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is P1 decent enough to leave home my gameboy? |
sergiogr8
Joined: Apr 27, 2008
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I'm thinking of getting the P1 so I can leave most of my gadgets at home and just carry this one (ipod, gameboy, digicam, cellphone, pda).
I play a lot of games when I commute, that's why I carry my gameboy. I spent nearly 2 hours a day on the bus. I wonder how P1 is as a game machine? Are the games any better than the crap I play with my W800? Are they on par with the old gameboy? I guess I'm looking for something with strategy games, role-playing games, and adventure games. I can't do hand-eye coordination games with that small keypad.
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Nipsen
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No.. there is a gameboy emulator for the p1 (see vampent.com), but it's pretty useless for the action games, because the keyboard and the layout makes the controls too difficult. Picodrive for genesis- games is pretty good, though, because of the control scheme - you can map the buttons to the touch- screen, and play in landscape mode, and so on. If you have a bluetooth- keyboard, you can play the action- games, too - simultaneous keypresses work fine, and so on. But the sound is pretty bad. And it's not like playing it on the console - there's some lag.
So if you can do with phantasy star on genesis, with worse sound than you remember on the genesis  .. then it's pretty good.
But - the p1 is excellent for playing ScummVM games - monkey island, day of the tentacle, or full throttle works extremely well  I've been playing those to kill time since I got it. Really impressed by that port. Same for k-rally and skyforce (native games), since they have touch- support.
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ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
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Ssx 3 is console quality, and works decent on the p1 keyboard |
artesea
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if you have a wiimote and are willing to look a bit odd you can play your gameboy games via the phone, but using the mote as the controller
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sergiogr8
Joined: Apr 27, 2008
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What about RPG games? Have they ported Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, and dungeon crawl games from the PC? That would be great when I'm in a long flight. |
makavelli91
Joined: Apr 25, 2008
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just stick to the good old gameboy |
tombertram
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
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I find my P1i hard enough to use for texting let alone gaming. |
5nak3
Joined: Oct 22, 2007
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Depends what games you are after. I usually find that action (fast paced games are not that great unless you are using the stylus) however, turn based games (chess, backgammon, battleships) work very well, so to do all games that require only stylus control (k-rally -racing game-, emulated games such as mokey island)
Puzzle games also are good (sudoku, jigsaw games etc...), with the picodrive (sega mega drive emulator) and the custom key mapping on the screen you are also able to play games very well in fact i play columns, golden axe, centurion on that without a problem.
As for the GBA emulator that exists, it is good at emulating the game but the problem is it is difficult to play action games, and so i stick with the likes of final fatasy tactics, advance wars, harvest moon etc... basically games that dont need fast reflexs.
Also card games are another good one as are games like bejewled which basically use stylus input.
Lemmings is another good game that works fine, although some of the icons are a bit too small.
Doom, while a very good game, i cant get the hang of due to the fact it is difficult to control with the keyboard.
On the whole it depends what you are after. It wont replace your gameboy on the sheer fact you are limited in what you play. If you like quick action games, you are best sticking with the gameboy. If you dont mind the odd puzzle game, and turnbased game then the P1 is fine for you.
Oh and if you like sega mega drive games, as i said the keymapping works extremely well. |
ares
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On 2008-04-28 16:17:02, tombertram wrote:
I find my P1i hard enough to use for texting let alone gaming.
hard for texting??? lol...that one is new...you mean texting with you eyes closed??? i also find it difficult
regarding games...i have to say SSX 3 again...play it and say P1 canīt play high quality games
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Karun
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Actually, the main problem is that there aren't many games to choose from. But I must admit, the games which are available are pretty good
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tombertram
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
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On 2008-04-28 16:38:18, ares wrote:
On 2008-04-28 16:17:02, tombertram wrote:
I find my P1i hard enough to use for texting let alone gaming.
hard for texting??? lol...that one is new...you mean texting with you eyes closed??? i also find it difficult
With my eyes open! I thought a qwerty keypad would be cool but actually I'm a lot slower on it that normal T9 input! |
5nak3
Joined: Oct 22, 2007
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I dont think there are a lack of games, because if we think about it the P1 can also run java which opens up a huge amount of games which do not require fast button presses (townsmen, farm and lemonade tycoon, tower bloxx, sola rola, various snake games, football manager just to name a few i really like)
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Posted: 2008-04-27 13:07
