OpenBOR Wii

OpenBOR
File:Openborwii.jpg
General
Author	SX, Plombo
Type	Game engine
Version	v3.0 Build 6391
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2020/04/08
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OpenBOR is a royalty free sprite-based side scrolling gaming engine. 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. OpenBOR is optimized for side scrolling beat em’ up style games (Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Final Fight), but easily accommodates any sort of gameplay style and feature set you can imagine.

Want to try your hand at game making? Open one of the already existing modules and tinker around – the community is right here to help you along.

Ready to make something of your own? Get some images together and away you go!

Feeling ambitious? Delve into the built-in script engine and graphical suite to build a masterpiece rivaling the most outlandish Triple-A productions. Sell it if you can!

To find out more, stop into the OpenBOR community at ChronoCrash.com. You will also find dozens of game modules already finished to download and play.

Installation

• Download the latest Wii release from here, from the Homebrew Browser, or from the download link in the information box. (Hassle-free registration is required to download from LavaLit.) If you're not using the Homebrew Browser, extract the OpenBOR or WII/OpenBOR folder in the archive to the apps folder on your SD card, so that the executable and the folders that go with it are under sd:/apps/OpenBOR. As of build 6385 Openbor can be loaded from SD or USB and support added for Wii-U Pro Controller.
• Download mods from ChronoCrash.com website and put the .PAK files in the Paks folder. Some of the most popular mods are:
  • Beats of Rage (the original game) by Senile Team
  • Art of Fighting: Beats of Rage Remix III by Mr. Q®
  • NightSlashersX by BonusJZ
• Launch OpenBOR from the Homebrew Channel, select a mod, and play!

Controls

These are the default controls. They can be changed in the Options menu, accessed from the main menu or by pressing Wiimote Minus Button or GC R Trigger while the game is paused.

Action	Wiimote Horizontal	Nunchuck	Classic Controller	GCN Controller
Start/Pause	Wiimote Plus Button		Classic Plus Button	GC Start Button
Move	Wiimote DPad	Nunchuck Control Stick‎	Classic DPad or Classic L Control Stick‎	GC DPad or GC Control Stick
Attack 1	Wiimote 1 Button		Classic A Button	GC A Button
Attack 2 (rarely used)	Wiimote A Button		Classic Y Button	GC X Button
Attack 3 (rarely used)		Nunchuck Z Button	Classic L Trigger	GC L Trigger
Attack 4 (rarely used)		Nunchuck C Button	Classic R Trigger	GC R Trigger
Special Attack	Wiimote B Button		Classic X Button	GC Y Button
Jump	Wiimote 2 Button		Classic B Button	GC B Button
Back (for certain menus)	Wiimote Home Button		Classic Home Button	GC Z Button
Screenshot	Wiimote Minus Button		Classic Minus Button	GC R Trigger

Screenshots

History

• 2003 - Senile Team releases Beats of Rage, a free beat-'em-up for DOS inspired by SEGA's Streets of Rage series using assets from SNK Playmore's King of Fighters series. The game quickly achieves mass popularity through word of mouth. Senile Team releases an edit pack allowing anyone interested to create a module for the BOR engine.
• 2005 - Developer Kirby2000 asks Senile Team to open the source code to BOR. They agreed, and the project is named OpenBOR. The project quickly spawns numerous ports and branches, each with unique features.
• 2006 - Developer Sumo1X (SX) reorganizes the loose coalition of developers into what is now known as the OpenBOR Team. Features from the various branches are backported into the original OpenBOR.
• 2011 - Sumo1X retires from the OpenBOR Team, and hands management duties to DCurrent (Damon Caskey).
• 2017 - OpenBOR repository migrates from SourceForge to Github.
• 2021 - Development continues on OpenBOR 4.0, with various internal source cleanups, a more object centric script engine, and fixes for long standing issues.

Changelog

• v3.0.6391:
  • New preview update for Wii port just take a screen shot on your favourite game and next time you load the pak menu that screen shot will be displayed as the preview. Added new Linux AppImage that should be compatible with almost any distro.
• v3.0.6390:
  • Major velocity bug in the Wii port fixed by White Dragon.
• v3.0.6385:
  • Msmalik681 added loading from USB support and video scale fix everything will fit in the screen.
  • Demothens added support for Wii-U Pro Controller.
• v3.0.2836:
  • Significantly improved performance due to further video optimizations by Plombo.
  • You can now choose in the video options whether to preserve the aspect ratio (using black bars) or stretch the picture to the screen ignoring aspect ratio.
• v3.0.2818: Several important changes by Plombo:
  • Widescreen (480x272) mods supported.
  • Widescreen (16:9) displays supported without stretching.
  • No aspect ratio distortion with any mod regardless of display. Horizontal/vertical black bars are used when needed.
  • Can now be run from a USB flash drive or FAT32-formatted USB hard drive.
  • OpenBOR no longer depends on SDL Wii. All I/O handling is done natively through libogc.
  • Performance boost due to using GX directly for video instead of going through SDL.
• v3.0.2726: Improved memory usage; implemented by SX for all platforms, including Wii.
• v3.0.2645: Numerous control fixes by Plombo, who by this point had become the maintainer of the Wii port.
• v3.0.2615: Sound and control fixes by SX.
• v3.0.2603: First stable Wii release by SX.

External links

• Github - https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor
• Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/OpenBOR