Hey,
I've probably watched close to an hour of video reviews on the leo and no one mentioned podcasting functionality, afaik. Is it built into opera or the media player? Are there finger-friendly apps available?
I'm also interested in emulators for older gaming platforms, like SNES and the PSX. Performance seems promising, how about controls? Are there overlays with multi-touch in the works?
I'm new here, please forgive me if this has been answered. Didn't find anything in the stickies or through searching.
Cheers.
For podcasts you could give SmartRss Touch Edition a try.
I looks like it's still in beta, and isn't free, but there's a trial version for download.
I haven't tried it myself yet.
Cheers.
Thanks, looks good enough.
Someone on the FPSEce forums mentioned that a multi-touch controls overlay
for the psx emulator wasn't possible - something to do with limitations of the
capactive screen
Any word on whether he's telling the truth?
Performance should be almost full speed for every game with FPSECE as is with Toshiba TG01.
For controls, just buy a bluetooth gamepad from ebay and your away!
I tried Morphgear with Toshiba TG01 and got poor performance - I hope HD2 is differnt.
Thanks for your reply, I expect performance to be solid as well.
As for controls, I'm sure a bluetooth gamepad will work for some people but it's
just not for me. I would never consider carrying one just for a quick fix of wipeout
in the subway, and that's what I'm after.
The emulator runs VGA anyway, that leaves plenty of room for controls left and right.
The question is whether it's technically possible.
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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.
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
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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
I downloaded MAMECE3 and it works pretty good with a couple of games. I have some old ROM images that seem to work pretty good on the Artemis. I've been playing this old game called Tempest (1982) that has a rotary action and I've been trying to fine-tune the movement of the scroll wheel/Roller-R. The MAME emulator doesn't really have an option for a rotary control, just up, down left right. Anyone know of any other emulators that may work better with the Artemis' Roller-R controller?
Please put me in the correct forum if I'm in the wrong one.
See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=307165&highlight=mame
Hello folks,
This is my first post here. First I want to say thanks to the community at large here for the wealth of information that can be found here on the forums and wikis. You guys have made my HTC Advantage x7501 that much more valuable and entertaining for me!
My question is about SNES and NES emulation for the Advantage (or Ameo or Athena). I have read the wiki articles on SNES and NES emulators, and I have tried a number of the programs, but so far I haven't been very successful. There seem to be so many options out there, and a lot of the links and information is old or no longer valid (I can't find Tala's OpenGL SNES emulator to try it out, for instance).
If you have a SNES or NES emulator that work for you on your device, which one is it and what settings do you use?
I have tried these ones, to varying degrees of success:
-SNES-
n0p's PocketSNES: freezes up on me, seems unable to load a ROM
SNES9xJ4u: was able to change menus from Japanese to English, but I can't get a good picture. It loads portrait style, but not in a usable way (really small, picture garbled a little). On the plus side, it is REALLY fast.
-NES-
PocketNester: I've had the most success with this one. I can get games going in portrait, looking good. Button/key-mapping is really weird, it seems that PocketNester remaps it automatically in some weird fashion. Landscape would be nice.
PocketNesterPlus: For whatever reason I can't see all of the menus to change options or key-mapping. I can't use the scroll bar. Without being able to map keys or fiddle with graphics, I haven't been able to use this one. I really wish I could, because landscape would be sweet.
SmartGear: This one runs fast. Really fast. But the graphics are way off and I can't adjust them. It runs just a tiny box in portrait.
Lastly, I should note that I have tried and love ScummVM. If you're a fan of those old school games try it out! Monkey Island, baby.
maybe u shud try morphgear
Yeah, Morphgear is the one of the few that I haven't tried yet. I have to admit that I was hoping for a free solution, but I'll give it a shot and reply back with my experience.
Have you tried Morphgear on the Advantage?
I tried Morphgear, with the SNES plugin, and it looks very hopeful! I can get it to work in landscape at a good speed.
I'm still working on getting the keymapping right, and so far I haven't been able to get sound working. I'll let you know if I am able to get it going right.
Anyone happen to know where I can find a working link to Tala's OpenGL SNES emulator? If so, can you point me in the right direction? I'm not sure how it would work on my Advantage, but I'd like to give it a shot.
OpenGL On the Advantage/AMEO
I to have been trying to find an OpenGL driver for this phone for three days solid but I am pretty sure that it is not possible due to, if I remember correctly back in the day HTC crippled this functionality which led to talk up a clash action suit in the States for this and other HTC phones that doesn't support 3-D acceleration, or did I just dream that scenario?
As I have left this issue for over two years before searching a couple of days ago I was hoping that somebody in development in this forum would have found a way to get round this problem but last I think this phones development days are numbered, sadly.
There is nothing when you do a Google search and when you do a search in this forum you get the three results including this thread. I believe this thread answers our question, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670429&highlight=OpenGL
"HTC Sense uses opengl and it cannot run smoothly without a hardware accelerated opengl driver for the device.
As far as there is no hw opengl driver for Athena devices you won't see any ROM with Sense on Athena."
Such a shame as this phone with its fast CPU backing the day would have been awesome with 3-D acceleration.
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I to have been trying to find an OpenGL driver for this phone for three days solid but I am pretty sure that it is not possible due to...........
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I might have spoken too soon, I found this suggestion:
"Vincent ES 1.x is a 3D rendering library based on the OpenGL (R) ES 1.1 API specification (Common Lite) for embedded devices." http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogl-es/
,which worked okay but not brilliant for the Throttle Launcher Theme application. anyway it's a start and may be will be good enough for 3-D gamig on the advantage, see what you think.
I have no emulators to try it on but the instructions seemed to be drop it in the folder of the application you are using and it is detected so maybe you can see if it speeds up the emulator rendering?
Cheers
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I used the search and google and have come up empty on this subject.
Is there an MAME emulator that is capable of running on the TP2?
I installed MAMECE3 and Pocketcult Mame, but neither work properly on the TP2 because it lacks hardware keys and is not able to remap them to the keyboard.
Has anyone been able to get MAME to work?
Those emulators haven't seen much in the way of updates for a few years now, and even then, on the Tilt/Kaiser, they ran pretty badly. It's going to be a while before anyone has a definitive way to provide inputs for portrait orientation games in general, but even more so for a MAME emulator.
Perhaps this can work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=464758&highlight=arcade+pack
Not sure about VGA - WVGA compatibility...
If you really want to get it working and have an extra $50 to blow, you can get a Zeemote Bluetooth joystick for $40 and this driver for $10. I just got mine yesterday and so far I've got it working great with Pocket Cult MAME 0.5, Pocket VCS, and Morphgear.
Unfortunately, most of the roms I've tried for PC MAME haven't worked. Here's my list of working games so far, but I'm still testing more of them as I go:
1941
1942
Alien Syndrome
Bad Dudes
Gondomania
Gyruss
Karnov
Klax
Popeye (bootleg)
Rampage
Rastan
Robocop
Rygar
Section Z
Sidearms
Time Pilot 84
Trojan
Xenophobe
Yie Ar Kung Fu