[Maemo 5] Can the N900 run Pokemon DS games?
 

n900 is similar in everywhere to Nintendo DSL (DSi), such as touch screen, physical keyboard. is that possible to run pokemon?

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

how is the n900 "similar in everywhere (Everyway)" Where is the the second touch screen on the N900?

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

Sadly, I fear that this one is not a troll.
Through emulators, you can play gameboy (red, blue, yellow, silver, gold, crystal) and gameboy advance (ruby, sapphire, emerald, leaf green, fire red) games. No, the DS cannot be emulated at anything remotely resembling playable speeds

EDIT: I can't help but feel that an n900 is not the device for you

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

I wish my parents would have bought me expensive electronics when I was his age.

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

Can probably play the GBA version of Pokemon!


I like cake.

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

Haven't you seen the commercial?
The N900 IS a pokemon...

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

Actually thats one thing I am puzzled about. Surely its possible to emulate the DS full speed ons something like the N900 due to both being ARM based. Its just all the talented programmers seem to be coding strictly x86 rather than ARM.

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

My Windows PC is similar in everywhere to my Apple computer, such as in screen, physical keyboard. Does it run Mac OS X 10.6?

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

It most likely does, see http://wiki.osx86project.org/. ;)

Re: can n900 run Pokemon?
 

Yeh, it's probably technically possible to run ARM code on another ARM processor - it's just RISC, right?. But:

1) Not all processors are made equal - emulation would probably still be needed to make code run. This code was never designed to run on any other processor than the DS ones.

2) You'd need to emulate two processors, not just one. I don't know if you could just provide a wrapper to run all the code on the same processor.

3) The N900 really isn't all that suited to DS Emulation - I can't imagine a sensible way to fit both displays on the screen in portrait mode, for example.

4) Finally: this is the free software world. If you want something, do it ;) I'm not having a dig here, but if you want something done you still need to do it or pay for it. If other people were interested they'd already have a project going.

That last bit isn't negative either - there's loads of resources online. Why not hack something together and see how it goes?