Powder Release 102 - PSP version now available |
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Good news to Roguelike game fans who happen to own Sony PlayStation Portables: homebrew developer Jeff Lait's popular Roguelike title Powder (previous release here) is finally ported over to the PSP, so there is no longer any need to run Powder through a GBA emulator. Jeff would like to thank Marvin for spreading Powder love to PSP users. Do take note that the PSP release is in Alpha, so there may be some bugs present in the game.
Aside from the good news of a PlayStation Portable port of Powder, many changes are implemented as usual in the game's version for both PSP and Nintendo DS, with the usual lengthy changelog. If you're interested in keeping tabs on Powder's development, then better dig into the text below for the information that you need:
- Fixed the word-wrap code so you will not see commas at the start of new lines. (Elias Erkamo)
- When you die the inventory cursor is reset to the first item so new games will see it in a reasonable starting location. (Colin Pritchard)
- When ><0|V| polymorphs your equipped weapon, no longer destroy the weapon if it is polymorph resistant (ie, artifact, unchanging, quest item) (sparrowhawc)
- Gifted items now appear BY your feet, rather than skipping the preposition. (Michael Brough)
- Stoned characters no longer report a depth of 255 in the character dump. (Michael Brough)
- When charging a stack of items, the new charges are split among the items in the stack, meaning there is no longer a significant advantage to charging a stack versus individual items.
- KnownItems in the Option menu will give you a list of everything you have identified this game, similar to in Nethack. (conkstah)
- Can no longer swap places when either part is submerged or in a pit (Irashtar)
- "Prove your worth in my combat arena!" now has sufficient prepositions. (Michael Brough)
- "Suits of plate" rather than "Suites of plate". (Zach Firth)
- A wand of dig will make a pit in undiggable levels. (Zach Firth)
- A bit of spell rebalancing. Sticky flames increased to 10 MP to better reflect its utility. Sunfire significantly boosted as it is supposed to be more overpowered. Create Pit's cost reduced a bit making it a comparable root attack to force bolt.
- New spell, Flash, that takes Sticky Flame's spot in the spell pre-req chain. (Irashtar)
- Character dumps to .TXT files have line wrap set to 72 columns rather than 30 so posts of winning characters will be better formated.
- The input line now has a cursor showing where you are currently typing.
- A sad day indeed! The nifty mini-game to enter your name on the GBA has been removed in favour of a mundane and boring on screen keyboard! (Zappa Penguin)
- Text input area has been doubled in size to make it easier to type your name without precision stylus placement. (David Hong, Zappa Penguin)
- A cursor has been added to the text input to make it clear when space is hit.
- Your health and mana is now colour coded if it is not at maximum. Yes, David, I have already added a note that some people may want an option to disable this.
- Successfully compiled on a 64bit Linux machine, so hopefully all of my evil pointer casts have been dealt with.
- Throwing a -2 mithril chainmail in the air will no longer heal you.
- Belweir's library now also has scrolls. (Brog)
- Adjusted inventory wrapping again. Horizontal movement will only move which column you are in and no longer adjust your row. Vertical movement will stay inside the equipped item list if you start there, otherwise loop over all of your unequiped items. This better matches the logical separation of these two lists. (Irashtar)
- Finger of Death description adds some text to clarify it is a ray spell and accidents occur due to reflections. (Irashtar)
- Flails wildly replaced by Completely misses which is a bit less confusing about the origin of the text. (Irashtar)
- I normally document every small grammar fix that occurs, but then someone gives me a few pages of corrections. Numerous fixes thanks to R. Dan Henry.
- SDL port to the PSP. (Marvin Sanchez)
Download: Powder Release 102 (for PSP)
Download: Powder Release 102 (for DS)
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Comments [refresh]
Sadly, I think I prefer ASCII versions over bad graphics =/
idk powder is one of my fave rl's and the ease of changing between tilesets is one of the pros of it
now if someone gets adom berserkrl and most importantly doomrl ported that would rock
i have a couple of bugs that are driving me crazy...
mostly that the game fails to initialize most of the time, i just get a black screen , and then i have to power off to get it to reboot, really other than that, its great! i love the new tileset, i think its practially perferct! i love the quirky sense of humor! i tried to post a bug report on the website, but i couldnt find any links! i hope they get this.
and to the haters, just go play WoW and leave great games like this to old farts like me!