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Note: If you are buying a cellphone, consider a PalmOS-based or Windows Mobile-based "smartphone", as those can run a wider variety of software. See the Palm and Windows Mobile sections below. | Note: If you are buying a cellphone, consider a PalmOS-based or Windows Mobile-based "smartphone", as those can run a wider variety of software. See the Palm and Windows Mobile sections below. | ||
Revision as of 12:55, 23 May 2008
A handheld roguelike is a roguelike game for a small electronic device such as a cellphone, a video game system, or a PDA.
Even a system capable of running Windows or Linux does not guarantee a good roguelike experience. The small screen and limited controls of most handhelds mean that, unless careful work is done in UI design, the resulting game can be unplayable.
Some of these games also work on Windows or Linux, either by themselves or with the help of an emulator.
Multiple platforms
- CalcRogue (stable; for PalmPilot and TI QWERTY calculators)
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable; for Windows, Mac OS 9, OS X, PalmPilot and Windows Mobile)
Calculators
Cellphones
Note: If you are buying a cellphone, consider a PalmOS-based or Windows Mobile-based "smartphone", as those can run a wider variety of software. See the Palm and Windows Mobile sections below.
Game Boy Advance
To play these games, buy an inexpensive Game Boy Advance flash cartridge or download a Game Boy Advance emulator for your PC. NO$GBA[1] is currently one of the more accurate Game Boy Advance emulators for the PC. Perhaps it is also possible to play them using a computer-to-GBA link cable or a Game Boy Advance Movie Player or other such device. You can also play these (and any other Game Boy Advance homebrew applications) on a Nintendo DS via a slot-1 card such as the CycloDS Evolution[2]
Game Boy Color
- The main dungeon of Other Life: Azure Dreams, the Game Boy Color port of Azure Dreams for the PlayStation, was a graphical roguelike.
Nintendo DS
- NetHack for the Nintendo DS
- Dungeon Crawl for the Nintendo DS [3] (The site is down. Use Wayback. Last version is 1.0.) Try this link: [4]
- POWDER (stable)
- Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja [5]
- Angband (development abandoned, source and .nds file available) [6]
- DungeonS [7]
PalmPilot
- CalcRogue (stable)
- iLarn
- iRogue
- kMoria (alpha)
- Nethack-Palm [8] (unreleased)
- NetHack / Slash'EM for Zodiac [9] [10]
- PaleoHack (alpha)
- PocketRogue [11]
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
- Z/Angband, ToME, etc. for Zodiac [12]
Other
- NetHack for the Nokia 770 tablet (version 1) (version 2)
- NetHack for Psion
- NetHack for the Sharp Zaurus [13]
- NewtHack (shareware for the Apple Newton; registration costs USD$20 and entitles you to the full version) [14]
PlayStation Portable
- Angband for PSP (alpha)
- NetHack for the PSP (beta)
- ToME for the PSP (alpha? beta?)
Windows Mobile / Windows CE / Smartphone 2002
- AngbandCE
- FaAngband (http://angband.oook.cz/faangband/)
- nanRogue (final beta)
- NetHack for Windows CE
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
See also
- List of console roguelikes - roguelikes for video game consoles that connect to a TV
- List of roguelikes