Some months ago, XDA-Devs forum member “cook” has written a quick patcher app that does this (semi-)automatically.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?p=1264250

Ever wanted to play Sony Playstation games on your Pocket PC? Ever heard of FPSEce, the only, high-quality and last but not least, FREE PlayStation emulator for the Pocket PC? I have some great news for you: after a LONG waiting, the new version is out - now, with (in Portrait mode only) VGA & some 2700G (Linear Frame Buffering to decrease the CPU load) support!

Dell, manufacturer of the Dell Axim Pocket PC series, has just released a minor upgrade for the x51(v) series. It’s available here for download.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=140665

In the microsoft.public.pocketpc newsgroup, I’ve promised to look into the problem of the Dell Axim X50(v)/ X51(v) cradles frying up motherboards you can read more of here (a highly recommended thread – you may want to read at least the first post in there. Note that there are a lot of posts in there that are uncertain; therefore, it’s better to read my article first. In here, I tried to clean up and summarize everything worth knowing.). Note that there are two other, but older and less specific threads discussing the same question here and here. Note that there is another sticky AximSite thread here on a similar matter. It, however, only discusses third-party sync/charge cables and NOT the standard cradle coming with the PDA. Therefore, I only recommend the last thread if you’d like to purchase a third-party cable. If you don't, you won't need to read it.

First, all the (to my knowledge - if you have a newer cradle revision, let me know) three cradle revisions (the initial A00, A01, which started to ship around December 2004 and A02, which started to ship in July/August 2005) seem to have this problem – again, even the last (and, to my knowledge, still current) A02. (As far as the latest, A02 revision is concerned, see d00567’s posts on 09-25-05 and 09-26-05 here).

Dell states it’s a manufacturing defect. It’s pretty sad to see their quality control does not check for this problem.

Finnish Fathammer, developer of really nice titles like Toy Golf (review here; generic article on Pocket PC golf games here) has just released a Windows XP version of their vertical shoot’m up AngelFish for free.

I’ve reviewed the Pocket PC version of AngelFish and compared to the alternate titles for example here. I haven’t been particularly happy with the Pocket PC version because

1. it’s the only vertical scroller shooter on the Pocket PC that can not be controlled with the stylus, only with the D-pad
2. the graphics of the enemies, the explosions is far-far inferior to that of SkyForce (Reloaded)
3. the overall game experience is far worse than even non-top vertical shoot’m ups (for example, even the free GikaDiver (reviewed in the Roundup of All Pocket PC Games Part I) is much nicer to play because of the stylus support and the much more action)

Th PC version is the exact replica of that of the Pocket PC. That is, it can only be controlled by the cursor block on your PC and only has a 320*240 window (or uses this resolution in full screen mode - good old MCGA days -even if it was 320*200 only ;) ). However, for free, why not get it? ;) (Also make sure NOT to download it with a download accelerator - it caused me a CRC error in the ZIP file.)

(Note that this game is in no way the best free desktop Windows scrolling shooter. Check out Xenon 2000: Project PCF if you want to play a really-really good, commercial quality, freely available shooter! Note that I've also elaborated on this title in my above-linked PocketMatrix review.)

Now, for the second, even more important part:

2. 2700G-enabled (Dell Axim x50v/ x51v-specific) version of Stuntcar Extreme tested and compared to GeoRallyEX by IonFX

Now that I’ve started judging the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2006 titles (including Stuntcar Extreme), I’ve thoroughly tested the 3D acceleration-enabled, already X-FORGE 2-powered version of Stuntcar Extreme, the company’s most widely known, excellent racing title (which is, incidentally, sold for 7 euros only in Europe right now, bundled with another, great 3D-accelerated game Enigmo).

http://www.smartphonemag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1078&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Upon greatly expanding the Dell Axim x50v/x51v VGA output article published yesterday with, among other things, country-specific Dell availability / ordering info, I’ve run into something that may really appeal to European Dell Axim x50v/x51v users that don’t refuse playing some really nice 3D-enabled games.

The Dell Axim x50v and x51v models have a really decent feature: an Intel 2700G Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which not only means great 3D (gaming, modeling) and 2D (pixel smoothing, video playback), but also VGA output capabilities.

Note that you can’t directly have analogue (composite / RGB / S-Video) output, as opposed to, say, consumer video and digital cameras or the latest multimedia smartphones like the Nokia N93 (latest reports here). You must buy a, mostly, pretty expensive separate VGA -> analogue converter if you want such functionality. Also note that you can't have DVI output either. The latter isn't a big problem though - there are cheap converters and all projectors/monitors with DVI input have VGA input too.

Also note that in this article I only discuss the most optimal x50v/x51v-based solution. If speed isn't that important and/or you can also use a notebook/desktop computer, some kind of TCP/IP connection or you are willing to buy a CF/SD VGA out card to display the screen of your PDA, you may also want to read this, this and this.

Unfortunately, Dell doesn’t ship a VGA output cable with these two PDA's – you must purchase it separately (this is in stark contrast with Nokia’s approach with their latest flagship phone, the N93, where the analogue RCA output cable is bundled with the phone – see the above-linked N93 report for some sample shots of all this.)

Right now, there are three VGA out connectors for the Dell Axim x50v/x51v. In this roundup, I elaborate on all of them.

First, the most widely known one is Dell’s own