Plumbers Don't Wear Ties Wii

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
General
Author	MaikelChan
Type	Other Games
Version	0.2
License	MIT License
Last Updated	2022/01/11
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

This is a SDL2 implementation of the PC game Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, written from scratch by MaikelChan on PC and ported to the Nintendo Wii.

The game is infamous for being considered one of the worst games ever made. The 3DO version is much more known (relatively speaking), but there was also a very rare Windows version released in 1993. Due to being 16bit, it cannot be run on modern PCs.

This is a port for the Wii based on my SDL2 PC version of the game. This is the current state of the project:

It can be played with a Wii remote and a GameCube pad.
Rendering and audio are implemented with SDL.
It is possible to advance to the next picture to progress quickly through the game.
It could still contain some small bugs here and there that I haven't catched up yet.

Note: The game contains mature contents and is not appropriate for all ages. Viewer discretion advised.

Installation

Wii with homebrew channel

Rename PlumbersDontWearTies-SDL.dol to boot.dol.
Go to the sd folder in this repository, and copy its contents to the root of the SD card you use for loading apps for the Hombrew channel.
Copy boot.dol to apps/PlumbersDontWearTies/ in your SD card.
For legal reasons, you will need to get the original PC game on your own to obtain the assets like graphics and sound effects. Those are not provided.
Copy all PC game's assets to apps/PlumbersDontWearTies/Data/ in your SD card.
If everything went fine, you should be able to see the game in your homebrew channel and run it.

Dolphin

Get the Dolphin emulator if you don't have it.
Create and edit a virtual SD card following these instructions.
Mount that virtual card.
Follow the steps 4 and 5 in Wii with homebrew channel section.
Unmount the SD card, as Dolphin won't be able to access its contents while it's mounted.
Open Dolphin, go to Config, then to the Audio tab, and select DSP LLE REcompiler (slow). Audio won't work without that.
Go to the menu File and then Open....
Locate and open PlumbersDontWearTies-SDL.dol (or boot.dol in case you renamed it for the homebrew channel).
If everything went fine, you should be able to run the game.