The Exploits of Plouj

I wastedspent today’s evening playing around with Quake1 which I installed on my brother’s Wii through the Homebrew channel. One cool thing that I managed to get working relatively painlessly was demo recording.

Since there is no keyboard support in Quake1 yet, I had to add the following bind to the /id1/config.cfg file on the SD card using a desktop computer:

bind "UPARROW" "disconnect; skill 3; record wii; map e1m1"

This allowed me to simply press the up arrow button on the Wii remote and Quake1 would start recording a demo of me playing the first level of the first episode on Nightmare difficulty.

So far, I haven’t been able to play the game as quickly and as precisely as I can on a computer with a mouse. Not that I’m a great Quake player to begin with. However, I still had a lot of fun, especially after I started using the Wii Zapper. It gave me a nice sensation of holding boom stick, but didn’t improve my aim.

Here is the actual demo bzip2 archive for those who really want to watch me get owned by zombies from another dimension for a few minutes. This demo should be playable with most Quake1 engines and original (full version or demo) game data from ID. I used my personal favourite – Darkplaces:

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These screenshots sort-of show that I’m shooting at stuff which is not directly under my cross-hair because of the way Wii remote look works. In the actual Wii Quake, the gun model also moves around the screen.

What a great way to start the morning: http://ianweller.org/2008/08/19/michael-phelps-is-the-new-chuck-norris/
I wonder if this is the kind of stuff/legends/myths/tales we’ll be telling our grand kids about.

On my home desktop machine:

$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
2835 ls
1624 cd
1246 ssh
964 svn
801 su
521 screen
479 man
472 rm
471 less
402 yum

same, but as root:

# history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
842 yum
317 ls
173 vim
107 mdadm
102 mount
80 man
73 ./secure-data2.sh
68 tail
63 dmesg|tail
62 umount