Screens of MBX games?

[SegaR&D]

Can anybody post screens of games that have been made specifically for the MBX?

I cant seem to find any.

I've seen lots of screens for the Goforce4500 and I have to admit they look amazing, so I just wanted to see if MBX compares or not.

 

[Fox5]

Can anybody post screens of games that have been made specifically for the MBX?

I cant seem to find any.

I've seen lots of screens for the Goforce4500 and I have to admit they look amazing, so I just wanted to see if MBX compares or not.

A little while back someone posted a bunch of MBX screens. I haven't seen any goforce screens though, but the MBX ones didn't look too impressive.(they weren't games though, and I think they were supposed to be representative of what the cheapest model could do)

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17296
I believe these are most of what was posted.

 

[deviantchild]

Can anybody post screens of games that have been made specifically for the MBX?

I cant seem to find any.

I've seen lots of screens for the Goforce4500 and I have to admit they look amazing, so I just wanted to see if MBX compares or not.

well, surprise surprise! even if GoForce4500 were shite it would have uber-mindshare over anything PowerVR designed

there's only really the two vids [these were actually made by the review site, not anybody's marketting]:-

http://www.pocketnow.com/media/enigmo.wmv
http://www.pocketnow.com/media/stuntcar.wmv

and...

http://www.blacksmithstudios.com/solterra.html

but the shots for that one are not necessarily of MBX
'somebody' wasn't particularly impressed by that one as the 3D featureset and throughput is somewhat 'safe' and doesn't really show off MBX capability at all

the handheld gaming arena is still being somewhat retarded in terms of capable devices available - there was a lot of investment in VGA devices and pseudo-acceleration/SW optimisation, with lots of ppl marketting APIs and SW dev platforms*
by the time it all picks up PowerVR may have likely lost their headstart

*fi, AximSite are getting excited about this:- http://www.emobilesoftware.com/xfighter.htm
"Best quality 3D rendered graphics and particle systems"
yeah, like "pre-rendered"...
ah! just like the good ol' days

don't know where the fully-spec'd incarnations of MBX have all gone
Virtio only recently released a dev platform for OMAP2420:-
http://www.virtio.com/newsroom/pressRelease/0,1551,611,00.html

what would be nice is some proper 3D benchies on what's currently available [even if it has to be 2700G in the PowerVR corner] and showing FSAA perfomance hit too

i'll now leave you with a comment from an overpaid-gadget-buying-obsessed adult male [man-in-the-street] colleague of mine; upon seeing a TapWave Zodiac (£350) alongside an AximX50v (£300) and being told the Axim has far superior graphics capabilities...
"But you can play games on that one!" - remarking upon the familiar d-pad and button config of the Zodiac

nuff said

 

[Fox5]

"But you can play games on that one!" - remarking upon the familiar d-pad and button config of the Zodiac

All 5 of them!

BTW, if you can hook up one of those mini-keyboards to a pda and use it to play games that pretty much eliminates most control problems.

Come on, if you're only interested in the games and not the power then Nintendo DS and Sony PSP would be far better choices...and they may both be more powerful than anything in the PDA market right now.

 

[Ty]

Come on, if you're only interested in the games and not the power then Nintendo DS and Sony PSP would be far better choices...

Absolutely true.

and they may both be more powerful than anything in the PDA market right now.

The Axim should be more powerful than the DS for certain (even with the overhead of the OS). Not sure about the PSP though - probably pretty close. That said, both the DS and PSP will FAR exceed the Axim as a game player imo.

 

[Lazy8s]

The Axim is MBX-Lite without a VGP companion (I believe) and saddled with an Intel, so it would trail PSP performance in some significant areas of complexity. Geometry and fillrate would likely be several times lower easily. It would still retain MBX's fuller feature set, flexibility, and precision IQ though.

 

[Fox5]

Come on, if you're only interested in the games and not the power then Nintendo DS and Sony PSP would be far better choices...

Absolutely true.

and they may both be more powerful than anything in the PDA market right now.

The Axim should be more powerful than the DS for certain (even with the overhead of the OS). Not sure about the PSP though - probably pretty close. That said, both the DS and PSP will FAR exceed the Axim as a game player imo.

Hard to find specs on the 2700G, but it seems to be about 10x as powerful as what's in the DS.(plus better features)

 

[Shogmaster]

IIRC, 2700G is only clocked at 60Mhz or so. About half of what MBX could be clocked @.13 micron according to IMG TECH..