…simply by playing various games on your Pandora (you probably guessed that already).
Many devs have been busy the last week to provide you with more, new and unique game experiences, from retro, to GP2X ports to real Pandora homebrew.
This post tries to recap some of the new releases, which include:
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Obligatory YYAARRRGGGH. OpenPirates has been a long term project of Pickle’s, originally aimed at the GP2X but finally seeing the light of day on the you-know-what. Inspired by the classics ‘Sid Meier’s Pirates!’ and ‘Pirates! Gold’, OpenPirates is an open source, cross platform number that seeks to capture the feel of old (while including some modern enhancements that ye’d be walkin’ the plank if ye didn’t include). The version number should tell you just how alpha this is – at this stage it offers very limited gameplay, placeholder graphics, a few menus, yarghda yarghda. If you’re willing to offer some helpful feedback, hit up Pickle’s forum thread for full details and a download link.
(Picture unrelated, borrowed from this guy).
Time for a quick, lazy post full of games.
Sonic Robo Blast 2, ported by Pickle. Built on the Doom engine, this was probably the pinnacle of 3D Sonic games. Sorry Sega. You’ll need to grab the PND and data files separately.
Download PND | Data files
Angband, ported by Skeezix. A rogue-like game similar to nethack, ASCIIlicious.
Download
While it’s nice having the greatest space adventure game ever made (not opinion, science) in the archive, the general consensus is that it would be even nicer if it worked. Today, Pickle figured out why it wasn’t:
the (game) is looking for a file called version in the content folder, so for now just create an empty file (called version) and it should work.
(Pickle)
It’s always that meddling version file.
It’s one of the most entertaining and well constructed adventure games ever made. That’s not an opinion; it’s science. It’s The Ur-Quan Masters, although you may know it better as Star Control II. Previously ported to the GP2X by Senor Quack, it’s now Pandorin’ thanks to Pickle. Download it or perish, you diandrous, malefic vegetarians!
With the wifi issue blown wide open, unseen forces no longer impede our progress. Notaz and Pickle have signed up for the resistance. Soon, we will join them.
Just had some hard time attempting to mod my board. That resistor is really small, see for yourself (my index finger and small screwdriver for comparison)
(Notaz)
A couple of new DOSBox videos from Pickle, containing some stuff we haven’t seen before. In the first video we get a peek at DboxFE, the freshly ported DOSBox frontend, then move on to some Warcraft 1 (and some tasty info on mouse control options). In the next video he fires up Windows 3.1 (don’t laugh, it has valid uses), decides that’s not where he wants to go today, and ends the DOSBox demo to show us something completely new; a nice looking media player called Exaile.
EvilDragon has taken the time to list the great contributions that people have made to the project and some history of it’s birth. Frankly, I can’t say more or add more than what ED has already said:
A big thanks to all of you!
Well, it has been a wild rollercoaster ride. It was fun. It was annoying. It was amazing. It was frightening. It was unique.
The green light shone. The roar went up. The blog went down. And here we sit, pensive in the afterglow. So what happens next? Let’s take a look at what the coming weeks have in store.
We are pushing them to ship us 500 on friday. [...] The factory have already been instructed to get on with it, we should hear something today. We don’t know if they will manage it, but we hope they will. They have told us pretty much every customer makes this week hell for them.
(craigix)
Our favourite preserved vegetable has resurfaced, bringing with him nine minutes and fifty one seconds of glorious handheld gameplay. The titles in order of appearance are Ur-Quan Masters (aka Star Control II), Hammer of Thyrion (aka Hexen II), and Pandora Panic (aka Pandora Panic).
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