Homebrew RELEASE The Legend of Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX (solarus engine)

[carstene1ns]

Reaching beta stage!
The latest build has audio enabled. @Stary2001 pointed me to a wrapper library that actually made this really easy.

When you update, do not forget to copy the data file over this time, it is significantly larger as the music and sound files are included now.

 

[Baoulettes]

Definitly that some kind of a thing.
I mean ''wow''
beside that known bug a little bit of crack in sound at max volume else that definitly playable.
waiting to be able to set my name properly to make a full run eheh

 

[DRAGONBALLVINTAGE]

Will there be a Xbox One Version?

 

[carstene1ns]

An xbox one port could be possible when there are the needed requirements available, however I do not know anything about this.
A psvita port would be feasible, maybe 3ds. It depends mostly on porting the needed libraries.

 

[FahQ]

That doesn't solve the purported issue. Locking/unlocking to and from the fully open position would not cause the kickstand to fail to lock in the closed position. Opening and locking it closed would cause that. Doesn't matter whether or not you fully lock it open.

Well he showed me something. I've had my switch like 4 months and didn't even know the stand snapped in the open position

 

[carstene1ns]

Fixed the menu joystick bugs, which apparently were game issues (happen on desktop too).
Waiting for a moderator to mark this thread as release. Thank you all for your feedback!

 

[Brasse]

Fixed the menu joystick bugs, which apparently were game issues (happen on desktop too).
Waiting for a moderator to mark this thread as release. Thank you all for your feedback!

Works like a charm!
https://streamable.com/s/ne9t4/johfkw

 

[yusuo]

I don't have a switch but this looks really good for homebrew, good job OP

 

[Masterwin]

 

[EternalSadness]

I don't have a Nintendo Switch but hell, is there any possibility to see the Solarus Engine on the New 3DS one day ?
Technically, it could run smoothly

Good job

 

[Ryuzaki_MrL]

Hey, this is awesome!
Does the Solarus Quest Editor works with the Switch port?

 

[carstene1ns]

The Quest Editor itself does not work on Switch, would need a port of QT first, which is unlikely.
However, making games in it on other platforms (Windows, Linux,...) and playing them on Switch is possible of course!
That is why I have also added a link to the engine without the game in the first post.
There are a few things to know though: You need to query the joystick buttons in the quest and your quest needs to support 400x240 resolution.

 

[EternalSadness]

your quest needs to support 400x240 resolution.

I don't know much of the Switch but have you tried 432x240 (pseudo 16:9) ? This will fill the entire screen with barely noticeable black edges

This is how it looks according to these footages, this is another project in development using the Solarus engine, in my opinion, I like playing a game that use the entire screen to be drawn



I've tried one of their early build in '16 and loved the fullscreen experience

EDIT: Ah, Didn't see the quest.dat, you use the max_quest_size parameter

 

[SG911]

Dumb question but i'm assuming you need homebrew to play this? Looks cool.

 

[Rune]

Is it possible to take the Mystery of Solarus DX source, change the aspect ratio/resolution to better fit the Switch, then rebuild the game with the Quest Editor, and then play on the Switch?

 

[EternalSadness]

Is it possible to take the Mystery of Solarus DX source, change the aspect ratio/resolution to better fit the Switch, then rebuild the game with the Quest Editor, and then play on the Switch?

Try this workaround

- Rename data.solarus to data.zip
- Open data.zip, extract and open quest.dat
- Modify max_quest_size = "400x240" to max_quest_size = "432x240" (the resolution might be a multiple of 8, otherwise the game will never starts)
- Save, replace quest.dat with the new one
- Rename data.zip to data.solarus

I did it with the PC version of Solarus, it works.
Some rooms appear glitch due to the native resolution of MoS, which is 320x240
But that only concern few rooms so no problem for me

You don't need to "rebuild" the package, the game and the engine are separated packages, you just need to customize some parameters

Also, OP, have you planned to port the upcoming Solarus version (1.6), I heard it support OpenGL Shaders and native touchscreen control

 

[carstene1ns]

Changing the quest size will not work on switch currently, as i have hardcoded the quest size and video size there.
(So the game will either close, hang or crash then)
I did not tinker too much with zsdx yet, so I used known-to-work values.

Solarus 1.6 is currently not possible, as we do not have access to an OpenGL implementation.

However, porting the current games is entirely possible.

 

[SG911]

Would it be possible to get this on the 3DS?

 

[carstene1ns]

Would it be possible to get this on the 3DS?

Not without much effort. There is currently no active/working SDL2 port for 3DS, so we would need to start from there.

 

[OctolingRift]

This looks amazing! I need to wait for my USB C adapter to come in the mail to use it tho