Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "8 In 1 Is Not Always Great"

Well, opinions certainly differ - some people find, for example, Namco's old Pocket PC arcade ports excellent, which, IMHO, are pretty bad (much worse than any other, say, Galaxians port out there).

I gotta say, I am a bit baffled by the wonderful reception of Arcade Park. It's by no means awful, but I had had enough after 3 minutes of the demo.

Okay, I made sure the D-Pad "center" was enabled for "enter" clicks, and went back and tried all of the games. As it turns out, Gold Hunter actually uses the buttons on either side of the D-Pad for digging. However, none of the other games used any of the four hardware buttons for anything except pulling up the menu. As for the D-Pad center button, it did act as the action key, but then moving with the D-Pad and firing with the center button didn't act much better than moving with the stylus and double clicking to fire.

I did look through their website and the listing on ClickGamer and saw no mention either place of any compatibility issues. I have sent them an email, so we'll see what they come back and say.

Also give a try to the jog dial "center", which also has Action functionality.

I have a Dell Axim X5 running WM2003. I guess I'll have to give it a try again, because that would make a big difference in my opinion of several of those games. Every time I tried to hit one of the buttons, however, I would either get the game's menu or nothing.

On what Pocket PC model did you test it? The D-pad and, more importantly, the Action button works in all mini-games on all (except the WM5 hx4700, which the game is incompatible with - it just crashes at start) my test devices (iPAQ 2210; Axim x51v; HTC Wizard; PL720 - and, as far as the Palm OS is concerned, the T|3 (yes, another game better played on the Palm because of the higher resolution - when will Pocket PC game developers finally use VGA?)). (I've only tested the trial version - the commercial/full one may be different.) I'm pretty sure yours is an incompatible model. Also, Allen doesn't mention any compatibility problems either in his review ( http://www.smartphonemag.com/newsl_TWIG/TWIG_158_05-05-06.htm ) - his Action button worked too.

IMHO, for the (very low) price, this game is of good value - but, again, it worked OK on (almost) all my Pocket PC's and I had no problems with the Action hardware button.

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "8 In 1 Is Not Always Great"

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "8 In 1 Is Not Always Great"