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Game Performance on Magician (MDA Compact)

I'm planning to buy a MDA Compact from T-Mobile here in Austria.
Gaming is important to me - so how is the gaming performance on this device? I've heard, that it's quite bad, because you have less programmeable Hardwarebuttons.
In general, is Magician suitable for Multimedia???

Due to button placement, it's hard to play games with the mini(compact). It feels cramped when I play games that need buttons (i.e. morphgear). but for stylus games, its fine.
Music and Movies though are great and I enjoy listening to MP3s with Mortplayer using my Senhheiser MX550 earphones with a 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapter.

I play SkyForce ( Beautiful Graphics ) with Stylus on Mini.

I think it's very well suited for gaming. Usually all games give you the opportunity to select which buttons to use for what operation. I'm playing Tomb Raider, Flux Challenge, Worms, Sky Force, Kevtris and others with no problems. The graphics power also is sufficient. The only real disadvantage it has is, that you can't press two buttons at the same time. That's a real disadvantage for almost all games! Many PDAs (not all) have this problem though.

Button Pressing
Actually, on the imate jam, I found that I can press multiple buttons at the same time. I noticed that I can move using directional pad while firing at the same time. Also, I it seems like the BT gamepad was made for the Jam as it works perfectly!

Ok, maybe you can use one of the buttons while using the DPad but you can't use two directions of the DPad at the same time e.g you can't move up and right at the same time - very annoying for action games.

I didn't think about that. Most of my old school games work great. I would suggest you get the BT pad when the price goes down. You will not regret it!

For stylus+button game no problem such as skyforce, atomic cannon and my favourite age of empire.

Dandie said:
I think it's very well suited for gaming. Usually all games give you the opportunity to select which buttons to use for what operation. I'm playing Tomb Raider, Flux Challenge, Worms, Sky Force, Kevtris and others with no problems. The graphics power also is sufficient. The only real disadvantage it has is, that you can't press two buttons at the same time. That's a real disadvantage for almost all games! Many PDAs (not all) have this problem though.
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Can you tell me how to change the controls on the mda compact when playing tomb raider. I can't work out how to save a game as the MDA has insufficient buttons. Many thanks.
Colinf1903

Gaming is great on the Jam!
I play loads (and i mean, loads of games) including Tombraider, Worms World Party, Age Of Empires, Solitaire , Warfare Inf, Rayman Ultimate, Mini Jetfight and some other games.
All are very easy to play IMO. Most games don't require more then the DPAD and Calender/Contacts buttons. Most games use stylus control.

The best device to run games is on Magician compared to xda I, II and IIs or IIi.

Trinity Sound Bug with TCPMP

Just installed TCPMP v71 and tried v72RC2 when playing music or videos I would hit play on the touch screen then it will play, after 3-5 seconds the sound gets distorted and goes away. If i use the action key to pause and then play it agian everything is fine. If I just load a music or video file and hit the action key it would play fine but if i tap the screen to play it, it screws up. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

Hagow said:
Just installed TCPMP v71 and tried v72RC2 when playing music or videos I would hit play on the touch screen then it will play, after 3-5 seconds the sound gets distorted and goes away. If i use the action key to pause and then play it agian everything is fine. If I just load a music or video file and hit the action key it would play fine but if i tap the screen to play it, it screws up. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
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I've the same issue

Try TCPMP v81

CorePlayer also
Hi,
Does anyone else have this bug? I also see it in CorePlayer (I'm running AX3L's ROM 3.0.9) It's a real problem for me to use TCPMP or CorePlayer as I can't pause at all.
Edit: Whoops, I just re-read the thread, and I tried pausing using the D-Pad, and it works! Hooray...

I have exactly the same bug.. after two seconds , the sound goes away and I hear ticking-like sound
tcpmp81RC1 doesn't resolve anything, and besides.. it freezes almost instant
(same sound problem)

I have latest Dopot ANZ WM6 version and I have same problem. I it is very annoing. I tried playing with buffering values and doesn't seems to fix it.

same problem -- looks like ati imageon bug, it made me stop using tcpmp and coreplayer. now i use smartmovie it works better with trinity.
magician was great! prophet was a bit buggy. trininty is the bug itself
will I ever buy htc device again? hmmm... not sure...

waterdeep said:
same problem -- looks like ati imageon bug, it made me stop using tcpmp and coreplayer. now i use smartmovie it works better with trinity.
magician was great! prophet was a bit buggy. trininty is the bug itself
will I ever buy htc device again? hmmm... not sure...
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all devices have some limitations/problems. It's a matter of how you resolve it. I came from two O2 devices, and believe me, they have their issues as well. Now, it's my first dopod, hope I can stick to this one.

Sudden No sound on Core Player
Hi all,
I would like to enquire if anyone can help me with fixing this bug. I have been using coreplayer on my HTC Trinity since i got the phone however just last weekend... i am not sure what happen but all of a sudden the sound did not work. The image worked fine... i tried to see if it was my speaker but when i use an alternate TCP player, the sound was fine.
Any ideas? I went to the options => stream => the audio is checked.
I checked the menu option => tools and all of it is checked.
Hence i hv no idea what is wrong.
any ideas anyone? Appreciate any help.

Try to set Audio to Mono and video preload @ 90 % instead 70%.
Bye.

Sound lags on regular intervals

Just got a new treo pro, but I experience a mild discomfort with the windows media player. When its playing and I have a screen saver active, it lags on regular intervals. By lagging I mean the sound just stops for a fraction of a second every like 30 seconds. This is extremely annoying. Anybody else having this issue.
BTW, the problem happens also when an alarm goes off and keeps on playing for like 1 minute. Even though, I assume it uses the same sound engine/codec.
thnx

it's the screensaver updating the time. try disabling it and you should be fine.

I'm just experencing the same thing on my treo pro. It's strange that Palm didn't make it work to have both screensaver and play music. You have to disable the screensaver or have the screen on while you play your music!?
hope Palm will fix that in an update!?

Use Pocket Tunes, it prevents the screensaver to start automatically.

i just use s2p, by a_c. its a great piece of sotware and makes listening to music so much better. almost never lags on me. =]
p.s. it is freeware and has an i-phone like interface. good luck, but the default wmp is horrible once you try s2p =]

ok the playback issue with palyers other than touch flo is a real pain

Well I am now totally fed up with the play back of mp3 palyers ( core, pocket music, pocket player ) there is a dam stutter in the playback.
We should make an official appeal for htc to fix this annoying issue
best
hyk

Apparently it's been there since the Touch Pro. It also occurs in the Touch Flo player by the way...

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Well I am now totally fed up with the play back of mp3 palyers ( core, pocket music, pocket player ) there is a dam stutter in the playback.
We should make an official appeal for htc to fix this annoying issue
best
hyk
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I've not had this stutter reappear after flashing a cooked ROM

for me it does not occur on touch flo at all, but all other players have the stutter problem

Yeah I have noticed it in a few different players - Konama, Core. This morning I have been using WMP and it doesn't seem to have jumped (the THD has been laid flat on a table though and hasn't been moved around). Can someone without rotation software comment as to whether the rotation software affects playback - I noticed that when using the konama player to playback music, rotation of the screen (gyrator 2) seems to cause dropouts.

how do you play games ?

im a new owner of diamond 2 but i cant play games without d pad
i didnt think about that before i bought the phone...
of course games is not the main issue that i bought the phone
but what do you do ?
thanks

Most games for Topaz either use on screen buttons or the GSensor to control.

why dont you get a bluetooth keyboard? i've tried playing games with that and it works fine