Metal Slug

[kyle3210]

This is a pretty random idea but i just thought it would be cool to play metal slug on my ipod, i checked the gameboy and gameboy color roms and its not in there, but its under the MAME files, and i know that they already have pac-man using MAME so i just thought it might be possible.

Is anyone already working on getting more MAME files compatible??
If so i think it would be cool

-Kyle

[Llorean]

MAME itself is not released under the GPL.

The Pacman emulator that we have was released under the GPL. The files that can be used aren't strictly MAME files, they're just the arcade roms.

[kyle3210]

so do you think it would be possible?

[Llorean]

If there is a GPL compatible emulator that can be converted to fixed point math and plays it, and will still run fast enough then sure.

[travishayes89]

or if somebody gets up enough of a notion to write a emulator for it. 

[XavierGr]

Playing Metal Slug on an embedded device as an mp3 player (currently) is quite impossible IMHO.

Metal Slug series is one of the heaviest games on performance, even pentium II would have problems running it realtime (as I remember).

On the other hand, "never say never", but I think that this is too far streched....

[momo_101]

Really? My brother's GBA can play metal slug. And don't Gameboys/Gameboy Adcances have similiar processor speeds? So metal slug coulld play, just, it woud be hard + there would be a lack of controls.

[Llorean]

The GBA game of Metal Slug is coded specifically for the GBA processor. It also doesn't have all the effects the arcade version does.

Remember: Gameboy CLASSIC games run slow on these processors under emulation. I wouldn't expect a GBA game to run better, let alone the Arcade game that is even more processor intensive.

[XavierGr]

From what I know GBA has completely different hardware from normal Gameboys.
There is no chance that an mp3 player like H300 or iPod 5g could emulate GBA roms.

GBA can render 3d graphics with polygons, not even doom is 3d. (correct me if I am wrong)

[Llorean]

GBA cannot render 3D graphics. It has what is known as Mode7, which is actually SNES technology, which allows it to do sprite rotations. It also allows for a rotatable plane (like F-Zero) and can generate the appearance of 3D, but I'm fairly certain the GBA has no hardware-assisted 3D capabilities.

But GBA emulation is unlikely, if not impossible, because it is powerful enough that running an emulator would probably be beyond the chips in these MP3 players.

[XavierGr]

GBA cannot render 3D graphics. It has what is known as Mode7, which is actually SNES technology, which allows it to do sprite rotations. It also allows for a rotatable plane (like F-Zero) and can generate the appearance of 3D, but I'm fairly certain the GBA has no hardware-assisted 3D capabilities.

I am completely wrong then (on the 3D aspect). I thought that GBA was the first hand held gaming device that could render 3D graphics.....
Next time I should be more careful!