It's been a while since we heard about the homebrew DS port of Quake. But now the coder, Simon Hall, has emerged from his Tower of Porting Ordeals and made his work available for public consumption! If you have a DS flash card and a copy of Quake for the PC (shareware or full version!) then in just a few short minutes you could be on your way to playing a flat-shaded, slow, imperfectly-emulated, but still undeniably Quakey Quake!
We are willing to cut them some slack on the technical issues, since the release is still a work in progress, and the fact that it works at all is keen. They've also added touchscreen camera control and the ability to toggle god mode with the R button!
We have great memories of playing multiplayer Quake at one of those pay-by-the-hour LAN gaming centers at our 16th birthday party. We also have great memories of playing our DS earlier today. Seeing the two come together is just blissful. We love the ingenuity of the homebrew community.
We're going to crank up the Nine Inch Nails and get to installing.
[Thanks, wraggster!]
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2-19-2007 @ 5:05PM
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Awesome! I've been waiting nearly a year for this. Nice to see they aren't dead.
...I've already got Quake 1 and 2 along with Doom on my PSP though. :/ I guess I'll try out the DS version only because the (albit, flawed) MPH controls are what made me want it on the DS in the first place.
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2-19-2007 @ 9:01PM
strider_mt2k said...
That's pretty cool.
I recently installed Quake II on a flash drive for some portable fun.
Q2 on the DS is probably too much to hope for considering the current limitations.
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