Patch for ScummVM on NDS

I always loved playing old adventures (specially Day of the Tentacle). And playing them on the Nintendo DS is just fantastic.

But, the current version of ScummVM has a scaling scheme (to adapt 320×200 adventures to the 256×192 screens) which is quite odd - you can choose a dynamic scaled version or a 200% scaled version. I find a 100% scaled to be the best however. So I removed the “force 200% zoom on zoomed screen” option and implemented three radio buttons for “Dynamic Zoom”, “Zoom 100%” and “Zoom 200%” : Zoom 100% is the new one I recommend (although it’s not the default).

I’ve tested only builds A and F (with Day of the Tentacle and Legend of Kyrandia 1); also I had to remove Mp3 support because I was missing libmad for nds. Patches has been submitted to Sourceforge.

You can download either .NDS builds or .DS.GBA builds . USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

EDIT : It seems the patch will probably be included in future official builds of ScummVM DS. As soon as official release is available, I will remove the binaries and re-edit this text once again.

And now some screenshots (taken with the phone camera…) :

Day of the tentacleDay of the tentacleLegend of Kyrandia 1Options screen

March 13, 2008 | Filed Under Gaming, Software releases | Comments Off 

Spam from Carlcarlo

Sorry, only italian readers will remotely understand this.

I’ve received some spam from some TAIPINGYANG company. I thought the owner was Carlcarlo, not Pietro, anyway :).

Carlcarlospam

March 12, 2008 | Filed Under Funny (maybe) | Comments Off 

Picross is NP-Complete, too.

After Rasende Roboter, nonograms (known in videogames as Picross), is an NP-Complete problem, too.

March 3, 2008 | Filed Under Gaming, Geeky side of life | Comments Off