Quake III Arena v1.1a
Requirements: HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro
Overview: Quake III Arena or Quake 3, abbreviated as Q3A or Q3, is a multiplayer first-person shooter computer and video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly. Quake III Arena is the third title in the series and differs from the previous games in the Quake series in that it excludes the normal single-player element, instead focusing on multiplayer action. The solo experience in Q3 is arena combat versus AI opponents, in a similar style to Unreal Tournament.



Features:
* Network support is obviously limited. Your Pocket PC likely doesn't have a very fast internet connection, so your ping times are going to be crap. Hell, it might not even work. Maybe in the next release...
* You may have a hard time entering text, or a CD key or whatever, unless you have an external keyboard. Avoid menus where you have to type stuff in. Maybe virtual keyboard in next release...
* I had to eliminate support for the virtual machine in the codebase. This means that many 'mods' will not work for you, as the UI, Game, and CGame modules are all hard-coded into the program. If someone wants to find a way to get that working on the ARM cpu in a fast fashion (ha! and steal resources from our meager graphics?!) feel free to do so.
* Memory now autopartitions itself, so you don't need to worry about reconfiguring stuff. You still need a lot of memory, but requirements have been reduced.
* Audio has been converted to MP3 to save space
* Fonts and graphics have been cleaned up by using better resizing mechanism.
* Normals have been fixed, and you can play more than one level without the game crashing.
* The shotgun seems to have a bug. It may crash the game.
* If the game crashes, ensure you delete the temporary files it creates in your ppc's root directory, named 'q3ce_*.swp'. If you fail to do this, your ppc may not be able to boot up again without a hard reset. This is a bug in Windows, and I can't do too much about it. Hopefully, thing will work fine for you. Your mileage may vary, and my liability is limited

More Info:

Download Instructions:
Full install, retail. No registration necessary.
 http://rapidshare.com/files/151627147/q ... d.zip.html

Mirrors:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8Z947SCJ

 

Thanks a lot guy !
I'm going to download it right now, it will remember some great game times...
Bye
FiLg00d

mirror added.



ok so i read the "how to post a release" thread at least twice before posting this.. can you point me the errors that i need to fix? sorry about it.

@Quake3000: g-sens is too buggy, ill try g-controller for rotation.
@Terry: what ROM are you using? afaik the only file u had to use that isn't in the release is GX.DLL, but i think it's a mandatory file in every ROM i guess.

Please edit this release according to the "How to post a release" sticky.

Thank Alot that you did read my post...btw wonder if there is away to run this with landscape mode and use the touch pros keyboard (qwerty) and map som other keys...the question is if it can be done in the config..il check it out..and post if i find some usefull info...and again thanks for a really greate release;)

Oh man, sometimes you cannot download fast enough!

Thanks a ton!

Doesn't seem to work on mine, I would open it and nothing happened. Went to their web page and found there is 1.1b, tried that one and I get errors saying I don't have enough memory available. I don't have much storage space available on the regular device, but plenty on the internal memory. I have 145mb of ram free though... TF3D is disabled, etc.

Err Edit, I put the original exe back in, and it opened... then crashed... working on it more now.
Edit2: got it working with a combination of some of the 1.1b and some of the 1.1a files... Still only was getting like 1-2 fps though... now we need to lower the resolution or getting hardware accel.

I get like 20-25 fps on my touch pro so it are very playable even in 640x480 and the 3d hardware accelerator work like charm but still cant figure how to run it in landscape tough:/

unfortunately it doesnt landscape well, tried g-controller last time and this was the result:




check right side of the screenie

this version also crashes after X ammount of time.. it's mainly a show-off =)

dunno how my post to you lh got stuck in the middle of the thread, but its sure funny! :p

will this work on the Omnia?

unless the Omnia has a Qualcomm MSM7201A chipset then i'm afraid it will not run

btw lifehacker, i read again but cant find the error in my post

The game doesnt render in my Diamond. I closed TF3d and try to run it opens the console, partionate my memory and enter in the game menu.

Game Menu is complety messed and dont draw any word or image I only get some painted squares.

works fine in dutty 2.3a. but at 5fps on average, i'd rather be playing COD2

I'd rather be playing Unreal Tournament or CoD:UO, but *HEY* tough luck m8 O_o



ok, edited correctly now, thx in advance \o/


Extra info:

yep, cod2 is defiantly better. but hey, this works and looks good

I have a touch pro, q3 opens and works, but after loading the map and weapons, it crashes, any idea why? simply closes, no freeze, nothing