Topic: DESCENT FOR WiiWare ANNOUNCED

[TechPro]

How hard is it to port something that old and small? If you don't have all of the addons, I'm pretty sure that it'll fit in the Wii's little pea brain. My default D2 folder is only 234MB.


And that reminds me of the "CRAZY" installment option where you install an additional 64mb or something. XD

*2010*
"ArE YOu CRAZY!?!?!?1/1/1//1"
"YEA!"
*installs an additional 64MB on a computer that can handle 200GB*

Hey, in the days the game came out, it was common for people to be running on systems with 100mb to 512mb hard disks.  The "CRAZY" installment was no joke.  It was a "CRAZY" awesome thing to have a hard disk big enough to spare that much space.

[SaladBadger]

2010 and only 200 GB? ancient!

The crazy install option becomes more reasonable when I look at my 386 and it only has a 124 MB hard disk (but that computer isn't descent-compatible). (with the install listed as 262 gb in the D2 installer, it probably would be crazy to install that onto anything 2 gigs and less honestly)

[PyroJockey]

"Dad, wanna play wii bowling?"  "Ok"  "We gotta setup a mii for you... What color hair do you want?"  "I don't care let's just play the game."  "Ok, I'll give you brown hair... What color eyes do you want?"  "I don't care, just pick one and let's play!"  "Ok dad, I gave you green eyes."  "Fine, can we play now"  "I'm gonna change them to brown, ok?" " ARRRRgh.....

D'OH! (Shudder) I've been there. takes longer to figure out and set up the darn wii mii that it does to learn and play a game. I hope they didn't port the wii mii's to Descent. 

[VANGUARD]

people have 1 T or larger, (1000 GB). I am probably still good at just using 40 GB, yes 40!. But my laptop is 320, and awfully empty.
I remember the "insane" option in D2. It's funny, but yeah, at the time, it was something.

[-<WillyP>-]

How hard is it to port something that old and small? If you don't have all of the addons, I'm pretty sure that it'll fit in the Wii's little pea brain. My default D2 folder is only 234MB.


And that reminds me of the "CRAZY" installment option where you install an additional 64mb or something. XD

*2010*
"ArE YOu CRAZY!?!?!?1/1/1//1"
"YEA!"
*installs an additional 64MB on a computer that can handle 200GB*

Hey, in the days the game came out, it was common for people to be running on systems with 100mb to 512mb hard disks.  The "CRAZY" installment was no joke.  It was a "CRAZY" awesome thing to have a hard disk big enough to spare that much space.

When D1 first came out, I built a new system, and I got the biggest hard drive anyone had ever heard of... 120mb!  Everyone though I was mad!  They didn't think I'd ever need that much space.

[VANGUARD]

I had a 500 MB hard drive, told my former boss and he said I'd never fill that up.

[-<WillyP>-]

Nowadays one game is four times that.

[NUMBERZero]

2010 and only 200 GB? ancient!

Actually it is 400, but I have 200 open.

[Foil]

...I look at my 386 and it only has a 124 MB hard disk (but that computer isn't descent-compatible).

Huh?

I first ran Descent on a 386SX-16 (that's one of the weaker 386 models) with 80Mb on the hard drive.

Descent certainly is/was playable on a 386.

[-<WillyP>-]

Ran on a 286, too, but sucked having a monochrome monitor.  IB was talking about D2, maybe that needed more? 

[SaladBadger]

Heh, that's odd. I'm having trouble getting my 386(sx? can't remember offhand)-20 to run anything, pretty much. I should try loading Descent on that thing, then.

[-<WillyP>-]

What os are you using?  I had DR-DOS on mine, ran great.

[Foil]

I ran MS-DOS 5 and Win3.1 on my 386.  It had 1Mb of RAM, I believe.

Get the sound settings right (IRQ/DMA), and run Descent under DOS.  Should work fine, even if you have to hit the "-" button to shrink the screen a bit to get playable framerates.

[SaladBadger]

The machine runs MS-DOS 6. It's usually decently fast until you start doing something really intensive. 

[VANGUARD]

oh wow, people on here went off topic  imagine that. lol

I went to the interplay site and saw this:

http://www.interplay.com/games/comingsoon.php

may still be good news. says descent will be available in the first quarter of 2011.