IrDA Games v0.7 Readme
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"IrDA Games" is a homebrew for the psp system which allows to play you games with an interactive and groundbreaking game-controlling with help of the ir-port of the psp which reminds the Wii-game-controlling. IrDA Games v0.7 includes 8 different games which allow you to feel Wii on the PSP.
Just a few game examples:
IrDA Wars: This game is a multiplayer-game. You have to trie to shoot an IR-Signal at the IR-Port of the opponent's psp and care that your IR-Port wont receive any signals from your opponent. If it happens, you'll loose some life points. If you haven't any lifepoints anymore, you'll loose the game. You can choose different weapons which causes different damages on the opponent's life points.
Big Bang: This game is a single-player game. You are a space pilot and you have to try to fly trough different obstacles. If you press any key on any ir-remote(It must point at the ir-port of the psp), the ship will go up, if you loose the key, then the ship will go down.
IrDA Games v0.7 contains 8 games (5 Singeplayer(Remotefun, Big Bang, Mr. Bucket, iR Bowling, iR Pong)- and 3 Multiplayer games(IrDA Wars, IrDA Soccer, iR Pong)) and here's the changelog:
- 3 new games
- Possiblility to create and change themes
- Option file added, now you can change settings as you like
- Possibility to listen to your own music while you're playing IrDA Games - New Code Structure
- Updated to IrDA Wars v1.1
- New Weapons
- Better IrDA Receiving System
- Ammo System
- New Weapon System
- More Informations are blitted
- Option to disable or enable the play with an IR-Remote
- Updated to IrDA Soccer v0.3
- Better IrDA Receiving System
- Option to disable or enable the play with an IR-Remote
- Updated to Mr. Bucket v0.4
- More backgrounds
- New Point System
- More objects
- Now, you loose no points, when you change levels
- iR Bowling v0.5 added
- 3D
- Level System
- Life/Tries System
- Choose the position of the bowling ball, the power of it, and its fly-angle with your ir-remote
- Highscore System
- iR Pong v0.5 added
- 10 random backgrounds
- Level System
- Balls/Lives System
- Possibility to play with an ir-remote or with the d-pad
- Highscore System
- POSSIBILITY TO PLAY ALONE OR WITH YOUR FRIENDS(2 PSP NEEDED)
- And even more!
Controls
General Controls
Down - Go Down
Up - Go Up
Square - Change Mode
Cross - Select/Shoot
Circle - Cancel/Back
Start - Restart/Pause
Select - Help
IrDA Games Menu Controls
Down - Go Down
Up - Go Up
Cross - Select
Start - Restart
Triangle - Switch off/on music
Select - Help/Credits
Game Guide
IrDA Wars
his game is a multiplayer-game. You have to trie to shoot an IR-Signal at the IR-Port of the opponent's psp and care that your IR-Port wont receive any signals from your opponent. If it happens, you'll loose some life points. If you haven't any lifepoints anymore, you'll loose the game. You can choose different weapons which causes different damages on the opponent's life points.
Controls
Square - Choose Weapon
Cross - Shoot
Select - Enable/Disable the play with an ir-remote
Trianlge - Restart(When you've lost)
IrDA Soccer
This game is also a multiplayer-game. In this game is one the rusher, the other the keeper. The rusher can shoot with his PSP or with any IR-Remote. The keeper tries to catch IR-Signal the rusher had "shoot". If the keeper has received and "catched" the "IR-Ball", he'll get a point.
Controls
Cross - Shoot
Select - Enable/Disable the play with an ir-remote
Remotefun
This is a singleplayer-game. You play it with a IR-Remote(anyone will do). You have to try to react in time, when a psp is blitted on the screen. If you press a button on the remote, and the psp is blitted yet, you'll get a point. Tip: Try to position your psp so that the remote "looks" at your PSP IR-Port.
Controls
Remote(Press any button)/Cross - Shoot
Down - Difficulty down
Up - Difficulty up
Start - Pause
Big Bang
Here you have to try to navigate a spaceship through a galaxy and take care that it wont collapse with any meteors, planets and so on. If it happens, you'll lost life points and if you haven't got any anymore, you'll lost the game. The game has also a level system: With every level, the game becomes faster and difficulter. You have also to take care that you've enough enegry(NRG), anotherway your spaceship will sink immediately. You'll charge your energy automaticly when the ship sinks down.
Controls
Remote(Press any button)/Cross - The ship goes up
Remote-Button/Cross loosing - The ship sinks
Start - Pause
Mr. Bucket
In this game you have to try to catch items with a bucket. You have to take care that you're not loosing too many items, because then you're also loosing your points. In this game it's impossible to loose, you quit it, if you don't want play it anymore(Then your Highscore will be saved). There are also different difficulty Levels which you can choose at any time.
Controls
Remote(Press any button)/Cross - The bucket moves right
Remote-Button/Cross loosing - The bucket moves left
L - Previous Level
R - Next Level
Start - Pause
iR Bowling
In this singleplayer game you have to choose the position of the bowling ball first, then its power an then its angle. If you've choose the ideal values, you'll hit the bowls. This game has many levels, which have different skills.
Controls
Remote(Press any button)/Cross - Confirm
Start - Pause
iR Pong
This game you can play alone or with your friends. When you're playing alone, then it's like the classic pong(you cann choose between ir-remote and d-pad controlling in the singleplayer mode). When you're playing multiplayer, the ball flies from one psp to the other and the players have to try to keep the ball in the opponents psp, because the ball becomes faster and faster and if you've loosed all of your balls, you'll loose the game. This games contains also different levels.
Controls
Remote(Press any button)/Square(Singleplayer-Infraredmode) - The balk moves right
Remote-Button/Square loosing(Singleplayer-Infraredmode) - The balk moves left
D-PAD Left(Singleplayer-D-Pad-mode) - Der Balken wird nach links bewegt
D-PAD Right(Singleplayer-D-Pad-mode) - Der Balken wird nach rechts bewegt
RTrigger - Switch between Singleplayer Infrared and D-Pad mode
Triangle(Multiplayer mode) - Return ball(If the ir ball got lost)
Start - Pause
Other Features
Change Settings
The optionsfile "Options.txt" is placed in the ROOT folder of IrDA Games, "IrDAGamesV0.7X". Open this file to change settings(All descriptions and so on are placed in this settings file).
Listen to music
Copy your favorite song into the ROOT folder of IrDA Games, "IrDAGamesV0.7X" and name it to "music.mp3". Make sure that this feature is enabled in the optionsfile "Options.txt".
Create and set themes
I'm going to write a whole tutorial about creating IrDA Games themes. But how to install 'em, I can tell you now: Copy your favorite theme to "PSP/GAME(150)/IrDAGamesV0.7X/Themes". If you want use this theme, write the name of the folder, in which your theme is placed to the optionsfile "Options.txt". Today(07/09/2007) there's only 1 theme for IrDA Games. Other themes you can find at my homepage http://www.rabbitcoder.de which will be released in the next time.
PS: So you play singleplayer IrDA Games properly:
And now, enjoy IrDA Games!