Will the N800 bring a new gaming experience?

[Forgotten1]

Will the N800 bring a new gaming experience? Or just improve on the games already available?

[Reggie]

Interesting question. Come to think of it, there must be another reason why Nokia decided to add another memory card slot. How feasible would it be to run the N-gage games on the N800? Can the hardware support it? ;)

[Texrat]

N-gage? Maybe via software emulation...

I'd like to see more games on the platform, especially those that take advantage of bluetooth and the internet. Cooperative and competitive stuff.

But my suspicion regarding that new external SD slot lies more along music and video...

[NokNok770]

Somehow I doubt they meant it for gaming with the pad being so poorly constructed.

[freeman]

Dude, why N-gage emu, why not NES emu w/ 2 virtual buttons on the right.

[Forgotten1]

NES emu works on the 770. However the GBA emu is just to slow and is almost unplayable. Is the N800 hardware able to handle the GBA emu? Having the GBA emu work with vitual buttons would great.

[=DC=]

I can see some camera based navigation in games being tested in the future...

[Karel Jansens]

Interesting question. Come to think of it, there must be another reason why Nokia decided to add another memory card slot. How feasible would it be to run the N-gage games on the N800? Can the hardware support it? ;)

N-Gage is symbian-based. It's as similar to Linux as... well, as two extremely dissimilar things. AFAIK there is no Symbian emulator for Linux and nobody's managed to make Nokia's Windows-based Symbian emulator run in Wine or any other beverage in Linux.:D

[freeman]

I can see some camera based navigation in games being tested in the future... You mean kinda eye-toy like stuff? Dude, let's face it, most people aren't exactly magazine cover type. Knowing that, I prefer playing w/o the camera.

[thoughtfix]

I think the dual memory card slot was for a different reason: They want the N800 to be your gateway to the internet, but a single SD card slot would be "always installed" and hold swap memory too. That one was added next to the battery. The external memory card slot is more to take pictures from your camera and upload them. At least - that's my perception.

[Texrat]

Consider that the next standard hard media format (to replace CDs and DVDs) is the SD card. Downloads notwithstanding, consumers should soon be able to buy/rent SD cards with prerecorded content, possibly in several portable device formats on a single card. So Netflix sends you an SD card with the movie of your choice, you pop it into your N800 as desired, and keep your kid quiet in the backseat on that long boring trip. So now, who needs portable DVD players? ;)

[Reggie]

.. or having a major application (e.g. navigation app with all the maps) in slot 1, and your external files in slot 2. That would work.

[=DC=]

You mean kinda eye-toy like stuff? Dude, let's face it, most
people aren't exactly magazine cover type. Knowing that, I prefer playing w/o the
camera.
True enough, but I was thinking along the lines of having the camera act more as a sort of tilt sensor, which wouldn't necessarily need to be facing you to work.

[Forgotten1]

Not sure on the button layout. The A & B buttons could remain the same. Has anyone tried VBA on the N800? If show how is the performance?

[Texrat]

Can't answer that question, but what I'm hoping to see in gaming are:

-more multiplayer server based games. Freeciv was a good start.

-more device to device games. I'd like to see, for instance, a version of pong where each player only sees his own court so that the ball comes flying in from random directions. That would be wild!

[tabletfan]

How about Nokia allowing N-gage games to played on the 770/800. Is the 770/800 more powerful than the n-gage hardware?