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User:Callum/Sonic Robo Blast 2 (view source)

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SRB2Wii v1.3.0, goes ingame!

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'''SRB2Wii''' is an unofficial port of the 3D platformer fangame [http://www.srb2.org Sonic Robo Blast 2] to the Wii. The PowerPC Linux version of SRB2 runs under a tiny Linux distribution loaded from an image. SRB2Wii is under ongoing development, the series of releases so far have only been test releases, SRB2Wii doesn't work properly yet. There are a couple of problems with SRB2Wii as of this writing: the controls don't seem to work, and SRB2's ~~Software renderer has enddianness issues with big-endian systems, including PowerPC, this causes it~~ to have ~~visual glitches and crashes~~, while ~~that~~ is being worked on, they are what is stopping SRB2Wii from working properly.

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'''SRB2Wii''' is an unofficial port of the 3D platformer fangame [http://www.srb2.org Sonic Robo Blast 2] to the Wii. The PowerPC Linux version of SRB2 runs under a tiny Linux distribution loaded from an image. SRB2Wii is under ongoing development, the series of releases so far have only been test releases, SRB2Wii doesn't work properly yet. There are a couple of problems with SRB2Wii as of this writing: the controls don't seem to work, and some of SRB2's levels seem to have trouble keeping steady in framerate without an explanation, while both of those is being worked on, they are what is stopping SRB2Wii from working properly.

As of 24 August, 2009, there are two versions that can be downloaded:

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[http://repos.srb2.org/srb2wii/network.tar.bz2 Network configuration files] for people wanting to use the networking on SRB2Wii. Read the instructions in /linux/README. Wi-Fi networking only through mini.

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[http://repos.srb2.org/srb2wii/swap.tar.bz2 Extended swap file] (less than 1KB compressed, 128MB extracted) for people who can spare the space on their SD cards to have the ability to load much larger levels. Just extract onto your SD card and SRB2Wii will pick it up and load it automatically.

== Changelog ==

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'''SRB2Wii v1.3.0 has been released: Here are the changes:'''

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'''- SRB2WII FINALLY GOES INGAME!''' Oogaland's fixes to the Software renderer have proved wonderful for SRB2Wii, as even though the controls still don't work (another SRB2 problem), SRB2Wii can and will go ingame, fully working, no screwed up text, no crashes (there is still lag in some (aka most) of the levels though, this will be sorted as I go). =)

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- Redesigned portions of SRB2Wii, including the boot process, the filesystem itself and how swap space is handled. There is now a separate swap file for SRB2Wii. In the normal SRB2Wii archive is a 32MB swap file, this can be extended to 128MB (for people who have the space on their SD cards) by downloading swap.tar.bz2 and extracting it onto your SD card (don't worry its literally a 338 byte download =)). SRB2Wii now loads faster, SRB2 itself loads much faster. SRB2Wii also uses less disk space and is smaller to download.

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- Made it easier for people who like to play with source to do just that with SRB2Wii =P

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- You can now change the parameters SRB2 uses to load yourself by editing /srb2wii/srb2 on your SD card. I like to use it to warp to levels manually to try them out =)

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- The mini version has been tinkered with as much as possible, the stupid /dev/mmcblk0p1 error comes up for some reason, but once that error is dealt with SRB2Wii/mini will probably work properly =)

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I still haven't tested the networking support. Anyone who has a Wii LAN Adapter that is known to work with Wii Linux can you please report to me that it works? Thanks =)

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Enjoy, everyone.

'''SRB2Wii v1.2.1 has been released! Here are the changes:'''

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