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Game and program compatibility help
« on: July 22, 2013, 11:40:04 am »
So i want to buy a ti-84 but i dont know if:

Ti-84 games work with the silver edition and/or the plus edition and/or the color edition

I mainly want it for games and awesome not cheap calculator and programming but i just wanna know wich programs/games works with. Pls help
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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 11:42:05 am »
Well, for games, (almost) all the z80 games compatible on the ti83+, ti83+se, ti 84+, ti 84+se

the almost is because there are some other calcs, like the ti84+cse which habe differetn file formates, and the cse is so new there just havn't been made too many games for it yet

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2013, 12:32:55 pm »
All TI-83 Plus games will run on the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, but a lot will run twice faster
Most older TI-84 Plus games will run on the older models, but for newer games a lot were made exclusively for the 84 Plus series, so it's trial and error.

The TI-84 Plus Color Silver Edition will not be able to run most 83 Plus/84 Plus games due to larger screen and color capabilities. Note that the main reason why there aren't many games for it yet is because it just came out a few months ago online and a few weeks ago in brick and mortar stores (in fact, it's not even out yet in all stores).

If you want the largest game library, I would recommend the 84 Plus Silver Edition. Of course if you want colors and the most recent calcs then you might want to go with the 84 Plus C Silver Edition. Do you plan to do much programming?

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2013, 01:13:02 pm »
Actually i want one mainly for games but the problem is...well only 2 calc are in sale were i live (abitibis-témiscaminhue, quebec, canada) and its the ti-84 plus and the color version. The problem is i heard the original only has enough memory to stock 2 small games...help?

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2013, 01:20:08 pm »
The 84+ has quite a lot of memory. You will be able to fit a quite a few games with no problem. Welcome to Omnimaga by the way. :)

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2013, 01:49:08 pm »
Actually i want one mainly for games but the problem is...well only 2 calc are in sale were i live (abitibis-témiscaminhue, quebec, canada) and its the ti-84 plus and the color version. The problem is i heard the original only has enough memory to stock 2 small games...help?
Lol, I don't know where you heard that. The 84+ has less memory than the 84+SE (which has less memory than the 84+CSE) but its memory is still a lot. Except if you put GameBoy games in it, you should be fine putting all the games you want.
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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2013, 04:10:34 pm »
Actually i want one mainly for games but the problem is...well only 2 calc are in sale were i live (abitibis-témiscaminhue, quebec, canada) and its the ti-84 plus and the color version. The problem is i heard the original only has enough memory to stock 2 small games...help?
Oh you live in Quebec too? I live in Quebec City area and I could see the calc availability problem too >.<, except that over here, there are 5 calcs (83+, 84+, 84+SE, 89T and PRIZM and the 84+ is always out of stock). We don't even have the color 84+ yet. They're expensive as well (although in August, Staples sometimes have good deals on the 83+/84+). If you can, I would recommend buying your calc online via Underwood Distributing or something, but make sure to not select UPS as shipping carrier.

Anyway all of the 83+ line except the color one has 24 KB of RAM and several hundred of archive, while the color calc has 21 KB of RAM and 3.5 MB of archive, so you can load a lot of games on it at once. Just keep them archived when not used (some can be played from archives, though, and on the old models there are shells to play them from the archive). In other words, you shouldn't worry too much about memory unless you plan to play the big RPGs, Metroid, Game Boy games or Chips Challenge, and if you choose the 84+CSE (which can't play those), the largest game for it is 16 KB.

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2013, 04:38:02 pm »
"Lol, I don't know where you heard that. The 84+ has less memory than the 84+SE (which has less memory than the 84+CSE) but its memory is still a lot. Except if you put GameBoy games in it, you should be fine putting all the games you want."

oh well really? thanks now i know i can buy it without being locked down by memory limitations! also, i can play GB games on that thing!? not that i care but...thats pretty badass for a calculator.

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2013, 04:46:08 pm »
Yes you can.







Also the Nspire can emulate GBC, NES and GBA. :P


Also DJ you forgot about multi page apps.
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Re: Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2013, 06:57:21 pm »
Yeah but I meant how nobody has made a single multi page game yet on the CSE. The largest game so far is Buttonz. And for the memory issues, it is possible that he might have confused the 84+ series with the older 82 models that ppl still have at school (which lacks Flash memory but looks similar in functionality).

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2013, 08:45:23 pm »
Thanks now i will buy my ti-84 plus and be able to play skyrim,pokemon and fruit ninja while pretending to do math!

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2013, 08:54:24 pm »
Just keep in mind that the actual Skyrim game for the 84+ is nowhere close to the quality of E.T Atar... er I mean the real game... and even then there are some better calc RPGs out there that don't just use text.

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2013, 12:20:03 am »
So there's TI-84CSEs in Abitibi? (Unless you meant by the color one the TI-Nspire CX, which is better, but more locked down.) If there's indeed color 84+'s, well I'm kinda surprised, since it's a remote place and Québec City doesn't have any yet, as DJ Omnimaga said.

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Re: Game and program compatibility help
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2013, 12:22:53 am »
Yeah you will notice that some people attach 'popular game names' to their projects which dont necessarily reflect the game its piggybacking on.
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