The XPUYOPUYO Petition

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: The XPUYOPUYO Petition
started by: Ivo

Posted by Ivo on April 07 2004,13:16

Upon Replying to This Petition, I record that i want the game xpuyopuyo to be in the next release of dsl, eith with or replacing an existing game.

< http://chaos2.org/xpuyopuyo/ >

Posted by GuillaumeH on April 07 2004,20:37

I'm for it. I don't like the NES emulator and xpacman a lot.

Posted by John on April 08 2004,05:49

It is a fun game, and the binary itself isn't too big, but it has nearly 2MBs of xpm image files and a half MB of sound.

The NES emulator may seem large, but it compresses way down to under 50K.

Posted by Ivo on April 08 2004,06:05

john, cant you remove the sound and the extra skins?

Posted by John on April 08 2004,06:41

I'll look into it.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on April 08 2004,10:31

Building xpuyopuyo without sound support gives me a reduction in size, and if I then remove the extraneous themes (3dRokz and f-something if I remember rightly) and sounds - they're still installed even if you disable sound support - that gives me a directory of about 970Kb. Compressing with gzip gives me a file of about 237Kb.

John: 3Mb for a NES emulator into under 50Kb? Not bad, not bad at all...

Posted by John on April 08 2004,14:44

Sorry, faulty memory. But I was close.
ls -lh tuxnes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 4.8M Apr 8 05:30 tuxnes
gzip -9 tuxnes
ls -lh tuxnes.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 88K Apr 8 05:30 tuxnes.gz

Posted by Ivo on April 08 2004,14:56

please try to put it in the next release man. its only 237KB the way typhoon did it.

Posted by davide on April 08 2004,16:36

I vote for xpuyopuyo. but if tuxnes has to be taken away...then I'd suggest to drop the proposal. tuxnes allows to play tens of games, if you download the roms to your hd...xpuyopuyo is a beautiful, altought single game.

Posted by Modrak on April 08 2004,22:57

WANT IT NOW !!!

Posted by hasty on April 08 2004,23:18

Thumbs down from me.
Think this should be an enhancement script only.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 09 2004,00:01

I can think of a lot of better uses for an already compressed 237k that uncompresses out to about 1MB. For example, gcombust is only 140k uncompressed including a desktop icon.

Maybe an install script would be a better option.

Without sounding too Microsfotyish (is that a word?), my vote for a new game would be some kind of multiple card game program like xpat2.

Klondike Solitaire + much more. But I assume that size issue is such that it is not worth adding at the expense of some other application like a bitorrent client, for example.

Posted by Pu7o on April 17 2004,20:30

Why dont you use bzip2 instead of gzip? o_O

Posted by TyphoonMentat on April 17 2004,20:57

Well, first of all bzip2 is much slower than gzip - so slow as to make cloop with bzip2 just about unusable. It's not a case of choosing gzip or bzip2 anyway, as cloop compresses everything, and changing cloop compression would bring a whole host of problems, such as alienating all those who are trying to do remasters.
I'd go for an enhancement script myself.