Openpandora emulators/games on n900?
 

There's not much going on in n900 gaming so...

If I understood correctly, the openpandora runs the same chipset and a also some variation of linux?
So shouldn't it be a child's play to get those games and emu's working on n900?
Input methodes could be a problem though n900 doesn't have analogue sticks, but you could always buy a zeemote :D

Re: Openpandora emulators/games on n900?
 

Yes, I imagine it ought to be reasonably easy to get things working, the only problem you might have is that some emus are closed source and built for the specific sw versions Openpandora is (one day if it's ever released ;) using.

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Software-wise it should be pretty easy, but as the Pandora is packed full of extra keys and also two analogue nubs you could quickly find yourself without any reasonable means to control the game.

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Well I was hoping to arouse some conversation that might lead to co-operation :)

We'd have a lot of apps and mer, they have games and emulators.

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I brought this up a while ago too. Pandora has no reason for mapping interface, since has controls by default. Any Pandora apps that are ported will also need a mapping GUI so key settings can be set up.

Re: Openpandora emulators/games on n900?
 

Any interested porters could contact fms which has some kind of mapping GUI that he uses for his emulators for the N900 that I've tested.

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If anyone does could the pandora N64 app be considered! (pretty please:p)

Infact should I create a brainstorm about the N64 emulator?

Re: Openpandora emulators/games on n900?
 

More like you should brainstorm to yourself how the N900 hardware will run it :D

N64 just is not going to happen I dont think, maybe a handfull of games will be "playable" if you had a good emu.

Im comparing directly to my 1.6ghz atom netbook that has every windows emu known to man on it and with probably nearly 2x the power of the N900 N64 is simply too laggy to play for most games, plus N64 for the most part needs way better controls than the N900 can offer out of the box.

So I doubt most people will drop $50 for some kind of bluetooth controller for barely playable n64 experience.

Infact I am not even impressed with the SNES emulation at this point, even it lags on the N900 and half the games have music issues.

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Well if they got an iPhone to run n64 games - with inferior graphics though - so it shouldn't be a massive problem with n900.
I also think that accelerometer or single virtual thumbstick/crosspad should provide decent controls on most titles. You could utilize camera and volume buttons to act as shoulderbuttons.

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yeah iphone has it running, but not running well and thats my point.

If that 3 frames per second performance has you wanting the same thing on the N900 then by all means :D

http://kotaku.com/5432539/n64-emulat...nto-the-iphone

For me that would not be enjoyable though. If we managed to have a very advanced emulator built just for this device than managed to offload a lot of the work to the gpu so that not only the cpu is doing the work, then I think we would have a lot more room to work with, but that would be a huge task.

Re: Openpandora emulators/games on n900?
 

Its running on Beagleboard/Pandora at far faster framerates (see here) ;), these are the current games that run/dont run using the emulator:

http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus...eCompatibility

Ari64 has integrated the latest (Mupen64 2.0) into the Pandora code see here(with code): http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...ost__p__788291

We all know that Pandora is close to the N900 hardware, Im sure it can be done..

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Actually there's a youtube video of iPhone running mario64 well though the graphics are rendered down...

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I still would be happy just with a PSX emu that plays Crash Racing, Dead or Alive and Raiden Project :)

N64 seems a stretch for the 3430 chipset.

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all this talk of n64 and psx emulation.... i'd be satisfied with a sega genesis emulator so i could replay phantasy star series

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Isn't the Pandora overclocked and also set up to be a stripped down distro with minimal daemons to offer the best gaming performance?

I'd be wary to overclock the n900, but a dual boot option for gaming (off a microSD card) might help.

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Hmmm I run pscx on a 1GHz PIII system with 512mb of mem. Of course it does have GL accel so I guess that helps. Anything like that for the N900 would need to support OpenGL|ES I guess to be usable. Good thing pscx is Free Software and could be done if someone who actually knows how to does it :)