Arcade games

Acky's XP Breakout 2.1

Allure Xonix 1.4

Coral Capers

Curse of the Pharaohs

ExplodeArena

Extinction

Foo Fighter 1.20

Galaga by Namco

G-Prime Xtreme

Hellfire: Apache vs Hind

Insaniquarium

Pocket Slurpy

Realms

Red Sector 2112

Resco Guardians - Ultimate Collection

Super Miners

Tradewinds

Zuma

Overall

Just great! Really addictive, esp. on VGA devices!

Well… only for freeware fans…

Action (IMHO, not for hardcore arcade fans)

You’ll definitely like it if you liked the Rick Dangerous series back in 1990!

Just great! Really addictive, esp. in multiplayer!

Retro-style (like Battle Tank). There’re much better horiz. scroller games if you want something up-to-date.

Vertical scroller shooter; pretty good, apart from a really good soundtrack

Galaga; technically almost the same as the 1981 original

Galaga; IMHO better than the Namco version; for example, you can navigate up/down too to avoid enemies coming from the side

For fans only IMHO

Great, addictive, much as the Hi-Res Palm OS version looks a bit better/sharper

Pretty good, addictive

For FPS fans only IMHO

Vertical scroller shooter; there’re better (with better visuals/playability) in this genre, for example, SkyForce or Darklaga

Just great! Really addictive, esp. in multiplayer!

Not bad; Sid Meier’s old Pirates had much better action, though

If you liked Zuma on the desktop, then, this is for you

Memory consumption

7.3M (VGA) / 5.8M (QVGA) / ~0

605k/~0

2860k/~0

2.3M/345k in \Windows (4 DLL’s); all of these DLL’s can be copied to the home dir; they are not needed unless you want to (un)register your game

1.6M/~0

1.324k/~0

3.1M/~0

368k/~0

2.2M/~0

1.2M/~0

542k/~0

1.6M/~0

Haven’t received!

6.024M/~0

6.98M/~0

1.8M/~0

1.2M/~0

2.094M/~0

Price

$12,95

Free

$10

License type?

Can be (online) activated for multiple PDA’s with a single serial number, independent of the username

n/a (free)

Only one PDA can be licensed at a time

Works on any number of PDA’s with exactly the same username; the latter is re-checked upon (re)starts.

Must be registered online; CPU serial-specific activation; with the same e-mail address, several devices can be activated

Name-based authentication, as with all Astraware titles; can be run on several PDA’s with the same owner name.

Install-time regkey only; can be installed on any number of PDA’s; \Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\Red Sector 2112 - Pocket PC Demo\Setup.exe can directly be installed without being asked for password.

No reg key; can be run on any PDA

Works on any number of PDA’s with exactly the same username; the latter is re-checked upon (re)starts.

Name-based authentication, as with all Astraware titles; can be run on several PDA’s with the same owner name.

Multiplayer capabilities

+ (1.2 BT stack doesn’t work!!)

True VGA

+ (great!)

WM2003SE/ VGA compliance?

+ (1.2 BT stack doesn’t work!! With 1.1 devices, MP works just great)

+ (1.2 BT stack doesn’t work!! With 1.1 devices, MP works justgreat)

In-game music?

+; retro; can even be switched to stereo (restart may be needed), sampling freq changed; 6 tracks

-, only ambient sound

+, retro, mono

+; stereo

+; mono

At level step/menu only

+; stereo

+; mono

+, retro, mono

+; stereo

Sound effects?

Can be stereo

(only 3 of them)

Mono (with a FPS…)

+; stereo

No. of save slots (if it’s possible to save)

Last position remembered

3 & autosave

Remembers the number of the last map

Continue, as with most Astraware titles

Unlimited(?) number of auto-saved profiles

Remembers the number of the last mine

Continue, as with most Astraware titles

Controls?

D-pad; stylus; Jog dial

D-pad only

D-pad; stylus (; Jog dial)

D-pad; Jog dial (up/down)

D-pad (+jog dial up/down)

D-pad only

D-pad; stylus

D-pad; stylus (the latter must be explicitly enabled)

D-pad/jog dial

stylus

D-pad/ stylus

D-pad (4 directions), Jog dial (forward/backward), stylus (look/strife)

D-pad, Jog dial (forward/backward), stylus

Stylus

stylus

Settings?

Several

Time available

Sound/ music volume

Volume; controls; gamma

Volume; time on/off in free game; keys (a must on, for example, the PL720 to avoid the ‘Exit’ messages because of accidental Contacts button presses; then, only the Today button remains to be the exit button – it can’t be redefined). Game settings: a lot

Sound/ music volume

Volume; details; auto-fire; keys

No. of lives, difficulty, hi score

Autofire; HW buttons; particles etc

Sound/brightness/ game speed/controls

Sfx/music/ language (Eng / Spanish)

Gfx (detail/gamma (very important on devices like the PL720/hx4700!), frame rate); sound; key config

Music/sound / visuals/ 4 keys. The latter must be defined so that you can exit the game.

Sound / visuals / time display

Play speed on a PL720?

+; even with 44 kHz/stereo sound/ stylus!

Quite slow

Play speed on an iPAQ 2210?

+; even with 44 kHz/stereo sound/ stylus!

Hackability?

xp(-hires).pak contains also the FastTracker modules; can be extracted

3 wav files in \res\sound (I don’t think you will want them, though ;) )

-? ; Much as the bgm.rpk and sfx.rpk seem to have a clear structure, their contents seems to be ZIP’ed

*.s3m files

Stats homepage?

yes