Baldur's Gate, IceWind Dale, Planescape:Torment on Pocket PC

[darvin88]

"GemRB (Game engine made with preRendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine which was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. It should run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X and possibly other UNIX derivatives. It is licensed under the GPL. " (http://linux.prinas.si/gemrb/doku.php)

Who can port this wondeful program to WM? I will tester )

[darvin88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyAgs3dFqU
Baldur's Gate on Nokia N800

[neophyte.vii]

Omfg, Planescape: Torment would be the best!!

[darvin88]

Omfg, Planescape: Torment would be the best!!

yes. I play it on linux on pc now, it runs stable and fast...

[jardan]

wow! please some one make this work! i'll be a tester too! i love baldurs gate and if i can play it on my hermes it will be amazing!

[darvin88]

hey! developers! nobody loves BG&PST? (

[lyndel4]

Great ideas Guys hope they post this soon while am waiting al just play Doom 1,2, TNT etc. and Dukenuken 3D on my WM cant wait for this lol

[votum]

Seems to me it would be an easy job, as all you would need to do is have the proper dependencies. http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showtopic=16785

This forum has a post about it, with a link to installation instructions. I don't have time to hassle with it now, but looks like you need a few libs installed and thats it. If anyone wants to try gof or it! Seems like all we would need is a CAB to install dependencies, and that youtube vid was a year ago, I am sure there is a way now.

[dvdivx]

Baldur's Gate would be the best and looks like the entire focus of the development. Problem would be that it would be VGA only. I don't see this working on a qvga screen. The original game was 480x640 with BG2 being able to play at VGA or higher.

[jardan]

well, i searched for a version of gemrb for ppc but found nothing on google... if any of the developers could create one it would be great! i really want to play baldurs gate on my hermes!

[sschrupp]

Oh man this would be awesome on my Touch HD. Good find! Now hopefully the gurus around here will take a look and get it working. :)

[onurdndar]

The last (and only) time I tried to port a python game to Windows Mobile, I was stuck at getting pygame to run. This seems to have less dependencies so might be easier.

I love the 2D series of RPGs but GemRB is nowhere near complete yet.

[lyndel4]

Well am not a programming guru but you Guys keep saying that its easy to port thats Good but can you tell us if your porting right now and we should wait for it to get completed or no body started yet I really wish I can help but again am not a programer al leave this to the pros :)

[iceblade997]

wow, this would be AWESOME if someone could get it to work!

[onurdndar]

If someone wants to try porting, here is a post with links to WinCE versions of the required libraries (http://forum.ladoshki.com/viewtopic.php?p=15818479&sid=85041c0d2eb6409b5c119f953604a172). I haven't tried any of them and the link is in Russian.

... made by the original poster, no less :)

[jardan]

because i am not a programer, if you csn tell me what to do, i am will to try my self... and where to find the games?

[onurdndar]

The games? You have to buy and prepare them for GemRB yourself. There was some discussion of fanmade games for GemRB but it is a lot of work.

Porting such a program is not a trivial task and is impossible for a non programmer.

[jardan]

yes, i am sorry, i figure it out about the games after that post... it's good then i have all the series of bg and IWD in my home... so, if i can not do anything because i am not a programer, as i said before i am willing to beta test so please, anyone can make it happend?
anyone?

[iostream1]

I want this to happen! There's gotta be somone out there who can do it!

[yarod_g14]

This would change my life! (well my free time)
FOR EVER! (for at least 2 weeks until I complete it again.)

I have such warm fuzzy memories of this game. Imoen the theif girl who I am sure I managed to pull.....

Hours and hours of clicking frenzy.

Never Winter nights 2 just never grabbed me in the same way that these old games did.

I really hope that this can be done. I am unable to sit in front of my PC and replay this as I have so many things I wan to play and look at. Having this on mobile wouyld be perfect!!

[SeanFromSoCal]

I've never played BG before but was very interested when I was in school but couldn't afford to buy the software. But now its nice to have a flash back and play games like these on my phone during downtime. Thanks in advance for anyone who partakes in the porting.

[Sopis]

I'd love to see Planescape on my Blackstone :) That was one of the best games, philosphies, storyline and idea ever

[nathanpc]

This is awesome! :)

[iostream1]

========Bump==========

Come on people, we're still waiting :(

[kbloem]

any new developments?

[iostream1]

Nothing to see here... just another neglected, would-be project...

[captainp]

My first post on xda-de(yea i'm a ghost member :D ) so hi.

It would be really sweet to launch this on ppc... I don't have enough skills to do that, but... whatever. if someone is interested - this is what you need to compile gemrb on windows mobile:

-libpng
-SDL
-python
-openal

(windows mobile has it all! so we just need someone with knowledge just to launch it :D )

-type in google "wiki gemrb"


ps
Sorry no links to the projects, because "To prevent spam to the forums, new users are not permitted to post outside links in their messages. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed."
:rolleyes:

[derdepp]

Ok, also my first my post......

i collected the dependencies, what do i have to do now? how can i build gemrb for windows mobile? or can anyone skilled build this?
As far as I read, libpng is an optional dependency, so i didnt download this package.

Appreciate help

[captainp]

derdepp, hi. I can't really help you but there are compilation instructions on gemrb that could give you a clue...
Here is for windows:
hxxp://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showtopic=13087

And here is for linux:
hxxp://gemrb.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=installation

Replace "xx" with "tt" :)

[captainp]

I finally bought n900... gemrb is just pure awesomeness! But whatever :D

Ok so i did a litte research and... sorry guys but we need someone who actually worked with WindowsCE.
Download VS,windowsCE sdk, open project, build... sad, but building a gemrb for WM isn't that simple :(
For building gemrb on Windows Mobile someone needs to compile it with VS(i think) using mingw(gcc), cmake and probably other stuff...

So we need here a pro :P