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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. 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.

  2. 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.