lucas arts games on nintendo ds

[petaglair]

hi

i bought a gba/nds supercard flash card. It allows you to play divx, mp3, several  consoles games. i discovered that an emulator (scummvm) would allow you to play lucasarts point n click games(and others) on the nintendo ds with great quality thru this device.
proof here=>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxwGj0fDXg

Anyone heard of this?

No my question is, do you think an ags emu could appear for the nintendo ds?

Would you enjoy this eventuality?

Pétaglair

[Kweepa]

This has been discussed several times. Here's one example:
http://americangirlscouts.org/bbc.com/yabb/index.php?topic=24320.0
The short answer is no.

Thanks for the video of ScummVM on DS though. It's been discussed too, but I hadn't seen it.

[petaglair]

ok then
thanx for the info

[TheYak]

Semi-related... if you're homebrew-capable already, there's one adventure GBA homebrew game I tried recently: The Last Seal.  The normal play graphics aren't bad but the up-close characters are pretty amateur-ish (not that it should bother any AGS fan). 

And I definitely dig the SCUMMVMDS, S&M on my DS-Lite... awesome.

[LimpingFish]

Since firmware 2.71 was cracked, to enable the TIFF exploit to run the eLoader program with out the need for the GTA savegame workaround, I have been enjoying ScummVM on my Sony PSP.

Everything from Loom to Broken Sword 2 runs almost perfectly, and the resolution of the PSP screen makes the graphics seem a lot cleaner than when running the same games in Windows.

[SinSin]

i had no idea my ds could do that i am amazed   yes i did know about the flash cards but not to this degree WOW gonna get me one of those

[Domino]

I own a DS, love it. I own a GBA SP, love it. I also own a PSP which i rarely ever play games on. I just use it as a Multimedia device. I have put music, pictures and movies on my 1GB memory stick, but i also use it to read the forums when i am not on my computer. I have a wireless router hooked up to my computer, so i can wake up, turn on the PSP and check the forums. I love my little PSP.





Reading the AGS forums on the PSP (or any other site) is a bit slow, but it works great.

For those who don't know, the PSP comes with its own internet browser, so there is no hacking or firmware changes to the device.

[sergiocornaga]

Old adventure games on the DS would be so great. The later Tex Murphy games especially, since they had a lot of screen-cluttering menus that would be perfect shifted to a second screen.

Too bad that will never happen... Damn you Microsoft.

[petaglair]

the cool thing with having point n click game on the nds is you can play them with the pen to control the cursor. I wouldn't spit on having these games on psp, but the psp is too expensive...

Pétaglair

[Miez]

Said it before, saying it again: an AGS interpreter for DS (or PSP) would be awesome. Hop to it, ace coders!

[BOYD1981]

if you got linux to run on one of those things wouldn't you then, in theory atleast, be able to use the linux interpreter to run AGS games?
if i still had my dreamcast i'd try it out on that.

[scotch]

No, for various reasons but fundementally the code in an executable is machine code and AGS linux engine is compiled for PC x86 processors and the dreamcast/ds/psp etc have different types of processors. So unless we could compile a build for these other systems then they wouldn't run, linux or not. The problem with simply compiling a version for a console, besides AGS's source not being available, is that the hardware differs so much, and the libraries AGS uses are not available for that hardware.

A DS port would be a lot of work... I think it's possible, but I'm not too interested in doing it because like ScummVM on DS it'd be merely a curiosity. All I've done is loaded up Indy 4 and gone "oh, indy on my ds... wow..." and turned it off after the intro. PC games are generally not worth playing on handhelds in my opinion.