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MAME on Dell Axim (PocketPC)
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OK, I've been 'blessed' with a Dell AXIM x51v (at my employers expense)
and have just started messing around with it.
Out of the box it's not so useful.
The music player sucks because it;ll only play 1 song, then you have to load another. And their version of Excel Mobile does something horrible to my files, blows them up 200% in size and screws up the formatting.
Lets just say I could complain about it all day if I had to.
Then I discovered how to put other programs onto it.
The bootleg versions of Winamp doesn't work so hot but I found something else called 'IBE music player' that seems pretty cool. I had to try about a dozen or so before finding one I liked.
But this I can use! Things are looking up.
Then I found a MAME emulator called 'pcmame04a' or MAME PocketCult.
I've got it running and have tried a bunch of ROMs on it so far without much luck. Qix is the only one I've got to work 100% but I've only really tried about 10-12 ROMS with this PocketCult version so far.
I'd like to know if there is a better version(s) of MAME for a pocket PC (running Windows Mobile 5) that I could be using on this thing?
Can't seem to find anything about em by searching the posts here.
Now for my question.
Does anyone here use one of these things or have a favorite place they can recommend where I can find useful programs for one?
I'm just looking for basics here, mp3/divx players, MAME, Picture viewer and maybe something to make Excel a little more friendly. If someone has a CBR file reader (Comics) for one that would be cool too.
'preciate the help!
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Samstag:
I can fix your media player problem, at least. To play multiple songs you'll need to update your library. It will search through all your storage for files and afterwards selecting any in your library will queue them all up. It's still a pretty crappy player, but I've never bothered to replace it.
There are a couple of websites for free/shareware PPC stuff, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. When I needed anything specific I just googled the type of app and added PPC/PocketPC/etc. I've never tried any emulators and I don't use Excel. I use mine mainly for GPS and books in MS Reader.
ark_ader:
Actually there is a few.
I have a XDA and there is is some Mame games that run at speed without sound like frogger, other games suffer due to processor speeds. My guess your Axim is 500Mhz or more (610?).
You need to get a copy of www.fpsece.net
Its a cool PS1 emulator that can play games in full speed. It also has a ISO cruncher so you can get games like Soulblade down to 70mb...ish.
Here is a great site that covers more of them:
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/article/emulators_for_pocket_pcs_an_overview_of_the_best_article
Enjoy. ;D
patrickl:
I used MAMECE for my PocketGalaga (it has an iPAQ inside). It works just fine, but I found it was too slow on my PocketPC. Maybe your Axim works better since it should be a lot faster. Eventually I got a snes emulator to play the games on.
I use tcpmp to view movies, but I'm not sure if that still is the best to use. I downloaded it ages ago and haven't looked at anything else since.
vidmouse:
I think MAMECE is a step in the right direction
(don't know for sure, I use a palm-OS based device
and thu PalmMAME). One thing I had to do with
my palm is to convert my roms back to 0.36 format,
not sure what format MAMECE requires.
But portable MAME? Oh yeah, the play is awesome.