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Mame on the Nokia N-Gage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-your-lust dept.

wraggster writes "The Nokia N-Gage has now joined the club of consoles for whom the excellent MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) was ported to. Staffan Ulfberg has ported EMame over to the N-Gage - the emulator supports a mass of games."

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  1. Yeah ... and? by Matrix272 · · Score: 0, Insightful

    It's just a shame that no good games are for the N-Gage. Any games that are even remotely interesting are already out for other systems.

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  2. This might be alright by Cap'nMike · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would love to take a bunch of old NES or arcade games with me to travel.

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  3. MAME is cool but... by obsequious23 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This makes MAME the only cool thing that the NGage does that I'd be interested in. $199 for a portable MAME isn't worth it.

  4. Nice English by Craig+Davison · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "The Nokia N-Gage has now joined the club of consoles for whom the excellent MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) was ported to."

    What the fuck is that all about? Seems like the poster tried real hard to avoid ending the system in a preposition, and then did anyway. Also, since when is a game console a 'who'?

    Bah.

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  5. Re:The N-Gage has one winning feature... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    in European high-tax countries

    If you add what amerians pay for HEALTH CARE to what they pay in taxes, you'll find they actually pay the most taxes on earth...
    in these other 'hightax' nations, they get HEALTH CARE for free.. get it? shhhhhhss dont tell the americans, they like to look down at europe/canada for being stopid commies with payin high taxes to their gumint. twits.

  6. Re:System was dead before it was out the door... by TonkaTown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Changing chip based games sucks, I couldn't agree more.

    But that only applies to some of the N-Gage games, downloadable games are selling better than originally expected, and I'm even cynically wondering if Nokia deliberately left hot-swap capabilities out to try to get games companies out of their cartridge fixation.

  7. Re:Too bad the NGage runs like a 386 by homer_ca · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For that matter, what's the framerate like with Pacman? The N-Gage has a 100Mhz ARM CPU. Even on a 400Mhz Xscale (same processor family) Pacman in MAME is a little choppy with the sound on. Native execution on something like a GBA SP still has a big advantage over emulation. Compare the size, price and battery life of a GBA SP to a PocketPC or N-gage running MAME.

  8. Re:System was dead before it was out the door... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    just one cart.

    one really big flash linker cart that is.

  9. Re:System was dead before it was out the door... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So what you're saying is if you pirate games the game swapping is a non-issue. That's a GREAT selling point. Surprising Nokia aren't pushing it more :P