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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2017, 06:55:39 AM »
Portable RA2 would be great but its a 13 year old game or older and Laptops are pretty much the only way you can take RA2 on the go as they can run it, Tablets might but they have low memory space and might no be able to handle it. BUT there is a Gaming Tablets so who knows   :smile:
I doubt tablets will work unless they have a inbuilt keyboard, and even then if your going to play ra2 on a tablet with a keyboard. And at that point, just use a laptop I'd say.

You have a point there. I wonder if Notebooks would work but they are s*** at handling games

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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2017, 07:10:16 AM »
Portable RA2 would be great but its a 13 year old game or older and Laptops are pretty much the only way you can take RA2 on the go as they can run it, Tablets might but they have low memory space and might no be able to handle it. BUT there is a Gaming Tablets so who knows   :smile:
I doubt tablets will work unless they have a inbuilt keyboard, and even then if your going to play ra2 on a tablet with a keyboard. And at that point, just use a laptop I'd say.

portable ra2 would be miserable
+1 this isn't really worth it. you want portable ra2? sorry, laptop or nothing. RA2 was never built for pure controller support, only for occasional joystick/controller use in bot wiring. that's it. not worth it imo.
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Yes, if you wish to for some reason. I'm simply stating the fact that's RA2 will be terrible  for controllers. And it seems like it would be hard to get the game on or off the system, and it's ultimately not worth it in my opinion.
I can imagine the Steam controller being useable, since it's not too dissimilar to a trackpad and RA2 is playable on a trackpad.

I suppose. But what about the keyboard? If you have a keyboard you may as well just use a trackpad and at that point you're over complicating playing ra2.
You cab rebind the buttons to keys. What keys do you need excepat del and maybe pause anyway?
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2017, 07:49:17 AM »
Ctrl and Shift, Badger. I think it would be hard to build a robot when you can't raise or rotate components.
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2017, 07:54:14 AM »
Ctrl and Shift, Badger. I think it would be hard to build a robot when you can't raise or rotate components.
Again, you can rebind the buttons
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2017, 08:11:24 AM »
I have a linx 8 tablet and with a usb controller, mapped the mouse to buttons and it works perfectly with the original ra2, won't run the mods at all although i can steam stream pretty well
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2017, 08:14:06 AM »
Ctrl and Shift, Badger. I think it would be hard to build a robot when you can't raise or rotate components.
Again, you can rebind the buttons
Or you could use a laptop. There is a difference between innovation and convolution.

I have a linx 8 tablet and with a usb controller, mapped the mouse to buttons and it works perfectly with the original ra2, won't run the mods at all although i can steam stream pretty well
Interesting, but I don't think its worth it. To each their own.
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2017, 10:20:42 AM »
I have a linx 8 tablet and with a usb controller, mapped the mouse to buttons and it works perfectly with the original ra2, won't run the mods at all although i can steam stream pretty well
Interesting, but I don't think its worth it. To each their own.

Linx tablet was £50 pounds i bought it to do college work but it can run most games around the time robot arena 2 was released at high settings. then i use an old ps2 controller i have, and also a hdmi cable.
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2017, 03:06:59 PM »
Well.. my tablet could use easily pc keypad.. but it needs to be rooted..

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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2017, 03:10:19 AM »
This is really cool idea when will it be done

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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2017, 08:27:59 AM »
This is really cool idea when will it be done
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2017, 10:50:42 AM »
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Re: Portable RA2
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2017, 12:10:07 AM »
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