Give it to me straight please...

[Guest]

O.K. I finally have enough cash to get the Asus a620 and a 512 CF card. The entire reason i want this PDA is for its gaming capabilities with emulators.

The one i want to use the most is a SNES emu, then some NES and maybe play around with a PSX one. So far what i have read is that Morphgear is the best for SNES/NES and FPSEce for the PSX (please correct me if I am wrong).

First question: Seriously, is SNES on a PDA a viable way to play; or is it playable/ just not very well? I just still have a bad history with SNES emus running like crap on systems that can obliterate the original SNES system specs (anyone remember SNES on Dreamcast...ugh).

Secondly: IF the emus are not all that great, but just passable, should i just stop this futile attempt to get a portable SNES and just settle for a *sigh* GBA? I really dont want to do that. I would MUCH rather have the flexability of a PDA format.

Sory for the long windedness (real word?). I just don't want to spend $400 on something that might not live up to my expectations. By the way, I want one because I am going to be doing some semi-heavy travelling soon.

Thanks for the replies!

[spiral]

Pocket Nester is best for NES imo.

It's pretty playable on a pda. Most games use the a/b buttons primarily, so two buttons on each side of the d-pad works well enough. I map record button to start, center key to select, and the a,b,x,y to buttons. SNES emulator runs ok. Without sound, nearly everything that doesn't use special chips runs 100%. With sound, some mode7 stuff runs below speed.

It's far from perfect, but it's no too bad either.

[Dermot]

The games themselves run fine, its just the controls that can be problematic, depending on what game you play..like fighting games like street fighter, its very hard to do moves. RPG games work fine, i played all of chrono trigger on my HP 2215, and the asus is faster than that

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[Jericho]

SpoOm, what model PPC do you use?

Just out of curiosity.

[Matt Keys]

He has my old 2215

[RedruM]