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dualHexen

This is a modified verison of Sektor's dualHexen, a port of Hexen to the Nintendo DS. Note that Sektor's version is itself a modification of Rich Whitehouse's hexenDS. Mainly I was frustrated by not being able to strafe, but there aren't enough buttons to go around, so I had to move something to the touchscreen. While I was at it I made a couple other changes, and here we are.

My changes include:

• Saving/Loading games (however savegames are not compatible with the PC version)
• Inventory manipulation via the touchscreen:
  • Touch the image of the active inventory item to use it.
  • Touch the empty area just to the right of the item to bring up the inventory bar.
  • Touch an item in the inventory bar to make it the active item.
  • If you have more than 7 items in inventory, select the one at the edge to scroll, then return to your inventory.
  • This interface could stand to be improved, but it is functional.
• Altered control configuration:
  A = fire
  B = use (i.e. open doors)
  Y = jump
  X = cycle weapons
  L = strafe left
  R = strafe right
  D-Pad = move forward/backwards, turn left/right
  Touchscreen = mouselook, inventory
  

Other things to note that I didn't touch:

• Sound works but not music
• Controls are not configurable in game
• There is a level warp and a 'give all' cheat on the menu
• I've gotten somewhat frequent out-of-memory crashes. Most annoyingly, if this happens while saving over an existing save slot, you can lose your savegame.
• The source is built with old versions of devkitARM and libnds (check the readme for exact versions). I was too lazy to change this.

To play, you'll need the binary (.NDS file) below, plus the registered version WAD, HEXEN.WAD -- the shareware version apparently will not work. The .NDS can be anywhere on your SD/CF card, and the WAD file should go in /data/hexen/ (it can also go in the root directory of the card, but savegames will go in /data/hexen/).

Binary: dualHexen.nds
Source (License uncertain): dualHexen-source.tar.bz2