Flashback On The Nintendo DS
One of my all time favorite games for the PC was called Flashback. For those of you who remember, it was one of the early games that had the smooth, fluid character motions in the game. The main character ran in a human fashion. I was addicted. Throw in the science fiction story line and it was a "geek's dream".
Anyhow, it has been resurrected on the Nintendo DS with the extensive homebrew scene going on now. I had some problems getting it to work, but I finally figured it out the other night.
Performance
Pretty good. The game itself runs quite smooth. The only thing that I do notice being slow are the cinematic scenes in the game.
I have also had it freeze once. I have played a dozen times, so we will have to wait and see if it becomes more frequent or not.
Sound works as well. You have music and sound effects.
My Hardware
I have a Nintendo DS Lite with a Supercard 3 and a Supercard Lite with microSD.
To Get It Running
This was a bit of a pain actually. The main page I used was found on Troy Davis' site. Here you will find a link for the latest binary.
You also need the game files from the DOS version of the game. How you get these is up to you. Find an old copy of the game from someone or go searching on the internet.
If you want sound, you need the audio files from the Amiga version of the game. This is even harder to find, but I did manage to find them on one website. I found them at this web site.. One of the files is called mod.flashback-ascenseur if you need to look for another site because the link I provided does not work.
Basically, you just need to do the following.
- Create a folder called data\flashback\Data on the root folder of your flash card. I do not think capitalization matters, but this is how mine looks, exactly.
- Copy all the data files from the Data folder of your DOS Flashback installation into the \data\flashback\Data folder on the flash card.
- Check to see if you have the files LOGOSSSI.CMD, LOGOSSSI.POL, MENU1SSI.CMD, and MENU1SSI.POL. If you do, rename them to drop the SSI portion off the end of each filename.
- Copy all the Amiga audio files into the \data\flashback\Data folder as well.
- Download the DLDI patch file and patcher if you don't already have them at the DLDI site.
I personally downloaded the SuperCard Lite DLDI and Win32 GUI DLDI Patcher.
- Patch the REminiscenceDS.nds file with DLDI.
- I started the Win32 Gui by unzipping the Win32 zip file I downloaded and double clicking the dlditool32.exe file inside. It opens a window.
- I clicked the ... button to the right of the DLDI File field and selected the folder I saved my SuperCard Lite DLDI file from above. The picklist then shows the available DLDI's.
- Select the SuperCard Lite(TransFlash MicroSD) option.
- Click the ... button to the right of the Binaries field. Select the file REminiscenceDS.nds from the zip file you downloaded earlier and click Open.
- Click the Patch button. The existing REminiscenceDS.nds file will be overwritten with a new one.
- Copy the file in to the root folder on the flash card.
- Boot it up.
Problems You Might Have Getting It To Run
cannot find logos.cmdYou need to make sure you renamed the logosssi.cmd and other files before you put them on the flash card.
cannot find menus1.cmdYou need to make sure you renamed the logosssi.cmd and other files before you put them on the flash card.
It freezes when I try to save.I got this by using 0.23 of the REminiscence application. If you download the latest and patch it with DLDI, it should be fine.
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