HTC HD2 plays Tekken 3 using FPSECE emulator
By Vlad Savov 
posted December 30th 2009 7:47PM
posted December 30th 2009 7:47PM
posted December 30th 2009 7:47PM
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In your face HD2 haters!
@AA Alex
The HD2 is one hell of a phone.
@AA Alex Don't know of anyone who would dare say a bad thing about htc juts wish my TP2 could do this
@AA Alex
Hopefully a Snapdragon phone with a physical keyboard comes out because playing games originally played with game pads is just not worth it on a pure touch screen device (at least for me). You can't see the actual game because your huge thumbs are blocking the screen. No feedback from the controls makes it difficult to play.
@AA Alex
We don't hate HD2, we just don't like WinMo
fullspeed FPSECE emulation has been possible for years now, it's just that manufacturers are stubborn about provide proper GPU support for their devices
While HTC did good on this model, they have been a big offender on other models
http://www.htcclassaction.org/
Strangly enough this continues even after Apple proved that giving good hardware and software does work in the mobile industry, with games being the vast majority of sales in their App Store.
This probably fueled Microsoft's decision to make improvements in WinMo 7 that past users have been asking for, including GPU support, Xbox Live, and Zune
@comments There already IS a Snapdragon phone with physical keyboard. The LG eXpo.
@(Unverified)
Thanks for the correction. It would be great to see this emulator on that device and see the difference actual buttons make.
@AA Alex
Not only does this emulator play well on the HD2, it plays great on the Touch Pro 2 and other similar phones. Although it won't play Tekken 3 as well, I get 50-60 FPS on FFVII.
BTW Engadget: I submitted this story over 24 hours ago and it gets posted with no acknowledgment of any submitters or links sent to you. Either the TIP doesn't work or something fishy is going on.
@rwspark
Your cookie is in the mail.
@CMA
Please send either a chocolate chip or peanut butter cookie!
@rwspark
You bet man, probably both!
@AA Alex
are you willing to pay over 1000 dollars to get one??
Not I
:O yoshimitsu!
he's got that, "I'm 'onna rape you" face.
@FAP FAP FAP : I thought it more as an "im going to rape your soul" face
Right, that's it - I'm getting one of these phones.
@(Unverified)
I already have one, and there's also a way to emulate SNES, NES, Gameboy and GBA. (Just look for Morphgear for HD2 on XDA)
And yes, it's by far the greatest phone I've ever had, and I find myself barely using my iPod Touch anymore... :)
Anyhoo, this is awesome, I was waiting for 0.10 for quite a while now, good to see it released!
Windows mobile is sadly overlooked platform. But it can do stuff that iphone can only dream about.
Want to torrent directly onto the phone and watch the video without having to transcode? WinMo has been able to do that for a while.
Also when it comes to gaming Microsoft has Direct X which is far superior to any OpelGL implementations out there.
@Proud Japanese
without transcode? how ?
@kiyu727
There are various mobile media players out there for Windows mobile that will play almost every format without the need to transcode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core_Pocket_Media_Player
"TCPMP supports many audio, video, and image formats, including AC3, HE-AAC, AMR, DivX, FLAC, H.263, H.264, JPEG, Monkey's Audio, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MP2, MP3, Musepack, MS-MPEG4-v3, PNG, Speex, TIFF, TTA, Vorbis, WAV, WavPack and XviD. It supports many container formats, including 3GP, ASF, AVI, Matroska, MPEG, OGG, OGM and QuickTime. Some formats, such as H.264, require a plugin, which may hamper performance.
With a third-party plugin, TCPMP can support youtube videos and other flash video formats."
The player above has been discontinued.
It is now being updated by corecodec
http://corecodec.com/products/coreplayer
@kiyu727
Here is a video of TCPMP on HD2 playing a DivX avi with soft subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj7plMnJu0Q
@Proud Japanese
WinMo has some very high-end abilities because it developed its app legacy before the iPhone came in and convinced everybody that apps should be super-small single task programs.
Most people's problem with WinMo lies with its usability. Its user interface is very dated and it has some stability issues. Of course, HTC Sense eliminates the usability issues, so you're left with a very nice phone here.
@Chefgon
Personally, I think most people's problem with WinMo is the same problem they had with post SP1 Vista.
That being, someone told them it sucked, and they couldn't be bothered to think for themselves.
@jon
Agreed. Lets just hope WinMo 7 gets the same greeting as Windows 7
@jon
I agree, I really experienced no problems with Vista, other than a few printers not really working in the beginning but as far as the OS goes, it really wasn't the fail people made it out to be.
Same for Windows Mobile, it's a great OS but has got a bad rep by word of mouth, much like the iPhone was completely over hyped due to the same word of mouth.
Goes to show you that if someone says something sucks enough people will start believing it and they will say it sucks to someone else without ever trying it, and eventually hundreds of thousands of people believe something without even trying that said something. It's a shame really.
@jon Hmm. to some extent I agree. But after using WinMo 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1 on my Palm 750v, and with all the issues that's laden with, it's pretty difficult to offer support to this platform.
I truly hope that WinMo 7 is built from scratch and not on the legacy CE platform - Truly WinMo can do some powerful stuff for power users - Just I'd like to be able to make and receive phone calls every now and then without the OS crashing...
I think I'll stick with where Android is going until something better comes along :)
@Proud Japanese
"But it can do stuff that iphone can only dream about."
Yeah, this ain't a Microsoft job interview pal, so you don't have to say that kinda shit. We know you don't really mean it. Windows Mobile hahahahahah
@Proud Japanese
Last time I checked, my Nokia E71 could also D/L torrents, and watch the video.
@Wesscoast
So, do you actually suffer from Stockholm Syndrome?
It's the only explanation I can come up with for the devotion that iTards have for a company that responds with not just the usual corporate disinterest, but true disdain.
Or do you even know.
@Proud Japanese
+1 to you my friend.
@jon
man i totally agree! if you ask my in-laws for example about vista they will tell you about all the many problems it has and how awful it is...and they have never even tried it or even seen it in action! i have had absolutely zero problems with vista 32 & 64 bit and winmo 5, 6, 6.1, and 6.5.
looks nice only downfall in my opinion is that that you dont see all of the screen due to being on it..
@Fir3lord this can be "fixed" by pairing any bluetooth controler/keyboard with HD2...
Looks great, might be another reason to actually consider the HD2, if only you could connect a bluetooth keyboard, or controller
@Hydra You can connect any BT controler/KB with the HD2 and play with it in FPSECE
@Hydra
if only? you can connect almost any bluetooth keyboard and play this, or any other PS1 game or do your usual HD2 stuff
@Crapolin
Err, care to source that little nugget of information, or did you just make it up?
@Hydra
That's one problem with the popularity of the iPhone, people assume that if it can't do something, neither can anything else.
@DylanUK
Google is your friend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l9GckkXzSw and in your face too!
Now what would kick more ass would be to some how pair the PS3's Bluetooth controller to this baby.
@(Unverified)
EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Been following the development of this on XDA. Although it runs Tekken the buttons are incredibly hard to get right and there is a 0.5 second or so delay between button presses and in game action, Tekken really isnt the best game suited to it at this stage in the development. Other games like FF are much more pleasant to play.
Oh and its not just an easy install and away you go folks, its a bit of a headache getting it going, so be warned!
@DylanUK
FF? Man, it's almost '10s not '90s. I think if you talk about games for 1994 platform you should type the full game name :/
@AA Alex
FF refers to a series that's still among the biggest and most popular games out there. There's an extremely high profile Final Fantasy game coming out next year, it's not like he's talking about something that hasn't existed in 15 years.
@Chefgon
I know what is Final Fantasy, but it's better to tell the full name when you talk about 15 year old platform
When did The PSX become the "original gangster of consoles" I can think of a number of "original gangsters of consoles" that precede the Playstation...
@Greenlantern20x6
The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or incorrectly, the PSX)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation
@AA Alex
Why is the PSX abbreviation incorrect? As far as I know, PSX was an internal codename for the system when it was in development and it just kind of stuck when it came out. It was never an *official* abbreviation, but neither was PS1.
Many years after the PSX abbreviation was in common use to refer to the original Playstation, Sony released an actual product called PSX that was based on the PS2. Maybe that's what you're thinking of, but it was definitely used for the original system first.
@Chefgon
This is why calling a PS1 a PSX is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(DVR)
The PSX already exists.
@jon
Or I could, you know, read the whole post.
*facepalm*