Latest version of Super Mario War

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:21 pm

I just found out there is a new version of the game Super Mario War available : http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/
There is a DC-port of one of the older versions, but later versions have added many new gamemodes, powerups, etc. So I wonder if someone could port the new version of Super Mario War to Dreamcast? It still only uses SDL anc SDL_Mixer so a port shouldn't be any problems. There are also many map/sound/music-packs and other extras which can be downloaded and perhaps added to the DC version.
Anyway, a port would be wonderful. Its a very fun game.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:51 pm

i need to release it, I completly forgot to release the version i submitted to the last dreamon contest. If i can find where i put it all post it on my site soon

Troy

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:26 am

Really nice! How come I missed that. Anyway, Ill keep an eye on your site.

Btw, if you have it, please upload the contest-version of Marfitude as well. Would be nice to try it!

mink03 · Post by **mink03** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:39 pm

i didnt know this came out on dc at all... must have newest version.. mmm

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:15 pm

Looks like fun..I can't decide whether to dl it for use on my xbox or my computer

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:22 pm

Dangnabbit, I was working on that, too!

It was going to be my first port...

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:55 pm

Dangnabbit, I was working on that, too! Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad
It was going to be my first port...

Im not certain if GPF's version is the latest 1.6. If it is not, you can try porting that version.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:31 pm

yeah its 1.6, one of these days Ill get off my lazy but and post it, I havent touched it in months so Im not sure where i put it lol, somewhere on my harddrive is the source and probably the zipped up binary I submitted for the dreamon contest.

Troy(GPF)

Morphv2 · Post by **Morphv2** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:25 pm

Out of curiousity, GPF, has the horrendous lag been repaired? Like, instead of straight CPU emulation, is the GPU being used? The last one was SLOOOOOOW.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:33 am

ok found the version I entered in the dreamon contest last year, posted on my site
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/

Troy(GPF)

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Wed May 03, 2006 3:31 pm

Thanks for posting it. However, it dosn't seem to work very well. I cannot selec level (there are no levels when trying to change) and no mather which I choose I get to a screen filled with blocks. Also, it all runs very slow. Perhaps I did something wrong when burning it?

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:06 pm

well is it displaying any graphics or playing sound? If not you burned it wrong.

Otherwise its been since last November since Iv look at it and tried the code, but I didnt burn it Iv only tested it over my bba. while some parts are slow, you can change stuff in the options menu to help that out a little.

Or the source is available for download and anyone feel free to fix/finish/resume this port for me.

Troy(GPF)

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:53 am

It is displaying graphics and playing sound. I can see the menu and go through it, but once the game starts there is no level, its just filled with blocks. Perhaps I should have removed the cvs-folders?

fuzzymoochicken · Post by **fuzzymoochicken** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:34 pm

Not sure if you know, but according to my *lover* who tried to use your nero image of Super Mario War, it doesn't work. Like, at all.

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:05 am

fuzzymoochicken wrote:Not sure if you know, but according to my girlfriend who tried to use your nero image of Super Mario War, it doesn't work. Like, at all (according to her, it just burns a blank, useless cd)...

Most Nero 6 revisions won't work with DAO images, which is what most DC images are.

Also, GPF. I'll look at your source code. Judging from what people have said about the speed of this port, and my own porting efforts, I'd say that any DC port will need a resource manager. In my own port, I converted all the graphics to PNG format to save on space. I don't think doing that breaks anything, but I'll find out.

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:14 pm

If you think that would make the game playable, it would be fantastic. How long do you think it would take to implement a resource manager?

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:09 pm

Imerion wrote:If you think that would make the game playable, it would be fantastic. How long do you think it would take to implement a resource manager?

No clue, I've never done it before. = /
I have sort of an idea of how it's done, though.

Also, I found that the one I was trying to port was the 1.7 alpha. XD
Not to mention that I now know porting an entire game on my own is beyond me at this point. however, I'll see what I can do with a resource manager. I just need to figure out how to detect what graphics and such are used in a map and preload only those.

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:57 pm

Oh my god, I'm not sure what I did, but my port runs smoothly at around 25FPS! Although the sound doesn't work, and it has a massive memory leak somewhere (I think it's in the map loading). But you can usually get a game off, it just freezes up at the end, or when you try to load a new map mid-game.

EDIT: Is there a function in KOS to print out the amount of memory used?

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:55 pm

Whoo! Sounds like great work so far! No idea about KOS-functions though. Better ask in the programming forum.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:49 am

That's great ! Keep it up!