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On all the emulators available for the n900 can yall recommend games that work well using only the touch screen? When playin games on the go it is a hassle at times to use the keyboard.

The scummvm uses touchscreen,
there games like monkey island 3 or something

Original post was ok as a summary, but discussing individual emulators here is a TERRIBLE IDEA.

1 star.

Can someone give help concerning where to place roms to make them accessible to the emulators? I have no idea even where to begin. Thanks much.

Ed.. Never mind. I had the Mass Storage still connected, and it seems like you need to disconnect before the N900 can find the files you added. I just put the roms into subfolders in My Documents, and it was easy to load them.

Superbly crafted ports of the emus, BTW. Now if I could just handle the keyboard better! Thanks to all coders.

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Those are screenshots from my N900 of one of the first vector arcade games, Battlezone, and a game called Venture that later made its way to Atari and Coleco consoles and i lorved it.

So, in case it wasn't obvious from that post, or this one, i've uploaded a new SDLMAME package to -devel that is much more functional than the last.

It's still not ready for normal users, and i'm actually a bit worried it's damaging my speaker when i forget to turn off the sound, but this will be the last clandestine SDLMAME news: next time there's news, it will be official in a thread of its own and it will be a release that will be intended to go into Extras-testing.

Flandry, if u don't mind me asking, what's the default rompath?

It should find them in ~/roms, ~/MyDocs/roms, and mmc1/roms (that's on the microSD). Think that'll cover it? Other data goes in an appropriately-named subdirectory in one of those. For now all the paths are set in the sdlmame-start script in /opt/sdlmame.

If you do use it, please send me a message with any improvements you make in the settings or maps. A lot of making this ready for release is making sure controls are covered adequetely on this little keyboard and there are a lot of machines in there.

That's great, there's no shortage of tweaks, that's for sure! Keep up the good work

found drnoksnes on the normal repos today, downloaded it and gave it a test run with super bomber man. Works great but its so hard to navigate properly without a proper dpad! I died many times in frustration

So I have wiicontrol and the other one so that I should be able to pair my wiimote up to the N900 but i hardly see myself taking a wiimote with me when its bigger than the N900 itself, so guess its best to find games that only demand left/right movement like mario to play or take the time to learn an awkward dpad.

RPG like final fantasy 3 or chrono trigger would be good too since there is no need for fast reflexes. Zelda and Secret of Mana are out the door though.