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Revision as of 07:56, 2 February 2010

N900 Gaming

The N900 makes a great gaming device. It has a TV Out, Accelerometers, and hardware support for 3D graphics.

Video showing what can be done with 3D and TV out

There is a range of options to get games on your device.

Native Games

The N900 supports SDL and hardware accelerated 3D OpenGL ES, allowing it to run several linux games. Several are available in the Maemo 5 'extras' repository.

• 3d graphics engines
• Bounce Evolution for N900
• Maemo 5 Downloads
  • Tennix - A simple 2D tennis game
• OS2008 games - most of these games should be portable to the N900
• Chess - there are a variety of chess games available, including:
  • Miniature - a networked, community-developed chess program, designed for Maemo - coming soon
• Quake3
• The Ur-Quan Masters (Starcontrol 2)

Flash Games

As the N900 supports Flash 9 and has a hardware keyboard, many flash games should just work. Read more about the options.

Games Emulators

There are many emulators of older game consoles available for Maemo.

• Game boy colour - Vgb
• Game boy advance - Vgba
• Nintendo Entertainment System - iNES
• Old PC (x86, DOS) - DOSBox
• Sega 8 bit consoles - Mastergear

Other console emulators are not working 100% yet, but are available for the adventurous:

• SNES - DrNokSnes - Not 100% ported yet (See Use WiiMote as Gamepad..)
• ScummVM - Needs porting from n8xx to n900
• GemRB - Needs porting from n8xx to n900
• Frodo C64 - Needs porting from n7xx to n900
• SDLMAME - MAME EMU
• Hatari - Atari ST(e)/TT/Falcon emu

Some other terminal emulators exist for Linux, but do not work on Maemo:

• Neogeo - doesn't work but someone could fix it
• Amiga - UAE has been ported to previous versions of maemo
• Exult - The engine for some of the Ultima series has been run on previous versions of maemo

Use WiiMote as Gamepad/Remote

• WiiControl - Use your wiimote to play games! WiiMote can also be used GLOBALLY with your N900

• Configure WiiMote as Gamepad for Dr. NokSnes: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=506339

Video Here

Other

• N900 and Wii Balance Board Video

Frequently asked questions

Will n900 play games from big companies?

Nokia has publicly stated that they are fully committed to creating a proper channel for Premium content publishers to sell their content in a protected form via their Ovi Store. [1]

As for what we have now, well from what Ive researched there are vast repositories of games, both old and some semi new where one can get games for the N900. The very nature of the device is such that the onus is upon the user to do the necessary research to find what will work.

There are numerous emulators where you can play thousands of old games for the NES, Gameboy, GBA, etc.

As for Dos Games, it is yet to be seen if we can expect full compatibility, but rest assured, someone, somewhere is working on it. And probably not in English lol.

Being that it is such a new device, and has yet to achieve anywhere near market penetration, the number of developers working on is still relatively small.

Maemo is a developers dream but give it 6 months before you have precompiled, easy to use games....

My two cents for now. You have the full internet in your pocket! Isn`t that enough?

What if I want a game not yet available?

See above (where do I get software from)

All my previous phones have run java games: why can’t I play them on n900?

Java is not currently available for the N900.