Quake 2 on DS

[test84]

saves are ok, my bad.

damn, i wrapped from E2M3 which had freezing to E2M4, freezes there too.
shit.
hope it gets better with future update, i really love this game and suits DS very well!

 

[tau]

so... i updated to 2.7d and QuakeDS went from not booting at all to stalling on "FAT init..."

Guess they're still "working on it"?

This is on an M3 Real btw

 

[test84]

not booting?! Did you put the original files on ID1 folder?
its one of best homebrews on DS and you claim its nor working!

 

[tau]

I mean before the update it wasn't booting. After the update, it hangs on "FAT init..."

I have the QuakeDS.NDS file in the root and a id1 folder with PAK0.PAK and the config file.

it isn't a DLDI patch problem, i'm fairly sure of that. Not sure what it is though.

 

[simonjhall]

Yo. I'm hoping to get the first playable to Q2 on the DS out within the next few weeks. A lot of progress has been made since that video, and I'm really excited about letting people play

To answer people's questions - yes I'm aware that some problems were introduced into QDS r3 that weren't present in pre2. These are not trivial to fix, but I'm getting help on this so stay tuned. I've also learnt a great deal in the last few weeks of Q2, and I hope to roll those improvements into to the main Q1 code base too. I'll release those changes when I can find the time.

@tau, yeah that's a likely to be a dldi problem. That's the step where I initialise the dldi patch, and if the patch is knackered then it'll hang there. If it fails to initialise your flash card it'll leave a message. The "fat init" step is nothing to do with pak files or anything else...since it won't be able to find them until the dldi driver is initialised!

And finally, the exram build is to allow you to play ALL mods and total conversions on your DS. If you're not playing these games then using the exram build will only slow down your game, since slot-2 memory is soooo sloooowwww...

 

[tau]

Any idea if how it could be fixed? Tried 3 different firmwares and still nothing :/

 

[simonjhall]

Tbh I've heard nothing good about the M3 Real, sorry. I think a lot of people have problems with homebrew on this card - hopefully they'll work these problems out soon!
One thing to try would be to turn off the dldi autopatcher if your card has one. If you don't have to patch the program before running it (and can't turn off the autopatcher) then get in contact with me and I'll try and sort something out for you! dldi autopatching causes lots of problems and I wouldn't touch it with a stick ;-)