Project: Starfighter

After decades of war one company, who had gained powerful supplying both sides with weaponary, steps forwards and crushes both warring factions in one swift movement. Using far superior weaponary and AI craft, the company was completely unstoppable and now no one can stand in their way. Thousands began to perish under the iron fist of the company. The people cried out for a saviour, for someone to light this dark hour... and someone did.

Features

26 missions over 4 star systems
Primary and Secondary Weapons (including a laser cannon and a charge weapon)
A weapon powerup system
Wingmates
Missions with Primary and Secondary Objectives
A Variety of Missions (Protect, Destroy, etc)
13 different music tracks
Boss battles

Screenshots

Title screen

In Game Messages

Communications

Boss Battle

Requirements

SDL
SDL Image
SDL Mixer

Please ensure that you have SDL installed on your machine before attempting to play this game. Linux users - If you need to recompile you will also need the development files (ie - C headers and libraries)

Downloads

Filename	Version	Release	Platform	Filesize	Upload Date
starfighter-1.0-1.music.zip	1.0	1	Music Zip File	1.31 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.installer.exe	1.1	1	Windows 95/98/XP/Vista	3.22 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.amigaos4.lha	1.1	1	Amiga OS4 LHA Archive	5.81 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.i586.rpm	1.1	1	Generic x86 RPM	2.41 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.tar.gz	1.1	1	Source Tarball	2.41 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.mac.dmg	1.1	1	Mac OSX Package	4.62 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.ppc.deb	1.1	1	PPC Debian Package	2.28 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.i386.deb	1.1	1	Generic x86 Debian Package	2.41 MB	29th September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.i486SBo.tar.gz	1.1	1	Slackware Package	2.46 MB	29th May 2009

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Comments (latest 5)

Steve
May 28th, 2009 at 16:48

There isn't really an unpacker available, but some fiddling with the code could easily create one. Having said that, I'm not sure how well the game would downsize to the PSP's screen. I once saw a version running on an Xbox (640 x 480) and that was pretty cramped right there.

Might be worth saving yourself a world of pain and disappointment and having a play around with the PSP version of Metal Blob Solid, if you think you can fix that crash.

Marach
May 28th, 2009 at 17:11

The second solution is simply shrinking 800x600 surface to 480x272 with black bars on left and right side of the screen, but like I said previously, SDL_gfx does't want to work and I think some smaller things or text can becone hard to see. I need to play a game I'm trying to port!

Marach
May 28th, 2009 at 17:13

Don't you think that simply shrinking the bitmaps and decreasing font size could save alot of screen space? I miss an "Edit post" button...

Steve
May 28th, 2009 at 18:46

If you want to give it a go, then by all means go ahead, but I'm not too convinced it would work too well, unfortunately.

Marach
May 30th, 2009 at 09:31

Oh, if I managed to port and DOWNSIZE Meritous, then I think most games won't be a porting challenge to me :)

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