Feb

Quake 2 For Nintendo DS

Written by Neil Galloway

One of my favorite homebrew games has been QuakeDS. It has made it onto my list of the Best Nintendo DS Homebrew. Well now Simon Hall has come out with Quake 2 for the Nintendo DS. You can read about it on the Quake2DS thread.

Apparently it works quite well, but you must have a Slot-2 solution card present to act as extra RAM that is needed to load the game up into. That sucks a bit for you Slot-1 only guys, but that's just the way it works.

I was hoping to write a big article on how to get it working and review the game, but unfortunately I cannot get it working either. I did all the instructions, picked Auto-Detect and Slowest for settings. It counts up the memory, displays some messages that go through too fast to read, and then it displays a red screen saying:

Guru Meditation Error! data abort!

along with a bunch of register values.

I am using a the Supercard Lite with Super Key. Some of the users on the thread have stated that it works for that scenario, but mine has yet to start working.

I posted a comment and will hopefully get a response soon. I'll post my results when I get it figured out.

Here is a YouTube video to watch while you're at it.

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Category: NintendoDS

Original Post: Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

3 Comments

Ryan Says:
2008-07-13 23:13:10
Quake 2 was running on my nintendo ds with the DEMO pak files. I have an EZ-Flash 3 in 1 and a cycloDS evo. I got this error once or twice, but thought it was a random error. Since ive updated my pak files with REAL quake 2 files, a ALWAYS get this red screen. If anyone finds solution please post!

Ryan Says:
2008-07-14 05:03:22
Figured out how to fix the error. Format the entire memory card, and copy all the quake files to your ds BEFORE copying any other files to your ds. also, do not defragment your card, i have fouund that this also can cause the error.

ipaqmaster - jared Says:
2009-07-24 07:54:32
well i have the exact same combo as you ryan :D

ez flash 3 in 1 and a cyclo ds but I cant seam to see walls i just see black :\

for walls floors etc