Homebrew [Release] Griffon Legend 3ds

[nop90]

The Griffon Legend is an action RPG with screen-to-screen map. It features original storyline and design made in 16-bit style RPG's of SNES/GENESIS era.

Originally The Griffon Legend was written in FreeBASIC using SDL for graphics and FMOD for sound/music. That restricted the game to be released for Windows only. The Griffon Legend was rewritten in plain C using SDL and SDL_mixer to be ported to GCW-Zero, the source code is licensed under GPL2 license.

The port to 3DS is based on the GCW-Zero code.

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The source code of my port is on my github (https://github.com/nop90/Griffon-Legend-3DS).
The compiled game (3dsx format) is released on github (https://github.com/nop90/Griffon-Legend-3DS/releases).

Credits:
The original game is by Syn9 (written in FreeBASIC), it was ported to c for GCW-Zero handheld by Dmitry Smagin.
This game uses a fake 3DS SDL layer made me (NOP90) and some open source libs: ctrulib, citro3d, sf2d, sfil, libnsbmp, stb_vorbis

Changelog

Ver. 1.0 (12 February 2017)
- Fixed CIA version

Ver. 1.0RC1 (13 December 2016)
- Fixed crashes
- Fixed the invulnerability bug happening loading a saved game

Ver. 1.0beta (10 December 2016)
- Fixed many bugs
- Added music
- Warning: this version of the game doesn't work with Citra.

Ver. 1.0alpha (05 December 2016)
- First alpha release
- Game should be fully playable but is mostly untested
- Sfx are enabled but not the background musics (too slow to load and can cause some crashes)
- Only 3DSX format since final release

Installation

In the zip there is a folder with the 3dsx and the smdh files inside, to be used with a homebrew launcher. All the resources are included in the executable using romfs.

The game creates a GriffonLegend inside the 3ds folder if doesn't exist. Here will be saved your savefiles and game configs.

Commands

PAD - moving
A - attack / select
B - open/close item menu
X - main menu / back

Known Bugs

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To Do List

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Screenshots

 

[MajinCubyan]

Pretty sicc. Puttin' on my 3ds now. Thanks yo!

 

[LoDeus]

Plan to make a .cia of it? looks really nice

 

[Exavold]

Looks awesome , gonna try it out !

 

[Lotoonlink]

Omgomgomg, this looks so cool!

 

[nop90]

Plan to make a .cia of it? looks really nice

Yes, I usually compile a CIA format when the game is stable.

But if you want, make a rsf file, a banner and a icon, run make cia with the makefile on github, and you'll have it.

 

[Lotoonlink]

(off topic) what does following someone on this site do? I follow @nop90 but I was'nt notified of him making this thread?

 

[LoDeus]

Yes, I usually compile a CIA format when the game is stable.

But if you want, make a rsf file, a banner and a icon, run make cia with the makefile on github, and you'll have it.

Ehe, I then will wait with the .3dsx , I don't understand any when it come to compile and all that stuff ^^'

 

[nop90]

(off topic) what does following someone on this site do? I follow @nop90 but I was'nt notified of him making this thread?

Don't know, I only follow some threads, but noticed that if I receive a new post notification and I don't follow it, the notification is suspended for new posts since I read again the thread.

 

[xtheman]

(off topic) what does following someone on this site do? I follow @nop90 but I was'nt notified of him making this thread?

Following a user only notifies you of new blogs posted

 

[SomeGamer]

Following a user only notifies you of new blogs posted

And the user's actions will appear in your news feed.

 

[SLiV3R]

Nice to see this man!!!

 

[thunderjackl]

Nine man always love the stuff your make

 

[Flame]

nice work. always great to see you port stuff to the 3ds.

 

[nop90]

I found a bug that crashes the system: when a widard cast a lightning magic there is an out of memory write error.

I already fixed the problem, but let me know if there is something else to fix before I release a new version.

 

[nop90]

Just released a new version wirh music enabled.

I also fixed all the bugs I found, now loading/saing options works fine and The game seems to not crash anymore.

yet not a finel release, there are some minor things I want to fix and the game needs more testing.

Warning: this version of the game doesn't work with Citra. I'ts a Citra problem. With ne next release I'll add a versione of the game without music that can run on CItra.

 

[nop90]

This morning I heavily tested the game.

I's playable but not perfect:

• it sometimes crashes loading a game, probably a problem of memory leak. As a temporary wokaround, restarting the 3ds cleans the memory and makes it work again.
• at some points in the game the player doesn't take damage.

I'll fix this two things next week, now I have to prepare the alpha release of Zelda Picross.

 

[Tebra]

Hi nop90,
I tried your game on my 2DS (luma3ds with last firmware).
Select new game but the screen freez at the end of the introduction screen (but music continue play on)

 

[nop90]

Yes, another bug to check.

Press x before the scrolling ends.

 

[DeoNaught]

THANKS great work
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do you plan on making a .CIA version?