Cave Story is now NXEngine

[Davespice]

Hi folks just to let you know, Cave Story on the Pi Store has been renamed to NXEngine to more accurately reflect what it is. We received a DMCA take down notice for the original page because it was apparently violating the copyright of a company called Nicalis Inc who own Cave Story. They have released a number of commercial versions of the game on Steam and Wii Ware amongst others.

The game can now be found at; http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects/nxengine

What convinced me to do this was understanding the fact that the NXEngine version of Cave Story is not completely identical to the original. Apparently there are a number of collision detection bugs and block placement issues which were not there in vanilla Cave Story. So I think it’s fair to make this distinction clear, I have added some text into the NXEngine store page which explains this.

If you have already downloaded from the original store page your download will still work but it may look a bit strange in the Pi Store application since its links to the store data will have become broken. You can just delete it from My Library and re-download as NXEngine to fix, but if you’re worried about losing your save games then follow the procedure below.

• Back up your save game data. Open up LX Terminal and enter these commands.

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  mkdir ~/csbackup
  sudo cp /usr/local/bin/indiecity/InstalledApps/cavestory/Full/datafiles/*.dat ~/csbackup
  

• Remove Cave Story from My Library, select it and press Delete on the right hand side
• When the uninstall has finished find NXEngine under Browse / Games / Platform and Download it
  You may find it doesn’t start the download automatically and you have to select it under My Library and click Download on the right
• Restore the save games that we backed up before. Open up LX Terminal and enter this command.

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  sudo cp ~/csbackup/*.dat /usr/local/bin/indiecity/InstalledApps/nxengine/Full/datafiles/
  

There will also be a redundant line in the file ~/.bash_aliases which you can remove using nano (like notepad) if you want.

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sudo nano ~/.bash_aliases

Press Ctrl - X, y and enter to save and quit out of nano.

[AndrewS]

You might want to email Liz and ask her to update all the links to the PiStore on http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5017 ?