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Windows Mobile 2003/5/6
SmartGear is a multi-system game emulator. This software allows you to play games written for classic handheld and console gaming systems on your Windows Desktop PC, Pocket PC or SmartPhone.
It currently emulates GameBoy, GameBoy Color, NES, GameGear, MasterSystem, TurboGrafx-16, and Genesis/MegaDrive.
SmartGear is written in portable C code and can be built on a variety of systems. The mobile version uses optimized ARM assembly language components for maximum performance. The purpose is to accurately emulate your favorite classic games at full speed on any Windows device.
Playing Your Games With SmartGear
SmartGear does not contain any games, as they are copyrighted by the companies which produced them. You will have to find the cartridge images yourself. It is recommended that you buy the original cartridge for every game you wish to play, or use a cartridge copier on the ones you own. The games may be stored uncompressed or archived in ZIP files. The system type is detected by the filename extension. The files may be stored anywhere on your machines; use the built-in file selector to navigate your directories and load them.
The Desktop PC version defines the following keys while playing:
ESC = quit current game
F1-F4 = scale the window 1-4X
F5 = stretch the window to fit the entire display (with DirectDraw enabled)
F6 = Load a game state (not fully functional)
F7 = Save a game state (not fully functional)
F11 = Toggle speed throttling (see how fast it can run)
In Progress...
I'm currently working on getting more games to run (e.g. adding more NES mappers). Future enhancements will include a rewritten YM2612 to enable full speed Genesis emulation. It should be relatively easy to add another system emulator such as Colecovision, MSX or more variations of existing emulators. Please let me know what you would like to see. An Atari ST emulator is an idea I was toying with because I was an early adopter of that system. I'm also working on a SNES emulator written in ARM asm.
The latest version of SmartGear is 1.1.6.
The major version of SmartGear has jumped from 1.x.x to 2.x.x due to a complete rewrite of it's internals and a new set of features. All of the internal emulator code has been rewritten to be thread-safe/re-entrant and error checked. What this means is that more stability and cool new features are now possible. Critical feedback and suggestions are always welcome; the emphasis of this product is to reflect the users' needs, so please feel free to send me a note with any ideas you have for improving it.
Here are the highlights of the new version:
· Optimized Display Paint
· Live File Browser
· Create Shortcut
· Savegame File Consolidation
· Bluetooth Gamepad Support
· 2-Player Support
· Status Display
· Sound Fixes
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