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| General | |
| Author | SX, Plombo |
| Type | Game engine |
| Version | 3.0 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.
For more information, visit the OpenBOR community at ChronoCrash.com, where you'll find plenty of resources, including finished game modules that you can download and play.
Installation
Download the latest Wii release (also available from 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 related folders are under sd:/apps/OpenBOR. (as of build 6385, OpenBOR supports both SD and USB loading, and the Wii-U Pro Controller has been added).
Download mods from ChronoCrash.com and place the .PAK files in the Paks folder.
Launch OpenBOR from the Homebrew Channel, select a mod, and start playing.
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.
Wiimote Horizontal
Plus - Start/Pause
D-Pad or Nunchuck Control Stick - Move
1 - Attack 1
A - Attack 2 (rarely used)
Nunchuck Z - Attack 3 (rarely used)
Nunchuck C - Attack 4 (rarely used)
B - Special Attack
2 - Jump
Home - Back (for certain menus)
Minus - Screenshot
Classic Controller
Plus - Start/Pause
D-Pad or Left Control Stick - Move
A - Attack 1
Y - Attack 2 (rarely used)
L - Attack 3 (rarely used)
R - Attack 4 (rarely used)
X - Special Attack
B - Jump
Home - Back (for certain menus)
Minus - Screenshot
GameCube Cpmtrpller
Start - Start/Pause
D-Pad or Control Stick - Move
A - Attack 1
X - Attack 2 (rarely used)
L - Attack 3 (rarely used)
R - Attack 4 (rarely used)
Y - Special Attack
B - Jump
Z - Back (for certain menus)
R - Screenshot
Screenshots
Media
[TUTORIAL] How to install the OpenBOR emulator on the Wii (Bobby8451)
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.
Credits
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.
External links
- Chrono Crash - https://www.chronocrash.com/
- GitHub - https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor
- WiiBrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/OpenBOR