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DS homebrew announcements > ds-trivia (IRC trivia, without the IRC) (FIXED)

#146741 - Jeremysr - Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:34 am

I've made a trivia game for the DS, which is supposed to work a lot like IRC Triviabots but with only one player. It gives you a hint by showing the answer with all the letters replaced by dots, and starts revealing more dots every time you get the question wrong.

The game comes with a questions file to put on the root of your card. It contains 10 000 questions from an IRC Triviabot.

The controls are explained when you start up the game, and installation is explained in the readme file.

Screenshot: http://bio-gaming.com/jeremy/ds-trivia.png
Download (comes with source code): http://bio-gaming.com/jeremy/ds-trivia.zip

Edit: I fixed the problem explained in the reply below.

Last edited by Jeremysr on Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:56 pm; edited 1 time in total

#146743 - Badablek - Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:30 am

Hi Jeremysr,

thanks for this homebrew, but there's something wrong in it....questions must be in data/trivia and not in the root ;)

// Path to directory that contains the question file(s)
#define PATH_TO_QUESTIONS "/data/trivia/"

ps : little problem with very long answers :

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#146758 - dmm219 - Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:53 pm

yea...same issue...no matter where i put the questions file, its always looking for the questions file...whether root or not...

...any quick fix?

#146762 - Jeremysr - Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:55 pm

Oh, of course, I didn't even think about that. >.<

I uploaded a working version to the same URL: http://bio-gaming.com/jeremy/ds-trivia.zip

#146763 - dmm219 - Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:24 pm

works great! this will be a great time killer on a plane!

only suggestion, if possible, new questions downloadable via wifi would be awesome...not that i'll get through 10,000 questions anytime soon...

thanks for the great app!