Mad Genius Coaxes Android Wear Into Running Nintendo 64 And PlayStation Portable Game Emulators - Polidicks

[url]http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/30/mad-genius-coaxes-android-wear-into-running-nintendo-64-and-playstation-portable-game-emulators/[/url] [IMG]http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/themes/ap2/ap_resize/ap_resize.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidpolice.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2Fnexus2cee_n64_thumb.png&w=728[/IMG] [QUOTE]Before we start, let's get one thing out of the way: there's no practical application for the apps demonstrated below, at least not in the way they're being used. You can't seriously play a game meant for a 20-button controller on a screen smaller than two inches across, even if your fingers are tiny enough to hit the virtual buttons. This is the work of an enthusiast gamer and Android fan. It doesn't have to make sense.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;49015479]If you would have told my younger self that almost 20 years later you could play my favorite game of all time on a device the size of a watch he would have been mindblown so hard.[/QUOTE] There's a very recent kickstarted idea of having your smartwatch be a sort of hub for all your other devices, so your tablet phone etc are all just high speed wireless screens for the hub. That means they can pack giant battery life into the interfaces, and as long as you got your watch nothing can be stolen because the rest are just, well, screens basically. I mean it'll never be for someone who wants to do gaming or whatever but the more compact computers are getting it's making sense more and more for the average facebook/youtube only user.

thats a terrible idea, all processing power going through a tiny device with an even tinier battery?

[QUOTE=Map in a box;49016294]thats a terrible idea, all processing power going through a tiny device with an even tinier battery?[/QUOTE] Battery life: 60 seconds. Burns to wrist: 3rd degree.

the "Glow Red Wrist Device"

[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;49015479]If you would have told my younger self that almost 20 years later you could play my favorite game of all time on a device the size of a watch he would have been mindblown so hard.[/QUOTE] but you can't play it

[QUOTE=Map in a box;49016294]thats a terrible idea, all processing power going through a tiny device with an even tinier battery?[/QUOTE] The screens/interfaces contain batteries that can charge the watch, and it's not entirely unrealistic considering we already have watches that can take a sim and act as a phone. It's very clearly not for power users. Not that I'm confident in the product at all, it's not like it's out yet, but it's not as out of reach as you seem to think it is.

[QUOTE=Elspin;49016758]The screens/interfaces contain batteries that can charge the watch, and it's not entirely unrealistic considering we already have watches that can take a sim and act as a phone. It's very clearly not for power users. Not that I'm confident in the product at all, it's not like it's out yet, but it's not as out of reach as you seem to think it is.[/QUOTE] that just removes the point of having the watch do everything then. + the massive amount of heat output and the massive lack of potential computing power, it just seems like a cashgrab

[QUOTE=Map in a box;49017145]that just removes the point of having the watch do everything then. + the massive amount of heat output and the massive lack of potential computing power, it just seems like a cashgrab[/QUOTE] Having your different interface options also able to recharge the watch doesn't reduce its ability to do everything, it just means you're going to get way more battery life than a standard all-in-one smartwatch/phone. It doesn't necessarily have to heat up all that much either, there's some pretty efficient chips available now for things like that. Again, not saying that they're going to do it well just that it can be done well. I'm not suggesting it's going to be doing full 3D games designed for tegra chips just that you could totally pull off an everyday user's tasks.

But can it run Doom?

I did this with my old motoactive like 2 years ago. Its not that great when you have to cover the already small screen to play.

I want to do this just to show off, honestly. I'd love to confuse the shit out of customers coming in asking about them, too. :v:

And to think there was a time when being able to play that old snake game on a watch meant you had the biggest balls in town.

[QUOTE=Elspin;49015507]There's a very recent kickstarted idea of having your smartwatch be a sort of hub for all your other devices, so your tablet phone etc are all just high speed wireless screens for the hub. That means they can pack giant battery life into the interfaces, and as long as you got your watch nothing can be stolen because the rest are just, well, screens basically. I mean it'll never be for someone who wants to do gaming or whatever but the more compact computers are getting it's making sense more and more for the average facebook/youtube only user.[/QUOTE] Curious.. if someone did produce this product, how much would you be willing to pay for it? Do you think that the amount you would pay is greater than the cost of mass producing said item?

[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;49017226]But can it run Doom?[/QUOTE] Everything can run Doom, that's a silly question.

[QUOTE=jonu67;49020728]Everything can run Doom, that's a silly question.[/QUOTE] Begs the question, how long do ya think it'll take before we'll be able [URL="http://itrunsdoom.tumblr.com/post/65377018117/doom-3-yeah-it-runs-doom-wait-what-terminal"]to run Doom in Doom 3[/URL] In Doom 4?

Yes, you can pair a Bluetooth controller with Android wear. Theoretically you should be able to play this just fine, other than squinting to see the tiny screen. Yes it runs DooM, and apparently someone got it to emulate Half-Life (at 2 FPS). I'd like to see that Android port of Half-Life for the Nvidia shield make its way onto the regular play store, though.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;49021203]Yes, you can pair a Bluetooth controller with Android wear. Theoretically you should be able to play this just fine, other than squinting to see the tiny screen. Yes it runs DooM, and apparently someone got it to emulate Half-Life (at 2 FPS). I'd like to see that Android port of Half-Life for the Nvidia shield make its way onto the regular play store, though.[/QUOTE] I wonder if we can get facepunch to run Doo.... oh wait you can run doom on pretty much any webpage with HTML 5 these days.

[QUOTE=Bradyns;49020684]Curious.. if someone did produce this product, how much would you be willing to pay for it? Do you think that the amount you would pay is greater than the cost of mass producing said item?[/QUOTE] Literally nothing, my use case doesn't fit the device at all. I have my laptop with me almost all the time, and anything lightweight I'm going to use my phone for. You can pre-order the phone screen, and the hub bracelet for $499 of their seriously over funded indiegogo campaign but it's not like I'm fully confident in them or anything, just saying it's far from an impossible task

[QUOTE=Elspin;49021243]Literally nothing, my use case doesn't fit the device at all. I have my laptop with me almost all the time, and anything lightweight I'm going to use my phone for. You can pre-order the phone screen, and the hub bracelet for $499 of their seriously over funded indiegogo campaign but it's not like I'm fully confident in them or anything, just saying it's far from an impossible task[/QUOTE] I really don't see the point in it, tbh. What am I going to stream to my watch from my phone, tablet, or computer? The screen is too small to watch videos on, the screen is too small to play games on, and the screen is too small to get any work done on. That already eliminates the three most likely reasons I'd stream my screen to another display.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;49022255]I really don't see the point in it, tbh. What am I going to screen to my watch from my phone, tablet, or computer? The screen is too small to watch videos on, the screen is too small to play games on, and the screen is too small to get any work done on. That already eliminates the three most likely reasons I'd stream my screen to another display.[/QUOTE] The contents change depending on the screen, it's not just straight streaming.

I think a more feasable thing would be the tablet having the CPU, GPU, RAM, and a small flash chip with the bootloader and enough needed for it to connect to the watch to start the OS. Then have it store your stuff on the watch which uses the same hardware it currently has, just a larger flash chip and probably battery. Beam all the data over bluetooth. Shame it would only eek out at 3.3MB/s unless they can pull something else out the bag.

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;49023488']I think a more feasable thing would be the tablet having the CPU, GPU, RAM, and a small flash chip with the bootloader and enough needed for it to connect to the watch to start the OS. Then have it store your stuff on the watch which uses the same hardware it currently has, just a larger flash chip and probably battery. Beam all the data over bluetooth. Shame it would only eek out at 3.3MB/s unless they can pull something else out the bag.[/QUOTE] 802.11ad aka WiGig for some reason is supposedly the new thing for streaming mass quantities of data, can do some pretty insane rates.

[QUOTE=NixNax123;49016381]but you can't play it[/QUOTE] That's not really the point though. Really stop and think about it, a game that was groundbreaking and, no pun intended, game changing at the time can now run on a watch. Like, fuck dude. That's a huge leap in such a relatively small amount of time.

I like how the author supposed you cannot play a game with the wrong controller, a quick search on YouTube of people playing all sorts of shit with other shit invalidates that Anyway was that thing like hot enough to boil water

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;49023863]That's not really the point though. Really stop and think about it, a game that was groundbreaking and, no pun intended, game changing at the time can now run on a watch. Like, fuck dude. That's a huge leap in such a relatively small amount of time.[/QUOTE] It's also old as fuck news; people have gotten emulators on Android Wear before, it's just the effort was more or less abandoned by the time the hardware caught up to fifth generation emulation because it's completely useless.