Go Get a New Ipaq 2200 Series....NOW!!!

[Guest]

SNES games with sound playing at 20+ FPS... its a reality now folks. Chrono Trigger has been tested and runs at 30 fps without overclocking the new ipaq...WITH SOUND. Imagine opening the rom and hearing the pendulum moving and hearing the tick tock sound. This is running PocketSNES that isnt even optimized for Pocket Pc 2003... and with out overclocking to say... 500+. EVERYONE GO AND GET YOUR NEW IPAQ or wait for monday when all the new PPCs will either be announced or released

[Zathras]

I must agree with Mr. Guest. I just bought a 2215 from the Circuit City in Columbus, Georgia. I have a 3955 to compare it too and the 2215 kicks butt. Unfortunately, I can't try it with the PocketMVP DivX movie player.

I tried PocketSNES with Donkey Kong Country before on my 3955 and it was a joke. Way too slow. The opening graphics where stuttering like crazy. On the 2215 with the sound on (albeit on the lowest settings) the opening sequence is very watchable. The game itself looks great, just like the original. The framerate shows as being around 25/50fps if that makes sense. The sound is kinda fubar'd, but somewhat recognizable.

Someone posted 14.7fps with Pocket Quake which is about 50% faster than anything I've seen previously.

I'm new to PocketSNES since I never found it playable before. If anyone can recommend some good games let me know. I'm partial to first person shooters, great graphics, or a great story line.

Let me know if you want to have any games benchmarked.

I keep pausing Donkey Kong Country by accidentally pushing down on the D-pad. Can someone tell me how to unbind that?

If the 2215 is indicative of the new pocket pc's maybe the pocket pc will finally be appreciated as a gaming platform and we will get more good games and some better game controllers.

Here is a link to a Brighthand disscussion of gaming on the 2215:

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showth ... adid=81209

[Guest]

what? anyone with a pxa255 can just wait for their ppc2003 upgrade and it will run just as well (axim owners!)

[Guest]

I dunno about that... Based on the benchmarks I've seen of the 221x it looks like HP put much faster memory in (can anyone say 200MHz? . Only time will tell.

[WHOISRJ]

its about time, i cant wait for the ppc2k3 upgrade! woohoo finally! i get to play my old school RPG games on the go!!! YAY!

[Gestalt73]

Here's a link to a review and benchmark on the new 2210:

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=reviews&id=260&p=1

Skipping forward to the VOBenchmark table, you can see that there is a huge difference in the graphics, memory move, and memory fill scores, which are all things that emulator does alot of.

This is all thanx to the new XScale 255 processor and 200mhz front side bus. I'm thinking of trading in my 3955 for one this week.

Alan

[MrDo]

How old are you guys?
How can you affort running out and buy an new PDA, I cant understand, how someone, who erns that much money and is that old (with 19ys I dont have te guts to affort an new PDA) is so crazy about getting his old loved games played at 30 fps!!

[Guest]

the 2210 does NOT have a 200mhz bus.... it has the same 100 mhz bus as all the other pdas with pxa255... check pocketpcthoughts if you dont believe me

[Drex]

How old are you guys?
How can you affort running out and buy an new PDA, I cant understand, how someone, who erns that much money and is that old (with 19ys I dont have te guts to affort an new PDA) is so crazy about getting his old loved games played at 30 fps!!

This is becaue you're just a broke ass 19-year-old. I'm 27 and earn 70K/year, and I will buy a new pocketpc that can play snes games with sound at a good speed. I can afford it, though 70K doesn't buy what it used to.

Drex

[ced]

I think the 19-year old misses the point slightly. I'm 22 so not that much older, but I'm just as exited about the fast emulation as everyone else here. It's not that we'd spend $400 for a SNES emulator - that would be a bit excessive. Rather we are excited about playing old SNES games on a device WE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT ANYWAY. I'm getting a pocket pc because it's a pocket pc. It's that simple. Otherwise we'd all be drooling over the game boy advance. Though of course, he's right in that some of us seem to upgrade to every new model out there...

[siouxst]

Though of course, he's right in that some of us seem to upgrade to every new model out there...

Well... I wouldnt go that far... I still have a iPaq 3630 that I use every day... its about time to get a new one anyways Why not get the one that I can play SNES games at full speed? Plus all the tons of other games that will run faster (pocket hexen... pocket doom...)

Just my $2.50

[guest]

Actually Pocketpcthoughts is wrong or should I say some of the posters there are wrong. Immier who develops one of the overclocking apps for the Pocketpc has done enough work on the new devices to confirm that the 2215 and E755 both have the 200mhz bus.

[Gestalt73]

Just got around to picking up a 2215 yesterday. this device is fast.

It has a boot screen now, like windows 2000 or xp, and takes about 20 seconds to boot.

btw, here's a link to a review on pocketpcthoughts:
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,13980

It's unbelievable how well it runs the latests builds of the PocketSNES emulator. I'm playing Zelda at 25-30 fps with sound with autoframe skip on!

And that's not even mentioning how well it plays PocketGBA...

Alan

[LuckyBob]

RE: the whole bus speed issue

I think that the first Guest poster about the bus speed wasn't thinking of the bus speed, but the memory bus speed. The PXA-255 has a 200MHz internal bus, but it looks like the actual RAM on the new and old PXA-255 based devices is still 100MHz.

[Zathras]

Could anyone please recommend PocketSNES games?