Uno-esque card game Mau Mau is now free on Symbian S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd and UIQ2

Long-time readers may remember we gave Lonely Cat Games' card game Mau Mau quite a positive review, and for those who don't know it's basically Uno played with normal cards. Well, it now appears that the game is available free of charge from LCG's website for all S60 editions and UIQ2 as well. Just download the file from the download page, then head on over to the free unlock code page and use your phone's IMEI. (UPDATE: Apparently there's the old annoying "expired certificate" problem with this file, but you should be able to get round this by altering your phone's date settings to March 2008 instead of March 2009. You can then alter the dates back to normal after installation.)

Published by Tzer2 at 12:13 UTC, March 24th

Categories: Software, Links of Interest, Games
Platforms: Series 60, UIQ, S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition

News Discussion

slitchfield

Comment: Gives an 'expired certificate' and fiddling with the date didn't help 8-(

matchstick

Comment: Same here.

I was hoping it wasn't just me...

Unregistered

Comment: worked for me on my N93, changed the date to March 24th 08

Unregistered

Comment: dont work on 5800((

lookatbowen

Comment: It's a bit deceiving when the supported devices lists your phone and then one goes to the trouble of downloading, typing in my IMEA number and then it doesn't work.

Nokia: E50, E51, E55, E60, E61, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E75, E90, N71, N72, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N86, N91, N92, N93, N95, N96, N97, 3250, 5320, 5500, 5630, 5700, 7730, [B]5800[/B], 6110, 6120, 6124, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6710, 6720

I see 5800 mentioned above, but do not see a S60_5th edition in the zip file.

:-(

Tzer2

Comment: Sorry about the expired certificate problem, I already had this installed on my N95 from some time ago so it probably wasn't expired back then...

Strange that some people can get it to work by fiddling with the date while others can't?

[quote]I see 5800 mentioned above, but do not see a S60_5th edition in the zip file.[/quote]

Lookatbowen, the S60 third edition version should work on the 5800, though judging from "unregistered" it may not...

I'll alter the news post to take account of these problems. Apologies for not spotting them.

sjhong

Comment: As a previous poster said, I've changed the date to [B]Mar. 24th, 2008[/B] on my N95-4 (8Gb US) and it installed without any problems.

Unregistered

Comment: Yep. Changed to 2008 - works fine on N95-1. Shame you 5800ers are missing out - it's lovely!

Cheers Lonely Cat & AAS!!!

Tzer2

Comment: Thanks for the comments, I've altered the newspost so it tells people about changing the date to March 2008.

Micky!

Comment: Installed the S60 3rd edition to both my N95-2, and N82, but its not in full screen. Any pointers?

Tzer2

Comment: Micky!, I'm afraid there's no way to get it in full screen. LCG's Mau Mau was originally written for 176x208 phones and the QVGA version isn't any higher res. The artwork was done in bitmaps, not vector, so it can't be stretched to a new resolution.

Obviously if they were serious about doing games commercially they'd have done a better QVGA version by now, but LCG abandoned game development years ago in favour of serious applications like Profimail and Smartmovie. Mau Mau is more of a relic of their early days. It's a very good relic though, which is why I newsposted it being available free. :-)

Micky!

Comment: Thanks, that explains things.

Unregistered

Comment: it not work wuth nokia e66 ineed it plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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