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I dont normally play games on me mobile but things have changed since I got my SPV3100 and now my Ameo!
Was thinking we could start a list with useful links of games that actually work on the ameo.
Ive managed to find a classic, wolfenstein 3d, its a complete port and it runs really well!
I was wondering tho if anyone can get Quake or Doom working. (found hpc doom but it crashes at the very start, looks like it would work but doesnt)
What games do you guys have working on your Athena?

Got Doom Working! Its Great!
Managed to get doom working fine.
Heres where you need to go to download the program, it runs in Portrait at the moment but works smoothly nonetheless.
http://home.freeuk.com/gamefreaks/pql/gfDoom.htm
Keys:
Joystick - Directional Control
Tap at the bottom half of the screen / Comm Manager Button - Fire
If you want to exit, click the X in the top right, then Press the camera button. Once in the main menu, move down to exit game and then press the camera button again.
You need to have the DOOM1.wad file (read the readme file that comes with the program from explainations)
Very nice!
Have fun!

My personal favourites are
SPB Brain Evolution (although it infuriates me!)
SPB Air Islands (the game sucks, but it has some cool minigames and it's VGA!)

ScummVM is a must! Its free, you just have to get the game files. There are even some free games.
Favourites of mine, Sam 7 Max, Simon the Sourcerer, Day of the Tentacle
It works, but you have problems starting it up. Start with the pda in portrait mode, and fumble your way around to the options menu to get to graphics settings and turn on the 2x doubling. Once thats done it works fine from then on.

Megadrive Emulator
Managed to get PicoDrive working altho all the keys are messed up because of the screen orientation, it seems to get the joystick confused, and makes UP left and DOWN right for some reason, still looks good on the Ameo tho!
Keep em coming!
Thanks for the games so far

Pyrofer said:
ScummVM is a must! Its free, you just have to get the game files. There are even some free games.
Favourites of mine, Sam 7 Max, Simon the Sourcerer, Day of the Tentacle
It works, but you have problems starting it up. Start with the pda in portrait mode, and fumble your way around to the options menu to get to graphics settings and turn on the 2x doubling. Once thats done it works fine from then on.
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Wow! ScummVM rocks! I had forgotten how much I loved Sam n Max!

findus said:
My personal favourites are
SPB Brain Evolution (although it infuriates me!)
SPB Air Islands (the game sucks, but it has some cool minigames and it's VGA!)
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Gotta agree with you on Spb Brain Evo ..simply the nuts. I also like the 'Real Dice' ensemble of games like;
Real Dice Mahjong
Real Dice Dominos
Real Dice Sudoku Master II......all are in high quality genuine VGA. They look and play really well.

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (2.0 beta) works perfectly (just remember to set the phone to portrait view before starting). Now with the "original" music sounds!
http://www.esoftinteractive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1570

SIM Coupe (SAM Coupe emulator) works okay if you start in Portrait mode with only the "keyboard" menu being present as a glitch. (I thought I'd posted about Pocket Commodore Plus/4, too, which works but is PAINFULLY slow sometimes).

For bought games, Broken Sword (Astraware) demo looks very very promising indeed; it rotated the screen correctly and looks very pretty, and appears to be playing at the correct speed.

Hi
This is my first post so hope im doing this ok.
I am thinking of getting one of there phones as a friend has one.
I currently have a hermes and all is ok, the problem is that the athena is lacking in buttons on the front that are needed to play games, like "fire" in worms for example.
none of the keyboard buttons seem to work.
Is there a way round this?
thanks
Sean.

I have the same trouble, Worms in X7500 only admit two buttons and the game requires three buttons to work correctly.
Can someboy modify the wwpsave.dat as somebody did for the HTC Touch to make the x7500 buttons workable for this game???
Thank you.

Games that can be played in landscape mode

Since I bought htc universal(o2 executive), I have always used it for work. Most of my games only worked in portrait mode. But, I want to know what games work well on it in landscape mode.
Till now, games that work nicely in landscape mode are(and which I really liked playing)
1. pdamill snails:make sure you first switch to potrait mode. Game auto-runs in landscape mode then. The graphics are QVGA, but, its the best I have found so far.(RECOMMENDED)
http://www.pdamill.com/prod_sn.shtml?ref=moregames
note:v3 of snails auto-switches to potrait mode
2. pocket mini golf 2:runs in landscape mode and supports vga
3. resco table soccer
4.call of duty 2(suggested by 3nrico)(requires 28MB free RAM)
5.astraware solitaire(suggested by ng)
6. Infinite dreams krally(suggested by DaVince)(better play with the stylus)
7.Atomic cannon(suggested by cktlcmd)(RECOMMENDED)
8.PDAmill Corsair(suggested by cktlcmd)
9.Astraware My Little Tank(even though the game plays itself in potrait mode, you can easily play it in landscape by remapping the keys)(RECOMMENDED)
10.PDAmill Bowling for Burgers
What other games do you play universal-owners?

call of duty 2 but it's very difficult to play with touchscreen

Yeah, but, you need 28mb free ram. I cannot even achieve that mark even by hard reseting the rom which I'm using
btw, added urs to the list

The new astraware solitaire works in landscape mode AND VGA mode.

These are also very good on Landscape:
Infinite Dreams Krally
Moregames Azgard Defense
Hexacto Baseball Addict
ppcStudios Ancient Evil
Jamdat Worms World Party
Broken Sword

Regarding krally, it does looks nice in landscape mode, but, you cannot control the car nicely, since the universal keyboard cannot respond to multiple presses.
Regarding 'Baseball Addict', does it auto-plays itself other way around ie, playing screen is actually 180degrees to the keyboard? I m asking this because I tried tennis addict and the playing screen was on the other side
I ll try all of them and add them if the work and are playable on the universal

Well.. I prefer using the stylus.
I don't have Baseball Addict installed right now.. so I can't really remember..

I"d like to add too:
Atomic Cannon: http://www.isotope244.com/atomic_cannon_pocket.html
My Little Tank: http://astraware.com/ppc/wm5/mlt/?skucode=0212-000-0387
Chess Genius: http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=1640
I like SHOOT E'M UP games. Atomic Cannon and My Little Tank are the best. As you mentioned, I love SNAILS too.
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cktlcmd said:
My Little Tank: http://astraware.com/ppc/wm5/mlt/?skucode=0212-000-0387
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Are you sure it supports landscape mode? On their site, I see 480*640 only.

kdskamal said:
Are you sure it supports landscape mode? On their site, I see 480*640 only.
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It does not really support landscape mode, but you can assign the arrow keys to control the tank to go to whatever direction you want. So in reality, you can play it in landscape mode, except the menus if you open it is in portrait mode and the score keeper on the side. This game is well built, so the scenery works both ways. Try it and you'll love it too.

I just saw these from PDA Mill:
RATS: http://www.pdamill.com/prod_ra.shtml?ref=dlimg#buy
THE CORSAIR: http://www.pdamill.com/prod_co.shtml?ref=panel#buy
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Oh yeah.. Atomic Cannon rocks!! literally!
The explosion effects are truly awesome..

DaVince said:
Oh yeah.. Atomic Cannon rocks!! literally!
The explosion effects are truly awesome..
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Also be sure to check out Isotope's new game Machines at war!

cktlcmd said:
I just saw these from PDA Mill:
RATS: http://www.pdamill.com/prod_ra.shtml?ref=dlimg#buy
THE CORSAIR: http://www.pdamill.com/prod_co.shtml?ref=panel#buy
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I tried Rats today. Looks like the rat does not behaves well with my universal keyboard. Also, cannot find a way to remap the buttons in the game
akpidis said:
Also be sure to check out Isotope's new game Machines at war!
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Does it supports landscape mode?

Gold Miner Joe: http://www.goldminerjoe.com/
I like this game. It does play well in landscape on the Universal, that is why I bought it. But I uninstalled it because it causes some conflicts on my most used applications. You guys can try it if you want, maybe you won't get the conflicts. This game is nice, it reminds me of Super Mario. If installed alone on my Universal, I have no problems.
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Astraware my little tank and pdamill bowling for burgers added to the list

Hello guys
I have a HTC Touch and I'm having some problems with the keys with Worms, i can only configure one key, the central button of my pad is actionless, do you have any idea to solve this problem ?

If you're into very old-skool stuff Nethack will keep you busy for a while. Very addictive and works in landscape mode.
Also, I'm not sure whether discussion of emulation is allowed by forum rules (feel free to delete if not), but ScummVM works brilliantly and (only) in landscape mode! The Universal is fast enough to handle even the newest and most CPU-intensive Scumm games like Sam and Max Hit the Road. Lucasarts adventures were simply MADE for the stylus, and the only issue on my M5000 is that on some screens you need to click on the very far left edge of the touchscreen to make your character move offscreen, and that can sometimes bring up the onscreen keyboard which is mildly annoying
There's plenty of instructions on how to make your old Scumm games work on a pda on ScummVM's Sourceforge page, including a nifty little utility that compresses the in-game audio for those games that have CD-ROM music or voiceovers so it won't take up all of your SD card. At least one of these old games (Beneath A Steel Sky) is now freeware, so you can legally download it and play it on long bus trips on your pda.

for me I get the jamdat worms game in landscape mode facing upside down to the keyboard. Also I can't seem to figure out what the fire button is.

Arvale ftw

games?

what games are out there for the touch? I would love to play shooters like micro counterstrike, cod2, doom, and quake but dont think i can w/o a keyboard. (know micro cs does not work on touch) Do any shooters work? thanks in advance

i dont own a vogue but my old himalaya
had no problems with
wolfenstein, hereric, hexen, duke 3d, doom1-2, quake1-2 (dont have enough mem for quake3)
fallout2 and warcraft2 also works great though they are not shooters
i run all of my sd card

thank you very much

Rudegar said:
i dont own a vogue but my old himalaya
had no problems with
wolfenstein, hereric, hexen, duke 3d, doom1-2, quake1-2 (dont have enough mem for quake3)
fallout2 and warcraft2 also works great though they are not shooters
i run all of my sd card
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How do you guys play these games on your WM devices? Are they not DOS games? Or are there WM versions now?
Or is there a DOS emulator out there for WM that everyone knows about except me?? :-(
Thanks,
The Fish

thefish123 said:
How do you guys play these games on your WM devices? Are they not DOS games? Or are there WM versions now?
Or is there a DOS emulator out there for WM that everyone knows about except me?? :-(
Thanks,
The Fish
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yes...no... yes... and yes!
lol

their source went open and people recompiled them for wm
if they were to run emulated it they would run too poorly for anybody to bother

You'll need an external keyboard or something.
Without tweaking, you've only got the d-pad and centre button available for use in games. In addition, I've only been able to unlock the camera shutter button for mapping... but in doing so I've broken it's normal functionality as a shutter.
Best bet? Look for games that were created for windows mobile and rely heavily on the touchscreen for control.
Also note, when looking for software for the Touch/Vogue... you might want to skip the smart phone versions. You DO have a windows mobile smart phone, but usually the smart phone version is for a device without a touch screen.

You can use the camera, dpad, send, and end buttons in most emulators, with the combination of the touchscreen. I can use em in all of mine

no external keyboard needed for any of the ones i mention
it's all part hardware buttons hard touch screen for moving the char and shooting if we sepak of fps games
though imho these fps's are not really usefull to play for real
rts and rpg's works better because one dont need as much precision and speed
though hardcore rts fans may beg to differ

My favorite games for the vogue are
-pocket quake (Quake is my favorite game of all time. I'm going to try the qrally mod on my ppc)
-Pocket Hexen
-Worms world party (I love that i can pass it around in two player mode)
and pocket ufo (I also used to love x-com)

fuzzydeer said:
My favorite games for the vogue are
-pocket quake (Quake is my favorite game of all time. I'm going to try the qrally mod on my ppc)
-Pocket Hexen
-Worms world party (I love that i can pass it around in two player mode)
and pocket ufo (I also used to love x-com)
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Hey fuzzydeer,
How did you get the key mapping to work in Worms World Party?
It seems to only allow you to assign the "Camera" button to either Jump, Shoot, or Backflip. I only really want the shoot button to work, but it requires that you register all of the keys!

ajones, what emulators are you using that allows you to assign the send/end keys to the controls? i have tried some emulators and have had no luck doing this.

SNES or NES Emulator for Advantage / Ameo / Athena

Hello folks,
This is my first post here. First I want to say thanks to the community at large here for the wealth of information that can be found here on the forums and wikis. You guys have made my HTC Advantage x7501 that much more valuable and entertaining for me!
My question is about SNES and NES emulation for the Advantage (or Ameo or Athena). I have read the wiki articles on SNES and NES emulators, and I have tried a number of the programs, but so far I haven't been very successful. There seem to be so many options out there, and a lot of the links and information is old or no longer valid (I can't find Tala's OpenGL SNES emulator to try it out, for instance).
If you have a SNES or NES emulator that work for you on your device, which one is it and what settings do you use?
I have tried these ones, to varying degrees of success:
-SNES-
n0p's PocketSNES: freezes up on me, seems unable to load a ROM
SNES9xJ4u: was able to change menus from Japanese to English, but I can't get a good picture. It loads portrait style, but not in a usable way (really small, picture garbled a little). On the plus side, it is REALLY fast.
-NES-
PocketNester: I've had the most success with this one. I can get games going in portrait, looking good. Button/key-mapping is really weird, it seems that PocketNester remaps it automatically in some weird fashion. Landscape would be nice.
PocketNesterPlus: For whatever reason I can't see all of the menus to change options or key-mapping. I can't use the scroll bar. Without being able to map keys or fiddle with graphics, I haven't been able to use this one. I really wish I could, because landscape would be sweet.
SmartGear: This one runs fast. Really fast. But the graphics are way off and I can't adjust them. It runs just a tiny box in portrait.
Lastly, I should note that I have tried and love ScummVM. If you're a fan of those old school games try it out! Monkey Island, baby.

maybe u shud try morphgear

Yeah, Morphgear is the one of the few that I haven't tried yet. I have to admit that I was hoping for a free solution, but I'll give it a shot and reply back with my experience.
Have you tried Morphgear on the Advantage?

I tried Morphgear, with the SNES plugin, and it looks very hopeful! I can get it to work in landscape at a good speed.
I'm still working on getting the keymapping right, and so far I haven't been able to get sound working. I'll let you know if I am able to get it going right.

Anyone happen to know where I can find a working link to Tala's OpenGL SNES emulator? If so, can you point me in the right direction? I'm not sure how it would work on my Advantage, but I'd like to give it a shot.

OpenGL On the Advantage/AMEO
I to have been trying to find an OpenGL driver for this phone for three days solid but I am pretty sure that it is not possible due to, if I remember correctly back in the day HTC crippled this functionality which led to talk up a clash action suit in the States for this and other HTC phones that doesn't support 3-D acceleration, or did I just dream that scenario?
As I have left this issue for over two years before searching a couple of days ago I was hoping that somebody in development in this forum would have found a way to get round this problem but last I think this phones development days are numbered, sadly.
There is nothing when you do a Google search and when you do a search in this forum you get the three results including this thread. I believe this thread answers our question, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670429&highlight=OpenGL
"HTC Sense uses opengl and it cannot run smoothly without a hardware accelerated opengl driver for the device.
As far as there is no hw opengl driver for Athena devices you won't see any ROM with Sense on Athena."
Such a shame as this phone with its fast CPU backing the day would have been awesome with 3-D acceleration.

optical10 said:
I to have been trying to find an OpenGL driver for this phone for three days solid but I am pretty sure that it is not possible due to...........
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I might have spoken too soon, I found this suggestion:
"Vincent ES 1.x is a 3D rendering library based on the OpenGL (R) ES 1.1 API specification (Common Lite) for embedded devices." http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogl-es/
,which worked okay but not brilliant for the Throttle Launcher Theme application. anyway it's a start and may be will be good enough for 3-D gamig on the advantage, see what you think.
I have no emulators to try it on but the instructions seemed to be drop it in the folder of the application you are using and it is detected so maybe you can see if it speeds up the emulator rendering?
Cheers

3d mainly, games and something about spbshell3.5

my tp2 in the tmobile one unlocked so use orange and has an April 2010 version of athenos. are there any games 3d racing, fps, rts and other wise that suport the hardware keyboard and run well on this phone? i hate all the touch only nonsence trying to be an iphone. the difference between hermes and tytn2 with 2button press support was fantastic and if i can use the H/W keyboard it would make up for not having a dpad. I tried tony hawks 2 but runs upsidedown for me and about 5fps which is sad with little discernable difference after i renamed the dll in windows and moved the one in the th2 folder there.
im also gutted hardmarks scrabble doesnt work properly where the botton of the letter tiles is cut off.
finally is there opengl or 3d compatibility with the tp2? experience to date has been a little dissapointing and mobile shell 3.5 is a little laggy
thanks for any help you can throw my way

I've been disappointed by the amount of 3d games for our phones much less windows mobile .

Remember the phone is designed for business, but you can try an emulator. I use FPSEcE for PlayStation games. If you do enough reading on their forums you can get some good games running pretty well.

games
Well there are some fun games but not console type go on google and type
SuperMarioBros windows mobile
Xtracts windows mobile
Gears of War windows mobile

games
Ok there not much games right now for windows mobile but go to this website they have some freeware games made by independent developers like SuperMarioBrosHD , SuperMarioJump,Different pong versions, and Gears of War lite. Its located here
www.krenisiswinmobilegamesapps.com

thanks alot for the replies and the links. i found air hocky again something i had on the the tytn 2 but it never played great but it was playable but i was surprised to see it run slower on my tp2.
id love an accerlerometer controlled game like the ps3 game with ducks on a tray whatever it was called it was strangley addictive and great fun to have a try each when its cold n wet out side.
i also really want hankmark scrabble as it is the only properly playable version out there it allows you to move tiles arround freely, look up words the lot all other versions fall way behind but the tiles dont display in their entirety so you cant see what letters you have! such a shame. anyone know a work arround? wvgafix doesnt work just makes it worse.
finally tonyhawks. how DO i flip the screen the other way?

tcSPVm3100 said:
thanks alot for the replies and the links. i also really want hankmark scrabble as it is the only properly playable version out there it allows you to move tiles arround freely, look up words the lot all other versions fall way behind but the tiles dont display in their entirety so you cant see what letters you have! such a shame. anyone know a work arround? wvgafix doesnt work just makes it worse.
finally tonyhawks. how DO i flip the screen the other way?
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I am in the same shoe as you! I had handmark's scrabble on my old I-Mate JAMin, but when I upgraded to Touch Pro 2 the CD wont install at all. So I bought a new Scrabble off Amazon and that wont work either. It needs "Palm Software" before it can install on my device. Handmark suggested I use a desktop running the XP but that did not work either. Handmark is essentially dancing around the issue of continued support for their Scrabble Software. When I asked them about the Scrabble being sold through 'Handango-in-Hand, they did not respond on that. If anybody here know how to make it work, please come to our aid.