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Quake III

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Overview

Introduced in 1999 by Ports, the Quake III was a port system. It is grouped with ports titles in EmulationStation. Its platform tag is pc for proper filtering.

Technical specifications

  • Manufacturer: Ports
  • Release year: 1999
  • Hardware type: port
  • Platform tag: pc
  • EmulationStation group: ports

Supported ROM extensions

quake3

Emulators

  • ioquake3 (ioquake3) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_IOQUAKE3

Notes

Quake III is optimized to be played with a mouse and keyboard, but here it is also pre-configured to be played with a gamepad.

For the basic configuration you must have the "baseq3" and "missionpack" folders in the "/userdata/roms/quake3" directory.

To start a game, create a file with the extension .quake3, for example "Quake III Arena.quake3". Inside this file, add the following line: "+set fs_game "baseq3" for the game "Quake III Arena. For Quake III: Team Arena mode create another file with: "+set fs_game "missionpack".

Repeat this step for each mod you wish to play, giving the file a logical name to help you navigate through artwork etc.

Please note that menu options in Team Arena and other mods can only be selected using a mouse, once the game is started the controller will function normally.

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml