ANNOUNCE: MetroidRL v0.72 released

[Slash]

4 years after the last version. I had kept this on my HD for too long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Py0kZN18c

I figured out I’d just load it up and package it… I was tempted to refactor it into using serf and libjcsi (MetroidRL predates them both, it was the first project to use the “Swing Console Box”, which then became libjcsi; it’s also based around the common framework which evolved into serf), but after wasting about 2 hours I knew I was stranding into the wrong direction

Released now, still pretty alpha but here goes for all you metroid lovers!

I have also released the source code under GNU GPL v3 at https://code.google.com/p/metroidrl/

Download now: http://slashie.net/request.php?81

[jim]

Dang, Slash. Looks gorgeous.

[RaustBD]

I tried to play it, but it crashed just like the previous version... 

[Slash]

What was the crash??? What platform?

[guest509]

  "java" not recognized as a command? Should be. I have it loaded. I figure this out later.

[Slash]

Windows? set java_home=c:\java\etc

[RaustBD]

What was the crash??? What platform?

Mac. Castlevania RL works just fine, but MetroidRL crashes, and I can't find the place where it tells me the error message. I'm really confused since, as I said, CVRL works perfectly.

[Slash]

Hmm... are you using the .sh files to run it?? may be you need to delete the .dll file on /lib...

[RaustBD]

Hmm... are you using the .sh files to run it?? may be you need to delete the .dll file on /lib...

I'm using the .jav file. Any idea why it's different from CVRL though?

[Slash]

Well, CvRL doesn't use an emulated terminal display but is tile based instead (when you run it by doubleclicking the jar file, that's it).

Did you delete libjcurses.dll on the .\lib folder?
Can you chmod the .sh files and run it from there instead of using the jar file? (or just access the terminal and run "java -jar metroidrl.jar"), so that we can see the error message

Anyone else having problems running it on mac?

[RaustBD]

it says "unable to access jarfile metroidrl.jar"

[Slash]

Did you change directory to the one where the game was decompressed before doing "java -jar metroidrl.jar"?

I'll get in touch with the white leopards and let you know if they have issues too

[RaustBD]

how do you change directory in terminal?

[Slash]

use 'cd'

For example cd /games/roguelikes/metroidRL

Can you click a file and make it executable in mac? try making "metroidRL.sh" executable and then double clicking it

Any mac user can help?

[RaustBD]

this is the error message:

MetroidRL 0.72
Slash ~ 2006-2010
Reading configuration
Initializing Char Appearances
Initializing Action Objects
Loading Data
Initializing JCurses System Interface
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/Cam/Downloads/metroidrl072/lib/libjcurses.so:  no suitable image found.  Did find:  /Users/Cam/Downloads/metroidrl072/lib/libjcurses.so: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x7F 0x45 0x4C 0x46 0x01 0x01 0x01 0x00
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1878)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1758)
   at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
   at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1020)
   at jcurses.system.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:37)
   at jcurses.system.InputChar.<clinit>(InputChar.java:13)
   at sz.csi.jcurses.JCursesConsoleInterface.<clinit>(JCursesConsoleInterface.java:222)
   at mrl.Main.init(Main.java:140)
   at mrl.Main.main(Main.java:375)
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