Twinkle Star Sprites on a cellphone

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:19 am

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/mobile/i- ... lestar.php

Looks like a traditional shmup (no room for competitive shooting, obviously), some recycled sprites from the Neo-Geo game, and Macky & Pentell are shopkeepers (<3).

Why it's on a cellphone of all things is beyond me. It's like they're playing a practical joke on me ;_;

I won't mind if the game is easy (I'm not expecting Touhou, not on a cellphone), I still wanna play it...

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:24 am

WHAT!?

NO PVP?

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:36 am

And just how are you supposed to fit that in a cellphone?!

Why is it on a cellphone, anyway? :S

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:21 am

Because for some reason, the Japanese enjoy games on cellphones?

Haha, shopkeepers.

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:38 am

I don't care if they're unplayable. Just seeing them again makes me happy... ;_;

shopakihabara · Post by **shopakihabara** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:09 am

when you travel in japan. you will see the japanese boy and girl typing cellphone. my friend told me that the japanese will chat, play game,sms
instead of talking by the phone.

I think this is the first reason.

Keade · Post by **Keade** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:58 pm

It might be possible to put your hand on it via an cellphone emulator + the game ROM file, but these would probably be über hard to get.
Interesting news, anyway.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:17 pm

Keade wrote:cellphone emulator

Does such a thing even exist?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:19 pm

yes

Ignoring the fact that all sorts of different types of phones / the JAVA / BREW breach will make it harder, some phones are reasonably well emulated. The emulators usually suck though.

qube · Post by **qube** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:29 pm

What's amazing to me is that cellphone games are so popular in Japan period. The stuff they have available to them is envy inspiring to say the least.

Meanwhile I'm playing poker and track and field JAVA games on my phone...

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:32 pm

Cellphone games might be more popular if they have better handsets.

Like for Contra 4 - argh, the version IGN got to review looks about 1000% better than the version I had to pay for (%&(@!)

qube · Post by **qube** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:48 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:Cellphone games might be more popular if they have better handsets.

Like for Contra 4 - argh, the version IGN got to review looks about 1000% better than the version I had to pay for (%&(@!)

I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but, I have 2 N-Gage QDs; and they're great for playing games on.

I carried one of them as my primary phone for about 6 months, but it's just too cumbersome for regular use as a phone. I like that it's a Symbian phone, and that it's good for games, but as a whole, I couldn't recommend it.

I guess the problem is that phones aren't marketed at gamers, they're marketed to either business professionals (Blackberry, N95) or trendy hipsters (iPhone, RAZR, etc.), so that leaves very little reason for companies to market a handset specifically to gamers.

I'm looking at getting an Ericsson K850i sometime in the near future, but the price point of $500 USD is too steep to pay right now. That's another issue, phones could be so much better than the incremental updates that the companies shill to us every year, but the cost would be too high. Rather than price themselves out of the low-end market, we just get the same old phone every year with .01 megapixel better camera or with some crappy new wap browser that most people don't use anyway.

ilike2game · Post by **ilike2game** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:02 pm

I rented a pretty good shooter on my helio ocean, 99cents for 7 days, alpha wing 2, it was pretty cool to have a decent shmup on a phone to go

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:07 pm

ilike2game wrote:I rented a pretty good shooter on my helio ocean, 99cents for 7 days, alpha wing 2, it was pretty cool to have a decent shmup on a phone to go

Didn't know that saw a cellphone game. I'd like to see how that worked...

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:09 pm

qube wrote:I know this is going to sound ridiculous

Not really; I've always wanted one (for that Ashen shooter, maybe

but still)

I think the reason better phones aren't getting out there is market saturation and the appeal of getting some crappy phone that you can get for free with a plan (it's how I got my Razr "complete shite edition" v3m).

qube · Post by **qube** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:12 pm

ilike2game wrote:I rented a pretty good shooter on my helio ocean, 99cents for 7 days, alpha wing 2, it was pretty cool to have a decent shmup on a phone to go

I have it on my W710i; Chinese version of the phone, so it came with it. It is a really great shmup for being on a cellphone IMO.