Had HTC added an external microsd, I would have got a Diamond too. Four GB is too small for me with music, movies, South Park and video games on it. I have an 8gb on my Dash and it is too small. Need the expansion option.

Smartgear does rock. Rock EVEN better if he would port a verison that works on Nokia devices. The N95 calls me closer....

Current beta is for touch devices only, but since a lot of features are turned off, I would not install over my 8.65 anyways.

Hope it comes out soon, but the beta feedback will probably result in delays, because they will then release a beta with the features turned on. This is probably beta 1 out of 3. I expect a fall release of the final version.

LB,

I know you have been asked this, but...

Any chance of porting Smartgear to Symbian OS? There are a gazillion Nokia device out there. In fact, I am considering
getting a N95-3 (has headphone jack, camera and better screen than my Dash).

I think this is an untapped market. The java based emu's are not as good as your emu.

A real HUGE issue is that there are no Turbografx emu's for Symbian devices. Tears.

I thought the same about Genesis, but the Game gear and Sega sound is not much better. A lot have the same clicking or high pitched noise. I mainly play NES and TGX16, so it is not much of an issue to me.

It has been one month since we heard from L.B., so must be doing other things I suppose. I will be happy if the sound gets fixed in Master System and Game Gear games.

Perhaps he is making sure the next version is a significant improvement?

I use PocketCult on the Dash and I am surprised games works as good as they do. Be cool if someone advanced the code for MAME on WM5 & 6 devices.

Good point. Morphgear's Gameboy emu played gameboy games with color. An example is the Galaga / Galaxian game on the Gameboy.
Morphgear plays that in color, Metroid or any other game that supports color. It also plays the mono only games in two colors of your choice- like Supergameboy platform does.

Hello L.B.,

Just to clarify, are you aware that most Sega and GG games also have the sound problems that Genesis games do? Clicking sound and distortion are common for most. I though the issue was Genesis only, due to the FM chip, but it seems to be common for all Sega platforms. Some work, but the majority have significant sound problems.

I still take the positive that TG16, GBC and Nintendo work very good.

Wow, this may be the longest gap for no LB replies. Obviously busy with other things, which is understandable for anyone.

As far as sound on my Dash with Smartgear's newest build:

NES = good sound
GBC = good sound
TG16 = good sound
Gamegear = good sound for some, but also poor sound or no sound (there is a screaching sound) for others.
Master system = poor or no sound (there is a screaching sound)
Genesis = Good sound for a few games, but bad to none for most.

Appears the new build back-slid a little, as far as Sega and Gamegear. NES compatability is way up, though.

This EMU also plays TGX16 perfect and most of NES (better than pocketnester). I bring it up because, the Master System emu appears to have back slid a little.

1) Clicking sound like Genesis games now.
2) Whining sound on games that worked before (Bubble Bobble is example)
3) Graphic glitch (Gamegear)- for some reason, baseball's vanish when they are on the ground (grounders)in all baseball games. Okay, this issue has always been a problem with the emu, but I bring it up now.

As far as GBA, I agree that should be more a focus, since there are tons of good games and the games were designed for handhelds. Perhaps LB is looking at this?

Do not let my bug alerts come across as negative. This EMU still rates an "A" and is worth the $10 for TGX16 alone (For those that do not know the TGX16 games- you are missing out). I used to have a TGX16 and Turbo Express (TGX16 handheld) with a conversion card to play Japan games many years ago. Smartgear rocks! Galaga 88/90 is a religious experience.

LB

I have found more issues with the new build. SMS games now appear to have sound problems. All have a clicking sound and games like Bubble Bobble have a high pitched whine when sound is on. I do not recall this being an issue before.
After checking more, all Sega 8 bit games have the clicking sound and it is a mix as far as games actually having sound and ones that have the high pitch whine. I am not talking about Genesis., though the clicking sound and whine are the same.

L.B., speaking of disk based games, Sega has quite few also non standard cart games (Gaplus is one great game example on the SG format).. I think that is what it is. A lot of arcade games were on that format.

L.B.:

A few things:

1) Same difference as far as roms & mappers. Pocketnes has mapper issues and plays slow on my Dash (why, I do not know). All I know is that Smartgear plays perfectly and works on all of my favorite NES games now, so any improvement is just "more butter on the biscuit" for me.

2) You should also own a Dash. The near perfect device, if it had a 3.5mm phone jack- it WOULD be near perfect. Plays movies and music very well and games too of course. 8gb card makes it a fine all-in-one device. Just needs a 3.5mm jack, rather than needing a usb adapter.

3) PocketSNES is not as great as it seems, since it has about a 1/4 inch gap at the bottom- seems more designed toward landscape devices. Hope you get the SNES module working well & Genesis too, of course.

4) GBC Dropzone has corrupt sprites when playing. I think if that were fixed, some othe GBC games would also be corrected as well. Just a hunch! GBC works great too, so that would be more "butter on the biscuit".

Note: If a US Dash, you need to use a non-US rom that has SDHC support. For some VERY stupid reason, the US Dash does not support SDHC, so nothing above 2gb as a result.

I guess Smartgear is a little more particualr on roms. I tried another Argus rom for NES and it worked. It appears that Pocketnester is a little more rom friendly, but Smartgear plays much better on my Dash than nester.

I have been messing around with Pocketsnes 1.53 and surprised how well it plays with sound on the Dash at standard cpu speed (not over clocked) & plays full speed with all games with no sound. If LB gets Smartgear working better than Pocketsnes as well as Genesis- WOW! Still, I see sound being a problem for both emu's, but I thought the same thing about the TGX16 and Smartgear plays those perfect- with sound.

Argus is a shooter on NES that I can not get to work. LB mentioned it does, but the ones I have do not work on Smartgear (black screen) but work on Pocketnester. The problem is, Pocketnester plays slow on my Dash, but Smartgear plays smooth as butter.

LB, good job on version 1.04 as far as improvements and bug fixes.

Genesis good news: The games that did work now play even better (smoother).

Genesis bad news: Only one game from my list graduated to working (Sensible Soccer).

1) At least one game stopped working (crash to windows) Wanni Wanni World.
2) Mega Swiv still has no sprites.
3) Some games that had black screens now crash to windows and some games that used to crash to windows now have black screens. At least they changed
4) Again my reference is Picodrive, since all of the games on my previous list (except Super Bubble Bobble) work.
L.B.

I think you are heading in the right direction!

I appreciate the advice, but with all of the programs I have on my Dash and the fact that I havee to bypass my locked Dash to get the rom that accepts SDHC cards, I will hold off for a fix, or just use Picodrive for Genesis games. I am a happy camper anyways, since it plays, TG16, NES, GBC and Sega fine. Gensesis to me is more icing on the cake.

L.B.- in regards to 1.03:

Bad news: Genesis games lock my phone up now and I have to hard boot. Example, I tried Alien Soldier (one that did not work in the past) and Cannon Fodder (one that did work). Both locked my Dash up (black screen). Every game I tried did the same thing, so I will hold off loading anymore Geneis games until there is a fix.

Good news: Crisis Force now works and so does Blades of Steel (thanks!).

Edit: As far as Genesis games, I tried MUSHA and other games on my list that worked and all of them do the same thing: Black screen and the phone is locked up.

LB, I think I will hold off installing this version and wait for the next less buggy version. The posts seem to imply this version is less stable than 1.02... am I correct?

Here is my analysis of the Genesis module:

Notes:
*T-Mobile Dash with 8gb micro sd (games on card)
*Tested 122 games with version 1.02
*69% worked. People need to make sure roms are not "md", but are "smd" or "bin".
*Games that have status "Work: Not full screen" means the screen is squeezed in on the sides.
*Most games had little to no sound or a steady clicking sound. Slapfight is one of the few games that had correct sound effects in the test. I tried various settings, but same result. Should sound be working?
* All games work on Picodrive (except Super Bubble Bobble), but the ones that do work on Smargear work better.
* I did the list in order of status.

Flicky Works: Not full screen
Midnight Resistance Works: Not full screen
NHL 93 Works: Not full screen
Snow Brothers Works: Not full screen
Sunset Riders Works: Not full screen
Tecmo Superbowl Works: Not full screen
Tecmo Basketball Works: Not full screen
Wani Wani World Works: Not full screen
Growl Works: Not full screen
Kick Off 3 Works: Not full screen
Street Fighter CE Works: Not full screen
Arcade Classics Works
Cannon Fodder Works
Championship Bowling Works
Coack K Basketball Works
College Football Works
Columns 3 Works
Combat Cars Works
Cross Fire Works
Dangerous Seed Works
Dr Robotnick Works
Dragons Revenge Works
Fire Mustang Works
Fire Shark Works
Ghouls & Ghosts Works
Granada Works
Joe Montanna Football Works
Kyuukai Baseball Works
MUSHA Works
Madden 98 Works
Mario Lemiux Hocky Works
Mega Turrican Works
Mercs Works
Minnesota Fats Pool Works
Mega Panel Works
Sports Talk Baseball Works
NBA Hangtime Works
NBA Jam Works
Pac Mania Works
PGA Tour 2 Works
PGA Tour 3 Works
Raiden Trad Works
Rainbow Islands Works
Side Pocket Works
Space Invaders 91 Works
Sub Terrania Works
Target Earth Works
Task Force Harrier Works
Trampoline Terror Works
Turrican Works
Twin Hawk Works
Ulitmate Qix Works
Urban Strike Works
Vapor Trail Works
Vectorman Works
Vectorman 2 Works
Verytex Works
Zero Wing Works
Arch Rivals Works
AWS Pro Soccer Works
Steel Empire Works
Castelvania Works
Crueball Works
Darius 2 Works
D Robinson Basketball Works
Decapattack Works
Devils Crush Works
Dragons Fury Works
Forgotten Worlds Works
Funcar Ralley Works
Gaiares Works
Gain Ground Works
NBA Action 95 Works
NBA Jam TE Works
NBA Live 95 Works
NBA Showdown Works
Omega Race Works
Pac Attack Works
Panarama Cotton Works
Pengo Works
Ranger X Works
Rockman X3 Works
Skeleton Crew Works
Slapfight Works
PGA 96 Stays at menus
Marvel Land Screen flickers
Sonic Spinball NTSC warning locks up
Megaman WW NTSC warning locks up
Mega Swiv No Sprites
Eliminate Down No Sprites
Sensible Soccer Locks up phone
Exo Squad Locks at Sega screen
Hit the Ice Locks at Menu
Devine Sealing Locks at menu
Road Rash Graphics errors
Baseball 2020 Graphics errors
Kawasaki Racing Graphics errors
RC Pro AM Crash to Windows
FIFA 96 Crash to Windows
FIFA 98 Crash to Windows
Grind Stormer Crash to Windows
NBA Live 98 Crash to Windows
NHL 98 Crash to Windows
Road Rash 2 Crash to Windows
Rock & Roll Racing Crash to Windows
Super High Impact FB Crash to Windows
Twinkle Tail Crash to Windows
Viewpoint Crash to Windows
Crackdown Crash to Windows
Double Dribble Crash to Windows
Gynoug / Wings of War Crash to Windows
Pele Crash to Windows
Williams Arcade Crash to Windows
Super Bubble Bobble Can't start game
Alien Soldier Black Screen
College Slam Black Screen
Lightening Force Black Screen
Undead line Black Screen
Wayne Gretzky Hockey Black Screen
FIFA soccer Black Screen
J League Pro Soccer 93 Black Screen
Smash TV Black Screen

The "unrecognized file" error was due to some being named with md file names. I did not catch this because I thought Picordrive would have the same problem, but it reads md files. Changing the file names to "smd" has made about half of those games to work now. The other half that do not, have are either black screens or smartgear crashes, or no sprites (like Mega Swiv).

A lot of the games that crash Smartgear load up, but crash Smartgear when you try to start them (Killing Game Show) is an example.

I hope you can get it to work with more games, because I will pay $10 again for that. SNES would just be icing on the good cake to me.

Using latest version (1.02)

1) Not sure of the rom version, but it works with pocketnester. What rom version are you using that works?
2) I know what you mean, but kind of funny that an overclocked z80 is pushing anything to the limit . I do understand what you mean. This is the number one non-working game for any emu. Apparently the game cart has a little assistance on board. I have the actual game cart, and it seems to have one more chip that others do not have.....
3) When you start the game and begin playing, the screen shakes / vibrates a lot. One of my favorite games, so I noticed quickly. Seems to be when the sceen scrolls and sprites make contact.
5) Examples. Please note that I am using picodrive as reference, because the roms I have work with it, but the ones that do work with your emu work MUCH better in regards to speed and accuracy of display.

Smartgear works a lot better on the games that do work, so it would be cool if more Genesis games worked. Here are some examples that work with Picodrive.

"Unrecognized file" = Alien Soldier, Arcade Classics.. as far as "A's"
Program quits = RC Pro Am Racing, Grind Stormer, Killing Game Show, Lightening Force
Phone locks up = Sensible Soccer
No Sprites = Mega Swiv

As far as NES, I would not mind on the games that do not work, but pocketnes does not play as good as Smartgear on my Dash. Pocketnes plays slow for some reason- even with other apps turned off. Smartgear plays perfect.

I am only posting this because you asked for bug reports, minus SNES, of course.

More game issues to report:

1) Argus (NES) = solid grey screen
2) Cannon Fodder (GBC) = Loads, but locks up at actual gameplay screen.
3) Blades Of Steel (NES) = screen shakes a lot when sprites contact each other
4) Cobra T