Sunday, December 5, 2010

SMS_S60 v1.1b for 5th Edition or later

When I tried the emulator for the first time on newer Symbian phones (such as 5th edition) I was really disappointed to see how crappily games were running compared to 3rd edition.
But now I've tried again with the recently added frame skipping method and, to my surprise, it works really great! Even heavy games run at pretty decent speed!

The only condition to make it work is to have a (usually sliding) keyboard on the phone.

Some extra features added on v1.1b for 5th edition or later:
  • Added two new screen orientation modes: "rotate none" and "rotate full"
Some tips and help specifically for this version:
  • Before loading any game, you must open out the keyboard (the screen will change its orientation), and you should've set either the "rotate none" or "rotate full" orientation method (Config. Screen menu).
  • Despite you can choose to enable or disable "Skip Frames", disabling it will make emulation run really slow, so it should (on most phones) be always enabled.
  • Because the latest devices have kind of high screen resolution, it is better to set "Keep Aspect Ratio" to disabled. Doing so ensures the emulator will use as much screen as possible.
Download v1.1b for 5th edition or later:
SMS_S60_v1.1b (5th edition).sisx