Blake Stone - BStone source port

cyperghost

@tpo1990 Haha ;) These WCD-3rd-PS* games are so funny

*WCD-3rd-PS
Wheelchair-Driven third person shooter ;)

simpleethat

@tpo1990 this brings me back! I had the shareware version of Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold growing up and really might need to check this out.

tpo1990

@cyperghost Yes i remember them being something different back in the day than your typical first person shooter. :-)

@simpleethat I can only say the same for my experience as well. ;-)

cyperghost

@tpo1990 No not because these shooters are so old. It's the movement itself you may think you are driving through with a wheelchair ;)

tpo1990

@cyperghost said in Blake Stone - BStone source port:

@tpo1990 No not because these shooters are so old. It's the movement itself you may think you are driving through with a wheelchair ;)

Ah i see. Yes you are right. I never thought of it in that way. I think a lot of the movement changed after Doom was introduced. Blake Stone is actually using the Wolfenstein 3D engine which has the same "wheelchair" movement, but it is considered to be a standalone game. I know in fact that Wolf4SDL and the other source port ECWolf does not support Blake Stone.

hhromic

@tpo1990 great work you are doing with all these scriptmodules!
I hope soon we can manage to merge them into RetroPie. I think your scriptmodules are nice contributions to the project.

tpo1990

@hhromic Thank you. I think so too. Until the pull request for Hexen 2 and Jazz Jackrabbit has been merged into RetroPie, i have decided to wait with creating other pull requests. I will still share my work for the RetroPie community though.

ExarKunIv

this is very cool, cant wait to try it.

now if we can have a port of corridor 7. i will be all set. but im happy with dos box for that one. as i know it is not that well known

tpo1990

@ExarKunIv said in Blake Stone - BStone source port:

this is very cool, cant wait to try it.

now if we can have a port of corridor 7. i will be all set. but im happy with dos box for that one. as i know it is not that well known

Now that is one game that im not familiar with. If a source port exists that can be built and compiled on our Raspberry PI then we will have a chance, but unfortunately if it is not very well known then it might not be an option.

ExarKunIv

@tpo1990 yea....it came out right before doom, and was build on the a highly modified Wolf engine. but it was over looked, due to timing

it was very well made for want it was using. i would recommend it. if you like playing the old games.

tpo1990

@ExarKunIv It sounds just like Rise of the Triad. That game was supposed to be the sequel to Wolfenstein 3D but was over looked due to hype of Doom. :-)

I might try it some time. I visited ECWolf's git repository and they say that ECWolf aims to support all games which use the Wolfenstein 3D engine including Blake Stone (coming in ECWolf 3.0), Corridor 7, Operation Body Count, Rise of the Triad, and Super 3D Noah's Ark. This is another Wolfenstein 3D source port that we can build on our RPI.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 ECWolf is in my opinion the best enviroment for this games. AFAIK Super 3D Noah's Ark is supported already.

tpo1990

@cyperghost You are probably right about that. I have only tried ECWolf with Wolfenstein 3D and from what i remember it worked great on my Raspberry Pi, but that was in 4.3/Jessie. ECWolf could be an alternative to the primary Wolf4SDL in RetroPie bringing more Wolfenstein 3D styled games to work. ECWolf would seem like the perfect candidate for this.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 I tried ECWolf on a Windows Mashine and there Wolf3d, SoD and Noah are running.

ExarKunIv

@tpo1990 if there is a way to get corridor 7 working, im all for it.

not that i would have a clue on how to get ECWolf to work. so ill wait till someone with way more knowlage then I to take a stab. :)

tpo1990

@cyperghost said in Blake Stone - BStone source port:

@tpo1990 I tried ECWolf on a Windows Mashine and there Wolf3d, SoD and Noah are running.

Then it should also work on Raspberry Pi if building from source still works.

tpo1990

@ExarKunIv Yes ECWolf will eventually at some time support Corridor 7 just like Super 3D Noah's Ark.

terrorpup

@tpo1990 said in Blake Stone - BStone source port:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tpo1990/BlakeStone-RPI/master/bstone.sh -P $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/

WOW, thanks guys, I been working on a first-person shooter this build this was a great add.

moltke44

Just saw this and super happy. Loved this when younger, always felt under appreciated. Had a boot disk I'd use to play this quite often. I played a lot of Doom, but also this always stuck with me. The sound effects still ring true in my mind. Thanks,

tpo1990

@moltke44 Good to hear that i am able to make others gaming experience even better by sharing with the RetroPie community. As it works good enough, I still think the Blake Stone experience could be even better by improving it.