Lo q consiguió #gameloft con su #assassinscreedaltairchronicles xa #nintendoDS me acaba de dejar loquisimo.
Pensaba q iba a ser en 2d y en pixelart (como el de #j2me ) y no, es putisimo 3D! 🤯🤯🤯 en una DS!! 🙀🤯🤯🤯

Y oye de momento no pinta mal el control 👌

@titus_rabenauge added a video of an old rabenauge demoscene release from the year 2006 to the collection of rabenauge videos on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54Wy_LWuIo

This J2me mobile was released at the #demoparty "nightshift 2006" Istanbul, Turkey

#demoscene #digitalArt #j2me #mobile #java #retro #throwback #2000s #2006 #mobiledemo #demoparty #nightshift2006 #turkey #youtube

Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.

• Making the #OUYA look like a piece of perfection in comparison, because that #cube didn't cost 20x more to port games to but merely demanded the (OUYA-exclusive) #GameController #API (which predates the later #Android-Standardized one!) to be supported, which is closer to a #patch than a #redevelopment!

But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.

• Also who thought that announcing a price cut before launch was a good idea in a time the "Osbourne Effect" was already well known?

So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...

• To add insult to injury, #piracy on it is rampant... and the #PS2 whipped it's ass around town cuz it even as #import #console like the #PlayStation2 could shaft them in spite of #tariffs because by that point #Sony closed their books on that platform and didn't give a fuck about #piracy, only allowing pre-agreed licensees like #EA to still shove out their games for it.

And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...

• Really sad, cuz if the Zeebo was like a €50 box, it could've been a smash hit, so it died due to lack of resources...

Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.

• Also respect to Derek from #SSFF for playing the entire Zeebo catalogue tho there's nothing to ride home about...

Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...

#tech

Remember #J2ME feature phone games of the early 2000s? #Japanese #videogames were often quite good, but Western games were often mediocre at best, leading to the belief that #mobile games were of a poor quality.

#SouthPark 10: The Game is one of the latter. My #review:

https://the--adventuress.blogspot.com/2026/01/action-video-game-review-south-park-10.html

Awesome J2ME

https://github.com/hstsethi/awesome-j2me

#HackerNews #Awesome #J2ME #J2ME #JavaMobile #TechInnovation #OpenSource #MobileDevelopment