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Orange scupper Smartphone gamers with the E200

#4 dom

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:15 PM

Please say this is not true! I've not got a E200 yet... but gaming would have been one of the priorities!

Is there any chance it could be a software issue meaning that the s/w is not recognising diagonal movement?

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:16 PM

Yes, I noticed this also. Mini Super Bike is uplayable. I can live without an eightway joystick, but it is baffling that orange appears to have taken this step backwards whilst gaming. Im sure it makes navigating menus easier though.

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:18 PM

Actually, the original joystick is 9 way. 8 ways + push it in, or "action button".

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:21 PM

Seems that (suprise, suprise, Cilla!!) Orange have not really thought it thru!

I'm thinkjing about upgrading to the e200 - but with the amount of complaints about it so far (only after 1 week) I'm now reconsidering!!

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:24 PM

Looks like I'll be going for the MXP200 then :?

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:25 PM

took quite a while to notice this rather huge bug didnt it.
Glad i didnt jump and buy a E200 now although i think the improvements outweigh this loss (although i dont play many games on my SPV)

shame on orange for screwing over developers and not telling them of this change ](*,) =D>

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:28 PM

Let me get this straight first, As far as I know no digital joystick/pad has eight switches, they have 4 and make a diagonal out of 2 switches, i.e. up and right together to give diagonal up/right?. So are you saying that the stick on e200 can't make the 2 switches together? or that the phone software is not acepting a signal from 2 switches made together?. If the later is the case an update should be able to sort it. If the stick can't phisically make 2 switches together then obviously we are screwed.

Hope I haven't got that completely wrong :oops:

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:31 PM

whats amusing is it affects Rebound, the game that comes with the e200 :lol:

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:31 PM

We are trying to clarify at the moment...

The software definitely isn't receiving the two at once (despite the fact it can detect the two soft keys together no problem)...

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:32 PM

Oh dear.. i really don't know what to say. :roll: They really have scuppered a lot of peoples hopes for this phone...

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:34 PM

Right. Who's going to be the first to open their e200 to check? :?

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:34 PM

8 way is just a term used for pushing a joystick in 8 directions, meaning that if you had a character on screen you can move in 8 directions aswell. We are running tests to see if its hardware or software thats at fault.

It does affect a lot of games though, beatemups, shooters, rpg's, footy games the list goes on :lol:

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:42 PM

Yay for MPX200 funness..

Something to be addressed for the SPV E220?

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:44 PM

Huh? My Congratuations to the Orange/HTC team that tested this phone. What a bunch of jokers !!

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:48 PM

Testing?, what is this testing you speak about?

Wait till msmobiles gets hold of this!!

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 02:58 PM

It's just not all that good is it...the whole E200 package :!: Ok, so it does have lots of things that work...AS THEY DAMN WELL SHOULD DO :!: :!: ...there's just too many things which don't work, or don't work well enough to be enjoyable. My decision is now made; I WON'T be buying E200, not until the dust settles and(IF??) many of the raised issues are addressed by Orange/MS/HTC. Such a pity, they really should have done better. Missed oppurtunity :?

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 03:01 PM

Another thing to note about the E200 package is that it does not include the carry case that came with earlier SPV's, that's nearly as bad as the D-pad thing

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 03:03 PM

I can definitely see a lot of MPX200's being sold now! Thats definitely a good thing (i'm not biased at all :lol:

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Seriously though, I really hope that this gets sorted out one way or another as I can see a lot of Smartphone games developers pulling out of development if they can't make games on devices like this.

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 03:05 PM

Hang on a minute....what's the date........s***, I thought it was 1st April for a minute there...

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Posted 24 November 2003 - 03:08 PM

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Another thing to note about the E200 package is that it does not include the carry case that came with earlier SPV's, that's nearly as bad as the D-pad thing

errr, i think diagonals are a little more important than some case no-one used anyway :lol: