Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

would love to see the little big adventure series on our n900 fully ported than rather using terminal. someone with talent might be able to pull it off.

it is available here and there is a preview of its coolish graphics :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gZg7tWx5Zc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIfQ6571y4

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

I tried to play this, but I can't seem to find the 'use'-button. The one with which you press buttons, kick the guards, jump, and so on... If anybody could enlighten me, I would be very grateful for bringing childhood memories back to life :D

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

how did you run it?
was it thrrough terminal?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Small howto:

1. Install sudo gainroot. (From app manager, I believe it is in Extras)

2. Connect via USB and copy LBA_DATA onto your device.

3. Open TERMINAL, enable root access via command "sudo gainroot" and move LBA_DATA to "/home/user" (I used MidnightCommander for this, also available in extras afaik)

4. Enable permissions (again in terminal): "chmod 777 LBA_DATA -R"

5. Go to LBA_DATA folder and launch: "./LBA"

Voila, it runs! no sound however, but maybe that's because it's just 153mb? I'm going to check the original cd for the soundfiles :)

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Thanks, this is great. I'm also trying to find out what is the "use" key to hit guard, etc. Anyone know?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Try the a,s,d,... keys, they make different moods.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

if i use terminal and enable permissions would my device be in harm from bricking or something?
i dont know a thing about xterminal.
p.s did you find the soundfiles?
this is really a great classical game!!
thanks!! ;)

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

The package is called rootsh, but you shouldn't need it at all from your description, and it's best not to do things as root unless you have to. Never copy or move things to your user directory as root. (/home/user).

So, put the data in your device in USB mass storage mode, then open an xterm window and move it to /home/user/ like this:
(Don't miss that period after the space at the end.)

Launch it
Should do it, i think.

PS The move command will complain at you (because the MyDocs directory is on a crappy FAT volume so it can be compatible with Windows and stuff), but don't mind it.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

@flandry

would i need to run this sequence everytime i want to play LBA?

also is it safe to do it this way?

thanks!!

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

hey, ive done the little "how to" but im getting permission denied, even though im trying to launch it in root, not entirely sure why its beeing fussy. ill play around with it and see if it can solve it.

EDIT: also spotted a thread gives a brief "how to" on making shortcuts but it says about a application, not sure if it will work for booting from a folder.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38285

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Ok - maybe i'm missing something, but how did you get a linux / arm runnable version of LBA? Is it published somewhere as source?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Just to launch it each time.

It might also work with just

LBA_DATA/LBA

There's a widget that lets you run arbitrary commands that would probably work as well.

xFinal: which howto?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

that link i posted, its a game that was ported or something and the shortcut was done so someone posted how to create a shortcut for it including doing the icon as well. It's the first post by f2thak, but like i said im not sure how helpful it is being is a shotcut for launching a app and not a script launch.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Not talking about that howto, obviously. I'm talking about the one you said you followed to get this to work, that is now giving permission errors.

AnimeVamp360: it should be safe if you follow the directions.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

well the fact that you asked which how to made me think of the one on that thread, but anyway the post by henkp explaining a "small howto" moved the folder to mydocs, went into root and did the "chmod 777 LBA_DATA -R" tried to launch and permission denied.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

And the fact you mentioned root after i gave a clear howto that didn't involve root made me wonder.

Can anyone confirm my instructions worked for them, as the original howto is not really the safest way to do this?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

well either root or no root, my problem is still the same. Tried both.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Because you didn't follow either set of instructions. You have to move them out of MyDocs because it's a FAT partition and you can't execute on there.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

It works perfectly after putting into /home/user of course (outside of documents...). But please never ever run chmod 777 on anything (especially recursive).

chmod +x /home/user/LBA_DATA/LBA
after unpacking and moving is enough.

Unfortunately i couldn't find the action button either. arrows work, p is pause, l is un-fullscreen, backspace is backpack, asdf are behaviours. But where's jump/kick/action/hide ?...

EDIT: found it! press 'x' for action. so 'z' is probably for throwing balls. sigh... and i've got a project to finish tonight...

at least it will keep me distracted from waiting for PR1.2

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

my bad, didnt read properly just assumed MyDocs. Well moved to /home/user/, just tried viraptors chmod +x will try not to use 777 now lol. But now it just comes up not found when trying to launch. No idea what it could be....

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Yeah, im just as confused, what version of LBA do you guys have? Is it open source, I used to have this game ages ago but it was most definetly MS-DOS based.

I REALLY want this on my N900! :confused:

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

@Jayelzibub
The link for download is under the youtube video. Probably won't get packaged since it's including the data files which you should get from your own copy of LBA.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

first of all, I want to apologize for giving a crappy and more importantly, possibly dangerous howto.

Second, i haven't looked at the cd for the data-files yet because i thought it more important to be able to save before I copy the contents of the cd over. Haven't managed that yet, seems unimplemented in twin-e...

Third, I'll remove the folder RIGHT NOW and try safer instruction-set by Flandry (I'm a linux-newbie myself, just followed and pasted that howto because it worked for me).

Anyway, how come it is possible to copy/paste out of MyDocs without root permission? (mindboggle fixed, just found out user's permissions are tied to 'user', thus recursive to MyDocs.. which makes more sense, seeing as it's name is 'user' :rolleyes: )

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

I followed these instructions but am getting permission denied whenever I try ./LBA in x-term.

Can anyone give me a hand? Cheers

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

will give LBA execute permissiom. Then
./LBA
in x-term will work.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

I made a shortcut on the desktop with an icon for this game:

http://a.imageshack.us/img29/7199/sc...0090513052.png

Here are the files: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0t42n43reeb1lsx/lba.zip

Extract the files on the root folder of your N900 (MyDocs).

Then copy/move lba.desktop to /usr/share/applications/hildon/

After copy/move lba.png to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Cheers. It may require a reboot for the icon to be visible.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

has anybody found out how to save a game yet?

Having to start over every time I restart LBA doesn't really invite me to relive my LBA-days...

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

How do I go about uninstalling LBA?

It's not in the application manager and "apt-get remove --purge LBA" doesn't work.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Can you change the keyset?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

the original LBA game used to save on switching scenes, so going into another scene would save the game. If that doesn't work, maybe something is wrong with the permissions?

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Hmmm. I seem to have some problems getting the game to run from the shortcut above. It launches to a black screen then crashes to desktop.

When launching from X-terminal it loads fine. Anyone have any tips?


PS The .desktop has the line
Exec=sudo /home/user/LBA_DATA/LBA
When I remove the "sudo" the program runs but then crashes after the intro and menus as it doesn't get permissions. Hopefully someone can help.

Re: Little Big Adventure (n900)
 

Now installed it and everything worked great including the desktop icon.

@Surreptitious, this is what worked for me

Need to edit the lba.desktop

Exec=sudo gainroot
Exec=/home/user/LBA_DATA/LBA

Edit: Still does not work crashes after intro. Work via terminal though.