D1X Rebirth - Port de Descent

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quote de dingoonity:


Hello everyone. Today, I've ported a new game - d1x-rebirth
D1X-Rebirth is a Source Port of the Descent Engine and provides classical Gameplay combined with a bunch of improvements and new features.

http://wstaw.org/m/2010/03/15/d1x.pnghttp://wstaw.org/m/2010/03/15/d1x2.png
http://wstaw.org/m/2010/03/15/d1x3.pnghttp://wstaw.org/m/2010/03/15/d1x4.png

Actual Dingoo screenshots.


Download: Dingoo File Archive (http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,30,292) (source included)

Installation (read HOWTO_INSTALL):
1) Copy ".d1x-rebirth" dir to "/local/home"
2) Copy "d1x-rebirth" dir to your favourite location
3) Copy the ORIGINAL DATA FILES to "[your_location]/d1x-rebirth/Data"
4) Run "d1x-rebirth.dge"

Controls:
UP - pitch forward
DOWN - pitch backward
LEFT - turn left
RIGHT - turn right
A - fire primary weapon
X - fire secondary weapon
B - slide on
Y - bank on
L - reverse
R - accelerate
START - cycle primary weapon
SELECT - cycle secondary weapon

START + R - options menu
SELECT + L - save menu
SELECT + R - load menu
START + SELECT - exit

All the controls are customizable in the menu.

Bugs:
* "whistle" instrument from the midi soundtrack in level 2 produces a high pitched sound. This is believed to be a timidity bug and is not d1x related:
(http://welltemperedstudio.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/timidity-problems-solved/)
It is recommended to disable music for this level.
* Can't manually assign SELECT to any key mapping

Tomorrow I'll look into d2x-rebirth, maybe I can get it to work as well. Stay tuned

Edit: Forgot to mention, this game is fully playable on the network. If you happen to use usb networking, that is