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OpenBOR – 2D side scrolling engine for beat em' ups, shooters, and more

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Does anyone know how easy it is to run aon OpenBOR game compiled for the Wii on the device? Anything special from Nintendo needed?

Presumably it targets the Homebrew Channel, not Nintendo's official methods.

> From humble beginnings in 2004, it has since grown into the most versatile, easy to use, and powerful engine of its type you will find anywhere.

> Discontinued:

> Mac OS X

I know apple is being a pain about how executable work, but I would not call it versatile if it can't run on a very popular OS.

Nearly every other game engine can export executables fine under MacOS.

Ok, compiled. How do I scale the window?

I found this under the issues:

https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/issues/80

The fact they don't support window resizing is pretty terrible. It likely doesn't support different screen size ratios if that's the case.

I appreciate the effort they put into this, but "versatile" is not a word I would describe this as, as an end user.

If it uses SDL I can set it by hand I guess (SDL_VIDEO_RENDERER and friends), I can't remember it now. But I'd prefer an official patch.

EDIT: Ctrl+Return doesn't work, and the default resolution makes the UI garbled and impossible to read.

My first choice to implement a side scroller would have been SDL2.

Can someone explain to me what would be the advantages of preferring OpenBOR to SDL2?

It's a game engine that uses SDL2[1] already so you get all of that on top of what SDL2 offers. I presume stuff to implement a 2D side scrolling game easier than from scratch.

[1] https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/wiki/Compiling-Overview

nice - ive been trying to port a lot of mugen chars to openbor

right after my picade project https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/op03z5/picade_run...

i think a super-smash bros type clone/engine would be clutch too. lets all get to it!

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