I have Pocketgnuboy and PocketNester on my 8125 and I'm having problems using the Green and Red phone buttons for gaming. While the programs can map the keys in the program, it won't work for the games. Is there a block imposed on these keys to prevent mapping these keys for games?
Well, I have noticed personally that some games will run with full functions over all the keys and ect; while some do not... I had bought Sky Force to test and see if I could play it with mapping the fire keys to my call keys. Sure enough it worked. On the other hand, trying to play games on PocketNester doesn't seem to work with the mapped keys or even the on-screen controller.
If anyone has an answer, please keep us posted.
Sorry to bump this back up. I have been playing with games on my 8125 and the itch to be able to use all the buttons on the phone for gaming had come up again. I was wondering if anyone had been able to figure out how to get the green and red call buttons to function in an emulator like PocketGnuBoy or PocketNester even though the mapping portion of the program recognizes the key. Thanks again.
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To start off, I don't have a Wizard, I own a Universal. I am thinking about moving to the Wizard for gaming. I like the button setup on the wizard. Now, I know most of you are thinking, don't consider the buttons because the phone keys can't be mapped. However, I would like to recommend a program to you all called aebuttonplus, which will allow you to map the phone buttons to "virtual buttons." These virtual buttons can be recognized by programs like Pocetnestor and gnuboy. At least they work on my Universal.
My other concern is that the processor isn't fast enough. Seems like you all are overclocking, but apparently you can't run spbplus, which I really need. This may be a problem for me, and there is no discussion here, I have to run spbplus.
So, my next thought is the Apache. A faster processor, from what I understand, that doesn't need overclocking. I just don't like the antenna nub. Also, the buttons aren't quite an issue on this device, but I don't know about the joystick.
I would also recommend to you all the bluetooth gamepad, I have found drivers that work on the Universal. It really takes gaming to a new level on a PDA.
Thanks for any advice/thoughts/responses.
hey give me more info on this bluetooth gamepad.
My wizard is not overclocked and runs SPB Pocket Plus without any problem, the device is as responsive as it it without SPB Plus.
i have yet to really get into gaming on the wizard... the butotn layout just does work for me good..
im thinking the bast games for wizard are point and click type games like myst or simple games like who wants to be a millionare
need for speed is ok but madden is unplayable for me.. control is horrible
Wow, 200 views and 3 replies. You Wizard folk are gamin' fools, LOL.
Anyhow, the bluetooth gamepad is called the Freedom Bluetooth gamepad. There's lots of different brandnames for it. Google away.
Koksie, I was referring to overclocking in order to run game emulators. Problem is, overclocking is supposedly disabled by sbp. Don't know why, but that's what I've read in these forums.
Guyver, thanks for your reply on the buttons, I guess you are saying the buttons work okay for gaming?
I can't believe you guys don't play game emulators (like NES, gameboy, etc.). A nice time waster when you are sitting in a department store, wedding, etc.
Sorry, I misunderstood your post.
I use Omapclock to sometimes overclock my Wizard when running TomTom and it works fine, in TCPMP my clock speed is shown as 226 Mhz when I put it in 240 in Omapclock. When I put it back to 180 Mhz in Omapclock ( the default speed), TCPMP shows a 170 Mhz speed, so Omapclock works imo.
I used to play around with Morphgear and Ninentendo emulators on my Magician, but the button lay-out on that device made it hard to play games. Sound and display of the games were ok though. On my Wizard I have not tried it, although with this button lay-out is should be easier to control the games. Speed and sound of the games might be an issue though, even when overclocked.
Thanks, Koksie, good info!
I can overclock my Wizard to 264mhz with SPB pocketplus. That's plenty to run a snes emulator etc. It is an arse not being able to assign hardware buttons though :/
I've grabbed the emulators off the ftp, but where do I get roms for games?
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I can overclock my Wizard to 264mhz with SPB pocketplus. That's plenty to run a snes emulator etc. It is an arse not being able to assign hardware buttons though :/
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Mike, you're exactly the person I want to talk to. Try a program called aebuttonplus, and you can assign the phone buttons to "virtual buttons" which are recognized by the emulator. It works on my universal, at least, and the button setup on the Wizard is much better than the Universal. Give it a shot and let me know if that helps.
I actually meant to say that the layout isnt too good fpr gaming...atleast 4 me
well with pocket nester. if you turn off GAPI landscape mode works fine and you can assign keyboard buttons to whatever you want.
as of right now, to make it usable also turn on alternate scanning of keys for multiple button presses.
knowing both of these makes games "playable" but not nearly as nice as a real joystick.
our best bet is to bug any developer or possibly collectively pay together to have some fix all the open source emus out there.
landscape Is by far the best way to game on this bad boy. but from eperience the keypad is lackluster AT best for controlling games.
right now the only emu out that supports keypad/landscape mode is pocket nester.
turn off gapi in video settings. and turn on alternate key scanning for best possie controls on device.
sorry for misspellings/grammar errors, I am posting this from my wizard.
I've been playing a lot a games on various emulators and have run across a problem. The Align Screen dialogue keeps popping up in the middle of game play. I think it happens when I push a direction and the center enter key at the same time.
Is there a way to stop this from happening?
Excellent question, although I've found that "Align Screen" happens when I hit the center key along with the Messaging key, located on the top left hand side of the phone, rather than the center key + direction (just tried it on my 8125).
I also play emulators (MorphGear, mainly) and have to restart the application for the controls to work accurately again, after "Align Screen" happens. Argh.
Is there any way to remap that key combination? Might it be hard coded, as is a hard reset? What are the other key combinations?
It's definatly the center key plus a direction for me.
I just download Morphgear, and even with 240 mhz overclock it barley runs any PCE (Turbo Grafx 16) games. Have you tried it with any PCE games?
Strange. I wonder why it's different on yours. Mine is definitely the Message Key / Center Key combination. I have a Cingular 8125, BTW.
Honestly, I haven't tried any PCE games, but I've had loads of fun playing Sega Master System games and 'Tender (NES) games. The Sega games play well, sans the over clocking; NES, not so much. With over clocking, I was finally able to play NES games, but when trying some SNES or Genesis games, wasn't very pleased.
That still hasn't solved the problem though....
Anyone know of a list of key combos for the HTC Wizard and / or how to disable / remap them?
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Strange. I wonder why it's different on yours. Mine is definitely the Message Key / Center Key combination. I have a Cingular 8125, BTW.
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My mistake, it's the same on mine. Hard to tell with all of the frantic button mashing.
makelly2 said:
Strange. I wonder why it's different on yours. Mine is definitely the Message Key / Center Key combination. I have a Cingular 8125, BTW.
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My mistake, it's the same on mine. Hard to tell with all of the frantic button mashing.
I guess our only resolve is to use the keyboard rather than the d-pad.
Sucks.
Any help out there?
Same thing on mine. It'd be nice to confirm with HTC or Cingular if this is normal behavior or not... Anyone have connections?
hi!i have just bought Tytn and i am looking for applications and games...i think i have read in this forum a web page that has apps and games(for free) but i cant find that anymore...can anyone give me the address?thank you a lot
This is a nice one
http://www.freecabs.de/
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Freeware...
Pocket PC Freeware - http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php
Freeware Pocket PC - http://freewareppc.com
Make sure you follow my reviews in the General forum here, I continuously review a lot of titles and my verdicts are pretty reliable
Menneisyys said:
Make sure you follow my reviews in the General forum here, I continuously review a lot of titles and my verdicts are pretty reliable
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I second that!
There are also snes, nes, genesis, mame emulators available. So far I've gotten mame, nes, snes to run perfectly. I also tried that PS emulator the other day. I managed to run Final Fantasy Tactics at around 25-30FPS with slowdown at cutscenes.
where do i get these stuff daemonk?thank you vijay and athuaqueaxmed!
The modaco.com smartphone gaming forums has links to the various emulators. You have to find the BIOs and ROM files yourself though becuase they are illegal to distribute and have if you don't already own the game.
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showforum=38
I used:
Final Burn for MAME
PocketSNES for SNES
FPSEce for PS1
PocketNester for NES
The default settings pretty much works. Some minor tweaks with display settings might be needed for portrait/landscape mode. Also button layouts has to be reprogrammed.
To get the MAME Final Burn emulator to work on some games, you also have to increase the memory cache in the registry under hklm/system/storage manager/filters/fsreplxfilt/ReplStoreCache and hklm/system/storage manager/FATS/CacheSize to 32768. Warning though, changing your cache size will lower your availble RAM to like 10-15mb.
The PocketSNES emulator will only display landscape right mode. So you'll have to flip your hermes the other way with the slide out keyboard on top and customize your buttons accordingly. I actually found it to be more comfortable than playing with the keyboard on the bottom.
I don't recommend playing heavy action/multiple button pressing games on the hermes because I don't think the keyboard was really made to be pressed that heavily. Thats why I deleted my MAME emulator and games. But RPGs like the Final Fantasy Series or other old Squaresoft games (replaying chrono trigger right now) run prefectly on the hermes. The save state feature present on all those emulators lets you save whenever so it really works well as a mobile gaming device.
So far I've found hermes really good for these emulators because of that slide our keyboard. The keyboard unlike many other phones actually register more than one button press at the same time, so I can press down and left directions at the same time and go diagonal.
The only issue is what happens when a call comes in while you are playing. On the Final Burn emulator, your phone will probably crash. On the other emulators, you'll be able to take the call, but the emulator will crash after you are done talking, losing your game progress.
Thanks for the info. I see your point about the keys.
daemonk said:
The PocketSNES emulator will only display landscape right mode. So you'll have to flip your hermes the other way with the slide out keyboard on top and customize your buttons accordingly. I actually found it to be more comfortable than playing with the keyboard on the bottom.
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Use n0p's port instead. Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=306444
another good freeware site
http://freecabs.org - has freeware pocket pc downloads
Hey, I found a link here on xda to a youtube video showing a game(Art of Fighting), and I wanna know if it really just a ROM emulator is, or is it game you install on your phone?
The user is 520darky on youtube, and he's got a few other games aswell.
If someone can reply to my question, can they please tell me where to get the games, either emulated ROM or Cab files.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
scruffy_joe
Morphgear or FPSECE. Do a google/xda search!
actually, for running art of fighting the emulator you need is Final Burn, it runs neo-geo games, CPS1 and CPS2, you can find roms in here http://romhustler.net. All games I've tried run pretty smooth ( super street fighter 2 turbo, marvel Vs. Capcom, art of fighting, street fighter alpha 2, etc )
any 1 got this working
managed to get the game started, credits loaded, and started a fight
but when i try to assign the keys it just doesnt work
i can assign 3 of the dpad keys but one always goes to home
also the on screen buttons, do not work as the game automatically pauses and goes into portrait mode
is there any easy was of disabling this so i can use finalburn, as graphics are quality
tommyboybid said:
any 1 got this working
managed to get the game started, credits loaded, and started a fight
but when i try to assign the keys it just doesnt work
i can assign 3 of the dpad keys but one always goes to home
also the on screen buttons, do not work as the game automatically pauses and goes into portrait mode
is there any easy was of disabling this so i can use finalburn, as graphics are quality
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Yeah it works great for me, go into options and make sure enable screen keypad is ticked and use mode 1 (fire buttons) - then when you start a game pause it and go to Options-Keys- and re=map the buttons....i've got my back button (0x5C) mapped to coin and the centre button as start (0x8E) and everything works fine.
im using finalburn and havent managed to get either of super street fighter 2 turbo, marvel Vs. Capcom, art of fighting, street fighter alpha 2 to work - managed to get cps1 roms to work but not neogeo. iv got the neogeo.zip (bios) in the roms directory but still no luck. maybe im using an incompatible rom.
can anyone email me or pm me a link to a working rom?
I have mapped the keys and made sure the screen buttons are on
still my game pauses wen i press anywhere on the screen and i can not map the home key, all other keys i can map
but i only have 6 i can map??
is this anything to do with the cooked rom i am running maybe, swift
Hi dudes i find a good instructions for emu http://www.pocketpcmag.com/cms/index.php?q=blogs/3/1928
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yeah that the guide i used to set ip up
but still no joy
i think it must be the swift rom
anyone got this working o this rom
Hi fellow play owners... ive been messing about all day grabbing some emulators and other games. but it seems to me that you can only use the pad on some games? ... racing games wth tilt steering seem to have no key mapping option unless im missing something? (im talking about no emulator tilt racing games)
anyone have any ideas if its possible maybe im missing something...
cheers
Games need to have explicit support for the dpad or customizable control.
The Tiger set of emulators work perfectly because of the complete controller custimizability.
TigerSNES + super Mario FTW!
Ah right so its the individual games or emulators that have to have the supported code in them to let u map the keys... i thought the phone might have some conversion type software built in itself..
so basically only games with keymapping written into them u can map ... cheers