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S60 Gaming - the Download! route

9 replies · 4,122 views · Started 16 November 2007

Yes, you know all about S60 games and you know about the upcoming N-Gage titles, but what about all those games tucked away in publisher folders inside your Download! application? Medal of Honour, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, etc? In the interests of experimentation, I bought a batch and here report back on J2ME games via Download! Your comments welcome, as always!

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for krisse by eletrix on IDreams forum

first of all how i can register myself on this forum...........maybe i will found it ou..
anyway.....

the release date of the n-gage service lauch has been delayed like you well-know this mean that all the annouced games are tecnically already 100 % developed .......is it so ????

and secondly i don't understand why huge publishers (EA,CAPCOM,UBISOFT)hasn't developed symbian games all these years and i don't think they should put a lot of money developing a k rally,tilelander-quality game ????

eletrix from milan
but GO JUVENTUS

P.S. todey i obtained the driver's licence

What theme are you using? It looks awesome 😃
And for the games they've improved greatly lately 😊

ah bliss! maybe after this people will start to realise how much stronger java has become these past few years - it has become incredible and a challenger to native symbian. some of the most powerful games are now in java form - warhammer, warcraft, etc. you have to say, right now there is DIVERSITY in java, anyone who invests in java will be pleased, the n-gage platform and native symbian games are powerful and great but they cant catch up to java anymore.

java has even more than that with stuff like JPC to emulate a REAL LIFE pc and its apps on your phone. some of the most famous genres are on java now, with famous words like "smackdown vs raw" and other great games like "guitar legends" java's copy of guitar hero. no one can deny that if you want games on phones java is the way to go, it uses less of the phone than it used to and has become more RAM efficient, does not and will never probably need a 3d gfx acceleration card, can run on multi resolutions so one copy is suitable to run on all your house's phones. all the latest music apps are developed for java, nuTsie to run your iTunes apps, nokia's dj mixer and nokia's 5700 lyrics player all use java now. pocket DDR runs on java and has the ability to add stuff to itself like songs and gives you a template to add to it. native s60 apps cant do that and even if they do nokia would try to stop it. no one can deny it anymore, java is being customized for our phones and are becoming better and better day by day and they can pack amazing storylines in small storage.

if anyone still doubts java, just check sony mobile's and THQ's latest games.

Posterboy for Sun are we? It's a great advert, but really, while Java may be cross platform compatible you are struggling arguing that something written in Java will be more efficient than something written as a native application.

Yes, good though some of these games were (especially Medal of Honour), you *could* always tell that they're written in Java. For example, in Tiger Woods 07, there were six second pauses after each hole and after each long drive, while the software calculated the next view. And animations and 3D work generally was jerkier than on native S60 games I've played.

BTW, the theme I'm using was PiZero's Vista, iirc.

i don't think java games can't be compared to symbian games
is just that the market of java phone is bigger that symbian phones
and then is invested more money

just this

because if you think that skyforce 1 has benn developed in 2004
and at the tgime the best java game was asphalt urban 1
you have the idea of quality of the games

eletrix from milan

for steve litchfield

from eletrix

the piZERO theme is very good looking

but when i go application magament i don't see the theme installed and if i want to unistall i can't do it....????

i own a nokia 6120 classic and i can't unistall theme directly from where choose them like on the n70(my previous but glorious phone)

Can you tell me why ???

P.S. Compliments for your hourly updated site