Handheld Mahjong?
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have one of each), I was wondering if anyone's heard of a handheld
mahjong game. I don't mean a program for my PDA; I mean a dedicated,
battery-operated (thought AC adaptors are okay) mahjong machine, for
when my computer's in the shop and I need a mahjong fix desperately.
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Tom Sloper
> Since there are handheld electronics dedicated to chess and bridge (I
> have one of each), I was wondering if anyone's heard of a handheld
> mahjong game.
"X," here is the FAQ on handheld mah-jongg:
Handheld mah-jongg games are readily available in Japan and Hong Kong (Asian
styles of mah-jongg only; NOT American-style, in case that's what you were
asking). And there are Game Boy cartridges for Japanese-style mah-jongg,
available in Japan as well. There are NO handheld versions of
American-style mah-jongg, anywhere in the world. If that's what you were
asking. See FAQ 5 (read the weekly FAQ post) to find PDA mah-jongg software.
If you were talking, not about true mah-jongg, but rather about
tile-matching games...
SHANGHAI FOR GAME BOY - You can try to see if you can get a Shanghai game
from Sunsoft. Sunsoft owns the Shanghai license in Japan, and they regularly
make new Shanghai games that work in Nintendo's Game Boy handheld game
machines. Those are sometimes available as gray-market imports into the U.S.
They also make PlayStation2 versions. You can look on eBay or do a Google
search. If you want to see their website, Sunsoft has curtailed their U.S.
presence, so their website is only in Japanese: it's
http://www.sun-denshi.co.jp/soft/. If you want to try to read their site,
and can't read Japanese, you might want to try using Eigo-Navi. It's a great
tool that not only puts English right into the Japanese-language web page
you're looking at, but also lets you follow links on the translated page,
and it'll translate those too. The site is http://eigo-navi.com/. Put any
URL into the URL box. The box to the right of that is set (by default) to
translate from English to Japanese. So you have to click the down-arrow to
change the setting. The 2nd one from top is Japanese>English.
SHANGHAI FOR PALMTOP PDAs - Another solution would be to buy a Palm or Visor
handheld computer, and download Landware's Shanghai game. The Palm m515 goes
for anywhere from $330 to $399 from almost any electronic store/dealer and
the Shanghai Pocket Essentials from Landware goes for another $19.95
TILE-MATCHING FOR CELL PHONES - Another possibility would be to buy a
games-capable cell phone, and see if you can get a so-called "mahjongg" game
for it.
Tom
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<tom...@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote:
><x...@y.zzz> wrote...
>> Since there are handheld electronics dedicated to chess and bridge (I
>> have one of each), I was wondering if anyone's heard of a handheld
>> mahjong game.
>
>"X," here is the FAQ on handheld mah-jongg:
>
>Handheld mah-jongg games are readily available in Japan and Hong Kong (Asian
>styles of mah-jongg only; NOT American-style, in case that's what you were
>asking). And there are Game Boy cartridges for Japanese-style mah-jongg,
>available in Japan as well. There are NO handheld versions of
>American-style mah-jongg, anywhere in the world. If that's what you were
>asking.
No, I'm interested in the Chinese/HK version. I have a couple of
computer programs for that (one is the shareware from ninedragons.com,
which is totally addictive), and, like I said, I just know that, if my
computer breaks down, I'll go through mahjong withdrawal. I don't
have a Game Boy or anything like that. I do have a Visor, but it's
grayscale, not color, and the resolution's not that good, so I'm not
looking for Palm software, either. I have one handheld machine made
just to play bridge, one made just to play chess, and one made just
for Othello, and that's the line I'm thinking along. What I'm looking
for is a dedicated Chinese/HK mahjong machine.
Tom Sloper
>>> I was wondering if anyone's heard of a handheld
"Tom Sloper"
> <tom...@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote:
>>"X," here is the FAQ on handheld mah-jongg:
>>Handheld mah-jongg games are readily available in Japan and Hong Kong
>>(Asian
>>styles of mah-jongg only; [snip]
<x...@y.zzz> wrote
> No, [snip]
> What I'm looking
> for is a dedicated Chinese/HK mahjong machine.
OK... so you are saying that I didn't answer your question??
Tom
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<tom...@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote:
><x...@y.zzz> wrote
>> No, [snip]
>> What I'm looking
>> for is a dedicated Chinese/HK mahjong machine.
>
>
>OK... so you are saying that I didn't answer your question??
I'm sorry; that was my fault. You did answer it, in telling me that
such machines exist.
Would you know of a Web site (or several) where I could buy one?
(I'm in the States, and am not anticipating winning a trip to Hong
Kong within my lifetime.)
Tom Sloper
> Would you know of a Web site (or several) where I could buy one?
If I did, I would have put that information in the FAQ. Not being able to do
an internet search in Chinese, I can help no further.
Tom