Homebrew working on a quick little wii shooter

[newo]

Played the latest build, liked it so far. I really enjoyed the air to water passages.

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White screen. I just launch the boot.dol, though all the newofox files are already present in the virtual sd, inside the app folder. Do i need NAND/HBC set up, or is that enough?

I actually have no idea how to get homebrew to run in dolphin as my machine cant handle dolphin. Filiph managed to get it to the loading screen but I have no idea what is required.

 

[newo]

Spend most of last week on other projects but manage to clean up bugs and messed with the graphix. managed to get 4 snakes bosses on the stage at once if you play on hard mode, the water is now smoother, the fog thicker. Everything should still run at 60fps. I am still thinking about how to implement a new type of boss and how to discourage people from just holding down the shoot button FOREVER - maybe have some kind of weapon charge mode or something. anyway beta download updated with new build.

 

[niuus]

Spend most of last week on other projects but manage to clean up bugs and messed with the graphix. managed to get 4 snakes bosses on the stage at once if you play on hard mode, the water is now smoother, the fog thicker. Everything should still run at 60fps. I am still thinking about how to implement a new type of boss and how to discourage people from just holding down the shoot button FOREVER - maybe have some kind of weapon charge mode or something. anyway beta download updated with new build.

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Nice changes, downloading!

 

[newo]

Ok how about this; when you reach max bombs (which also means your fire rate is the highest) if you keep holding the shoot button for 3 seconds you will unleash all your bombs in one huge explosion. Resulting in you losing all your bombs and your fire rate will slow back down.

This should discourage the habit of constantly holding down the fire button.

 

[newo]

Gonna release the update into the live tommorow on wiibrew but for today the beta has a last minute change;
- when you have 10 bombs your fire rate will be the fastest but if you hold the first button for more than 4 seconds you will fire all your bombs at once dropping you fire rate back down to the slowest level. this is to discourage players spamming the fire button.
- messed with the water shading.

 

[niuus]

Gonna release the update into the live tommorow on wiibrew but for today the beta has a last minute change;
- when you have 10 bombs your fire rate will be the fastest but if you hold the first button for more than 4 seconds you will fire all your bombs at once dropping you fire rate back down to the slowest level. this is to discourage players spamming the fire button.
- messed with the water shading.

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Will there be a powered up shot in the future?

 

[newo]

Will there be a powered up shot in the future?

everything in the game can pretty much be 1 shot killed(except for the bosses) so a more powerful shot would not help much. Unless it would be inthere to look pretty. With bombs and the final blast what would you do with a powered up shot?

 

[niuus]

everything in the game can pretty much be 1 shot killed(except for the bosses) so a more powerful shot would not help much. Unless it would be inthere to look pretty. With bombs and the final blast what would you do with a powered up shot?

I understand. I keep thinking in Star Fox . Guess we need more powerful insistent enemies

 

[newo]

yeah, its not an exact clone. in fact it is much easier than any of the starfox games. I just want people to have fun blowing stuff up without having to worry about enemies shooting them down over and over. And if you are a pro then there are leaderboards where you can attempt to beat the high scores. I try to not be too ambitious with my homebrew because if you set your goals too high you most likely end up not finishing anything at all. But thanx to everyone who took time out to test it. I hope it brings joy to people at least for a couple minutes.

 

[daemonspudguy]

Is there any version that works properly on the Wii U?

 

[newo]

Is there any version that works properly on the Wii U?

I got help and figured out the WiiU problem but I have not gotten the time to patch this as yet. In the mean time you can try NA which should work perfectly; http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Newo_Asteroids

 

[DarthBellic]

Hey Man i had tried making a channel forwarder for this game, but when loading up the game, none of the ui, audio/music, or the player ship load up. Any idea whats wrong?

 

[newo]

Hey Man i had tried making a channel forwarder for this game, but when loading up the game, none of the ui, audio/music, or the player ship load up. Any idea whats wrong?

More than likely the working directory is not correct. When you run the dol it assumes that the assets folder is in the same directory as the dol. If you have the ability to change the current directory then ensure that you launch the dol from the correct folder on the sd or usb drive.

 

[DarthBellic]

no the .dol is in the same folder as the assets folder for me, right in the newofix apps folder on my sd, hell for funsies i even tried making a forwarder that loaded through a ,dol within the assets folder, still no dice

 

[newo]

hmmm I see. well then this might need someone with expertise in forwarders. I'm not sure how you create the forwarder but lets say you do something like;
execute sd:/apps/newofox/boot.dol -- doesnt work because current directory is probably sd:/

to get it to work you'd need to change the active directory to the folder;

chdr sd:/apps/newofox/
execute boot.dol - this should work because the dol will see its folders

worse case scenerio if you really want it to work put all the newofox folders into root sd:/ and see if it works. If that works then it means that the forwards start directory is the sd:/. If you cant do a "chdr" command then you are stuck with using hbc to launch it.

 

[DarthBellic]

so i tested both moving the assets to a separate folder and loading it from the apps folder, and tried moving the .dol to said folder on the root of the sd, still no dice, I guess ill have to load this from HBC

 

[newo]

so i tested both moving the assets to a separate folder and loading it from the apps folder, and tried moving the .dol to said folder on the root of the sd, still no dice, I guess ill have to load this from HBC

not the apps folder but the root of the sd/usb drive that its loading from.

 

[DarthBellic]

yes i tried that, i made a folder on the root of the sd named "newofox and moved the .dol there along with the assets and no dice, could trying to load the dol from a root sd folder but with the assets kept in the apps folder make a difference?

 

[newo]

put the assets, model, image in the sd root. no newofox folder. Because the game doesnt have paths including "newofox". It just looks for assets/ and models/

 

[DarthBellic]

i see, ok ill try that thx