Shooters on mobile phones

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:02 pm

can anyone tell me what mobiles can play the latest cave phone shooter games

Thanks

visuatrox · Post by **visuatrox** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:03 pm

As far as I know, unless you live in Japan there is no way to get Caves mobile games

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:14 pm

visuatrox wrote:As far as I know, unless you live in Japan there is no way to get Caves mobile games

major bummer , oh well that blows that idea then

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:03 pm

I read somewhere (here?) that the Cave mobile phone games are pretty awful and the controls are terrible.

Molloy · Post by **Molloy** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:06 pm

I don't know why in gods name they convert shmups to mobile. Sure the screen aspect is nice but my god, the controls. Mobiles can have good games but they should steer well clear of any reaction, twitch gaming.

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:00 pm

Well I have tatio's space invaders on my phone, it's OK nothng special a bit jerky though.

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:19 am

Shmup on mobile phone is a bad idea, unless the phone has a d-pad as good as that on the DS... which is... not such a far-fetched idea.

There must be phones with dead-on d-pads out there, but I don't know any of them since I'm in Canada...

Canada is 2+ years behind Asia & Europe in adopting wireless technology...

I have space invaders on my cellphone, and heck, it feels as hard as DDP at times simply because the control will never do what you want it to do.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:15 am

i asked about this a while ago and the answers i got were:

1: the games are terrible, controls are awful.

2: theyre only available in japan/china and you have to subscribe to get them (ie have an account and pay a montly fee from it).

so there realy isnt any convenient way to play them

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:07 am

Phone games are silly, I don't know why people want to have games on their cell phones. It's a phone people! You use it to make phone calls! If you want to play games, buy a GBA, PSP, or DS!! (Yes I know those three don't have many shmups, but I'm sick of hearing talk about shmups on phones. It's silly and pointless).

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:34 am

FatCobra wrote:Phone games are silly, I don't know why people want to have games on their cell phones. It's a phone people! You use it to make phone calls! If you want to play games, buy a GBA, PSP, or DS!!

People who play cell phone games don't want a dedicated gaming machine. They just want something to play on the bus on the way to work. That's not worth buying a GBA for, but if you already have a phone you might as well take advantage of that.

PepsimanVsJoe · Post by **PepsimanVsJoe** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:22 pm

Gradius for cellphones is rather crap.. Well seriously crap. I can only imagine how horrifying a CAVE shooter would be one a cellphone.

Personally the only cellphone game I like is Ys. But that's mainly because it's very simple to play(One button used for inventory/status access and like the first few games you kill enemies by running through them.)

It's good for slow days at work but not much else. If I had a job where I could get away with bringing my laptop in I wouldn't have ever touched cellphone gaming.

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:42 pm

erm, games on the mobile are actually pretty good.

Ive written a shooter which is nice.

Mobille phones are quite powerfull, most have a 200mhz processor, albeit no advanced gfx features. Newer phones however have 3d Acceleration etc.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:46 pm

Processor speed means nothing. I have a 40omhz PDA, and games are still framey with crap control.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:27 am

I actually thought the cellphone Gradius was reasonably well done considering the limitations of the platform. With decent controls (and maybe more than 5 frames a second) it would be pretty good.

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:34 am

I remember the good ole days of Snake on the Nokia phones.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:43 am

Games (including shmups) on cellphones aren't bad per se. But problems occur if you don't take the platform into consideration and just try to develop a game with the same gameplay (and controls) you'd have in a console title.

Some phones (like the SonyEricssonn k700i/k750i) have very good control knobs. There's no reason why playing a shooter with that wouldn't work. The problem is that those games are usually not developed for single devices, but for a variety of them, so you will always end up with some versions that control/play awfully due to the limitations of the hardware.

Sethsez is absolutely right, btw, cellphone games are little time killers. Whoever complains that they are different than games on the GBA completely misses the point.

There's a bunch of really excellent cellphone games that are a hell of a lot of fun to play. Oh yes, and the cellphone port of Aleste is actually very good.

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:44 am

sethsez wrote:Processor speed means nothing. I have a 40omhz PDA, and games are still framey with crap control.

Not strictly true. CPU speed is actually a bonus for any coding. Obviously having dedicated GFX hardware helps.

The game I coded runs at a solid fps (30) which is acceptable. The balance of the game is different as it requires the ship to auto shoot and it has to consider that the input device is not the greatest thing on the planet. But you can do some good quality stuff. Its just that there are a lot of phone coders who are not really that hardcore so they write apps that are not very fast or efficent.

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