Games :: Best Phone For Emulation
Nov 12, 2010
So it's that wonderul time again for me to renew my tmobile service and get a new phone, and i've narrowed it down to the mytouch slide and the samsung vibrant. Now I just want to get some opinions on which you all think would be better for emulation. The issues I see are:
The vibrant doesn't have a physical keyboard which is much more preferrable than touch controls. On the other hand, it has a really large screen which might make touch controls more usable (i've only played emulators on an iphone 3g)
The mytouch DOES have a keyboard, but has a significantly slower processor (on paper), and therefore might not run emulators as well.
What do you guys think? Anyone with emulator experience on either phone? Is the vibrant touch screen good for controls? If not, is the mytouch powerful enough run emulators as well as the vibrant?
Just as a side note, in all other areas I like the vibrant better, so if the mytouch is overall better for emulation, but only by a small margin, i'll go with the vibrant.
View 9 Replies
Nov 13, 2008
There has been discussion on other boards, but emulators and game ports may take a while and depend on if Android is opened for some native code access. The author of my favorite WM emulator, Smartgear (great multi system emu for NES, GBC and Turbografx and Sega) has told me that the "Java" layer is required, so not only do you have to emulate the game systems, you have to also interpret the "Java" layer and this results in slow emulation even on the G1. He wants to release a port of his emu to Android, but says it will not happen until Android has native code access. Coreplayer is another program that is having issues due to Java on Android. They want to port the their media app but state that there is currently too much cpu overhead because any codec not native to the OS ALSO has to go through the "Java" layer. If all things stay constant, this does not mean there will not be emulators, but it does likely mean that even a Gamboy emu will be slow on the G1 or any other Android device. I put quotes around Java, because the container in the OS is more a hybrid of Java, but the cpu overhead is still the same. We will probably not see Doom, Quake, MAME or any full speed emulator with sound until Google opens the OS up to some native code access. Google demoed Quake, but it apparently did not go through the Java layer restriction. I would like to know if they used the SDK or used code native to the cpu. I tend to believe others that the OS will be opened up more by Google, but how long will this take?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Aug 17, 2010
Anybody know if there is anyway of having multiplayer games on android emulators? i have seen that it is possible on the pc emulators... surely is do-able on android?
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 26, 2010
Just found out that there's a working PSX emulator for the HTC HD2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raLRAP9KuPk
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jun 2, 2010
There should hopefully be a working version out soon that will carry on working when my Desire gets the 2.2 update in the next couple of months. There's not loads of games out yet for ScummVM, but one in particular I'm really looking forward to is Full Throttle. A really cool game at the time and to be able to play on my Desire will be totally awesome. Any one else looking forward to ScummVM? or if you know of any other Android Emulation projects?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 4, 2010
I just finished what I hope is the ultimate guide to emulation on Android. I've basically fine-combed the Market and done my best to map out what the Android platform currently has to offer when it comes to retro video game console and home computer emulation. Various Nintendo consoles are covered, of course, as well as Sega, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, TurboGrafx-16 et cetera.
The only emulators I've ignored are those with an average rating below 3. Now to my question: did I miss any good emulators? There might be emulator projects for Android on the web that are not available on the Market? Such as ScummVM, for example, although technically it might not qualify as an emulator. Is there a PlayStation emulator for Android?
Here's the link to the guide if you want to check it out:
The Definitive Guide to Emulation on Android: Play Nintendo, Sega, C64, Amiga and More
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 11, 2009
As I am new to the Droid world are these apps the way to go for good emulation on the Droid? is the developer coming out with regular updates for these as needed and such?
View 19 Replies
View Related
Jul 24, 2010
Is the game available for android on the market? if so how can i get it?
or any of the old school games?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Dec 12, 2009
Can anyone give me any input on how practical it is to play games on a phone with no hard buttons? Examples would be the HTC Eris and the potential Bravo/Passion. I kind of don't want the Droid because of the keyboard, the D-Pad seems necessary to play games with...
View 13 Replies
View Related
Apr 28, 2009
I am currently trying to simulate GPS fixs with android emulator, but I encountered some problems. I can run the app, clic on the send button in the emulator control, but, only the first click provides a position. I am running an ubuntu jaunty, eclipse and SDK 1.5, on a french system with the locale EN_US
Here is my code :...........
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2010
Wondering if we can play most the games from Facebook on our Droid X phone?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 6, 2010
What's it like on the SGS? I have an iPhone 3g now and have had an iPhone for 29months, getting a bit old. I'm just playing around with GBA Emulation on it now and really like the idea. I guess the screen on the SGS would be an advantage, it's this or an iPhone 4. Advantage being I can get an iPhone 4 for a 12mo contract, and make a profit over that contract compared to what I'm paying now, even with the cost of the handset. But the SGS seems like a superb phone and I'm a bit bored of iOS. Is there anyway to revert the SGS to stock android? So you could just update to Froyo whenever? What are the really cool things about the phone?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Aug 19, 2009
I'm developing a new game and have been having inconsistencies between the device and emulator. The biggest one for me right now is that the elements I draw with an orthographic projection work correctly on the device, but are 1/2 the size on the emulator. I've checked and rechecked the code 100 times and I'm positive I've done it right but am confused as to why I'm seeing that result. I suppose I could go forward doing ALL testing on a device - and I may have to, seeing that the emulator's frame rate is horribly slow - but I was hoping that I could do some of the work on it at least.
View 15 Replies
View Related
Oct 9, 2012
Ive been learning to build roms and ive created a few of my own but im tired of taking up so much space on my phone and flashing multiple roms. I want to know if there is an Android ROM Emulator that i can run on windows 7 to test the rom before i flash it,
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 30, 2010
I can't seem to find any popular multipayers games. Armageddon Squadron's room is a ghost yards. It seems like polarbit has great games but no one plays them online. Can anyone suggest any other flying, shooting, racing games that people actually play. I am not interested in quest games or Wow types games. I know some games have the capability but no one uses it.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 11, 2010
For years now I've maintained a Tandy Color Computer Emulator applet on my home page. With the purchase of an Incredible I decided to do a port. Getting it going in Android didn't take long but I'm really surprised how slow it runs. You can literally see the pixels painting. I know there are other successful Android emulators so I must be doing something wrong.
My approach was to use a SurfaceView for rendering. There's a separate thread that runs a virtual 6809 CPU. Whenever that thread updates the emulated video memory, it calls SurfaceHolder.lockCanvas() with a Rect describing the part of the screen requiring a repaint. Then it calls the gfx routines with the resulting Canvas...this is where I did a repaint() in AWT/Swing. The gfx routines are smart enough to just render what's in the clipRect. Perhaps I'm still stuck in AWT but I can't think of any way to make this thing run at an acceptable speed. I tried to coalesce the gfx calls but that didn't work either. Any thoughts?
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 2, 2013
My phone has alot of build in memory, so it emulates an SD card. But that runs out of space fast.
I have an SD card in it now, but it's mounted as sdcard2.
Can I disable the emulated SD card and make it goto the real sd card?
I can't move apps to the sd card because the sd card is emulated. Programs like link2sd don't give me the option to choose where I want to install to. It just chooses /mnt/sd card, which is the emulated card, not /mnt/sdcard2, which is the real one.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Mar 14, 2013
I use a bluetooth keyboard to type papers on, and was wondering if it's possible to use it in say SNES9x+ES or Mupen64AE or emulators in general? I'm currently waiting on a replacement keyboard from Sony so I can't test my emulators with it, if they can be used for emulators.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 1, 2010
Please could anyone tell how to best set up an emulation of the Motorola Droid within Eclipse?
View 7 Replies
View Related
Nov 21, 2010
Why isn't there a multiplayer tetris game for android? I want to play my girlfriend tetris! With that said, what are some of the best multiplayer games I can play with my girlfriend? We love puzzle type games. Any good tetris multiplayer alternitives?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 30, 2010
With the new multi touch i'd of thought these would have been sprouting up everywhere, do you know of any good ones yet?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Sep 13, 2010
Currently play wordwise which is multi player across different phones. I am looking for more games on android like that for wife and myself to play as well as other android friends. Would love a battleship game but will look at any games.
View 8 Replies
View Related
Oct 31, 2010
I have been enjoying playing a few physics based games lately. Can anyone recommend any others? These are what I have tried on android so far:
Space physics
Angry birds
Blow up
Shoot U
View 5 Replies
View Related
Sep 27, 2010
Are there any Sim / Tycoon games?
Also I loved this game on pc: http://www.joymax.com/darkeden/
View 6 Replies
View Related
Apr 15, 2010
Are there any good baby games in the market. My 8 month old loves my phone but i would love it if we had some flash cards of or something for us to play with together instead of Poke-a mole.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Oct 20, 2008
Someone know if there are some game with accelerometer?
View 13 Replies
View Related
Jul 15, 2010
Facing a 4 hr train journey with the wee one (5) this weekend. Just wandered if there were any recommendations for games to help with boredom should the need arise. Free preferably.
I already have:
- Fish Food
- Kids Maths & Numbers
View 12 Replies
View Related
Sep 22, 2010
I really do not have the attention span for games but I wish we had the option for those great games that are out for other phones. I know our market is on the fast track right now and have no real complaints vs the Apple Market that you have to pay for almost everything and no return policy in place. But it would be nice to have these games available to us. Like Need for speed and Tom Clansy H.A.W.K things like that? I know we can get it on a web site which is better than nothing but why are these not going threw the Market?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Feb 22, 2010
I'm trying out the network speed emulation as described in the following link: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#net...
But is doesn't work, although "network status" command shows the correct values... I know it doesn't work by writing code to monitor the eth0 device in /proc/self/dev/dev, whatever speed I set, it seems always use maximum speed available to the host machine.
View 12 Replies
View Related
Nov 13, 2009
Is there any games like Farm Frenzy, or any tycoon games like Lemonade Tycoon ?
View 1 Replies
View Related
