LPairs Ported to the PSP

You may be familiar with Freeplay's earlier work on his RSS/XML reader pspRSS, but now he's moved on and ported the Linux game LPairs to the PSP. This is a classic concentration and memory type game where you match 2 tiles of the same type. Here's what Freeplay had to say when he released this program:

After much retooling, I've ported the game LPairs to the PSP. LPairs is a memory game where the player flips over cards in a grid two-at-a-time to see if they match. If they do, they are removed from the board. The game ends when all the pairs are removed. Simple, yes, but fun!

The card sets are completely customizable, as are the background and button images. Card icons must be a 48x48 Bitmap (BMP) file. They're saved in the 'gfx' folder, as 0.BMP, 1.BMP, 2.BMP ... 19.BMP.

The background is 'back.bmp', and can be a BMP file of any size. The button is 'button.bmp', and contains two images, both 64x64. The left image is the button, the right is the shadow. They must be saved side-by-side in the image, with no space between them.

I suppose you could change the logo too, if you want.

So far as I know, all bit depths are supported for bitmaps. If you're recompiling this and have SDL_Image, libpng, and libjpeg installed in your dev environment, I'm pretty sure you could use PNG or JPEG images without a problem.

To install the game:

On a 1.00 PSP:
Copy the '1.00\PAIRS' folder into the X:\PSP\GAME folder, where X:\ is your PSP's drive letter.
Copy the GFX folder into the X:\PSP\GAME\PAIRS folder.

On a 1.50 PSP:
Copy the two folders in the '1.50' folder into the X:\PSP\GAME folder, where X:\ is your PSP's drive letter.
Copy the GFX folder into the 'X:\PSP\GAME\PAIR 1' folder.

Download it here.
posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:05 AM by Auri

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