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[qwertyuiopas]

With a lot of optimization and 99% of all features left behind?
For comparison, our chimney is a few inches across...

Maybe a fan-made DF recreation, losing almost all of it's most complex features, including 3D.

[Reasonableman]

There's a huge DS homebrew community, and quite a variety of flashcarts available that allow you to load said homebrew programs onto the DS.  Oh, and I hope that my earlier comment didn't seem too mean-spirited: I was confused, and I panicked.

[Granite26]

I dont want to bring down your entusiasm but we had this diskussion atleast 3 times (We need a better search algorithm or an tagging option for threads ... seriously) and it has shown that the handconsoles that are avaibable today arent powerfull enought yet. Even the Iphone is a little bit to slow.

Maybe force a search on the 'Subject' line and a 'Maybe you should post in one of these, instead?' message you have to deny first?

Also, I've said it before : No way DF will run on a DS, but there's a lot of remote desktop PC - DS apps out there

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, a DS won't happen, but something more serious with a hardware keyboard? Definetly will do with appropriate scaling down and trimming of the program. For a DS, DF Adventure Mode is the limit of dreams, it is not possible to fit the internal scale of DF into DS working in realtime. Then again, the BASICS of DF are simple enough, so if you want a game with dwarves running around digging stuff, it might happen, but it will be a separate project, not a version of DF.

[SolarShado]

Yeah, full, realtime Fortress Mode is taxing on PCs, i shuder to think how much it'd have to be cut down to be playable on any handheld.

But Adventure Mode could work... basic movement and such on the buttons, other functions on the touch screen, maybe a nice gfx set... I'd pay 39.99 for that on the DS.

I don't use tilesets on the PC, but ASCII'd look wierd on the DS...

[G-Flex]

I don't think Adventure Mode would even work without serious trimming. Find a waterfall and the thing would drop to eighteen seconds per frame.

[SolarShado]

Hmmm.... good point. I haven't played Adv mode much...

[Sean Mirrsen]

Adventure mode is turn-based. Eighteen seconds per frame is exaggerating a bit, it could be streamlined for those purposes. Also don't forget that the DS will draw... 40x25 in ASCII, at most, and even less if it were graphic. Much more possibilities to trim away needless chunks.

[The-Moon]

We already had this conversation before infact on these fourms.

Im pretty sure that once i looked at the system specs of the DS....

Dwarf Fortress is not running on it, it would need a serious ram + cpu upgrade.

Toady could always setup a basic version of DF for it. But he should work on the real DF

[Reasonableman]

Not only have we had this conversation before, but the fact that we've had this conversation before has been brought up in this thread several times.

I would put a smilie here to reduce the malice in that comment, but I'm engaged in an eternal jihad against all forms of emoticon.

[G-Flex]

Adventure mode is turn-based. Eighteen seconds per frame is exaggerating a bit, it could be streamlined for those purposes. Also don't forget that the DS will draw... 40x25 in ASCII, at most, and even less if it were graphic. Much more possibilities to trim away needless chunks.

If things like flows aren't calculated constantly and instead are only calculated once per turn, you might have a point, but otherwise, again, you'd have to seriously cripple the game. Have you ever seen the DS's specs?

[Tack]

hehe. malice.

But yeah. what about on a high end platform?

[Mikademus]

I would put a smilie here to reduce the malice in that comment, but I'm engaged in an eternal jihad against all forms of emoticon.

Let me sum up my feelings abous this:

O.o     :D    ^____^    :P    ^.~   \"/(-.-)\"/