I thought we were talking about how much of a failure Graal would be if it were ported.

I would see DS being better for gameplay, but I'd also imagine that code conversion and implementation for it would be much harder.

But I think it would make it far easier to treat the stylus as a mouse. :)

Precisely.

(And the ROB, Robotic Operating Buddy, for Gyromite and, well, pretty much just Gyromite...)

If the kernel's set up right you just have the GBA frontend say "Stylus=Mouse, A=A, B=S, Start=Q, Screen=Screen, go!" Then you have the PSP frontend say "Analog=Mouse, Triangle=A, Square=S, X=D, Circle=Q, Screen=Screen, go!" Then you have the cellphone frontend say "8=Up, 4=Left, 6=Right, 2=Down, 7=A, 9=S, 1=D, 5=Q, Display=Screen, go!" Then you have the toaster frontend say "Lever=S, go!", and you have a handy on-the-go mining interface. :-P

Booo.

The worst thing involved would be typing, talking to other players.

Well... technically I think you could do voice chat or something... but who wants to hear a bunch of nerds whining about being peekayed or scammed? :p (or who wants to be the nerd whining about it to others)

I see your point.

PKing machine ]:

Damn crono don't get yourself owned now cause your gaming history isnt as tight as others.

You could have a small keyboard at the bottom that you tap to type out stuff with.

I just still don't see it becoming big. I could be wrong though.

Would it be expensive to port over?

The expense would primarily be distribution: Getting a label with the influence to put it on the shelves of Gamestop to sell it. Sadly, they rarely want to risk taking a percentage of the sales from all I've seen.

Gamestop doesn't make any money from selling new games, they make all of their money from selling used games.