It took quite a bit of finagling, but the devs over at Drunken Coders have finally ported Quake II to the Nintendo DS. The homebrewed version contains the entire single-player game, and retains a number of fancy features like dynamic lighting, particle support, and a full ARM7 sound effects system.
According to the devs, creating Quake2DS was quite the audacious task, as the original Quake II had memory requirements that far exceeded the DS's limitations. As a result, the port will only run on flash carts with RAM expansions. Those willing to give it a go will find relevant instructions and files on the port's website.
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Feb 12th 2008 9:02AM (Unverified) said
I also thought quake was too brown.. until I got a 3DFX Monster II and saw the game in all it's miniGL 16-bit texture glory.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2008 9:07AM (Unverified) said
I kinda remember it as having an awesome railgun.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2008 5:06PM (Unverified) said
There was no Uzi, and my friend has had this for quite a while...
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Posted: Feb 12th 2008 10:03AM (Unverified) said
One of the best(brown lol)FPS I ever played! :D
Tresspasser ...
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Tresspasser ...
Posted: Feb 13th 2008 1:29AM (Unverified) said
Fuck... I love those berserkers... Hate the grinding sound they make... It's just so menacing.
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Posted: Feb 12th 2008 10:38AM (Unverified) said
Stop messing around with quake2 and get to work porting Jedi Knight to the DS.
Once I've got Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and all the Scumm games on my DS I really can die happy...
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Once I've got Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and all the Scumm games on my DS I really can die happy...
Posted: Feb 12th 2008 10:42AM ThornedVenom said
Homebrew.... the first reason I ever wanted an R4.
(no, I'm not a pirate)
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(no, I'm not a pirate)
Posted: Feb 12th 2008 12:13PM (Unverified) said
You'd be a pirate if you got an R4 to play this. Not that I care, because I am a pirate. Arrrr
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Posted: Feb 13th 2008 8:31AM (Unverified) said
Look at all that tearing. Game cant hold a decent framerate. When will devs stop making these shitty ports.
/casm off
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/casm off
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