Mobile Phone Gaming Out of Control?
Are your fingers too plump for button-mashing gameplay on your mobile phone? Thanks to MobileChaos, you can fatten up your phone to match your dumpy digits with its brand-spanking-new MPlay attachment. Simply slide your phone into the waiting arms of the MPlay's universal holder, clamp that sucker in, attach your handset's phone adapter and enjoy the same D-Pad and multi-button goodness handheld console gamers have been enjoying for over 15 years.
When your phone rings, quickly rip out handset's phone adapter, unclamp your phone, and yank it from MPlay's universal holder. Hopefully in time to answer the call. Or, just shove the entire handset/controller combo against your ear. Suddenly, the MPlay add-on makes the original N-Gage and its goofy sidetalkin' setup seem stylish.
Comments
...Except this is a great idea. If it fits a Motorola Razr I'm buying one right now. This is just the thing needed to get a handle on that wildly unwieldily Metal Slug Mobile Impact.
Posted by: lech | April 6, 2006 3:58 PM
Yeah, or you could just buy a real hand held
Posted by: Kaleb | April 6, 2006 6:57 PM
I have a real handheld. Several of them. My point it that this is a necessary peripheral to play "real games" on cellphones.
Posted by: lech | April 7, 2006 10:28 AM
Lech, shouldn't a good cell phone game be designed to play well with the default phone hardware?
Posted by: Tony Walsh | April 7, 2006 10:32 AM
Very true Tony. Too bad no one realized that as they all rushed to cram their crap into 200k memory space and 100x200 pixel display.
Out of the two games I bought (both SNK's Metal Slug MI, and KOF M2) both feature terrible control. Metal Slug doesn't even try, but KOF at least was heavily modified to attemt to be playable on a keypad. It had limited results. (Speed dailing a super sounds fun on paper, it's quite the opposite in reality.)
Posted by: lech | April 7, 2006 7:32 PM
In regards to the article's issue with answering a call while the phone is docked. The device has a slot cut into the left upper corner of the holder area where you could plug in your headset to answer calls while playing the game. Also, Bluetooth headsets for those BT enabled phones works as expected. Lastly, if you unplugged the connector the phones slide out easily enough for a quick call pick up. When the phone was redocked & plugged back in the unit sync'd up automatically to allow continuous playing.
Posted by: Scott | April 8, 2006 1:54 PM
That is the beauty of this device, not only do you have a default mode configuration (currently 4) you also have downloadable optimized configurations which can be downloaded via OTA. That is our best feature. Metal Slug is a great game, and i agree that the key config is not the best, but when you play it with the mPlay, WOW! a totally different experience. we have 16 reconfigurable buttons, not bad, eh?
Posted by: PointBlank | April 26, 2006 3:22 PM