(2012-12-05, 21:37)King Dude Wrote: I figured it wouldn't work, but I thought I'd suggest it anyways.

One of your friends might lend you their old phone/tablet.

(2012-12-05, 22:37)squarepusher Wrote:

(2012-12-05, 21:37)King Dude Wrote:

(2012-12-05, 09:32)squarepusher Wrote: If it's anything like the official Android emulator, it's impossible to develop for it and expect it to work on a real device.

But then again, it takes ages to screw up your development tools like Google does, so I expect it to be at least a little better than that.

But yeah - no device - no real incentive to do it unfortunately - I'm not going to 'secondguess' if the emulator does the right thing or not or try to debug issues people are reporting on their real devices with only an emulator - it's just an exercise in futility.

I figured it wouldn't work, but I thought I'd suggest it anyways.

One of your friends might lend you their old phone/tablet.

I'd rather do a kickstarter instead if we're going to go down that route where I have to 'beg' people 'pretty please - let me port this to your device that I don't even own' - I might be very generous, but I'm not insane either - and if people can cough up the cash for a Mupen64 'port' that has already been 'ported' - to the amount of a thousand bucks, then a kickstarter for a Mac and an iPad with the promise of getting a multi-platform, multi-console emu/game framework for free on Cydia is not really a bad deal for either investor or developer alike. I don't know of anyone else who would 'reject' the possibility of being able to charge up to $3/$4 a buck per emu port - I see all these guys doing that up until this point, I despise that and I instead offer it all for free - just like was the case before these app stores became 'fashionable'.

I've already taken money out of my own pocket opting for a Google Play Developer account just so that I can offer the Android port to people free of charge, splashed out the money for two expensive console devkits (the guys who sold them to me who turned out to be scamartists BTW), and I'm sorry - but in no way am I going to take any more money out of my pocket just to satisfy people's urges to have everything for free - the hacker community is alive and well in me but I sure am not sacrificing my wallet in the process - my lifelihood comes first and second. So, sorry, I might not like the idea of monetary donations and the like, and have been steadfastly against it for well over two years now - even resorting to booting people out that wanted to turn it all into a money racket - but I'm not going to 'beg' people to lend me their hardware either.

(2012-12-06, 00:38)natethomas Wrote:

(2012-12-05, 21:37)King Dude Wrote: I figured it wouldn't work, but I thought I'd suggest it anyways.

One of your friends might lend you their old phone/tablet.

King Dude, I know you're trying to be helpful, but you're really not succeeding. Asking a person to do work for you, and then also asking him to use subpar software or go begging for you is a really great way to succeed in pissing him off. And that's about it. Because it comes off sounding like you don't value the work at all.

Better would be to say, "I'm willing to lend you my iPad," or "I'm willing to try to gather contributions from the community and buy you and iOS device." If you can't say something like that, then maybe fewer suggestions would be good.

(2012-12-05, 23:12)Abrasher Wrote: To be clear.... I meant no offense. I was sincerely offering to give you a device at no cost to you... For you to keep... To help get you going. If it came across as anything else, my apologies.

(2012-12-06, 19:36)Bstrdsmkr Wrote: Pretty sure the multi player would have to be baked into the emulator itself. The old xport emulators had good multiplayer support and there was one for pretty much every system. They also had a cool cheat system.

I'd love to see that stuff ported into these versions, but I think that's more on the retro arch side than the Xbmc side

(2012-12-07, 06:05)King Dude Wrote: I'm not sure how I feel about the buttons being used to play the game being the same buttons on the regular video player. Wouldn't that feel and look kind of awkward?

One of my questions would be why can we not just modify the gui and create audio/gamepad/etc. plugins? Unless I'm missing something, and please point it out if I am, it would definitely look better with a gui specifically for gaming purposes.