PrBoom

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PrBoom GP2X
Screenshot of PrBoom
Download (archive).
Original Developer id Software
Ported By Pickle, mongolito404
Version 2.5.0b
Webpage
Status Released and playable
{{Control item|control=l.gif]]+[[Image:Button r|text=Strafe}}
 Controls
Button Action
Image:Button joystick.gif Move
Image:Button a.gif Attack/Shoot
Image:Button b.gif Automap
Image:Button x.gif Use switch/Open door
Image:Button y.gif Switch to preferred weapon
Image:Button select.gif Open/close menu
Image:Button volup.gif Next weapon
Image:Button voldown.gif Previous weapon

PrBoom is a cross-platform version of the classic 3D first person shooter Doom from id Software. Originally written for PC, PrBoom has been lightly modified to run on GP2X.

Contents

Installation

  1. Copy the 'prboom' folder anywhere on your SD card.
  2. Put one, or more, supported IWAD in the the 'prboom' folder. Supported IWAD are doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad or plutonia.wad from one of the commercial Doom games, or the shareware doom1.wad.
  3. If you want music download timidity.tar.gz, extract and copy the timidity folder at the root of your SD card.
  4. Run PrBoom.gpe from you prefered shell.
  5. Config controls using the Setup menu.

Control configuration

All controls except Vol-/Vol+ can ben remapped using the Setup>Key Bindings menu.

For weapons, you can sort weapons based on your preference in prboom.cfg (near the end, under Weapon preferences). You can assign a key to "best" in the Weapons section of the "Setup>Key Bindings" menu. Pressing the button will switch between your two favorite weapons.

For manual prboom.cfg editing, I think the codes are the following (not tested):

A       0x42
B       0x43
X       0x58
Y       0x59
L       0x4C
R       0x52
SELECT  0x1B
START   0x0D
Vol+    0x12B
Vol-    0x12D

(joystick click and movements are not keys).

Savegames

Savegames should work. Be sure the quit PrBoom and to wait a few moment before shutting down your GP2X.

Changelog

  • 2.5.0b
    • Port of PrBoom 2.5.0 for the gp2x using all the latest open2x libs and stuff. Done by Pickle using control code by mongolito404.
  • 2.2.6-beta4
    • Compiled using Paeryns' SDL and Guyfawkes's SDL Test Release on a oopo's toolchain.
    • Has more random crashes, but sound works with firmware 1.4.
    • L/R and X/Y are switched.
    • No code change (no code release).
  • 2.2.6-beta3
    • Bugfix in weapons cycling.
  • 2.2.6-beta2
    • Joystick directions mapped to directions keys.
    • Weapons cycling using Vol-/Vol+.
    • Default controls in prboom.cfg.
  • 2.2.6-beta1
    • Initial release.

Future

See Talk:PrBoom for future information.

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