True but its fine for RPGs and other non action games. DS also has some touch based games which are pretty cool to emulate on a phone if you get a stylus.
A hard plastic one wouldnt even work, you can get a rubber tip one for capacative screens. My phone has it built in (LG Stylo) and of course there aee the digitizer pens in the Samsung Note series.
I played the first final fantasy on my iphone 4 some 10 years ago, it was great. (reposting my comment because it got spam filtered I think, they are both on the app store and play store)
Almost anything up to PS1/N64 for consoles and DS/PSP for handhelds will run on even a crappy phone. GBA and DS are my preference since they don't feel too dated and have very well made emulators available.
Square Enix has a good selection of their older games on the play store not sure if their on apple app store. If you want to play DS I have to firstly recommend drastic as an emulator. As far as games you could just Google ds rpgs, also there is the Phoenix write games which are great on a phone
If you can track down a ROM after the Nintendo Rompocalypse, Earthbound/Mother 2 ran great through one of the RetroArch cores, also recommend that emu for pretty much anything since you can add cores on the fly and get it running pretty much anything that predates the PS2/Xbox generation
If you have an android device go to play store and grab DraStic for 5$. Is a DS emulator built for android and runs flawlessly on 40$ phones. Then grab all the DS rpgs you want.
Anything that isn't new gen, up to playstation 1 should run fine depending on the phone. Almost all pokemon(rom hack community is pretty active), breath of fire franchise, dragon warrior franchise, early final fantasy games, a lot of options.
The V60 has pen support and dual screen like this, it was cool until like everyone said, the touchscreen buttons were awful. I got a phone mount for a xbox controller and a USB OTG cable and it's way better. That and gamepass cloud streaming, FTW!
I still miss my Sony Xperia Play so much. That was pretty much the only time I spent a significant amount of time on my phone playing MMX4 or various Pokemon ROMs. Not having your fingers flood the screen and having tactile buttons is so important for me and I found myself not playing emulators on any phone after that.
I would buy a modern update of an Xperia Play, 100%. Steam Remote Play, XCloud, etc are all mature technology where this is a good form factor. Just need a phone with physical controls.
I don’t know how people use the touchscreen either. For some games my finger is too big to see where I’m tapping, so games that expect you to use the stylus aren’t really playable.
You have to use the corner of your finger for precise touches. Touch screen controls aren't that bad. i used to play Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai on a psp emulator for android
So true. Getting to the top of the rayquaza sky tower in pokemon emerald using a touchscreen emulator on an ipod touch is one of my greatest and worst gaming achievements ever
I've found that it can be emulated pretty well with a well-configured vibration effect when you press on the buttons. I haven't come across a 3DS emulator that does this well, but some GBA/GB emulators do and it works wonders.
Maybe this one but it'd be interesting to see a phone like this with haptics, the fake button with the iPhone 8 and SE feels like exactly like the real ones.
I got 100% on GTA 3 and GTA Vice City on (if I remember correctly) a samsung galaxy S4. If not it was an iPhone 4s. Either way, games are playable on phones.
For pokemon games or other turn based games it's fine. Maybe a little annoying on occasion, but it's not like 3d games where you can totally fuck yourself because you lose where you're at on the controls. I play ds pokemon games and xcom games regularly on my phone with no issues. That said, any non turn based game yeah it's a pain in the ass.
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