1. Some GREAT, new FPSEce 0.010 videos released!
I’ve long been waiting for the long-announced, 0.010 version of FPSEce, the one and only PlayStation emulator for Windows Mobile, which will deliver MASSIVE optimizations and GREAT speed enhancements, especially with PDA’s with the Intel 2700G 3D graphics accelerator. This, unfortunately, means only the Dell Axim x50v and x51v are supported (if you need SPEED, that is).
For long, the project seemed to be completely abandoned, until, in early December, the developer announced there would be an imminent release of the brand new and heavily enhanced version. Unfortunately, he still hasn’t managed to get it released; however, in addition to the old demos already available HERE, he’s (more precisely, Damien of PocketPlayers Reloaded) posted five brand new videos showing the capabilities of the new engine:
Ridge Racer
Pandemonium
Tekken
Motortoon
Check them out if interested. Again, note that the videos have been shot on the hardware-accelerated Dell Axim x51v. A non-hardware-accelerated device will behave far worse (see for example THIS non-accelerated Tekken video to see the difference).
2. A cheap Final Fight / Streets of Rage clone, Dark Street, released
The just-released Dark Street is a cheap, very simple but, if you’re a fan of the genre, quite entertaining bash’m up game, pretty much similar (but still inferior to) the console beat 'em up classics like Capcom’s Final Fight and Sega’s Streets of Rage.
It is compatible with both Pocket PC’s and Smartphones. With the latter, even the lower-resolution 176*220 models are supported.
Currently, it’s only available from mobile2day.de. Click the Download link there. Note that it loads VERY slow.
Unfortunately, it, as of the current, 1.0.1 version, has MAJOR problems on both Pocket PC’s and Smartphones.
a. On Pocket PC’s, if you touch the touch screen to either fire or activate one of the super skills (the small icons in the upper left corner), the game will start stuttering. For example, on my HTC Wizard, it has just stopped and I had to entirely reset the phone. On my old, WM2003 HP iPAQ h2210, it behaved better; so did on my WM5 AKU2.3 Dell Axim x51v. Still, this bug made the game almost unplayable on the latter two devices too.
Unfortunately, as you can’t reassign the action key (kicking etc.), controlling the game becomes REALLY hard because you can only do any action by pressing the Action button in the D-pad. This alone renders this game useless.
b.On MS Smartphones (tested on both the QVGA WM6 Vox and the 176*220 WM5 Oxygen), the situation is decidedly better because, there, you can also use the “5” dialpad key to kick / shoot (as opposed to, say, how Amiga Inc.’s Invasion, where, on a Smartphone, you can’t use any of the dialpad buttons.) However, as there aren’t any dialpad shortcuts to activate the super weapons, there is little point in playing the game on the Smartphone platform either.
The (mono) music is pretty OK at first; later, however, becomes really repetitive.
All in all, before these problems are fixed, I cannot recommend this game at all. If you’re REALLY into the genre, go the SNES / NeoGeo / etc. emulation route instead. The better emulators (please see my related Bibles HERE) all have redefinable buttons; the original games are far better too (much better music, animation, sprites, backgrounds etc.)
(Source & another, German language thread on the game: PocketPlayers Reloaded)
3. SmartGear news
The folks at BitBank Software, developers of the award-winning SmartGear emulator, have, two days ago, announced they would add SNES and/or GBA support for SmartGear. Also, they have asked whether anyone needs a pre-WM2003 build of SmartGear. You can “vote” for these in the dedicated MoDaCo thread.
4. An excellent Java platform game released & reviewed
There is a brand new and pretty nice MIDlet game, Sola Rola. It received a stellar review over at All About N-Gage. While I haven’t tested it, you might still want to give it a try to see whether it’s compatible with Windows Mobile MIDlet managers and/or it’s a good game by Windows Mobile standards as well.
About FPSEce i follow this emulator this the first beta some years ago.
Games like Xenogear, or Parasite Eve works good even if little bit slow on My dell axim x30 Perf.
I don't know if this new version will be changed something for this device.
About Darkstreet, there is a programming problem. With my HTC Touch, sometimes the game freeze during the intro and often i when i touch the screen to fight an opponent.
I think that from a bad programming sheet with touch screen, because the game freeze but after continue to work. I never need to restart the HTC Touch. Once time the game worked very good.
On my Dell Axim, the game has the same problem. It isn't normal, specially with a pocketpc who turn 624MHz.
I will hope they release a best version.
Something is funny, all characters from all games of Huike are the same specials skill to fight
thanks for the update...will def try this one out. Tried out spyro the dragon with the initial release but was a bit too slow for my liking. Eager to see how this new release compares to the last version.
cheers
Want to see what version 1.0 will be?
Watch my videos
http://www.youtube.com/?gl=FR&hl=fr
Runs on Samsung omnia (with bluetooth gamepad to controll)
i900frenchaddict said:
Want to see what version 1.0 will be?
Watch my videos
http://www.youtube.com/?gl=FR&hl=fr
Runs on Samsung omnia (with bluetooth gamepad to controll)
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Your URL is messed up and takes to the French collection only.
1.0 is SOOO much faster for me than .96 and .95. I dont even really need the frameskip mode as i can get 30fps easy on many games (as opposed to 15 that i got before) which is great for a touch pro. I can't wait for the official one to come out and i hope it's being continued. The last news on the page is from January ad it says that there's only a small problem. All i can really think now is that the developers must really be working to create a perfect version or that problem led to a couple more and they are developing a fix. I only wish they would release more betas because waiting for the official is murder!
where can i download isos for this?
jrodizzkool01 said:
The last news on the page is from January ad it says that there's only a small problem.
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they're been saying this for two years
jrodizzkool01 said:
1.0 is SOOO much faster for me than .96 and .95. I dont even really need the frameskip mode as i can get 30fps easy on many games (as opposed to 15 that i got before) which is great for a touch pro. I can't wait for the official one to come out and i hope it's being continued. The last news on the page is from January ad it says that there's only a small problem. All i can really think now is that the developers must really be working to create a perfect version or that problem led to a couple more and they are developing a fix. I only wish they would release more betas because waiting for the official is murder!
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and where did you get version 1.0?
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and where did you get version 1.0?
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found it by accident on some forum in a different language (looked either german or russian) but i dont remember the name. I couldnt read a word they said but i saw 1.0 and clicked on it so it downloaded. Its very, very buggy so i think it might be an alpha copy. Schtruck, the developer said about a week ago that the official release of 1.0 will (hopefully) come out very soon. ive been following the fpsece 1.0 forum practically everyday
bstylz911 said:
where can i download isos for this?
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sorry but it's illegal to discuss places to download isos and psx but i can suggest google. Took me about a second to search for and find a rom website
Menneisyys said:
Your URL is messed up and takes to the French collection only.
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What an idiot I am!
Here is the good link
http://www.youtube.com/user/i900frenchaddict
(32 videos of FpseCE 1.0 here, and some older of 0.9.5 and 0.9.6)
Here you'll see the real 1.0 beta tests, updated many times by Schtruck since I have been testing it, and now very close the the coming official release
Sorry for the bad link, and the time it took me to realize...
All the videos on my youtube channel were made on my Samsung Omnia, and of course with Schtruck's agreement
i900frenchaddict said:
What an idiot I am!
Here is the good link
http://www.youtube.com/user/i900frenchaddict
(32 videos of FpseCE 1.0 here, and some older of 0.9.5 and 0.9.6)
Here you'll see the real 1.0 beta tests, updated many times by Schtruck since I have been testing it, and now very close the the coming official release
Sorry for the bad link, and the time it took me to realize...
All the videos on my youtube channel were made on my Samsung Omnia, and of course with Schtruck's agreement
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just wondering, do you find the bluetooth keyboard to increase the performance of the emulator (like speed or fps)? Im on the fence on whether i should get one for my touch pro because though i can map the keyboard, it slows down gameplay when using it
No, I use a bluetooth gamepad only for 2 reasons:
-the omnia has no real hardware buttons
-its screen is not multitouch
So it's the only solution for me to really play.
PocketIso 3.2 released on FPsece forum:
http://fpsece.e3b.org/forum2/download/file.php?id=22&sid=42047c6714a49a07b24906a2aa7b1da7
It makes smaller compressed iso than before (for games using XAstreams)
i900frenchaddict said:
What an idiot I am!
Here is the good link
http://www.youtube.com/user/i900frenchaddict
(32 videos of FpseCE 1.0 here, and some older of 0.9.5 and 0.9.6)
Here you'll see the real 1.0 beta tests, updated many times by Schtruck since I have been testing it, and now very close the the coming official release
Sorry for the bad link, and the time it took me to realize...
All the videos on my youtube channel were made on my Samsung Omnia, and of course with Schtruck's agreement
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so what is the agreement that you have with him?
how soon is soon for official release?
josefcrist said:
so what is the agreement that you have with him?
how soon is soon for official release?
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That’s something a LOT of WinMo users are waiting for
Menneisyys said:
That’s something a LOT of WinMo users are waiting for
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har har yeah i figured it was worth a try though because it seems like this guy knows the developer.
Yes, I'm in touch with Schtruck with MSN.
He asked me in March if I wanted to test the beta 1.0 version of FpseCE because he had seen my youtube videos with the bluetooth gamepad and my omnia on version 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 (and appreciated the result I think), and he wanted to test FpseCE both with the Marvell cpu of the Omnia, and the WQVGA display.
I accepted of course, I was really honnored!
So I started to test FpseCE 1.0, new fix after new fix, Schtruck allowing me to make some videos to show improvements in real time.
For the official release, it was delayed because LDchen had to deal with difficult and important times in his job, so he had few time to work on fpsece.
Now, Schtruck and LDchen are merging their works and working together on the last fixes.
Fresh new vids:
-Bloody Roar 2 using new settings (in fact the same settings and fixes that were made for tekken 3, they seem to work well for many other games)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53-XDLtjVSk
-Simpsons Wrestling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vKgb024D0
I saw iphone had streetfighter4 and was wondering if anyone heard any news of it comming to windows mobile. The game is 210MB so it would be a larege download but the graphics are arcade like and amazing!!! I recently did a rip of a part of streetfighter4 and put it on my phone and windows mobile handles it well so there should be no problem. I ran it on the touchpro2 and it handle graphics great i even took a photo so you can see.
Moved as not software release.
Get an Emulator, then run any arcade game you want.
Im 99% sure this wont be making to WinMo, how many apps do?
where are the graphics
I just want this game really bad!! Does anyone know where I can get streeetfighter4 sprites? If I can get the sprites and animations I could do it myself. Of course not as good as capcom but good enogh for my own enjoyment. Does anyone know where I can get solid animation?
I really want some nice games, that are funny. sorry to say but the iphone has alot wich i like... everything else this phone rules!
and i know we have some nice ones like psx emulator and gamesofts game that are cool..
i saw iphone emulator for pc.. wouldnt it be possible to use that emulator to
play games on our hd2?
Nope, there is no iPhone OS emulator for Windows Mobile.
More and more successful games from this platform come to our platform, most recently, I saw a beta version of Doodle Jump...
Time will show how the creators of such brilliant entertainment software find their way to another platform. After all, if they think commercial, they will expand their business to Android (most likely) and maybe some to WinMo 6.x, too, but I expect more to come to the next generation of Windows Phone.
Hi all,
I've been searching for a Windows Mobile version of Carcassonne (a tile-based board game) and so far had no luck. In case you don't know what Carcassonne is here's a link to the Wikipedia article about the game : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_%28board_game%29
I've never actually played the physical version of the game but I love the Xbox Live Arcade version and the turn-based gameplay would obviously make it a great game to have on the go...
I've been looking for quite a while so I don't really think that a WM Carcassonne game exists but if it does, I'm sure that somebody from here would have heard of it so that's why I'm posting this message. Has anyone heard of a version of Carcassonne for WM?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,no WM version available for the moment , just iPhone and PC release ...
Hi,
thanks for the reply. I feared as much... Never mind.
I was wondering if someone knows how to re-do the TI-89 calculator from here:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/309/30978.html
and reskin it to work better on the HD2. Right now it does not use the full screen. Just a thought. Useful for those are taking math classes.
I have the same issue, I love to use the one used on the desktop version which is identical to a original TI-89 for my TI Emulator mobile.
Anyone out there have a optimized skin for newer phones?
I would also like to have a nice emulator for WinMo...
try googling this:
SpaceTime 4.0
its free and really really good, the interface is much like the TI graphical series but it has like a tonne of other stuff if u want to dig deeper.
enjoy
(not allowed to post links yet, sorry)