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Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha **UPDATED**

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Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha **UPDATED**

Postby mrLogan on Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:54 pm

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**UPDATED VERSION CONTAINING STARMAP CONTROLS**

Installation
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Just copy across the folder and make a menu entry or shortcut to "frontier"

Controls
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R + L + SELECT = QUIT
SELECT = swap between "Mouse mode" and "Flight mode" and "Star Map Mode"

Controls in Mouse Mode
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Dpad = move mouse
A = Left Click
B = Right Click
Y = Hyperspace to Destination
X = Eject from ship (if you have an escape pod)
R = use radar mapper
L = hyperspace cloud analyser

Double click on pause icon = options (for adjusting detail level, saving and loading games etc)

Controls in Flight mode
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Dpad = yaw / pitch
L = Decrease Thrust
R = Increase Thrust
A = Fire Laser
B = Fire Missile when targeted
Y = ECM
X = Drop Energy Bomb
START = with military camera takes photograph, with MB4 mining machine deploys MB4

Controls in Star Map Mode
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Dpad = move around star map

When in the mouse mode you can also hold down B and use the Dpad to rotate the starmap


Quick start to getting of the ground
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Press any key to bring up the menu and then move the mouse pointer to the first option and press A to click.
Move the mouse pointer down to the icon 4 and press A to request a launch.
Then move the mouse pointer to the icon 7 and press A to launch upwards.
Press select once to switch from mouse mode to flight mode.
Press R to start thrusting forwards.

Happy Flying.

Quick start to hyperspace
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Change to mouse mode and click on icon 2 to bring up the Star Map
Press select twice to switch to Star Map Mode
Move around the Star Map using the Dpad
Note you can only travel to destinations if its in range and you don't have much range to begin with
Look at the text in the bottom left corner to see if you either out of range or how much fuel is required
Once you have the destination hightlighted press Select again to get to mouse mode
Click on forward view and providing you are in space you can press Y to hYperspace
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby zear on Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:37 pm

Wow this is great! It's much faster than I expected.
I've noticed one bug however. You can move your cursor off the screen. While it's still visible on the edge of the screen, it's actually far beyond it and if you try to move it back to the screen, it doesn't appear to actually move until it reaches the screen area again.
Also, I think you can't rotate your ship on sides when in flight mode. You can only move it up/down and left/right. In other words - you can't do a barrel roll ;)

And a tip for other players:
You can increase the game performance by reducing the level of shape detail (dobule click on "pause" icon, then set shape detail to "low").
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby mrLogan on Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:45 pm

zear wrote:Wow this is great! It's much faster than I expected.
I've noticed one bug however. You can move your cursor off the screen. While it's still visible on the edge of the screen, it's actually far beyond it and if you try to move it back to the screen, it doesn't appear to actually move until it reaches the screen area again.
Also, I think you can't rotate your ship on sides when in flight mode. You can only move it up/down and left/right. In other words - you can't do a barrel roll ;)


I didn't know you could do a barrel roll, I had to look up the various keys on the internet as it wasn't in the source so can you tell me what the keys for rolling are?
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby zear on Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:45 pm

I only know it was possible to do in GP2X version :D
You should check the GP2X sources, they have added music support and some other tweaks.
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby jmd28 on Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:54 am

:cry: this.... is beautiful..... thank you....
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby zear on Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:36 am

Hmm.. it looks like you just need to set "Elite control method in space" to be able to do barrelrolls :)
But I found another problem:
You can't scroll the local/starmap and you can't select starsystems in the starmap.
If you're unable to select starsystems, you can't do jumps in hyperspace, that is you can't go from system to system, which makes the game unplayable.
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby spn-x on Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:04 am

Could anybody make an icon for dmenu ?
I'm horrible in PS and Gimp ...
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby leon_x on Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:24 pm

zear wrote:I only know it was possible to do in GP2X version :D
You should check the GP2X sources, they have added music support and some other tweaks.

On this page are the sources of the port from gp2x with music and enhanced sound:

http://www.vieju.net/pub/gp2x/

I hope you find useful

Thanks for a port of this great game
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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby Atrushan on Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:41 pm

Wow, thanks! Best space strategy game since Star Wars! Keep Working and Rocking On it! you have the community's support!

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Re: Frontier: Elite 2 for Dingux 0.1Alpha

Postby S0L on Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:38 pm

Yeah - impressive stuff this :)

Runs better than it did on my A500 :P

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