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Early Work on Homebrew StarCraft for the DS

Posted by Zonk on from the excellent-craft dept.

Via Buttonmashing, news of early work on a homebrew project to port Blizzard's StarCraft to the Nintendo DS. "Since no official plans were ever announced from Blizzard, two French homebrew developers have taken it upon themselves to create a port of the popular PC game, StarCraft, for the Nintendo DS, calling it StarLite. Because they've only been working for three weeks, the game is a bit limited right now and still needs a lot of work."

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  1. bad idea by ILuvRamen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your only chance of beating me and like 95% of other online players is using a mouse and even then you damn well better be fast with it! I even have lost games because of using a ball mouse. You gotta play so fast, it just wouldn't work on the PSP. Even the offline stuff is kinda difficult to do if you're not able to move troops quickly.

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  2. I've actually played it... by sykopomp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Love my R4. I downloaded this thing last night before I saw it on slashdot. It's pretty amazing. All they have ready so far is the GUI and basic gameplay. You only have two buildings (terran command center and a barracks) and you can only build SCVs and marines. There's a few enemy marines on the map to kill, and that's about it...

    But it works amazingly well. The controls are more smooth and precise than so many other official DS games I've played. Basically, you tap on a unit to select it, and tap on something else to make it do an action. It automatically selects the right action. Selecting the units is really accurate, I never actually had to tap them more than once to get them to select. You can also do a drag-select, and that works too. The GUI, even in its early stage, is also very nice and responsive. When you select a unit, you get a little menu on the right hand of the screen with some icons for the actions you can do. The game even runs at full speed, with good sound output (with sounds from the actual gome... give me somethin' to shoot) and everything. I imagine the resolution is lower, but I certainly can't tell. They're doing an amazing job with this, I'm really impressed. I hope they carry on with it, and if Blizzard gets involved, that they hire them to do an official version, because this is going to be commercial quality if they keep it up.