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Hey, very nice! You did an awesome amount of work, writing your own assembler, copmiler, map editor, and game all by yourself! Its incredible... I have written games for the Z80 processor (in the TI-83) in assembly, but I guess thats nothing compared to you.

I'm one of the administrators of the forum of Maxcoderz(www.maxcoderz.com), a group that writes games for the ti-83(+). One of our members opened a topic about the Game King with a link to your website. The Game King is one of the few devices with an even crappier screen than the ti83(+): an even lower res, but with 4-level grayscale

By the way, are you aware of any European/American Game King resellers? I want one!

It must have been an enormous work to manually make a damn good optimized and fully working emulator for the GB© and GG! My respect

I tried your latest build but the sound on "Zelda: Oracle of Ages" and "Zelda: Oracle of Seasons" is still much to fast.

Whoa this emulator is good.

You asked for bugs. Well i found at least one, at some gameboy games. When you play Zelda: Oracle of Ages or the similar zelda, the music plays way to fast and sounds cracky. Similar in the overworld of Mario Land 2. I've only tested one gamegear game: Sonic and Tales. It plays perfect

BTW, why would you want landscape mode? The screens are rectangular and fit in the regular screen mode...

Awesome work! I cant find the download though, there is no attached file at the 1st post...

I dont really have time now to play duke now as i'm overloaded with university work with a close deadline... Later this week, or another user who might be so kind to help...

The game crashes when entering the room with the pool table. Thats in e1m2 of duke nukem.

Yea, saving/loading works, but savegames are lost once you quit the game.

M$ wont put money into big smartphone games unless their's a reasonable market to sell it to. Our phones are mainly sold as business phones, so there might not be 'gamers' yet that are willing to pay the money for a big game. At least until MS-Smartphones will become priced in the mid-range, and i'm sure that will happen seeing how advanced phones are getting more cheaper and more common every year.
Our time will come
And there are 3d engines out there that can do the trick, and as i'm a informatics student myself with some experience and interest in game development, i might try to make a simple 3d game on the phone.

If this can be made on a calc:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/filei.../344/34428.html
Then a similar game with better graphics can be made for our phone!

One more bug. When i'm in level 2 and i enter the room with the pool table, the game crashes. I think it has to be something with the pool table code that crashes...

Rooz, i just have to tell you again that i LOVE this game. Its definatly the best best best thing around, since this game came out my MPX beats any portable device!! Microsoft should give you money for creating the Killer App for their OS You should be proud of yourself, but dont get too arrogant now, ey? :wink:

BTW Any progress? Make the sound work and i'm sure my heart stops beating!

You won't need windows 95 to run Red alert... Dosbox runs lots of games and has already been ported to PocketPC.

That would be awesome on smartphone

Works perfectly on my mpx200!! Thank you roozbeh!

On a sidenote, Doom Legacy with Heretic also works.

I finished lvl1 but since you cant crouch (yet), you are stuck in the beginng of lvl 2...

I'm sorry, didnt find any more bugs since my last post.

Extremely well done. By far the best smartphone game yet.
Ever seen the GBA duke3d? Its extremely crappy in comparison to this! Ever seen duke3d for a Nokia phone? I dont think so!

bugs I saw in the first few minutes of play:
- in the 'low' detail level, there's a problem with the amount of drawn (vertical) scanlines (/rays). It seems you draw too much, the scanlines wrap around the screen..

- in the 'high' detail level, when you die, only half the screen is drawn. Also seems to be a problem of number of scanlines. Looks like the number of scanlines stays the same as in normal straight viewing mode, while they should be increased since there's a wider viewing window.

- when descreasing screen size, the viewing window doesnt center correctly.

- wrong colors at title screen and loading screen.

- non-shareware episodes are selectable but crash

- sometimes it seems to take forever until the speed stabilizes.

Any progress? I'm looking forward to Duke Nukem, that game rocked backin the days.

Those awesome one-liners

No one steals our chicks... and lives... :x

One potential problem is that the levels seem to be of raycaster-style: for example, each spot on the 2d plane has a maximum of 1 floor and 1 ceiling, which would be the reason the engine runs so fast. Monsters etc. seem to be incorrectly drawn when partially walls etc. These problems may be existent because of problems blending the raycaster-level with real 3d objects (monsters, scenery etc). Framerates drop dramatically when monsters are drawn in full-screen (or actually half screen since only half the screen is used).

I think it could certainly be used for racing, some kind of wipe-out game. That game even rocked on my 486.

And i'm also waiting for feedback from the more experienced smartphone programmers... I'm actually coming back here every hour, hoping for a reply

By the way, the Yeti3D site seems to be down for the moment. Maintenance, or some kind of site update, i guess.

Has anyone reached the end of the game yet? So far i managed to find my way to around lvl 5 (past the castle).

The shoot button (the left function key) seems to work as the menu selector. Entering the menu goes with the back-arrow key.

Has anyone seen the bilinair filtering'ish magic, when looking at textures from close?

By the way, the sounds/music sound normal at my mpx200.

Yeti3D is a fast, portable 3d engine that's already been ported to the GBA, PocketPC, and even Nokia phones. Because there's a pocketPC port, i wonder if anyone has tried getting the source from the author and porting this to the Smartphone platform?

The source is free for any non-commercial use (GPL), so as long as you arent planning to sell it its free to use.

Yeti3D homepage
PocketPC Port homepage
Quake'ish FPS demo from this page, works on smartphone: DEMO

I tried to run the DEMO on my mpx200 and it WORKS! Although it only uses about 2/3 of the screen, I get +/- 20 fps, i can walk around, jump and shoot, and the music and sound works. The graphics quality is comparable to Quake but frame rate is about 4 times as high.
See this for yourselves! Note that when you start the .exe, you'll see the credits for about 1 minute before loading is done and you can play. Walk around with the d-pad, shoot with left function key, jump with right function key, enter menu with back-key. Quit by going all the way down the menu and hit the left function key (shoot).

Well pixelled... But he looks chinese, not really german. Cant you use the head of the regular soldier?

The original doom music is included in the WAD file, right? I dont know what the possibilites are for extracting such music and playing it... In case of a midi'ish file, isnt it possible to convert and play it? I can imagine its quite some work, and myself i have no idea how to do such thing in C++. So just a nitwit talking here

Oh and dont you hate these university books. I just bought two for 70 euro each, just to find out we only use about 10% of the contents :S

Oh i almost forgot to say your doom port is awesome!

There's a GREAT tutorial that covers mode 7 graphics:

http://www.pixelate.co.za/issues/5/article...rcle/sincos.htm

Its not as hard as you might think