thing

Oh and the official mission packs will never work with the DS. Not my fault, I'm afraid! Mission packs, total conversions and and mods are not cross-platform compatible.

 

[Relys]

Another great release! Thanks Simon. (Did he ever finish the port of Quake 1? I remember multiplayer not working).

Anyway, it would be great if someone could tell me which carts work with overclocking the RAM. I know some applications have had problems in the past due to it being slower than normal.

 

[teonintyfive]

Although the guru meditation is a critical error, it's not as critical as it sounds. I meant to turn it off, so you can actually see what the error was - I'll upload a build later with the guru stuff turned off.

Things I've learnt from this:
- ewin, if it works it works - I've no idea what this card is and can provide no support for it until I get one myself
- m3 real, seems to have dldi and arm7 initialisation issues
- g6, ram should work, but I've never tested the card so take it with a pinch of salt
- supercard dldi often corrupts the data stream when used with huge files, try extracting all the files instead and removing the paks
- always use the auto detect option with your card UNLESS the game fails to do the 0..2..4..6..8.. thing

Oh and the official mission packs will never work with the DS. Not my fault, I'm afraid! Mission packs, total conversions and and mods are not cross-platform compatible.

2 things: gahg, I'm on G6
Also, would it work to replace some pak files (like models for example) to play them kinda modded?

 

[simonjhall]

To the boys and girls who are getting the guru meditation and don't get to read what the actual error message is, here's a special version!
http://quake.drunkencoders.com/q2/download...ake2_121008.nds
EXACTLY THE SAME, but without the crash drump screen. Let me know how you get on.

 

[Daimos]

Thanks for that Simon. Here is my actual error message:

Cards: TTDS v1.07 /w Ewin Expansion Pak
Pak: Commercial
Detection: Auto-detect, Very Slow

sky............................ok
trying to bind unknown texture!
(260)
Sys_Error: called from 01001ea8

link register is 0202a394

Hope that helps.

 

[garyla]

I used the new .nds file, dldi patched it, but instead of the Guru error screen, I just get a blicking white square at the top right. then after a while. It just stays white. Any help?

Thanks

PS. I'm using Supercard lite