wiiDoom has been released and compatible with every version of doom going to test it now Download link Source code
Sounds awesome, Doom is still fun, hoping for some kind of multiplayer mode (local & Online) though.. i'll wait for newer versions, which will fix these issues: 1 Defect Accepted Medium ---- lnuxguy The Control Stick is buggy 2 Defect Accepted Medium ---- lnuxguy No IR. 3 Defect Accepted Medium ---- lnuxguy A and B to work on menu. 4 Defect Accepted Medium ---- lnuxguy No way back to Homebrew Menu. I'd like aiming with IR.. and buggy controls would be irritating, also.. no way back to HBC? that means i'll have to get up and walk to my wii when i want to get back .. yeah i'm lazy.
that would be nice @ supertag hmmm tested it, indead some very buggy controls and movement, but it does work although there is still a lot of work to be done with the movement/controls... like making controls for changing weapons... but like i said, it works and it is a start
You couldn't aim with IR in doom because you don't aim in doom. You merely align yourself with an enemy horizontally (which is done via your movement controls) and the game does the rest. IR support would really be rather pointless in this case. I mean you could use the wiimote to look left and right, but then you'd need to cripple left and right support on the nunchuck to make it work properly and it'd be akward to run down the halls.. not to mention that there wouldn't be enough buttons on the nunchuck to play properly. (You need at least three buttons besides fire.) Also analog stick support imho is also pointless. Doom was played with keyboard arrows. Doom's controls were so simple that it was ported to the snes. Classic controller support is all you need.
ZDoom amongst many other ports of DooM (Skulltag being my favourite) have IR aiming and it has massively increased the lifespan of DooM and wad development. I think this would be a great move for WiiDooM. The thing is, though, that WiiDooM is based on PrBoom which doesn't support freelook for the sake of 'purity' and compatibility with Vanilla DooM. PrBoom Plus does support this feature and hopefully (to my mind!) this could influence future development of this port...
I've only played about half of the original DOOM/DOOM2 above that, i've played loads of mods and such (don't remember the exact names, but ZDOOM and Skulltag was 2 of those), which DO use vertical aiming, which i was/am hoping for.
Critiques Graphics are washed out No rumble when shooting Couldn't figure out how to change weapons Couldn't hit 'Y' to exit the thing No music I am sure all of these will be addressed as development continues. Here's hoping we see Wii Heretic soon too
Maybe, I'll give it a try. But until they get the nunchuk analog support correct, this thing is barely playable. Kind of hard to believe you could code a doom port for Wii, yet have difficulties with analog control.
i installed version 0.2 today but i didn't have any previous versions so i can't tell how much it has improved. what i can say is that the IR turning isn't quite right especially since the absence of an on screen reticule makes it hard to know exactly where on the screen i am pointing.
