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Rayman Review By Pepper 9/25/2001 Overview Rayman is an old action game which has spread across multiple platforms and has finally reached the Palm OS. Unfortunately, Rayman has also become the Palm OS's biggest example of bloatware
Game Play Along the way, Rayman makes several friends, and has a few enemies to deal with. The friends are mainly inanimate objects like plums and trumpets, but the enemies are more vicious things like piranhas and bats. All of these enemies hurt Rayman, but he can use his friends to help him get out of some tricky situations. But game play isn't based solely on characters and plot line, a lot of it has to do with actually playing the game. Well, Rayman uses the six keys on the bottom of the Palm with a tap on the screen to pause. In fact only six buttons can be used - the power button is disabled! So, if you wanna stop to talk to someone during a game you're just going to need to leave it running or ignore the person you want to talk to. On color units, the game runs sluggish but it is still perfectly playable. Although climbing a vine may seem like a chore that takes forever, all of the other characters have slowed down too. I'm not sure whether this speed makes the game easier or too obnoxious to play. One solution to this problem is overclocking, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of over-working my processor to enjoy a game a little more. Monochrome devices run smoothly without overclocking, but that of course has its drawbacks too.
Graphics On the color, Rayman has pretty decent graphics. There are dark scenes that seem full of evil and bright scenes that are as cheery as a summer day. The game makes a nice use of backgrounds that add to the game without being cluttersome. Although the graphics may seem a bit cartoonish, I think that's the point. On greyscale, the graphics aren't quite as nice. When Rayman is just standing there, looking at you, the graphics certainly aren't bad for monochrome. But when Rayman starts to move, you lose any hopes of actually seeing what is happening. The graphics disappear into a hopeless blur. With a little fiddling of your contrast, you can get it to a playable level. If you have an on-screen contrast bar, you will need to exit the program every time you try to adjust the contrast.
Odds and Ends Another item worthy of being mentioned is the registration process. It is four steps that involve restarting your computer, launching programs, and logging onto their website. Also worth stating is the conduit. Rayman, like many other add-ons, has a conduit which greatly adds to the Hot Sync time. I've found that Rayman takes nearly as long to sync as AvantGo.
Conclusion Update: I've just heard from someone at LUDIpocket who said there will be a patched version, with SD card and Memory Stick support, ready in two weeks. This upgrade will be free to everone who already owns the game. -Ed |
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Rayman on Handera.... Doesn't Work
have no plans in the immediate future to support the QVGA format.
RE: Rayman on Qcp 6035.... Doesn't Work
RE: Rayman on Handspring.... Eats batteries quick
Just my 2 cents!
RE: Rayman on Handera.... Doesn't Work
Also the menu was very odd and I do not know if that is the way it is on all but the navigation sucked and was so odd that I almost thought it hung rather than was functional. But all in all it looks good.
Way too slow.
This game is just way too slow to be playable, even on an M505, which uses the fastest processor available.
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have better performance, since it has a separate
dsp for the screen.
Runs just fine on my Clie N610
reviewer is off the mark
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The memory card issue is with OS 4's handeling of memory cards. If you use utilities like MSmount you can probably get it to work fine. When I wrote this, the Rayman didnt naturaly support memory cards, but there was supposed to be a version coming soon which would.
I agree the graphics are really nice, but there is almost always room for improvement.
As for eing a fan of these types of games, I loved Rayman on the PC. When I heard about this game I was really excited, but the large size mad it more of a headache then I was anticipating. Rayman is a very good game, I just feel it has a few issues to be worked out
-Pepper
I love my Palm . . . do you?
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I see a whole new market of classic computer games. If not computer games, try video games. The Sega Genesis ran at about 4 Mhz even though it was 16-bits (the Palm is 8-bits) , I think modern palms can run such stuff.
-Palm Pilot Guy
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-Davy
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The Sega Genesis ran at about 4 Mhz even though it was 16-bits (the Palm is 8-bits)
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I *wish* people would stop spouting off information about Palm organizers (and for that matter, other technical information) without knowing a lick about what they're talking about.
Motorola's MC68328 "DragonBall" processor is (and always has been) a hybrid 16- and 32-bit processor, incorporating 32-bit external and internal address buses and a 16-bit on-chip data bus. It *has never been* an 8-bit processor.
And, lest someone start talking about Palm OS being an 8- or 16-bit OS, the Palm OS kernel (originally supplied by Kadak) is indeed a full 32-bit OS. It's just hobbled in this iteration because of licensing agreements.
I know this sounds like flaming, and frankly, it is. I'm so sick of seeing all these stupid myths about the Palm platform floating around the 'Net.
"Palm has a 8-bit processor."
"Palm OS isn't a 32-bit OS."
"Palm isn't compatible with Office apps."
"Palm apps are harder to program since they're programmed in assembler."
GET A CLUE!
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-Shoryu (soon to be registered, on a CLIE right now..)
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PS: Don't worry about the overclocking, you can run the 505 at 50Mhz without problems, even though that makes Rayman run a little TOO fast. I don't bother with overclocking on 99% of my apps (how much faster than instant do you want?), but this game needed something extra to liven up the game play. All you've got to lose is your battery life!
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And yes, I do love my palm.
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- 'Although the graphics may seem a bit cartoonish, I think that's the point.'
and :
- 'I loved Rayman on the PC'
If u have played the PC version, u can nothing but know that Rayman's universe is definitely a cartoon one. So why do u say 'I think that's the point' ? of course it is ! so why 'Although' ???
It's like saying 'Although Tom & jerry seem a bit funny, I think that's the point'.
Ran okay in my 3c
I agree it is a memory Hog, but then so are most "big" Palm games - Ancient Red, V-Rally, etc etc. I don't expect to be able to keep every PC Game I own on my HD, why should I expect to keep every Palm game in RAM?
I keep games on my Flash Plug and if I'm away, sitting in a hotel room and I want to play V-Rally or Ancient Red I copy them into Ram and play them.
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kHiTeDev
NICE GAME BUT..........
RE: ZZZzzzz
Palm = easier to get things accomplished but harder to play games.
PocketPC = easier to play games but harder to get things accomplished.
Macs?
Amorya
Rayman got Palmtop-Pro Awardet
"Palmtop-Pro Approved Award"
See: http://www.palmtop-pro.com/seal/seal_rayman.htm
That’s the highest mark we can give to a program as this award is usually reserved for professional solutions only .
German readers find "Tricks and Tips" to Rayman in the upcoming hardcopy Palmtop-Pro Magazine edition 26 due on 13.11.2001
That Macintosh Users cannot play the game in full is the only drawback we could find and is really a shame. But always there´s hope...
Boris Michael v. Luhovoy
Publishing editor
Palmto-Pro Magazine
www.palmtop.at
Rayman and Expansion Cards
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News Editor
Peppers version of Rayman...
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