FINALLY got to play this. My Xbox was down and out for a while, but I installed a new power supply a few days ago and everything is working perfectly again.
I'd first like to say that I was very critical in every aspect the first time I played Doom on the Xbox, and that was with DoomX, which I absolutely hated. I really enjoyed Doom Legacy, however, and I didn't see much reason to "upgrade" to a new Doom until now. Odamex just runs flawlessly in single-player mode. The graphics are crisp, the framerate is perfect, the level transitions are smooth (thank god...no more cringing at my Xbox), and THERE'S MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT!
Unfortunately every time I try to get into a game there's nobody else playing...ever. What's up with that? I can see the Xbox version staying a bit dry, but what about you guys out there on Linux and Windows?
Anyway, because Hyper Eye did such a fantastic job, he's inspired me to work on a little project of my own. I am officially (er, sorta) creating official (kinda?) boxart for ALL of the Xbox homebrew games...except for DoomX because there's really no point in owning three versions of Doom on 1 Xbox. That's four if you have the collector's edition of Doom 3 and five if you also have ROE. Yup, I got 'em all...and the 32x and SNES versions. I think that's it.
The first box I made is here and it is dedicated strictly to Hyper Eye:
The artwork is by Don Ivan Punchatz, the same guy that did the original Doom box art. He passed away recently and this piece finally surfaced. Originally thought to be early Doom concept art, it is explained by the artist's son that this "alternate" painting was actually made for Electronic Gaming Monthly's issue 64 cover. More info can be found
here.Hope you like the boxart. Still working on the side and the back, but this is the only one I will be creating a side and back for.
Cheers!
Excellent box art! I have looked at your other thread and it looks like you are getting a nice collection worked up. Keep up the good work.
If you are looking for a game and nobody is playing the best thing to do is jump into the IRC channel #odamex on irc.oftc.net and drop a line in there that you are looking for a game. Someone will usually respond shortly. Odamex is a growing port but it takes time to establish a large playerbase. Odamex still has some work to do if we want to be chosen over Skulltag and Zdaemon.
For the console, if you have overscan on it is possible that it is making the text unreadable. Overscan can really mangle the console text. If it is a matter of the text being too small there isn't anything you can do about that besides lower your resolution when you want to read it. For the scoreboard, look in the options and turn off the highres scoreboard. It may not look as nice but the text will be large. We need to work on adding scaling to some of the interface elements that don't currently scale.