Wii Shooting Gallery

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Wii Shooting Gallery
Type	Game
Author	Arikado
Version	1.8
Download	Download
Source	Available on Request
Peripherals
Full Homebrew Channel Support
Downloadable via the Homebrew Browser

Wii Shooting Gallery is a simple target shooting game.

Contents 1 About 2 Controls 3 Installation 4 User Generated Backgrounds 5 Known Bugs 6 Download User Generated Backgrounds 7 Why I Made It 8 In the future 9 About the source 10 Special Thanks 11 Credits 12 Release Notes 13 Final Thoughts 14 Links

About

Wii Shooting Gallery is a shoot the targets type game. It is best played with the Wii Zapper. After you miss three times you will return to the menu (GUI). It consists of 8 modes:

• Still Targets
• Horizontal Moving Targets
• Vertical Moving Targets
• Crazy Targets
• Crisscross Targets
• Teleporting Targets
• Hogans New Alley
• Wii Shoot In Space

Controls

Menu Controls:

UP and DOWn or Nunchuk's analog UP and DOWN or Classic UP and DOWN or Classic Left Analog UP and DOWN or Z: Select Option

LEFT and RIGHT or Nunchuk's analog LEFT and RIGHT or Classic LEFT and RIGHT or Classic Left Analog LEFT and RIGHT or C: Change Selected Option

Wiimote HOME or Classic HOME: Return to the loader

In Game Controls:

IR Sensor: Aim

B: Shoot

(Wii Shoot In Space Only) Nunchuck's Analog LEFT and RIGHT or Classic LEFT and RIGHT or Classic Left Analog Stick LEFT and RIGHT: Move ship

C or Z or Classic B: Shoot from the ship

Installation

Extract the .zip directly to your apps folder on SD card.

THIS GAME IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE WIIMOTE, NUNCHUK, WII ZAPPER, ALL VERSIONS OF THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL, AND FRONT SD LOADER.

User Generated Backgrounds

Since the 1.4 release, players have been able to enable backgrounds as they play. However, I think the game is best played with a background you made.

­***Heres how to make and use your own:***

Make a .png image with the dimensions 640x480

Save it as either background1.png, background2.png, or background3.png.

Put the image into the data folder in the WiiShootingGallery folder.

Make sure you get rid of the existing image you are replacing.

­***How to let other people use your backgrounds:***

If you want other people to be able to use your backgrounds, please make 3 backgrounds and put them into a .zip file. Then either e-mail me the .zip or upload the .zip to the internet and then e-mail me the link. I will put the file/link onto the Wiibrew page for the app. Remember to only put the backgrounds into the .zip Do not resend the entire app to me.

­***How to use someone elses backgrounds***

If you want to use someone elses backgrounds put them into the data folder in the WiiShootingGallery folder, making sure to replace the existing background images with them.

Its that easy everyone. Please do not e-mail me questions that I have already answered in the text above.

Once again my e-mail address is: castlevania7689 <at> yahoo <dot> com

Known Bugs

I would like to publicly apologize for the lack of qualtiy found in Wii Shoot In Space. It will become a great, fun to play, fleshed out shooter with boss battles. I would rather have not publicly released it as is, but I needed a new release for HBC 9 compatibility and there was too much code for it layered throughout the program to take it all out and expect a stable version of Wii Shooting Gallery.

The screen is black for a couple of seconds when the app is originally loaded is first started.

Exiting and then restarting a game, really fast, really repeatedly, can cause a code dump

Expansion Controllers must be disconnected and then reconnected at the start of the game.

Download User Generated Backgrounds

Warpedflash's backgrounds Christopher M.'s backgrounds WarpedFlash's Backgrounds 2 Default Backgrounds for 1.4

Why I Made It

Wii Shooting Gallery was made as a new reason to actually own and use the Zapper. Besides what I just made, I only have one game that is fun to play with the Zapper; The freebie with the Zapper Link's Crossbow Training. Granted, this is currently only target shooting, but I have a few ideas for some interesting modes...

In the future

Saving High Scores

A better looking GUI

Sound

About the source

The source code to this game is available on request. Request it by e-mailing me: castlevania7689 <at> yahoo <dot> com

I do this to stop countless third-party releases and/or clones. However if you just ASK I'll give you the source so you can feel free to make a third party release.

If I have given you the source for a previous version, please e-mail me again for the latest version!!!

Special Thanks

A big thank you to Warpedflash who redid the artwork originally. Currently he continues to make artwork for me. Thanks especially for putting up with how picky and unclear I was about the target animations. Thanks for testing as well.

Thanks to Stevey for the icon and the awesome Wiibrew page.

Thanks to Christopher M. who inadvertently gave me the idea for usergenerated backgrounds. Thanks for testing as well.

Thanks to Aaron (Azza123) who made those amazing default backgrounds. Aaron also continues to create new artwork for me. Thanks for testing as well.

Thanks to Tonei Altenburg for testing.

Thank you to the homebrew browser team for hosting my games.

Thanks to Chaosteil for developing the libwiisprite library as well as for being so nice despite my lack of knowledge about transparency.

Thanks to Team Twiizers for originally hacking the Wii.

Thank you to everyone who continues to download Wii Shooting Gallery every time that there is a new release. The download count on MediaFire is beautifully high.

Credits

• Arikado

Release Notes

1.8 - Highscoring System - Basic Enemies for Wii Shoot In Space - Hogans New Alley Difficulty Modified - Compatible With HBC 9

1.7.5 - Private Release - 2 Graphical Bugs Fixed - Bug Fix - GUI Rewritten, still ugly, but more functional - Classic Controller support added - Full Nunchuk Support added to the GUI - Full Wiimote only support for each mode - Zapper is much less cumbersome to use - Difficulty Option added for Hogans New Alley and Wii Shoot In Space in place of the animation option - Targets modes have all been fixed

1.7 - Private Release - Bug Fix - Rumbling Option Added - Time Option Added - Hogans New Alley - Slight Control Change - Menu Text Realigned - Simple Prototype of Wii Shoot In Space - Some of the original artwork has been changed

1.4 - Crisscross and Teleporting Targets added - Animation option added - User Generated Backgrounds added - Slight Control Change - Menu text has been somewhat centered - Multiple crosshairs have been enabled

1.1 - Bug Fix - New Art - Icon - Visible/Invisible Crosshair Option - Slight Control Change - Scoring

1.0 - Bug Fix - First Public Release

0.9 - Bug Fix

0.8 - Crazy Targets Works

0.5 - Horizontal and Vertical Moving Targets Work

0.35 - GUI works

0.3 - Still Targets Works

0.1 - The Sprite is drawn correctly where the Wiimote points

Final Thoughts

Please share questions comments and ideas with me at: castlevania7689 <at> yahoo <dot> com I can also be found floating around the forums at wiibrew.org I'll continue to update my game with new releases for now. Thanks for playing,reading, downloading and the like.

Also of note; This game is for download on the homebrew browser.

                   -Arikado

Links

http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?17,1025 Forum Thread