Difference between revisions of "List of handheld roguelikes"

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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 Palm Treo cell phones and TI QWERTY calculators)
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable; for Windows, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Palm Treo and Windows Mobile cell phones)
POWDER (stable; for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, GBA, DS, PSP, GP2X, WinCE)

Calculators

CalcRogue (stable)
TiRogue (alpha)

Cell phones

Tip: When you buy a mobile phone, get a smartphone like an iPhone, Palm Treo, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile device. Smartphones can run a wider variety of software than most cellphones. See the Palm and Windows Mobile sections below.

iPhone cell phones

iPhone RPG [1] (for use in the iPhone web browser)
NetHack for iPhone [2] (requires jailbreaking; also, you must run the command ROWS=16 in MobileTerminal.app before starting it, or else it's almost unplayable)[3]

Palm Treo and Centro cell phones only

CalcRogue (stable)
iLarn
iRogue
kMoria (alpha)
Nethack-Palm [4] (unreleased)
NetHack / Slash'EM for Zodiac [5] [6]
PaleoHack (alpha)
PocketRogue [7]
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
Z/Angband, ToME, etc. for Zodiac [8]

Uncategorized

Windows Mobile / Windows CE cell phones only

AngbandCE
FaAngband (http://angband.oook.cz/faangband/)
nanRogue (final beta)
NetHack for Windows CE
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (stable)
POWDER (stable)

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[9] 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[10]

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 [11] (The site is down. Use Wayback. Last version is 1.0.) Try this link: [12]
POWDER (stable)
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja [13]
Angband (development abandoned, source and .nds file available) [14]
DungeonS [15]
The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon commercial games are built around random dungeon crawls, strongly reminiscent of Rogue dungeons. They are graphical, use standard DS input, and have plots, but the plot can most often be ignored.

Other

NetHack for Nokia 770 Internet tablet (version 1) (version 2)
NetHack for Psion
NetHack for Sharp Zaurus [16]
NewtHack (shareware for the Apple Newton; registration costs USD$20 and entitles you to the full version) [17]

PlayStation Portable

Angband for PSP (alpha)
NetHack for the PSP (beta)
ToME for the PSP (alpha? beta?)
POWDER (stable)

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 * [[iPhone RPG]] [http://www.hotcat.org/rpg/] (for use in the iPhone web browser)
+* [[NetHack for iPhone]] [http://www.centralcore.co.uk/iphone/] (requires [http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod+OR+iphone+jailbreak jailbreaking]; also, you must run the command ROWS=16 in MobileTerminal.app before starting it, or else it's almost unplayable)[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/0916af9fe0891065/#18bdb867cdf6442a]
 === Palm Treo and Centro cell phones only ===
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 * [[Dungeon Crawl]] for the Nintendo DS [http://www.nightmode.org/dscrawl/] (The site is down. Use Wayback. Last version is 1.0.) Try this link: [http://web.archive.org/web/20070531065542/http://www.nightmode.org/dscrawl/]
 * [[POWDER]] (stable)
-* Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izuna:_Legend_of_the_Unemployed_Ninja]
+* [[Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izuna:_Legend_of_the_Unemployed_Ninja]
 * [[Angband]] (development abandoned, source and .nds file available) [http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11305&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30]
 * [[DungeonS]] [http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3658&forum=9]
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 == Other ==
-* NetHack for the Nokia 770 tablet [http://www.rengels.de/computer/nethack/ (version 1)] [http://n770galaxy.blogspot.com (version 2)]
+* [[NetHack for Nokia 770]] Internet tablet [http://www.rengels.de/computer/nethack/ (version 1)] [http://n770galaxy.blogspot.com (version 2)]
 * [[NetHack for Psion]]
-* NetHack for the Sharp Zaurus [http://www.google.ca/search?q=zaurus+nethack]
+* [[NetHack for Sharp Zaurus]] [http://www.google.ca/search?q=zaurus+nethack]
-* NewtHack (shareware for the [[Wikipedia:Apple Newton|Apple Newton]]; registration costs USD$20 and entitles you to the full version) [http://dc.unna.org/unna/games/NewtHack1_1/]
+* [[NewtHack]] (shareware for the [[Wikipedia:Apple Newton|Apple Newton]]; registration costs USD$20 and entitles you to the full version) [http://dc.unna.org/unna/games/NewtHack1_1/]
 == PlayStation Portable ==