Are there any new Homebrew or ports coming to the NUON soon?

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:19 am 0

I just wondered if anyone has a project out soon?.Also How hard would it be to port Wolfenstein or and Rise of the Triad shareware to the Nuon.

MattV · Post by **MattV** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:58 pm 0

DragonShadow are working on a port of Decaying Orbit (really nice yaroze game). http://www.dragonshadow.com/

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:54 am 0

I downloaded Decaying Orbit and i can't get it to load.All the rest of the Homebrew games load and work fine though.I have burnt it everyway possible with no luck.My N501 says loading then reports NO DISK.

korruptor · Post by **korruptor** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:27 pm 0

Shit, I didn't realise there was a lot of homebrew on the Nuon. Any worth getting?

Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:54 pm 0

Yeah, some of it is

Sorry nemesis, meant to reply to this earlier in the week but didn't get around to it. Decaying Orbit looks to be coming together quite nicely, other than that there is also a pretty good looking clone of Bombuzal and one or two other things in various states of completion.

The best place to keep an eye on the Nuon dev scene is over at http://www.nuon-dome.com

As to *new* homebrew efforts. Well, there's not a hell of a lot on the horizon as far as I know. There are one or two yakyakers who are doing things (myself amongst them, although my efforts haven't really gotten more advanced than recompiling the SDK examples yet

As to the possibilities of porting stuff like ROTT? Well, I daresay it's doable. The obligatory Doom port has been knocking around for ages, and the ROTT code is freely available. However, I wouldn't attempt to run before you can walk, start with something a little bit more self-contained (unless you're already familiar with the ROTT source of course)

Cheers
Chris

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:09 am 0

I can't program myself,I was just wondering if ROTT could be done.I was surprised how good Doom runs actually,It's slow but playable.I'm not a big puzzle fan so most of the Homebrew stuff is played by my wife.I can't get Decaying Orbit to load at all.I've tried to burn it every way but it won't load for me,Every other Homebrew game loads and runs fine though.

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:40 pm 0

nemesis wrote:I downloaded Decaying Orbit and i can't get it to load.All the rest of the Homebrew games load and work fine though.I have burnt it everyway possible with no luck.My N501 says loading then reports NO DISK.

I found that the success rate of burning NUON discs increases depending on (oddly enough) the type of CD-R you use and the CD-burning program!
I finally found a way to burn the demos for my N501 using my Veritas disc burner software and Imation discs.

If there's anything you want, let me know and I can try burning for you.

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:42 pm 0

nemesis wrote:I can't program myself,I was just wondering if ROTT could be done.I was surprised how good Doom runs actually,It's slow but playable.I'm not a big puzzle fan so most of the Homebrew stuff is played by my wife.I can't get Decaying Orbit to load at all.I've tried to burn it every way but it won't load for me,Every other Homebrew game loads and runs fine though.

Just out of curiosity, when playing Doom for NUON, do you find your character constantly "strafing" slightly automatically? Basically, whenever I loaded up Doom on my NUON, my character would always strafe to the left...regardless of the controller I used. Just wondering if this is a bug or if my copy was just acting up.

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:26 am 0

Yes my character does straf.What i do is press start and quit and when it asks if you want to quit i then cancel it and go back to the game and the straffing nonsense has stopped.Also most of the straffing thing is in the 1st and 2nd level and rarely does it on level 3 or any levels after that.I got Decaying Orbit to burn using disks with a non metallic finish label.The sony disks i was using are crap and didn't even work on my Dreamcast when i burnt games for it ,The Dreamcast isn't fussy at all and plays nearly every thing i throw at it apart from Sony disks.Thanks for the offer of doing games for me.As for Decaying Orbit,It looks to be an interesting project but i seem to have little control over the ship and it flies off the screen.If i hit the destination planet the game crashes.

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:57 pm 0

nemesis wrote:Yes my character does straf.What i do is press start and quit and when it asks if you want to quit i then cancel it and go back to the game and the straffing nonsense has stopped.Also most of the straffing thing is in the 1st and 2nd level and rarely does it on level 3 or any levels after that.I got Decaying Orbit to burn using disks with a non metallic finish label.The sony disks i was using are crap and didn't even work on my Dreamcast when i burnt games for it ,The Dreamcast isn't fussy at all and plays nearly every thing i throw at it apart from Sony disks.Thanks for the offer of doing games for me.As for Decaying Orbit,It looks to be an interesting project but i seem to have little control over the ship and it flies off the screen.If i hit the destination planet the game crashes.

Thanks for the strafing elimination tip for Doom!
Anyone ever tried to run it in the second graphic mode? Anytime I try it, the screen gets all messed up and it eventually crashes on me.

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:29 am 0

What 2nd graphic mode?.If the tip to stop the straf doesn't work mine usually quits doing it if i use the stick for a while.

Riff · Post by **Riff** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:15 am 0

The N50x DVD drives are notoriously low quality. They have problems reading from the inner tracks. You can almost always guarantee a useable disk by burning an additional dummy file that is placed before the Nuon.CD file. The dummy file should be at least 10 megs and to be safe, name it something that lexically precedes Nuon.cd.

This technique yields good discs even for media that normally exhibits 100% failure rates.

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:37 am 0

I got Decaying Orbit to work by using cd's with a painted on label.It seems all the silver or gold label disks don't wotk(especially Sony) on my Nuon.White HP disks work best.Thanks for the tips.

Riff · Post by **Riff** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:19 am 0

The extra file trick seems to work better than media tricks. Media (both CD-R and CD-RW) that worked 100% in my CD-R/CD-RW failed when I used my DVD-R. Additionally, I couldnt get white Memorex 700 MB CD-Rs to work in my N501 at all, except on rare rare occasions. Even then, they only worked one time and then the player had to cool down for a while before they would work again. The media consistency was all over the board depending on which burner I used. Adding the additional large-size file seemed to do the trick for every media type I tried before.

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:32 pm 0

Riff wrote:The N50x DVD drives are notoriously low quality. They have problems reading from the inner tracks. You can almost always guarantee a useable disk by burning an additional dummy file that is placed before the Nuon.CD file. The dummy file should be at least 10 megs and to be safe, name it something that lexically precedes Nuon.cd.

This technique yields good discs even for media that normally exhibits 100% failure rates.

That's an interesting tip. I'll give the dummy file trick a go tonight on some of the leftover CD-R's I bought that ended up not working. Does it matter what type of file I use as my dummy file (ie: a Word Document or Excel file)?