StarLite - Starcraft For The Nintendo DS
By Jeffrey | January 8, 2008
Although the Nintendo DS is not as popular with the homebrew crowd as the PSP, it still has its share of great software.
As Blizzard has seemingly ignored a perfect opportunity to port Starcraft to the Nintendo DS, two French developers - here is their (French) website - have set out to prove it can be done, and done well. Although still a work in progress, StarLite is the result.
The newest version - 0.02 - has just been released and improved in many key aspects over the initial demo.
Here’s the translated release information:
Hello,
Voila version 0.02 of StarLite.
Unable to start the WiFi mode, we decided to move StarLite with regard to its playability. So this was the work of this weekend.
The program,
– A debut management collisions between “unity and building” (only for the marines for the moment).
– A new map without any party “space”, thus greatly simplifying the problem of pathfinding
– An improvement at the level of gunfire from marine earlier, the marines shot at the first enemy they saw, at the risk of not capitalize on a navy closest to him, when the latter was. Now, the Navy simply pulls on the nearest unit.
– In addition, the marines go out of barracks derénavant de facon coerente
– And finally, the most important part: the construction of buildings is now limited to the place where you can really build a building … which avoids two batiements overlap. Moreover, it is prohibited to build a building too close to a rude.
– And … no, still nothing for the left-handed, but that will comeVoila, it’s not much, but to so many post, it would indeed merit a new update Thanks again for your support.
How to play:
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to test the game on an emulator, I urge you to use $ NO GBA, as it is the only emulator to my knowledge, which generates sounds correctly.Tip: in order to appear more marine Mangement press several times on “A”.
Read ahead for screenshots, and my video review.
So far the game is coming along quite nicely, and hopefully it will not fall victim to many homebrew projects’ fate of disappearing before completion.
WiFi is still not available - which makes sense as there isn’t even a full game to play yet - and the top screen does not really display a lot of useful information, but StarLite is definitely showing promise.
You can download the game in the original .nds format as well as Supercard format here.
Video Review
And some screenshots:
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Its about time someone made this, great job dudes.
Posted by: Anteo on January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 amI…. I want it.. Man I hope they get this working, I’d play it every day.
Posted by: Rugg on February 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pmI heard that blizzard shutted this project :(
Posted by: jm on June 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 am