[OT] 4X Java games for my mobile phone

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Thanks for the replies:

Ancient Empires sounds just like what I was looking for, I'll try it. Thanks.

Baron: Nethack on my phone would be about the coolest thing ever. Unfortunately, I really doubt nethack could be played comfortably with only 4 arrow keys, 12 numeric/ text keys, 2 soft keys and the various other buttons that my phone has. However I'll look at the nethack site and if it's available, I'll definitely try it.

Similarly, mobile Elite would truly be a thing of beauty. I don't think that code is available as a .jar but I'll look, and maybe bug the programmer.

RagX: What phone you got? Maybe you could borrow my cable.

Will: THanks for the info. Looks like it's all out of my league. And there was me with grand plans of making a mobile-phone reader for Othaglot & Cane to put on my website.

[Fyron]

dogscoff said:
RagX: What phone you got? Maybe you could borrow my cable.

I suspect it would be cheaper for him to just go out and buy a cable than for you to travel to Germany or vice versa. I got one for 0.99 cents US on Ebay, with 8 bucks shipping (hah!). I then found a nice free open source program that allows me to connect to the phone, so no 50 dollar software purchases necessary.

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I was thinking of posting it to him, but yeah, they are cheap on ebay, if you know exactly what you are looking for, and trust the seller. (I've had a bad experience buying phone cables from ebay, although I did get my money back.)

Best place for mobile modding imho is howard's forums: www.howardforums.com/ There's a lot of noise and plenty of idiots there, but if you're persistent and prepared to wade through the crud and filter out the valuable information you can learn absolutely anything about your handset.

Update: Ancient Empires doesn't work on my v980. However I found a game called Townsmen2 which does. At first glance it appears to be a Settlers clone, which is fine by me. Used to stay up all night playing settlers 2 on my Amiga...

I also have at least one working chess game, a working version of 1942 (anyone remember that old classic?) and a few other interesting-looking games that I have yet to test.

[Ragnarok-X]

Pretty weird, Ancient Empire is PRETTY decent and should work if you have java enabled. Strange. If you can think up a way on why that game doesnt work, then you should really try to fix it. Its most probably the best strategy game out for mobile phones..
Thanks for that forum-link, i shall check it out once my to-be-purchased cable comes.
I have a Sony-Ericsson "K700i" btw. Its a pretty decent mobile, and since i have a contract for another 2 years i got the phone for a mere 1 €

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Some games don't work on some phones, it's a sad and simple fact. You just have to shrug your shoulders and look for something else.

When you get your cable (or in fact, before you get your cable, ie NOW) go to Howard's forumss, look up your model and see what tricks and hacks you can apply to it. Some of it is risky- For example I wouldn't attempt flexing or flashing my phone unless in extreme circumstances- but most of it is low-risk stuff you can do to get more out of the phone. Usually it comes down to removing branding crap that the manufacturer/ phone company think you need, or unlocking features that they disabled (usually to make you buy stuff you could otherwise have for free.)