I have a similar issue iPAQ 4350, PPC2003, x-scale processor, games list and you can chose options, but when you click play the screen goes black then after a minute or two goes back to the game list. Any thoughts? X-Scale not supported?

> > Pocket pc type: Jornada568
>
> I dont know enough about this PPC, had a look on ebay and it appears to have a
> 206 mhz processor. When i had an old Ipaq (206 mhz) Mame just ran too slow (As
> did SNES, GBA etc) and was unplayable.
>
> I then had an Ipaq 3970 (400mhz) but even the processor was faster it wasnt
> Pocket PC 2003 plus it wasnt the latest latest 400mhz processor and again games
> ran too slow on this.
>
> I then bought an Asus MyPal 620 which was 2003 plus the latest processor which
> ran about 3 times as fast and now i can run GBA, Genesis, SNES and MAME games.
>
> Sorry this isnt a showing off post or that but basically older PPC's (specially
> 206mhz PPC's) probably wont be able to run Mame games well unless you overclock.
> Even then it might be a struggle. A later PPC is what you really need i'm afraid
>