Release: Defend your PSP

[TacticalPenguin]

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-Readme of: Defend your PSP v0.1 by TacticalPenguin aka TacticalPinguin--

Thank you for downloading Defend your PSP v0.1!

Object of the game: Shoot the updates which are attacking your PSP!

Controls:
Analog stick: Move cursor
D-pad: Move cursor
Cross: Shoot update

Current features:
-Cursor which shoots updates
-Updates which come at PSP
-Gameover if an update reaches the PSP
-Score
-Highscore
-Speed increases as you go

Features I may add later:
-POSSIBLY irda multiplayer but it's rather unlikely
-Anything else suggested

Installation:

For eboot:

Drag __SCE__DYP and %__SCE__DYP into PSP/GAME or PSP/GAME150

For luaplayer version:

Drag Defend your PSP into luaplayer/Applications

Contact info: Email: tacticalpenguin@1337noobs .com or PM on forums.qj.net

You may use the code from this game for reference, to learn from, or even to use in your own game.
However, please give credit where credit is due. You may also include this game in any game packages etc ONLY if you make it clear who made it.

I believe in opensource, I do not compile my lua scripts; they are open for you to view.

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Hey guys I made a little game called defend your PSP today and I might as well share it. Basically you control a cursor and there is a PSP on the screen. There are updates coming at the PSP which you must shoot so that your PSP isn't updated. It has a score/highscore system as well and as you go on the updates will come faster.

DL links:

With eboot: http://dl.1337noobs.com/releases/dyp/DYPWE.zip

Without eboot: http://dl.1337noobs.com/releases/dyp/DYPNE.zip

Enjoy, and please give me any comments you have!

Spoiler for Screenshot:

[CoBrA2168]

Sounds/looks cool. I'll have to try it out.

Maybe...have the version number on the update and updates like 1.50 or OE/SE versions give you power-ups

[Moca]

My favorite :|

Shoot The "Noun"

[TacticalPenguin]

Thats somethin I was thinkin about, but then it'd need a lot of images. Although I CAN just print text to the screen saying what firmware it is. Then if you get updated to 3.03oe then you are invincible until sony releases 3.04.

[Anti-QuickJay]

So its like a chase the "blank" game?

But the update icon goes towards the left side instead of chasing your "player"
BTW, Why not just release this in the game pack?

[TacticalPenguin]

Supers gonna add some stuff to it for the gamepack he said.

[Anti-QuickJay]

But you should just release it, First version should be in the gamepack, Cause then the game pack is just a menu with dofile's to already released games.

[bossmanuk]

Great work, should be up on the front page soon, suggestion for the next version included

[brain]

Nice work TP . Will download it later

[yaustar]

If you release the source, I highly recommend you give it a license if you truly want it to be open source otherwise all it is is released source, not open. The BSD, MIT, GPL and LGPL are the most common all with different 'advantages'.

You may use the code from this game for reference, to learn from, or even to use in your own game.
However, please give credit where credit is due. You may also include this game in any game packages etc ONLY if you make it clear who made it.

This is NOT open source.

[TacticalPenguin]

Alright Ill add in the gpl license next release. Thanks for the idea.

[yaustar]

This is the part that I make sure that you know what GPL means. In short, no-one has any ownership to the source not even you. It doesn't belong to anyone and it must always be under the GPL no matter how many times the source has been modifed.

[Hooger]

Isn't this just chase the penguin?.....

[HellDragon]

learn C.................

[Anti-QuickJay]

Originally Posted by youresam

Isn't this just chase the penguin?.....

Its a modified version

[adarkthinline]

Here are some suggestions on game rules and options.
0) the PSP starts as a 1.5 and updates appear randomly 1.5 through 3.03 and OE versions from DarkAlex going toward the PSP.
1) the PSP can be upgraded to the next version (instead of game over on first contact) all the way to the current DarkAlex 3.03 OE-B (you win the game!) if you get hit by the last firmware update 3.03 then game is over.
2) the PSP image will display the current firmware starting from 1.5 and if a firmware is missed then the PSP will update to that firmware and change display.
3) as firmwares are missed and the PSP is upgraded you send out bonus downgraders to get back to firmware 1.50! and try your way back again to DarkAlex's firmware haven of 3.03 OE-B (these will flow from bottom to top or top to bottom) or (they are much smaller so they are more difficult to hit)
4) also send bricks and if a brick makes contact to the PSP then you have to defend off a load of bricks (no more updates) until you find a recovery that brings you back to defending your PSP from the firmware updates again. (the brick stage will take away from your points - if you don't get a recovery then when you reach "0" zero points you lose.
I cannot think of anything else at this time, but please let me know if they were useful.
Thanks,
adarkthinline

[Anti-QuickJay]

Originally Posted by adarkthinline

Here are some suggestions on game rules and options.
0) the PSP starts as a 1.5 and updates appear randomly 1.5 through 3.03 and OE versions from DarkAlex going toward the PSP.
1) the PSP can be upgraded to the next version (instead of game over on first contact) all the way to the current DarkAlex 3.03 OE-B (you win the game!) if you get hit by the last firmware update 3.03 then game is over.
2) the PSP image will display the current firmware starting from 1.5 and if a firmware is missed then the PSP will update to that firmware and change display.
3) as firmwares are missed and the PSP is upgraded you send out bonus downgraders to get back to firmware 1.50! and try your way back again to DarkAlex's firmware haven of 3.03 OE-B (these will flow from bottom to top or top to bottom) or (they are much smaller so they are more difficult to hit)
4) also send bricks and if a brick makes contact to the PSP then you have to defend off a load of bricks (no more updates) until you find a recovery that brings you back to defending your PSP from the firmware updates again. (the brick stage will take away from your points - if you don't get a recovery then when you reach "0" zero points you lose.
I cannot think of anything else at this time, but please let me know if they were useful.
Thanks,
adarkthinline

If he does this, Then maybe it will go on my PSP.
-= Double Post =-
Tough crowd eh? Read the comments that were posted on the front page about this...

[nights]

When I read Defend your PSP I thought someone had made a GOOD password program.

[TacticalPenguin]

Thanks adarkthinline, Ill definitely think about those ideas for the next (major) release of this. Also, I found a bug where when the update is not within the PSP's boundaries it just goes offscreen and sits there never resetting. I'm fixin it right now, Ill upload the fixed version soon.
-= Double Post =-
Alright guys the version with the bug fixed is at the same links as before, and if you want to dl just the index.lua here:

http://dl.1337noobs.com/releases/dyp/bugfix/index.lua

If you have the eboot version, rename that to system.lua and overwrite the current system.lua inside the system folder. If you have the luaplayer version just replace the index.lua with that one.

[databoy2k]

A quick suggestion for multiplayer: Have an opponent play as Sony to fire the updates. Minor updates (I.E. 1.51, 1.52, 2.01) travel slowly but many can be fired at once, while Major Updates (2.50, 3.00) can only be fired every now and then but travel faster.
It'd be an interesting spin for two-player action.
--Databoy2k

[adarkthinline]

Here are a few more suggestions on game rules and options:
1) the psp has the lowest firmware attacking the PSP when the PSP is hit it upgrades and the remaining updates that are still on the screen subtract from your total points then the next firmware appears and process starts again.
2) the PSP has a single level shield only when it upgrades to any of DarkAlex's firmwares.
3) after you have gained your first shield you can add two more by upgrading to the same Darkalex firmware
4) after you have gained your first shield and the 2nd and 3rd then you can gain super shields (can take three hits then turns off)
5) if you destroy the single SONY (just the word) that flows to the PSP then you get an automatic single shield.
I am sure that it is faster to come up with ideas than to make them happen, so good luck with your game and keep us posted on your next version.

[TacticalPenguin]

Yea I'll probably work on it some more next weekend, Ive got finals this next week.

[HeaD_ShOt]

good luck on ur finals

[TacticalPenguin]

lol thanks, i usually dont have problems with them

[Hooger]

mehhh... maybe ill download it on next release

[hOmeBoYPiNoY]

You should make it so when you lose. The game will automatically update your PSP to 3.03 Vanilla to make the game have a "scary" feeling to it

[Anti-QuickJay]

LOLz, In order to run this game, Place the 3.03 eboot inside an "UPDATE" folder inside your PSP>GAME>
Then when you lose, It will run that eboot, PWN?

[TacticalPenguin]

lol.

Im sorry, this game uses PRX's from the 3.03 update eboot. Please download the 3.03 update and place it in the root of your MS named update.pbp.

[Anti-QuickJay]

That will PWN, Feel sorry for some noob who runs it, Thats when you say, " "

[nights]

Lol that would be a beautiful idea. If you lose you have to update to 3.03. =)