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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
As far as performance is concerned, there seems to be no good reason why this tablet shouldn't soar as a game platform. I remember emulating SNES/Genesis/GameBoy/GameGear with my 200MHz Pentium. The different bus of the N810 may provide different performance bottlenecks, but I've seen Quake 2 being played at a very respectable framerate (software rendering at 330MHz, before the increased clock speed), so I'm quite certain that the N8xx should be fast enough to emulate the classics at full speed (of course, with optimization).
You can't compare different chip types by clock speed.

That said, if we could get a port of PocketSNES which uses the snesadvance speed hacks database (just like the PSP port of SNES9x), it will be a major push towards getting it to work well.