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NintendoDS Rom's porting on Android

Hi, exist something about porting of NintendoDS on Android?
With touch-screen will as have an real NintendoDS on hands

I doubt this, as DS emulators on PC are still very slow, nevermind a handheld.
Check out the gba emulator in the market and see how slow it is.

Ok, Understood.
I would buy the gba emulator, but in Italy, google haven't again issued the market to pay... :'(
Is a really sin...

god damn it
there is NO GBA emulator on the market! only an ****ing slow gbc one !

Let's try to focus on getting things like SNES(or hell, even NES) working completely before we try for the DS, mkay?

Well it is possible to get MAME (gameboy, nintendo, etc.. maybe even ps1) running ..
the arcade emulator is based on FBA which is based on MESS (just a guess, i dont know that4sure) and MESS is similar to MAME .. ^^

The DS utilizes a pressure sensitive screen while the Android uses a Compacitive(sp?) screen. I'm not sure how well this could be adapted to work for DS emulation.

Also, the G1 has 1 screen while a DS has 2....

Stryder5 said:
Also, the G1 has 1 screen while a DS has 2....
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Well but's that really no problem ..
G1 screen resolution is 320*480 while both NDS screen are 256 x 192 pixels
As u can calculae there would be still 64pixel vertical and 96pixel horizontal left ^^

yea but imagine how much time it would take to port and figure out.. then think about how NOT fun any emulator is to play on a phone when it stutters and stuff.. i mean the nintendo one didnt work good untill I clocked the phone to max.

[Request] PSX Emulator for Android

Hi guys, I was hoping we could get a project together to work on a Playstation 1 emulator for Android.
What I miss about my HD2 was FPSECE.
Something like this for us Android users (mainly snapdragon) would be awesome!
A paid app for it would be even better. (money going to whoever creates the app, not me)
Tell me your ideas on this!

+1 was thinking about this when i found at that the N900 had a PSX Emu, Chrome Broswer and Firefox :|
PSX Emu is on almost everythin except Android :/

lolittle said:
+1 was thinking about this when i found at that the N900 had a PSX Emu, Chrome Broswer and Firefox :|
PSX Emu is on almost everythin except Android :/
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Would be cool.. but I'm sure it would absolutely KILL the battery

How do you plan on controlling games?
I can't really see this being an enjoyable experience, unless you have a BT controller or something and you're sitting on a plane or bus where you can prop your phone up.

Iphone has it... wers its buttons ... as long as touchscreen buttons are correctly layed out across the screen it shud be fine. I dont find it hard to play the snes emu or any other emu on the nexus tbh
Also on the N900 they got the ps3 pad hooked up... maybe thats summet that can be done on android, now that would be...

I'm more interested in a n64 emulator myself.

mikebeatrice said:
How do you plan on controlling games?
I can't really see this being an enjoyable experience, unless you have a BT controller or something and you're sitting on a plane or bus where you can prop your phone up.
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Maybe somebody could figure or a way to connect a dual shock 3 via bluetooth. lol

I saw that someone managed to get the Wii controller to connect to the iPhone for playing games

This would be absolutely awesome!

Thanks for all the responses guys!
I think we cold make this or a N64 emulator happen for snapdragon devices.
For a physical controller:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13760

bump. Let's get this thread going again!

I would personally love to see this happen and have loads of GI Bill money to DONATE toward the cause!

hefelfury said:
I would personally love to see this happen and have loads of GI Bill money to DONATE toward the cause!
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oooh! that would be awesome.
Maybe someone with C++, linux, and java can help us out

Has anyone tried contacting the developer of Fpsece or the developer of Psx4all? They might be able to help get a ps1 emulator for android.

Yes and was completely ignored...

this is a shame, with android becoming more and more popular, a KILLER app like this could change the tide faster. I hope some bright folks reconsider and make one.

Guys with the way the Nexus handles multi touch, PSX games would be near unplayable. Any game where you are pressing multiple buttons simultaneously will have a big problem translating over. Hell, this even applies to many of the SNES roms there.

sad news i was surprised on how well the hd2 handled it. damn do i miss playing psx on it

PSX emulator would be a waste of time, how do you expect to emulate 2 analog control sticks, 4 buttons and the R1/R2/L1/L2 buttons? Only very basic games would be playable.
Even playing PSX games on a PSP is difficult enough sometimes.

knightnz said:
PSX emulator would be a waste of time, how do you expect to emulate 2 analog control sticks, 4 buttons and the R1/R2/L1/L2 buttons? Only very basic games would be playable.
Even playing PSX games on a PSP is difficult enough sometimes.
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its not a waste of time..its available for windows mobile and works beautifully for the hd2..also on the iphone
and it is almost done..yongzh the creator of the emulators on android and zodttd the creator of the emulators for iphone are working together on it

Also a PSP game

Is there a game on Xperia Play that also exists on PSP? I want to play multiplayer with a friend which owns a PSP.
Oh yeah, unfortunately Age of Zombies isn't multiplayer.

You can't play multiplayer with a PSP and an xperia play.
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Geeve said:
Is there a game on Xperia Play that also exists on PSP? I want to play multiplayer with a friend which owns a PSP.
Oh yeah, unfortunately Age of Zombies isn't multiplayer.
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did you really thought that would work? It's like asking "Hey, can I play CoD on my PC against my friend on Xbox 360?"

_terror_ said:
did you really thought that would work? It's like asking "Hey, can I play CoD on my PC against my friend on Xbox 360?"
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FPSE supports multiplayer via Bluetooth or WLAN or smth.. at least i've read smth like that Oo

_terror_ said:
did you really thought that would work? It's like asking "Hey, can I play CoD on my PC against my friend on Xbox 360?"
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xbox 360, ps3 and pc users can all play final fantasy 12 together and when quake 3 arena was first released, dreamcast owners could play pc owners

_terror_ said:
did you really thought that would work? It's like asking "Hey, can I play CoD on my PC against my friend on Xbox 360?"
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Lots of games have cross platform compatability.

_terror_ said:
did you really thought that would work? It's like asking "Hey, can I play CoD on my PC against my friend on Xbox 360?"
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No reason why cross platform games cant interact with each other. Been done lots of times before.

AndroHero said:
xbox 360, ps3 and pc users can all play final fantasy 12 together and when quake 3 arena was first released, dreamcast owners could play pc owners
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You can play KWAAK3 engine using Quake3 files and play against people online (including via LAN or hosted internet server) that are on PC and other devices that have had Q3 engine ported to it. The Q3 engine was opensourced by ID software (quite nice of them).

haha, i stand corrected You learn something everyday

AndroHero said:
xbox 360, ps3 and pc users can all play final fantasy 12 together and when quake 3 arena was first released, dreamcast owners could play pc owners
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A) It was Final Fantasy XI.
B) PS2 and PC were able to play together.
C) Xbox 360 cannot play with anyone else.

zerojay said:
A) It was Final Fantasy XI.
B) PS2 and PC were able to play together.
C) Xbox 360 cannot play with anyone else.
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D) i'd still kick your ass on black ops even if i do know nothing about mmorpgs
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Probably, but my 12 year old kid... I don't know!

zerojay said:
Probably, but my 12 year old kid... I don't know!
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haha It's always 12 years olds that win anyway

Geeve said:
Is there a game on Xperia Play that also exists on PSP? I want to play multiplayer with a friend which owns a PSP.
Oh yeah, unfortunately Age of Zombies isn't multiplayer.
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You can't play PSP games and you never will. The only way this will ever be possible is if they make another Xperia Play that can handle the power of processing a game of that magnitude.

Cubsfan3493 said:
You can't play PSP games and you never will. The only way this will ever be possible is if they make another Xperia Play that can handle the power of processing a game of that magnitude.
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Are you thick, xperia play has 3x power of the psp, there are already some ports of psp games for the play, and the play runs them better than the psp...........
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AndroHero said:
Are you thick, xperia play has 3x power of the psp, there are already some ports of psp games for the play, and the play runs them better than the psp...........
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But those PSP games have to be ported... no way via emulation right? PLAY is not powerful enough to run a PSP emulator... as it is with the PS2. am I right?

hexen2006 said:
But those PSP games have to be ported... no way via emulation right? PLAY is not powerful enough to run a PSP emulator... as it is with the PS2. am I right?
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No i very much doubt the play could directly emulate PSP games, my point is, the play has more than enough power to play thoes games natively, if they were ported to android Generally i think the rule for emulation is you need 5-10x the power of the device your are trying to emulate

Games just aren't compatible. Different os and hardware. Modified games. Don't bother trying.
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nickzero said:
Games just aren't compatible. Different os and hardware. Modified games. Don't bother trying.
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Mhmyeah.
It would be cool if PSP developers would have a look at Xperia Play and make some PSP games compatible with it, maybe with lower graphics, it doesn't matter, but they still can make it!
Have a look at Dead Space. They did versions on several consoles and even on mobiles (currently only for Apple, but soon for Android). Dead Space for iPhone/iPad looks and feels almost as the PC version does, only it has lower graphics. It's not that hard, the only problem is lazyness here.
A good example is Age of Zombies, which surely makes more money on sellings due to the game being available both on PSP and Android phones.

[Q] is any hope for update Tiger NDS , or NDS4droid !!

hi guys
it's long time that haven't see any update for "tiger nds " and " nds4droid "
on first day that was very hopeful , but ...
is there anybody here that have news about them ?
or is there any other emulator for NDS ?

mehdi.moha said:
hi guys
it's long time that haven't see any update for "tiger nds " and " nds4droid "
on first day that was very hopeful , but ...
is there anybody here that have news about them ?
or is there any other emulator for NDS ?
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I think you can kiss that dream goodbye. The play isn't strong enough to emulate a nintendo DS. plus, nintendo ds has dual screen. How did you intend to play that on your phone?

common sense please.
the play has much bigger chance of emulating Psp/GCube than NDS...that Dual Screen kills it e-zly

the play is strong enogh. The NDS is not more powerfull thzan the n64 and it is more easy to emulate becouse the ds has an ARM processor.

The NDS shouldn't be a big thing to emulate... But nintendo can get hostile towards much development on a console whose games are still in the market.
Bleem is the paramount case.

IE-coRe said:
the play is strong enogh. The NDS is not more powerfull thzan the n64 and it is more easy to emulate becouse the ds has an ARM processor.
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Yeah but still, how about the dual screens?

Im sure the play has enough screen space to accomodate 2 screens, also its touch screen which helps.
Havent looked into ds emulation for a long time, but the main problems were with a lack of gyroscope and microphone (all of which the play has). Am I missing something though? Why couldnt the play emulate both screens?
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Dual screens isn't that hard to overcome. Display them side by side. Done. That's how I run the ds emulator for pc.
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Logseman said:
The NDS shouldn't be a big thing to emulate... But nintendo can get hostile towards much development on a console whose games are still in the market.
Bleem is the paramount case.
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Bleem was a playstation emulator for the dreamcast and PC. Sony took bleem to court and bleem won
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letspoint said:
Im sure the play has enough screen space to accomodate 2 screens, also its touch screen which helps.
Havent looked into ds emulation for a long time, but the main problems were with a lack of gyroscope and microphone (all of which the play has). Am I missing something though? Why couldnt the play emulate both screens?
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The play has an accelerometer not a gyroscope
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AndroHero said:
The play has an accelerometer not a gyroscope
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Yes and the DS has nothing like that. The 3DS has.

AndroHero said:
Bleem was a playstation emulator for the dreamcast and PC. Sony took bleem to court and bleem won
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Thing is, the Playstation and its games were still selling well at the time.

Well of course you CAN do dual display on a single display, i'm not an idiot. But what I mean is that the screens will be pretty small, which i think would suck.. That's why i think the NDS emulator for the play is a pointless idea.
The only good solution i can come up with is if you could switch between the screens somehow. YOu have one screen at the time, in fullscreen mode. Then with the press of a button jump to the other screen.
I haven't played the Nintendo DS that much, so i don't know if you really need both screens at the same time at all time.

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i'm sorry if my english is not good
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just look at old psp !
the cpu was poor , but all of us have seen that how Sony made big games with best possible and fantastic resolution on that. " like god of war - resistance ..."
i think our xperia play is strong enough to support NDS .
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NDS cpu - WIKIPEDIA :
CPU: Two ARM processors
* 32 bit ARM946E-S main CPU; 67 MHz clock speed. Processes gameplay mechanisms and video rendering.
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when psx released , on first step was something like current ver. of "tiger NDS " or " NDS4droid "
very slow ...
i think we can hope to improve that emulators. there are so many beauty games on NDS that worth to try for . ps1 games are good , but is better to play it on widescreen , home theater , ...
but NDS games are specially for little screen , 4 inc
i'm , personally eager to see and buy a prefect emulator for NDS .
i've send mail to tigerNDS developer and request him to keep on nice try .
please guys ,
let's do it together

The kyocera echo would be the best for NDS emulation XD
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mehdi.moha said:
first :
i'm sorry if my english is not good
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just look at old psp !
the cpu was poor , but all of us have seen that how Sony made big games with best possible and fantastic resolution on that. " like god of war - resistance ..."
i think our xperia play is strong enough to support NDS .
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NDS cpu - WIKIPEDIA :
CPU: Two ARM processors
* 32 bit ARM946E-S main CPU; 67 MHz clock speed. Processes gameplay mechanisms and video rendering.
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when psx released , on first step was something like current ver. of "tiger NDS " or " NDS4droid "
very slow ...
i think we can hope to improve that emulators. there are so many beauty games on NDS that worth to try for . ps1 games are good , but is better to play it on widescreen , home theater , ...
but NDS games are specially for little screen , 4 inc
i'm , personally eager to see and buy a prefect emulator for NDS .
i've send mail to tigerNDS developer and request him to keep on nice try .
please guys ,
let's do it together
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what you have to keep in mind is that you need almost 12x the power of the **** you're trying to emulate. So if you are gonna emulate a n64, you need a computer with 12x much power.
and you mix up emulate and port. I think you can port really good quality games from lets say PSP to xperia play. But i don't think you can emulate it.

_terror_ said:
what you have to keep in mind is that you need almost 12x the power of the **** you're trying to emulate. So if you are gonna emulate a n64, you need a computer with 12x much power.
and you mix up emulate and port. I think you can port really good quality games from lets say PSP to xperia play. But i don't think you can emulate it.
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The 12x the power thing is debatable but is besides the point.
We do not need to emulate everything. The play already has the an arm processor. no need to emulate one of those. that saves us a lot of the processing power to emulate other things.

_terror_ said:
what you have to keep in mind is that you need almost 12x the power of the **** you're trying to emulate. So if you are gonna emulate a n64, you need a computer with 12x much power.
and you mix up emulate and port. I think you can port really good quality games from lets say PSP to xperia play. But i don't think you can emulate it.
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The N64 sports a 74mhz processor, faster than the NDS' 67mhz ARM. Since the Play emulates the n64 just fine there's no technical limitation in this respect.
Not to mention there's no consistent formula for judging the power needed for emulation.
There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to emulate the DS on our phones. Just not everyone will enjoy it. Me, I have a 3ds if I want to play the games, so I don't really care about the emulator either way

speedyink said:
The N64 sports a 74mhz processor, faster than the NDS' 67mhz ARM. Since the Play emulates the n64 just fine there's no technical limitation in this respect.
Not to mention there's no consistent formula for judging the power needed for emulation.
There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to emulate the DS on our phones. Just not everyone will enjoy it. Me, I have a 3ds if I want to play the games, so I don't really care about the emulator either way
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as i said before, i haven't played the NDS, so i don't know it's power. I thought it was better then Nintendo 64, but i guess i was wrong.
All that talk about 12x much power. That's just what i've learned from this forum reading the threads in the developers section.
The reason i'm not interested in a NDS emulator is the lack of a good solution for the dual screen.

_terror_ said:
as i said before, i haven't played the NDS, so i don't know it's power. I thought it was better then Nintendo 64, but i guess i was wrong.
All that talk about 12x much power. That's just what i've learned from this forum reading the threads in the developers section.
The reason i'm not interested in a NDS emulator is the lack of a good solution for the dual screen.
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The whole 12x more powerful thing is a bit iffy, the PSP is not 12x more powerful in specs than the N64 but it emulates it perfectly...

Emulators on cha cha

Hello to all!
I can see that nobody talk aout this.
Can you suggest some emulators for old consoles wich best suits this device?
I'm using some from android market but those do not have option to save game. That's bad, realy bad. You have to buy full version I guess to have that option.
All in all any sugesstion can help.
Oh, I tried to use snesoid, gamebod, gensoid... but they doesn' work. I'm found them on internet. they work great on my wildfire s but here is no go...

Boysi, a little bit off-topic, but do you think the Status' screen size is good enough to play PlayStation games using the PS Emulator (which has been banned from the market)?

For sega genesis, snes and game boy advance is big enough. I will try psx and than I can tell you.
btw Newer versions of Gameboid, Snesoid, Gensoid... are work great on this phone.

Boysi said:
For sega genesis, snes and game boy advance is big enough. I will try psx and than I can tell you.
btw Newer versions of Gameboid, Snesoid, Gensoid... are work great on this phone.
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that's great. thanks
these emulators are available in android market? or you downloaded from external sources?

astro11 said:
Boysi, a little bit off-topic, but do you think the Status' screen size is good enough to play PlayStation games using the PS Emulator (which has been banned from the market)?
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The one that was banned was pretty crap, but FPse is on there and going strong. Works wonders on my Desire, will try it on the girlfriend's ChaCha over the weekend.

Boysi said:
For sega genesis, snes and game boy advance is big enough. I will try psx and than I can tell you.
btw Newer versions of Gameboid, Snesoid, Gensoid... are work great on this phone.
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got gameboid on my brothers cha cha and it doesnt work, such a shame! I've tried so many emulators on this model but none properly work! why is this?!

I'm using John NES Lite though and I am quite happy with it. I have Super Mario (old time classics, eh) only.

Gameboid, Gensoid, Snesoid, Nesoid... All works for me. Just try to find some new version. For Gameboid you need gba bios file. Just google it. You'll find it, I'm sure.

have you already tried fpse on chacha what is your review

leepison said:
have you already tried fpse on chacha what is your review
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Yeah, I would like to know that too! I am planning to buy it for my sister. who has no interest in Emulators, but still I want to know!

ScummVM and DosBox
Boysi said:
Gameboid, Gensoid, Snesoid, Nesoid... All works for me. Just try to find some new version. For Gameboid you need gba bios file. Just google it. You'll find it, I'm sure.
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Apart from those emulators ScummVM works extremely well on my ChaCha. It sometimes takes me a blank screen when start-ups (only if RAM is low / very low!) but no game crashes whatsoever so far once loaded and I have tried the following games on it successfully:
Day of the Tentacle (CD version)
Beneath a steel Sky (CD version)
Sam and Max Hit the Road (CD version)
You may have to install plugins available on the playstore for some of the games to be supported!
Also try DosBox for older DOS games...still haven't used DosBox extensively yet to fully confirm how well it works for the ChaCha nut with my experience so far it works well (only a week or so trying it out)