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Bluetooth, GSM, and Gameboy
brnsurgon1 writes ""The aim of the project was to investigate mobile gaming over GSM- and Bluetooth- networks, by developing a concept prototype, connecting a Gameboy to a mobile phone over Bluetooth. The results show that it is possible to connect two Gameboy Color over a GSM network by connecting to the phone using the Bluetooth plugin we developed for the Gameboy."" A couple other have submitted this story - it looks interesting. But, heck, I'm still trying to finish Golden Sun on my GBA.
Is that guy talking on his game boy?
I love my Ericsson T68i (i is for "Intercooler"...) It has the classic game Naval Fleet, where you try to sink the opponents boats by guessing where they are. This game can be played by one player, vs the computer, two players on the same phone, or with another player connected vi IR or Bluetooth. Now, this is cool and all, but why not connect players via GPRS? GPRS is based on who much traffic (in MB) you transfer so a game of Naval Fleet shouldn't cost that much. Too bad Ericsson didn't include GPRS gameing instead of just posting the highscores via GPRS.
By now this surely cannot be the first post...
can i connect a gb advance sp (picture) with a normal gb advance or a gb color? can it be done using gsm? can i use the bluetooth thingie to connect it to the pc and play over internet w/ flatrate to play with friends around the world? TETRIS!
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Motorola works on an 802.11 wireless gaming system, developed with input from Nintendo, that will serve for future wireless gaming systems.
.. wow
I can't wait for the GBA/net
and I enjoyed it so much!
"But, heck, I'm still trying to finish Golden Sun on my GBA."
Hey, that's fantastic. But it's not quite on-topic, is it.
That they can connect via Bluetooth or GSM? Er, aren't these connection methods - you'd have to hope this'd work, eh?
Did anybody notice that the thesis was done in 2000 and the last update to the page was two years ago?
It is interesting anyway because the thesis contains all the diagrams and explanations needed for building your own interfaces. But this is not really new...
ahh the advances in technology.. we used to play Battleship for free...
Paper torn from note boook : $0
Chewed up pencil : $0
Yelling co-ordinates to your opponent : $0
Ruling the Seas during detention : Priceless
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<and we didnt have 802.11b destroyers either>
learn from yesterday, plan for tomorrow, party tonight
or one out of three ain't bad
I hacked something like this together myself but it didnt use bluetooth.. just regular RF:
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I think any 2nd year EE student can do this + dev kit.
I cant wait for Nokia's/Sega's N-Gage. This will be
a mobile phone where you can shove in tiny
cartridges with games developed by Sega.
That will own. They want to compete with Nintendo's
GBA. I hope this will end Nintendo's
monopoly on the handheld market.
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"Hey ladies wanna come over to my parents house?" "You can check out my gameBoY and starWaRs toys."
Sheesh GameBoy!
If this takes off will it mean I wont be able amuse myself on the plain anymore?
I submitted this story almost 11 months ago and it was flat-out rejected. When will you editors realise that you NEED a moderation addon for this site to allow random readers to "vote" on what stories should go through.
Of course, you'd rather surpress free speach and "filter" us from seeing potential "offensive" stories.
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Algerbraic is dying!
Looks like that was 2 years old, is there anything newer about the project?
It is official; HP confirms: Algerbraic is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Algerbraic community when HP confirmed that Algerbraic calculator usage has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all professionals. Coming on the heels of a recent hpcalc.org survey which plainly states that algerbraic notation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Algerbraic is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent HPcalc.org speed trials.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict alberbraic's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Algerbraic faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for algerbraic because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for algerbraic. As many of us are already aware, it continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
TI's algerbraic calculator development team is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core engineers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time algerbraic's developers Casio and Sharp only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Algerbraic is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
RPN supporter Jean-Yves Avenard states that there are 70000 propfessional users of calculators. How many users of algerbraic are there? Let's see. The number of RPN versus algerbraic posts on comp.sys.hp48 is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 70000/500 = 14 algerbraic users. Sharp DAL (Direct Algerbraic logic) posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of plain algerbraic posts. Therefore there are about 7 users of DAL. A recent article put DAL at about 50 percent of the algerbraic market. This is consistent with the number of DAL Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of mismatched brackers, excessive keystrokes and so on, algerbraic went out of favor with TI and was taken over by Casio who sell another troubled calculator. Now Casio is also dead, its corpse turned over to cheap chinese calculator manufactures.
All major surveys show that alg has steadily declined in market share. Algerbraic is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Algerbraic is to survive at all it will be among vintage calcululator collectors. Algerbraic continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Algerbraic is dead.
Fact: Algerbraic is dying
Hey come on, look at the dates of the page:
Created: 2000-12-15
Last update: 2001-01-02
That's more than TWO YEARS old information!!!
...that's doing bluetooth on the GBA, but for a lot more than playing games. Their "edutainment" angle makes me suspicious, but they've got some interesting looking features.
YOU FAIL IT!
I'm just waiting for an 802.11 adapter for my GBA. It's got plenty of CPU power, and battery life shouldn't be an issue either.
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Nintendo have been pushed into 3rd place in the console market, how long before they start slipping in the handheld market too?
The majority of people demonstrably are willing to only carry one piece of electronics around with them, and the phone is clearly it. That's why over the last 18 months more and more of the functions that used to be separate have been folded into the phone.
Witness products from Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson that combine phone, camera, walkman, PDA etc. into their phones in various combinations.
I've long expected Nintendo to announce their own phone or establish an alliance with one of the big phone handset manufacturers, but I haven't heard anything as yet.
They'd better hurry if they don't want to miss the boat, assuming they haven't already.
I love this game. Just wish the phone would put up more of a fight... It doesn't seem to be aware of its own rule that prevents me from putting my ships right next to each other - having sunk one, it then goes right around it looking for another.
The only way to make it interesting is to put all the boats 1 square apart so it doesn't waste as many shots. Even then, it's a case of beating it by 2 boats rather than 3.
Nobody here to play against, and I can beat the phone every time - GPRS gaming would rock.
We have just got mobile phones, you insensitive clod!
GBA Getting Bluetooth
Story's about a year old, about a company trying to use bluetooth on GBA, with bluetooth hotspots in malls and other public areas.
This is very clever and everything, but too messy for me. I want a phone with a proper PDA, a color screen for watching my portable 101x80 res pr0n ans decent bluetooth games like mobile doom or outrun or something like that. When will we have that? We have most of the technology available today. Why not combine it? I know some people will say that all they want is a phone that they can use to talk to someone, but some of us want something that we can use to organise our lives,send e-mail and play a game against a friend or alone sometimes..
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Call me old fashion but I want my phone to hold phone numbers and allow me to make calls. Nokia are release some game hybrid phone (N-Gauge?). It looks rubbish and I had a laugh when a Nokia spokesperson said that the it is a games machine first and that if you wanted to play multi player games he'd rather be playing poker with then than a non-multiplayer system. Me thinks I'd rather be playing Metroid Fusion on the train every morning on the way to work. Because when I am on a train in the morning, I don't have anyone there I want to talk to let alone play games with/against ...
A couple other have submitted this story
So does that mean a couple other editors will post this story in a few days?
I'm looking foward to a major GBC tourny at Graduation! There's nothing else to do while waiting to walk across the stage like cattle.
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The Gamepark gp32 has a 2.4GHZ RF Module for connecting to other devices.
Frankly, the gp32 blows the GBA away:
# CPU 32 Bit 133MHZ RISC CPU (ARM9)
# Display: TFT 3.5" Reflective TFT LCD(65,536 colors)
# ROM 512 Kbytes
# Storage SMC(Smart Media Card)
# RAM 8MB SDRAM
# PC Connection Cable USB Port connection cable
# Sound 16Bit PCM Stereo Sound, MIDI support (over 32 poly), 4 Channel WAV Mixing
# Definition 320 X 240 Pixels
# Power 2 AA Batteries (12 Hours use time between charges)
# MP3 MPEG(I,II) Audio Support
# Controls 8-Way directional pad (joystick) + Durable 6 key buttons
# Wireless multi-player gaming
# Internet Connectivity
# Online multiplayer game can be played by high-speed Internet connection
It runs SNES, GBC, C64, NES, 2600, etc. emulators, plus Doom and even Quake. Mame and GBA emulation are on the way. MP3 and Divx players too.
I would really like to see some sort of adapter that lets me play on the internet against someone halfway across the nation. I don't want to have to buy a phone to do this.
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Frankly, the gp32 blows the GBA away:
I've considered the GP32, but I couldn't find any native GP32 titles on the shelves of Wal*Mart or Best Buy.
It runs SNES, GBC, C64, NES, 2600, etc. emulators
A fellow can hook the C64 to a PC with a cheap serial cable and copy those programs that don't use some sort of copy protection, but the GP32's controller still has much fewer keys than the C64's keyboard. And where does one get the cart readers for SNES, GBC, NES, 2600, etc. games? Remember that you can't use a GBA cart reader with a GBC game because they use a different cartridge edge bus.
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The idea that this was posted on /. today is bullshit. The project is 2+ years old, and the page hasn't been updated since then. Is /. really hurting for posts? I thought /. got sooooo many submits for topics that they threw away most of them. This is *old* news. However, the idea that you can play GB and GBA games using Bluetooth and GSM is very cool.
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A Doom port , A gnuboy port A remote control for Winamp? It runs Java, built in vga camera, infrared, bluetooth, free SDK download from Nokia, oh and it's also a phone ;o)
Somebody else posted this, but every single Sega GBA title that's been released in Japan is programmed by Sega. These are new games, not ports of old games.
THQ takes other titles and co-develops them with Sega, but a lot of them are Sega-developed and are only published (not programmed) in the US by THQ.
I was talking about downloading the ROMs from the net.
Apparently, from what I've read, the Betamax doctrine that allows legitimate use of ROM dumps in emulators applies only to ROM dumps that haven't been distributed, that is, ROM dumps that have been purchased as computer files (such as some Konami releases of Castlevania and Contra for PC) or ROM dumps created directly from a particular cartridge owned by the user of the ROM dump (such as the dumps I make of my own carts with my Visoly Flash Advance Linker). Whether the data on the dumper's cartridge is identical to the data on the recipient's cartridge does not matter in court; the dumping process cannot include a "distribution" as defined by copyright law.
Will I retire or break 10K?
You can't "finish" Golden Sun.
Bite the hand.
Why so little comments? It has been posted for a while and less than 60 comments. More recent news are in the 200 range... It is a very interresting story, i think.
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Will I retire or break 10K?
I have many fond menories of playing that space battle game over the link cable.
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