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Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad
Green and Geeky writes "That Marvel of a PDA, the Newton MessagePad, has always been a good product. It does a lot of things: plays MP3s, connects to the Internet wirelessly, can be used to bludgeon someone, fits in your pocket (if you're a giant), etc. Now, it plays Nintendo games. Strange, yes, but still pretty cool. I can't play Legend Zelda, Final Fantasy, or Dragon Warrior on my Palm V." And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!
...of Apple products having a longer life.
I used to play Gameboy games on my visor deluxe, the lack of a color screen is probably all that kept a NES emulator from being developed. My PocketPC emulates NES, SNES, Genesis, MAME supported arcade machines, and probably a few others. I have a rom cart for my GBA that lets me play NES games on their as well. I applaud the author for writing an emulator for such an old platform, but it's nothing to get excited about.
Now if only these brilliant hackers can get the handwriting recognition to work! Then I'll be impressed!
I hate spyware and spies
If you want gaming on the go buy a Pocket PC, it emulates games at full speed with sound, even super nintendo games work...if you want to play strategy games or rpg. However, one word of warning, the controls on a pocket pc are terrible, definitely not designed for gaming at all and playing any action game is like playing it on hard. I thought I could be content gaming on the go with a pocket PC, I was wrong...GBA SP is by far the coolest game gadget, nothing else compares. Play Advance Wars, that game is aboslutely brilliant when traveling.