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Speccy emulator for China phones?

firelordfirelord
edited March 2009 in Emulators
I ordered a mobile phone from China. It has NES & SNES emulators build in.
From forums I read that it runs RTOS variance (I think linux based).
Example of a china phone is this : http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/pda-touchscreen-business-cellphone-qwerty-keyboard-dual-sim/

My question is anyone did any research on these phones -in the possibilities of running a spectrum emulator I mean...
I might get lucky and find someone who can answer this :D

Thanks in advance
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2009
    Nice site ! Some of those phone watches look cool !

    Doesnt seem to say what platform the phone works on, seems to be java. Thought if its Pocket PC theres a lot of emulators but perhaps you need just a java emulator ?

    Please let me know what its like when you get it, says its unlocked, let me know if it works fine on your phone contract. I presume the tv wont work ?

    Anyway looks great, very cheap also !
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited February 2009
    That looks cool. Let me know if it arrives and if so if it works well. SNES and NES sounds fantastic. I'm on level 96 of Arkanoid on the SNES at the moment.
  • firelordfirelord
    edited February 2009
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Doesnt seem to say what platform the phone works on, seems to be java. Thought if its Pocket PC theres a lot of emulators but perhaps you need just a java emulator ?

    Please let me know what its like when you get it, says its unlocked, let me know if it works fine on your phone contract. I presume the tv wont work ?

    -It's not Pocket PC. All the info I have is that it runs a RTOS (maybe linux variation). My problem is that I don't have much information about that. Maybe the firmware can be tampered -as with the firmware of various other devices like DVDs...
    -Unlocked means that it is not locked to a specific provider (Orange,Vodaphone, etc..)
    -The (analog)TV works very well on most of these phones.
  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited February 2009
    Since it has java preloaded, chances are you can run at least the java emulator. That's what was promised to us by Sun some 13 years ago ;)

    EDIT: Meanwhile, I don't understand much of the embed related technologies (never been much of a fan, except as a user). But it's my uninformed guess that at the price the phone sells, you are looking into some form of Linux based RTOS indeed. And there's way too many of that.
  • DunnyDunny
    edited February 2009
    Love the Engrish text near the bottom of the display "Special Touch Feeling".

    Gawd, you can just feel the quality oozing out :)

    D.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited February 2009
    Dunny wrote: »
    Love the Engrish text near the bottom of the display "Special Touch Feeling".

    Gawd, you can just feel the quality oozing out :)

    D.
    That ain't quality oozing out, I think mel got hold of it first...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • firelordfirelord
    edited February 2009
    I got the phone.
    It plays NES games almost in 100% speed and SNES in about 80% speed (SNES with sound disabled - it's playable though )


    I tried MobileZX. It is very slow and I have some trouble with the orientation (when I'm using keyboard the screen is reversed)...
    Also, it crashes when I select to load a game..
    But MobileZX seem to be in the right direction... :)
  • mooncat69mooncat69
    edited March 2009
    I've released a new version of MobileZX which should address any speed issues people may have experienced. There was an error in the cpu throttling code which reduced speed to 50%.

    How does it crash? Does it need extra permissions to read your phone's memory? This seems to vary wildly between phones. Some ask permission every time for the same file, others seem to be less strict.
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