RetroRocket is a high paced action game inspired by classic gravity games like Thrust and the amiga game TurboRaketti II. It is a game designed for Nintendo DS and requires a homebrew compatible flash card.
RetroRocket is free software (GPL).
Features
- Single and multiplayer games
- DS-to-DS (liblobby) communication for multiplayer support, no accesspoint needed.
- Play up to four players simultaneously
- All original TurboRaketti-II maps
- All original Thrust levels
- Real time strategy mode where you can collect resources and buy weapons and upgrades
- New two-player Thrust-like games where each player tries to collect more balls than the opponent
- Autogeneration of maps
- Menus with stylus support
Troubleshooting
- If you are having troubles with connecting, try setting the network channel to 11. Some NDS models do not support the way we change the network channel, making them responsive only on the default channel (11). Also, have a look at the documentation.
- Do not play the "db" game you sometimes can find in the "Select Game" menu. This is a debugging game created for testing out new functionality and was never intented to be included in the release as a playable game. To get rid of it, just delete the "db.game" file from the "retrorocket_data" directory.
News
- 2008-10-24: New version released. Much improved network support, many bugfixes and other improvements.
- 2008-08-20: We are working on the next version. Broadcast packets are now working in the development version (not yet available for public download), making four-player games fully playable. We are also working on better RTS gameplay and fixing bugs.