Wizard and gaming, my thoughts/hints

[PDAholic]

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.

[tweaker]

hey give me more info on this bluetooth gamepad.

[Koksie]

My wizard is not overclocked and runs SPB Pocket Plus without any problem, the device is as responsive as it it without SPB Plus.

[guyver2077]

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

[PDAholic]

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. :)

[Koksie]

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.

[PDAholic]

Thanks, Koksie, good info!

[mike freegan]

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 :/

[paulthepwner]

I've grabbed the emulators off the ftp, but where do I get roms for games?

[PDAholic]

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 :/

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.

[guyver2077]

I actually meant to say that the layout isnt too good fpr gaming...atleast 4 me

[supraman]

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.