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Two questions not yet answered:
1. Why were these designed without diagonal mapping? D-pads on the other Maemo devices?
2. Why did Nokia show diagonal mapping in an overlay for the infamous 30 second video, but there are no diagonal- why show this?
If the keys were orientated like the G1's- no problem, since you can press two keys to get diagonal movement and not press other keys.
We may be no better off with the Pandora apps, since they are designed for a d-pad, so will probably also map to the control keys by default.
Could be a long dry spell for decent old school gaming on the N900. Ironic that I use my G1 for emulators when the N900 should be playing that role.
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I'd bet money that they will be readded to the repositories sooner rather than later. I think the only reason nintendo took action against nokia is because they officially advertised nes and snes emulation. Almost every other smartphone has similar apps but no action has been taken against them. And technically emulation is not illegal, only having roms which you dont own legal copies of is illegal.
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1. Can not map keys for most of them. This results in easy pressing of the "start" button, since right next to the direction buttons.
2. Contra, Tecmo Bowl, Mario, Blades of steel, Bionic Commando, Gradius, etc are NOT playable without diagonals. Still, even with these games it is too easy to press the start button.
Unless you stick to Dig Dug, Mr Do, Galaga, Pac Man etc where only left to right or right angle movements are required.
Two questions not yet answered:
1. Why were these designed without diagonal mapping? D-pads on the other Maemo devices?
2. Why did Nokia show diagonal mapping in an overlay for the infamous 30 second video, but there are no diagonal- why show this?
If the keys were orientated like the G1's- no problem, since you can press two keys to get diagonal movement and not press other keys.
We may be no better off with the Pandora apps, since they are designed for a d-pad, so will probably also map to the control keys by default.
Could be a long dry spell for decent old school gaming on the N900. Ironic that I use my G1 for emulators when the N900 should be playing that role.
Last edited by Rushmore; 2009-12-12 at 04:32.