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Quake on iPhone Comes to Cydia Installer
Posted by Jason Chen at 3:40 AM on August 6, 2008
That Quake game for the iPhone we wrote about a few months back has made it onto Cydia, the jailbreak application repository. Just Another iPhone Blog says it's not too slow and it doesn't make use of the accelerometer (so it's probably not the version we wrote about before), but it does play fairly well. Seeing as it's not the one we wrote about before, we're not sure if it's even networked, but c'mon, Quake on iPhone! [Just Another iPhone Blog]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Bennish
Posted August 6, 2008 9:24 AM
Wow, an old game that's already been modded to run on EVERY MOBILE DEVICE OUT THERE.
Truly, the iPhone is a testament to Steve's creation.
Hey Giz, let me know when you start having technology news, okay? Just poke me awake.
Braff
Posted 4:28 AM 6/8/08
The best thing to happen to my iPhone (Classic) was that i went ahead and poked that plastic cover behind the left speaker cover on the bottom... I can finally hear sound coming out of this thing! It is like a whole new phone with this quick simple "fix"...
Braff
bryonbrock
Posted 4:06 AM 6/8/08
Old newz
[www.iphone-hacks.com]
bryonbrock
piano08man
Posted 3:58 AM 6/8/08
Umm... yeah. We've had a review up on this game for over a week. You can actually check our site for the latest information about Cydia packages available as well. In short, the gameplay is pretty good and we've talked to the developer some as well: They're still working on making it more user-friendly, but right now it's totally playable. Check out the full review:
[cocoatouchapps.com]
piano08man
Rabid Penguin
Posted 3:55 AM 6/8/08
@Rabid Penguin: you're = your
Rabid Penguin
Rabid Penguin
Posted 3:54 AM 6/8/08
If the controls are on top of the game how can you see what the hell you're doing? Won't you're chubby fingers get in the way?
Rabid Penguin
talkingsandwich
Posted 3:53 AM 6/8/08
any word on jailbreaking the 2.0.1update? does it matter?
talkingsandwich
doobiebros2two
Posted 3:50 AM 6/8/08
Meh.
doobiebros2two
hanspecans
Posted 3:46 AM 6/8/08
late pass. this has been on cydia for over a week d00dz.
hanspecans
graffiksguru
Posted 4:51 AM 6/8/08
Damn! Give the guy a break, not everyone knew about it, (like me) so thanks Jason.
graffiksguru
wetworker
Posted 4:45 AM 6/8/08
Quake 3 Arena or don't bother.
wetworker
MrBlahBlah
Posted 4:42 AM 6/8/08
oh my gawd giz, i mean, come on
:rollseyes:
/sarcasm
MrBlahBlah
iamse7en
Posted 4:38 AM 6/8/08
OLD NEWS. C'MON Giz. After calling Cydia the replacement to Installer, and late news bits like these, I'll just ignore your iPhone posts.
iamse7en
tptcat
Posted 5:17 AM 6/8/08
Once this is out, this and a lot of other apps (NES) will be much more playable:
[icontrolpad.com]
tptcat
Benjaminx
Posted 5:12 AM 6/8/08
@lpranal: I would be all over some marble madness on the iPhone. You don't even know.
Benjaminx
lpranal
Posted 5:09 AM 6/8/08
I loaded this up on and played it for about oh... maybe 1 minute and a half, at which point the first enemy killed me. I'm sure you could get sort of good at it... but, why? It's just not fun to play on the iphone. With Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, this, that quake 3 demo a while ago, it makes one wonder- who is picking all these games to port?
There are a ton of RPG's that would work well on the iphone, as well as RTS games (for the love of god, would someone out there PLEASE port age of mythology??). Why anyone would want to play any kind of action game on the iphone is beyond me. Where is freaking marble madness, people?
lpranal
Joseph
Posted 5:00 AM 6/8/08
@graffiksguru: I'm not mad at Jason, I'm disappointed in the lack of creativity of application developers. It's like they can't think of a way to make a creative game with out throwing more buttons on it. People need some user interface classes.
Joseph
Xenocide
Posted 4:59 AM 6/8/08
With those controls how would you circle strafe while jumping and firing? If you are turning right isn't your hand covering the while left part of the screen? Seems dubious to me.
Xenocide
Joseph
Posted 4:57 AM 6/8/08
More crappy direct ports from controller based systems to the iPhone.
Joseph
piano08man
Posted 5:28 AM 6/8/08
Couple things... Yes, the developer is working on making this compatible with the "iPhone Control Pad" - see the link above. Secondly, I'd love to accelerometer support as we mentioned in the review over at CTA. Seriously, check it out.
[cocoatouchapps.com]
piano08man
lpranal
Posted 6:10 AM 6/8/08
@tptcat: Thanks for reposting that... I read about that before I bit the bullet and got an iphone, and then forgot about it. Now I'm actually pretty psyched for it, esp. since this thing's "more powerful than the DS and PSP combined". I sure wish there was an analog stick in the future... but hey, beggars can't be choosers, right?
lpranal
Shub-Niggurath
Posted 5:56 AM 6/8/08
NICE!! Great news for an obvious fan (if you've played single player 'til the end you know where my sn comes from :P)
Shub-Niggurath
WynneOryx
Posted 5:18 AM 6/8/08
i have played it with a friend and it is networkable!! runs prety damn well
WynneOryx
lpranal
Posted 6:12 AM 6/8/08
@Benjaminx: Well you can technically run it in the NES emulator, with tilt controls, but considering how awesome it COULD be, with infinite axes (vs. cheesy dpad emulation) of movement and jumping actions... i'm getting ahead of myself again. ah well, I can dream.
lpranal
Bigby
Posted 7:18 AM 6/8/08
Tried it. Two things:
1)No strafe.
2)No save.
Pff.
Bigby
quadrain61
Posted 7:36 AM 6/8/08
and I can play Doom on my Pocket PC, who cares. They're just putting everything a Windows Mobile can do onto the iPhone, nothing new.
quadrain61
collider
Posted 9:58 AM 6/8/08
@Rabid Penguin: Am I drunk? You had it right the first time, man. :P
collider
Rabid Penguin
Posted 12:16 PM 6/8/08
@collider: I wrote two "you're." The second one should be replaced :c)
Rabid Penguin