| rRootage for PSP | |
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| Author | Marcus R. Brown (mrbrown) |
| Type | Shooter |
| Version | 1.5 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2005/12/14 |
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This is a port of Kenta Cho's addictive PC shooter rRootage to the PSP.
It is an open-source, freeware bullet-hell game designed by Kenta Cho and released by ABA Games in 2003.
Features
- Full 32-bit RGBA graphics.
- The entire screen is supported for gameplay.
- Screenshots using L+R.
- Minor speed improvements.
Installation
Copy the /1.5/rRootage/ directory to /PSP/GAME/.
Go to the 1.0 directory, copy EBOOT.PBP to /PSP/GAME/rRootage/ and overwrite it.
User guide
Gameplay
Control your ship, avoid the barrage and defeat autocreated huge battleships.
Use the laser to destroy the battleship of the enemy. You can cause more damage if you fire the laser close to the enemy.
When all ships are destroyed, the game is over.
The ship extends 200,000 and every 500,000 points.
Game modes
Normal mode:
- This is the standard game mode.
- Your ship becomes slow while holding the laser key.
- Special - Bomb:
- The bomb wipes enemyies bullets.
- The number of bombs are displayed at the right-down corner.
PSY mode:
- As your ship grazes a bullet, the graze meter (displayed at the right-down corner) increases.
- When the graze meter becomes full, the ship becomes invincible for a while.
- Special - Rolling:
- This movement widen the range that the ship can graze.
- While holding this key, the ship becomes slow. If you want to move faster, tap this key.
IKA mode:
- Your ship has two attributes, white and black.
- All bullets also have these attributes, and your ship can absorb bullets that has the same attribute.
- Absorbed bullets are changed into lasers automatically.
- Special - Attribution change:
- Change your ships attribute.
GW mode:
- Your ship can use the reflector.
- The reflector reflects bullets around your ship.
- Special - Reflector:
- To activate it, hold this key until the meter (displayed at the right-down corner) becomes empty.
- You can use the reflector only if the reflector meter displays 'OK'.
Game options
These options are available:
- lowres - Use the low resolution mode.
- nosound - Stop the sound.
- window - Launch the game in the window, not use the full-screen.
- reverse - Reverse the laser key and the bomb key.
Controls
Start - Begin a new game
Analog or D-Pad - Steer the ship
Cross/Triangle - Fire
Circle/Square - Activate your Special
Home/Start - Pause the game
Select - Music playback
L+R - Take a screenshot (stored at the root of the memory stick)
Select Q (the bottommost menu item) and press Start to exit to the PSP browser.
Screenshots
Known issues
There are a few minor graphical differences from the PC version. The differences should not affect gameplay.
Changelog
v1.5 2005/12/14
- Call _init() in libSDL_main's main() if it wasn't already called and make sure that the startup constructor doesn't access kernel mode on 2.0 PSPs.
- rRootage now works on 2.0 PSPs under Fanjita's EBOOT loader.
v1.4 2005/12/14
- Fixed the Psyvariar crash that only happened to 1.50 users.
- Fixed GL_LINE_LOOP in PSPGL. Graphics are improved.
- Add the performance meter from PSPGL (commented out).
v1.3 2005/12/11
- Fixed PSPGL's GE init code to be more compatible across all PSPs. rRootage should work on 2.0 PSPs now.
v1.2 2005/12/10
- Disable antialiasing (support appears to be missing in PSPGL). The graphics are noticeably improved.
- Fix a problem with boxes not being drawn correctly.
v1.1 2005/12/09
- Fix screenshots for 1.0 and 1.5 users.
- Pause the game when Home is pressed.
v1.0 2005/12/07
- Initial release.