GBA Emulator for nokia n-gage

ThUgLiFE · February 23rd, 2004

someone should make a emulator to run GBA roms on your nokia n-gage if this is possible to be made

**Kane** · February 23rd, 2004

Yeah, let's make an X-Box emu for tha PS2 while we're at it.
IIRC the nGage is a weaker system than the GBA. To emulate a system you need the system to be considerably more powerful.

edit: I apologise for sounding quite confrontational. It's been a long day, but hte gist is it's not possibly AFAIK.

ThUgLiFE · February 23rd, 2004

well if its not possible to make a gba emulator 4 it maybe someone can make a snes emulator 4 the stupid thing

chillypacman · February 23rd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kane-Sama

Yeah, let's make an X-Box emu for tha PS2 while we're at it.
IIRC the nGage is a weaker system than the GBA. To emulate a system you need the system to be considerably more powerful.

edit: I apologise for sounding quite confrontational. It's been a long day, but hte gist is it's not possibly AFAIK.

I find that ahrd to believe... I mean I thought the ngage was more powerful... how the hell could it be like that? I mean seriously I thought the debate was settled when ngage got tomb raider put on it then game red faction (with 2d sprite bad guys

) so yeah I still don't get how it could be smaller...

**Kane** · February 24th, 2004

Have you seen Sonic on the nGage? It's a port of hte GBA version and it runs like a pig. Unfortunately I was unable to find a decent spec sheet for the nGage to confirm this. Regardless even if it was more powerful (which I seriously doubt) it wouldn't be more powerful enough to emulate the GBA.

orysyz · February 24th, 2004

n-gage is still new, and this impossible for anyone to make emulator for it.

tonyyeb · February 24th, 2004

For goodness sake, the ngage is a mobile phone. The only thing ive seen it emulate at reasonable speed was using a Mame emu and then it was running a pacman type game. Tomb Raider runs real slow (which is another bad port) and when compared to the Gba running Need For Speed Underground the ngage looks pants!!

A snes emu for the gba is in development and even thats slow (i know its early times). So as far as emulators for the ngage... maybe a atari 2600 emu is as close as you'll get!!!

ThUgLiFE · February 24th, 2004

well if its that impossible why have wildpalm already made an emulator 4 it. its a gameboy colour emulator and it works on all the nokia 60 series phones

also i was thinkin the same the gba should be smaller

**cooliscool** · February 24th, 2004

On paper, the ngage is much more powerful than the GBA (GBA 16MHz ARM, Ngage 124MHz RISC), but no developer can get off their asses and develop something worthy. Not that I care, I'd never buy that taco anyway. :damnyou:

**_E_** · February 24th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThUgLiFE

well if its that impossible why have wildpalm already made an emulator 4 it. its a gameboy colour emulator and it works on all the nokia 60 series phones

also i was thinkin the same the gba should be smaller

The GBC is relatively weaker than the N-Gage ( the GB/GBC specs are a joke : an 8bit Z80 Processor clocked at 4.19 Mhz , 8 kb of Vram, 24 colors in high-res mode on sharp screen ?) and thus could be technically emulated on the Ngage./nokia phones. Also to port a GBA/GB emulator on the ngage, you ll need at least an SDK for that. I could hardly find sufficient technical documentations about the Ngage, let alone any "unofficial" SDK on the net.

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-Elly

tonyyeb · February 24th, 2004

I agree. Who cares about the ngage anyway!? Ngage 2 will be out by the end of the year and Playstation hand held as well!

Carnage · February 24th, 2004

I find the fantastic argument that the Ngage2 will be out soon quite funny hehehe...

tonyyeb · February 24th, 2004

I don't get it? Can you explain please

**Kane** · February 24th, 2004

Considering the immense poulariuty of the n-gage, I'm sure the n-gage 2 will do fantasticly

Fox5 · February 24th, 2004

Ngage is more powerful than gba, but it has to run the cell phone stuff in addition to games, plus it doesn't have advanced 2d graphics hardware like the gba, so most of that extra power is wasted on trying to do the same effects the gba can do with no problem.(far more powerful for 3d though, which gba has like no support for at all)

Ngage could probably emulate 3d gba games(the few that exist, assuming they don't use any of the effects of the gba's 2d graphics abilities, I mean it has to be full polygons, not mode 7 type stuff)), but not 2d unless the hardware is really similar.

chillypacman · February 25th, 2004

THe GBA is probably faster due to free ram.. I mean it only has to run games and the games saves and the like are stored in the cartridge any way. But I thought due to it running tombraider I thought it was pretty good like tony hawks on it is 3d where in the gba version isnt. Nvidia are working on a special chipset called the goforce for mobile phones and their first release is to out perform the GBA gpu by a factor of 25 what factor is this? I'm not sure...

tonyyeb · February 25th, 2004

ATI's mobile chipset will be out very soon with R&D samples already available to manufacturers. That will make mobile gaming really come alive with "better-than-playstation" quality being touted by a UK magazine.

Fox5 · February 25th, 2004

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Originally Posted by tonyyeb

ATI's mobile chipset will be out very soon with R&D samples already available to manufacturers. That will make mobile gaming really come alive with "better-than-playstation" quality being touted by a UK magazine.

Bleh, and nvidia has its goforce, but forget about those, look at the MBX! The makers of the graphics hardware of the dreamcast, kyro, and kyro 2, bring you a portable graphics chip that is more powerful than dreamcast! Also, there is the nintendo dual screen, which I imagine will at least have graphics on par with the original halflife or quake 2(possibly much better if they use an ati graphics chip or the mbx), and the psp that will have graphics somewhere between dreamcast and gamecube.

andré · February 26th, 2004

even the development of an emulator isn't a good enough excuse for droppin cash on that garbage

chillypacman · February 26th, 2004

Usually previews are exaggerated... I remember such and such saying the GBA had the poewr of a playstation but it didnt... the new ATI chipset if it is as you say will cost in upwards of around 800 USD considering most palmtops out right now have the power to beat the Playstation...

February 23rd, 2004	#1 (permalink)
ThUgLiFE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3	GBA Emulator for nokia n-gage someone should make a emulator to run GBA roms on your nokia n-gage if this is possible to be made

February 23rd, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Yeah, let's make an X-Box emu for tha PS2 while we're at it. IIRC the nGage is a weaker system than the GBA. To emulate a system you need the system to be considerably more powerful. edit: I apologise for sounding quite confrontational. It's been a long day, but hte gist is it's not possibly AFAIK. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb Last edited by Kane-Sama; February 23rd, 2004 at 22:10.

February 24th, 2004	#5 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Have you seen Sonic on the nGage? It's a port of hte GBA version and it runs like a pig. Unfortunately I was unable to find a decent spec sheet for the nGage to confirm this. Regardless even if it was more powerful (which I seriously doubt) it wouldn't be more powerful enough to emulate the GBA. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 24th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
orysyz Shooting star Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Malaysia Posts: 774	n-gage is still new, and this impossible for anyone to make emulator for it. __________________ Acer Aspire 5500, Centrino 1.73, 768Mb Ram, 80Gb HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 Its Vista's voice 'wreck'gniton: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

February 24th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
tonyyeb C:\ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: (It's never dull in....) Hull, UK Posts: 364	For goodness sake, the ngage is a mobile phone. The only thing ive seen it emulate at reasonable speed was using a Mame emu and then it was running a pacman type game. Tomb Raider runs real slow (which is another bad port) and when compared to the Gba running Need For Speed Underground the ngage looks pants!! A snes emu for the gba is in development and even thats slow (i know its early times). So as far as emulators for the ngage... maybe a atari 2600 emu is as close as you'll get!!! __________________ Got a Windows Server Problem? Check out ServerSupport.co.uk

February 23rd, 2004	#3 (permalink)
ThUgLiFE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3	well if its not possible to make a gba emulator 4 it maybe someone can make a snes emulator 4 the stupid thing

February 24th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
ThUgLiFE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3	well if its that impossible why have wildpalm already made an emulator 4 it. its a gameboy colour emulator and it works on all the nokia 60 series phones also i was thinkin the same the gba should be smaller

February 24th, 2004	#9 (permalink)
cooliscool Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hyda IV Posts: 6,057	On paper, the ngage is much more powerful than the GBA (GBA 16MHz ARM, Ngage 124MHz RISC), but no developer can get off their asses and develop something worthy. Not that I care, I'd never buy that taco anyway. :damnyou: __________________ Fayt: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i mobo, 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Watter Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

February 24th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
tonyyeb C:\ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: (It's never dull in....) Hull, UK Posts: 364	I agree. Who cares about the ngage anyway!? Ngage 2 will be out by the end of the year and Playstation hand held as well! __________________ Got a Windows Server Problem? Check out ServerSupport.co.uk

February 24th, 2004	#12 (permalink)
Carnage Illusion's play Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In a world of lies Posts: 3,703	I find the fantastic argument that the Ngage2 will be out soon quite funny hehehe... __________________ Member of the " Pessimists Club " Visit my personal Doom project (music,not the game) at Lament Of Suffering

February 24th, 2004	#13 (permalink)
tonyyeb C:\ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: (It's never dull in....) Hull, UK Posts: 364	I don't get it? Can you explain please __________________ Got a Windows Server Problem? Check out ServerSupport.co.uk

February 24th, 2004	#14 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Considering the immense poulariuty of the n-gage, I'm sure the n-gage 2 will do fantasticly __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 24th, 2004	#15 (permalink)
Fox5 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 118	Ngage is more powerful than gba, but it has to run the cell phone stuff in addition to games, plus it doesn't have advanced 2d graphics hardware like the gba, so most of that extra power is wasted on trying to do the same effects the gba can do with no problem.(far more powerful for 3d though, which gba has like no support for at all) Ngage could probably emulate 3d gba games(the few that exist, assuming they don't use any of the effects of the gba's 2d graphics abilities, I mean it has to be full polygons, not mode 7 type stuff)), but not 2d unless the hardware is really similar. __________________ My computer: M-Athlon 2600+ @ 175FSB 2450 mhz Shuttle AN35N nForce2 Ultra 1 GB PC2700 Ram @ PC2846 Ati Radeon 9700 Pro @ 334/334 80 GB Maxtor ATA 133 7200 RPM 2 MB cache hard drive Achieve 550 watt power supply(25 amps on the 12 volt rail) Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

February 25th, 2004	#16 (permalink)
chillypacman Banned Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Australia - Perth Posts: 1,057	THe GBA is probably faster due to free ram.. I mean it only has to run games and the games saves and the like are stored in the cartridge any way. But I thought due to it running tombraider I thought it was pretty good like tony hawks on it is 3d where in the gba version isnt. Nvidia are working on a special chipset called the goforce for mobile phones and their first release is to out perform the GBA gpu by a factor of 25 what factor is this? I'm not sure...

February 25th, 2004	#17 (permalink)
tonyyeb C:\ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: (It's never dull in....) Hull, UK Posts: 364	ATI's mobile chipset will be out very soon with R&D samples already available to manufacturers. That will make mobile gaming really come alive with "better-than-playstation" quality being touted by a UK magazine. __________________ Got a Windows Server Problem? Check out ServerSupport.co.uk

February 26th, 2004	#19 (permalink)
andré sakabatou_x Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: TEXAS (everything's bigger) Posts: 1,256	even the development of an emulator isn't a good enough excuse for droppin cash on that garbage __________________ andré:.thrasher10:.sakabatou_x:. emulator:epsxe:.os:xp_pro:.processor:amd_athlonxp_3000+:.mobo:epox_8rda3+:. gfx_card:radeon9800pro_256mb_ddr:.ram:1.5gb_ddr:.pad:super_dual_box_2p_usb_adapter:.

February 26th, 2004	#20 (permalink)
chillypacman Banned Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Australia - Perth Posts: 1,057	Usually previews are exaggerated... I remember such and such saying the GBA had the poewr of a playstation but it didnt... the new ATI chipset if it is as you say will cost in upwards of around 800 USD considering most palmtops out right now have the power to beat the Playstation...

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