[Release] Electris and Reactor -- stand-alone eboots

August 31st, 2006, 06:52 Posted By: Kagato

By popular demand, I'm making Electris and Reactor available as stand-alone eboots.

These eboots are configured for firmware 1.5.
2.x users should stick with the Lua versions of the games for now.

Thanks go out to Zion for his tips on using PSPBrew to edit the LuaPlayer eboot.
I thought I'd need to recompile it from source, but PSPBrew meant I could have them up and running straight away...

Electris remains at version 1.0 at this stage, and is essentially unchanged.

Reactor has been updated to version 1.3, as I found that it ran considerably faster stand-alone. (I guess Lowser must have been consuming resources in the background.)
The game was synced to screen refresh, so if processing one "tick" took just slightly longer than 1 refresh, it would play at ~30fps (which was typical before); if it took slightly less, it would play at ~60fps -- ie, double the speed

This was unacceptable from a gameplay perspective, so in version 1.3 the proton's velocity is now Timer based. The framerate may change with CPU load, but the game should play at a constant speed regardless.

I've also updated the particle sprites to have a chrome appearance, as a small visual cleanup.

Enjoy...

Electris v1.0 eboot
Reactor v1.3 eboot

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