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Offline Kerma

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SC2 I-Pod Nano
« on: December 24, 2009, 05:49:32 pm »
Is there any way that SC2 Could be ported to an Ipod nano?
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2009, 06:04:48 pm »
Not without: art resizing, pixel scaling, EXE authentication, legal rights, tons of recodeing and other random stuff. It's hard work to port a computer game to a completely different platform
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2009, 03:05:31 pm »
It's been done for the Wii, PSP, and a few others.  Maybe?  Controls would be a pain though.
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2009, 12:34:53 am »
Quote from: Kerma on December 24, 2009, 05:49:32 pm
Is there any way that SC2 Could be ported to an Ipod nano?
Probably. As you can see on the Ultronomicon, it's already been ported to several other platforms including Iphone. A better question would be, who is going to port it? Without a dedicated person with both coding ability and access to the platform, nothing will happen.

Quote from: Nuclear on December 24, 2009, 06:04:48 pm
Not without: art resizing, pixel scaling, EXE authentication, legal rights, tons of recodeing and other random stuff. It's hard work to port a computer game to a completely different platform

Apart from the legal stuff most of those are quite solvable. As you can see from the list above UQM has already been ported to several hand held platforms.

Quote from: gihren on December 25, 2009, 03:05:31 pm
It's been done for the Wii, PSP, and a few others.  Maybe?  Controls would be a pain though.

Yeah, controls would be really challenging. Legibility on the scen might not be great either.
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2009, 01:13:59 pm »
I would for see the problem with nano being that they're have to be ports of the libraries first. like SDL, if im not mistaken.
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2009, 08:17:56 am »
Quote from: Scott_Irving on December 26, 2009, 01:13:59 pm
I would for see the problem with nano being that they're have to be ports of the libraries first. like SDL, if im not mistaken.

Er, good point. Didn't think that one through.
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Re: SC2 I-Pod Nano
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2009, 02:24:51 pm »
Furthermore, a lot of those handhelds are very easy to develop for due to their openness (GP2x, Dingoo, all Nokia devices on the list), due to a fairly large community (PSP) or due to official support (iPhone, though somewhat limited). Although I must admit that I don't know a lot about the iPod nano, I doubt it'd be easy to develop for.
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