Remember Ken Kutaragi wanted to make a PlayStation phone?

Yeah, I forgot to mention the shitter. I guess you get to play them more as you get older.

 

Yakumo you bastard! I was eating cookies while reading this! I almost choke to death when I saw the pictures and now is ALL FAKE?!:crying:

Anyway, if we are going to make such elaborated pranks we could keep it real and wait until other forums and blogs pick it up and hype rises to the top. Then we drop the bomb saying it was all fake:dance:

 

:lol: Always happy to excite the evening :nod:

hahaha, great idea. I have a few more DC and Saturn stickers plus a load of MD ones. maybe I could do another prank. The thing is though is that we may end up with it blowing up in our faces. You know what whining babies the "true" fan boys are like.

Yakumo

 

Is not funny dude! The last thing I need is a tombstone that says "died at the hands of a chocolate chips cookie":-(

Well the only "bad" effect may be that ASSEMbler's forum credibility may get crippled, but at the same time we aint that popular/mainstream anyway, and we would make it clear that it was a joke, not like the inquirer which spits bogus data all time, and never apologies when it flops.

 

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this. And it's not real :crying:

Those games are running on your phone? Puts my K750i to shame (which was supposed to come with a 3d game according to the Sony website).

 

Yes they are. The graphic quality is sort of between PSX, Saturn, N64. The 2D stuff is best I find. Some of the 3D stuff is shite due to poor half arsed programmers. Sunsoft have made a 3D future racing game that puts N64 FZERO and WipeOut 2 on the PSX to shame ! House of the Dead looks miles better than the Saturn as well. They've stopped making games for my phone now or at least the big name titles. Support only lasts about 1 year before they start moving on to the new modles. They have the likes of Sega Rally while I'm stuck with Ridge Racer

Yakumo

 

And I tought that our phones were finally keeping up with the japanese ones, bummer!

Is there any way to get one of these phones working on the west? what about a dummy card?

Or should I just quit and buy a damn DSlite?

 

But but.. but.. Someone must make a DC on a chip ><

Portable DC> PSP .anyday

 

no, they don't use card except for the 3G phones and even then you can't just go in to a store and buy a phone. There's allsorts of crap plus you must buy a contract with it. That's the rule. Oh and you can't buy a phone with a contract unless you have a working visa or higher.

Yakumo

 

dc in a chip already exists. and i'm not trolling

 

I must have been living under a rock O_O, please, elaborate

 

Hey no prob dude, I didnt know until a friend of mine told me about it.

Renesas (an Hitachi subsidiary) has a working DC-on-a-chip currently in the final stages. Both the SH4 and VR2 are more powerfull than in the original Dreamcast, achieving a raw power similar to that of Naomi2.

Specifically, the Dreamcast console contained a 200-MHz Hitachi SH4 with the capability to perform 360 million instructions per second (MIPS) and 1.4 million megaflops, or floating-point operations per second. The Dreamcast also contained an NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip.

The new SH3707 uses a faster 540 MIPS/2.1 gigaflops engine, with a 64-bit interface to memory. The core also contains a PowerVR MBX chip, a core that Imagination Technologies has licensed to Intel and Texas Instruments, among others.


According to Miyazaki, the target specification for the platform is to achieve up to 1024 x 768 resolution, 10 million to 13 million vertices or 5 million to 6 million triangles per second, with up to 20 percent translucency per scene – in other words, anticipating a game where some of the polygons would be enhanced with transparency effects. That would place the SH3707 at somewhat over twice the performance of the Dreamcast, which could handle up to 3 million triangles per second. The SH3707 also has the capability of processing MPEG-1, -2, and -4 video and eight-channel PCM/ADCPM audio.

I remember hearing about some guys in spain who wanted to work on a portable using this chip. For what I heard renesas told them they didnt had the chip ready at the time, but who knows if is not finished already.

The SH3707 will ship in the first quarter of 2005, Miyazaki said.

It didnt, and as of today renesas hasnt announced anything about the current state of the chip.

But the main problem is that without a viable use for this chip (lets say a handheld or something) theres no chance it goes into mass production.


Source of Quotes

 

I think we have talked about this before here and its been said that the chip isnt really a DC on a chip. Something to do with the differences in the hardware.

EDIT:

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2015&highlight=SH3707

 

You're missing the point: if they can pull this one out they could make a DC on a chip for sure.

After all, where's the need for XGA resolution? If SEGA made a handheld/cellphone with DC tech built-in they may have to downscale games from the original VGA to QVGA, as most phones use this resolution (only high-high end ones are above that).

The point is: whos gonna create such a demand for this chip to be produced? SEGA wont, since they are more than happy being a 3rd partie. And after the Ngage flop no cellphone company is going to release a cellphone/console on their own.

Dunno, maybe if they made this into a shared franchise, something between symbian and the 3DO.

 

No im just about 99.9% sure that i dint miss the point there. Someone said is there a DC on a chip and you said yes there is. But no there actually isnt. I really dint miss the point there did i?

 

That the thread is about a DC cellphone?

You said we talked about the DCoC before, so if you read my last post again you'll see I'm not talking about the renesas chip at all but if a DC powered handheld/phone is feasible.

 

I don't see DC-on-a-chip in a phone, but a stand-alone portable gaming console, that could have DC games ported to it (losely based on the DC's components, SH series and power VR etc) would be a nice idea, even if it was in the more "open" sense, like GP32. SH chips were very low consumption chips.

 

They don't have to. They're happy making tons of money off of shitty cellphone games.

 

Well thats what those guys were trying to do.

About the cellphone idea, I said that becos unlike consoles, phones arent subsidized by the maker but by the carrier. So basically, if SEGA did it they wouldnt loose any money on the hardware.

Plus if they get a good deal with the carriers the phone may go for less than a PSP or even close to a DS, thus making it a great buy for most people.

No doubt about that

 

The phone would easily go for less than a PSP. most high end phones in japa cost about 15 to 20 thousand yen(ONLY WHEN FIRST RELEASED) Wait a year and you can pick one up for buttons. By the way, Sega did release a kids phone in Japan with the Mushi King theme.

Yakumo