Downloads
Prerelease 1
How to play
This mini-guide assumes that you are familar with the process of
running homebrew on your Nintendo DS. If you don't know how to run NDS
homebrew, look online for the answer...
- You need Quake II's data files. If you own a copy, that's cool -
you'll have full access to the game. If not, then you can download the
shareware version of Quake II from id's site. This will only
allow you to play the levels from the first episode. If you want to
play the full game, buy a copy - don't ask me (or others) where you can
get these files.
- In the root of your flash card, make a directory named baseq2
- If you're using the shareware version, copy the pak from that
archive into the baseq2 directory that you just created
- If you're using a commerical version, copy all the pak files
into that directory
- You need a config file to tell the game how buttons are set up,
etc. I know that my config file works, so download that from the link
above and save it into the baseq2 directory.
- Visit Chishm's DLDI page (above) and download the DLDI driver
file which corresponds to your NDS booting method.
- Download the Quake2DS binary package above, and extract the NDS
file into the root of your flash card
- You now need to DLDI patch that program so that it will be able
to
access the files on your card
- Put the card in your booting hardware and turn on your DS!
Juddery Gameplay
Some users have reported lurching game play when hearing a sound for
the first time in the game. This is due to the huge size of the pak
files used by the game and the amount of time it takes to seek within a
file. The larger the block size used by your card, the faster seeking
will be.
The best solution for this at this time is to reformat your flash card
with the largest block size that you can (I recommend 64k).
To do this in Windows - if for example your flash drive is mounted as
drive X:, you can reformat the drive by typing
format X: /Q /A:64k /FS:FAT
at a command prompt. Make sure you specify the right drive!