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[Q] Pocket Sized Gamepads For Galaxy S

I'm looking for a small gamepad that connects via bluetooth or usb cable to the Galaxy S for the purpose of playing NES/SNES/Genesis roms. Does anyone know if something like this exists?

Any WiiMote should work.
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vinnydakid said:
Any WiiMote should work.
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You here to make the biggest announcement since this phone came out?
Last I checked Wiimotes weren't working due to the change in the Bluetooth stack...

Wiimotes SHOULD work once CM6 comes out, but until then I'm not sure. maybe a PS3 controller? but that's a bit complex and not pocketable haha

I can't tell you when Ryan Frawley is going to release a 3.0 wiimote (or if our vibrants will somehow become able to use the old version) but I can say that in the meantime I have an idea as to how to construct something to tie them together like a PSP.
I have seen others using GPS holders and stuff to the same effect, this just seems like it would be a little less akward to use, so long as you can get your phone released in time to answer a call (or just use a bluetooth, heh).
Attached is a picture of the idea I had, anyone that wants to make it happen is free to. No patents or anything here.

Wiimote does not work on the Vibrant. Works wonderful on the N1.

freekyfrogy said:
Wiimotes SHOULD work once CM6 comes out, but until then I'm not sure. maybe a PS3 controller? but that's a bit complex and not pocketable haha
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Why do you think wiimotes will start working with CM6. The hardware in this phone is different than every other Android phone on the planet. This is Bluetooth 3.0. Is CM6 going to downgrade it to 2.1?

According to this post the Zeemote works with the psx emulator. I don't knowif it will work with the nes/snes ones or not. I don't know how well it works as a remote either, just remember reading about this the other day when I saw your post an thought I'd share.
http://android.modaco.com/content/s...mote-works-on-psx4droid-with-gamepro-drivers/

ziimote should work.
otherwise im waiting for CM6 to come out, then im planning on making a slimmer/lighter wiimote.

Based on the view count of this thread, someone could make a lot of Benjamins if they patented, designed, and produced a pint-sized gampad with bluetooth that would work with the Galaxy S. I wish I had the money or I'd do it myself because whoever does could make some hefty cabbage. I know I'd be first in line to buy one...I can't stand the on-screen controls for the emulators, but they are better than nothing at all of course.

Now this is worth a look. Anyone try it out on the Galaxy S?
http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/using-a-bluetooth-gamepad-with-your-android-phone/

SquareBare said:
I can't tell you when Ryan Frawley is going to release a 3.0 wiimote (or if our vibrants will somehow become able to use the old version) but I can say that in the meantime I have an idea as to how to construct something to tie them together like a PSP.
I have seen others using GPS holders and stuff to the same effect, this just seems like it would be a little less akward to use, so long as you can get your phone released in time to answer a call (or just use a bluetooth, heh).
Attached is a picture of the idea I had, anyone that wants to make it happen is free to. No patents or anything here.
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What about mounting it like this guy did:
Well, since I'm a new user, it won't let me post the URL or picture, but I want to give credit where credit is due.... it's over at PPCgeeks forum. Thread number 129886. or search for "DIY - Custom Evo Gaming Mount! (**Wiimote**/SNES/NES/etc.)"

Spiffywerks said:
What about mounting it like this guy did:
Well, since I'm a new user, it won't let me post the URL or picture, but I want to give credit where credit is due.... it's over at PPCgeeks forum. Thread number 129886. or search for "DIY - Custom Evo Gaming Mount! (**Wiimote**/SNES/NES/etc.)"
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ROFL that's an awesome idea! Great find! I will definately have to try that, its much cheaper and easier since there are hundreds of those plastic wheels running around.

Its not a hardware problem, its software. Samsung put proprietary bluetooth stack in their version of android they loaded on the galaxy s phones. Its imcompatible, it doesnt support the bluetooth mode that the gamepads need to operate properly. thats why using a vanilla rom, or a rom that utilizes the stock google bluetooth stack (like CM6) works fine.

derek how do we know that? did you take touchwiz off your phone?
i think its a little deeper than that... we can ask eugene tho... he is building a 2.1 stock rom on his phone... we could ask him to try to hook up a wiimote

Buy this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13760
Do this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-Nintendo-SNES-controller-into-bluetooth-/#step1
But I have no idea if the MSI bluetooth works with Galaxy S bluetooth stack, or if ANY gamepad does.

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I'd donate a few bucks as well if I could get my wiimote working on my vibrant. It's not about the lack of physical keyboard either, as I hated using the keyboard on my g1 to play emulators. You don't get the same feel nor same fun factor on anything but a controller made for gaming.
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ZenInsight said:
Buy this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13760
Do this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-Nintendo-SNES-controller-into-bluetooth-/#step1
But I have no idea if the MSI bluetooth works with Galaxy S bluetooth stack, or if ANY gamepad does.
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........my god...... this is genius.

chrisob666 said:
........my god...... this is genius.
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Video here. Man this thread is kinda old.

EB13 Kernel

Just compiled the kernel from the EB13 source. I noticed some drivers for TV-out being made.. Dont want to create any false hope but maybe this release can get us some nice features.

sounds good to me! Tv-out would be amazing for this phone!
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Oh Man. Bluetooth emu gaming on my TV is this is true. Thanks for investigating. Excellent. Very excellent.

acburnett said:
Just compiled the kernel from the EB13 source. I noticed some drivers for TV-out being made.. Dont want to create any false hope but maybe this release can get us some nice features.
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There are tv out drivers in the old versions too.

I though maybe there had been. Maybe they can get them working in 2.2.

If you browse on your phone's root to
/sys/devices/platform/s5p-tvout
you'll find several files. Is this the same thing you came across?

acburnett said:
I though maybe there had been. Maybe they can get them working in 2.2.
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+1
This would finally make me thrilled with the Epic. Awesome phone but is purposely crippled too much...hope this OTA is worth the LONG wait...

farmsatguy said:
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This would finally make me thrilled with the Epic. Awesome phone but is purposely crippled too much...hope this OTA is worth the LONG wait...
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Couldn't have worded it better myself.
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I thought the device is hardware limited in the sense that the 3.5mm jack is missing the required connections to do TV-Out?

There are some people over in the dev section who felt there was a good reason to try and get it working.. After looking into the source code a bit deeper, it seems the last changes to any of the driver files (tv-out and hdmi are both mentioned) was in November. So they havent really done much to it recently.

ZenInsight said:
Oh Man. Bluetooth emu gaming on my TV is this is true. Thanks for investigating. Excellent. Very excellent.
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This is what I had in mind also. Hopefully someone will get SOME kind of tv out working. Playstation Suite (for GB only) on a big screen would be pretty cool!
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Mouse support

Is there ANY way to get a mouse working with the xoom?
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Dont Believe so. I hope they figure it out

I'm sure there will be, froyo has it for goodness sake!!!
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Have a look thru the kernel config and see if it was built with that option.. I must be losin my memory thru lack of sleep or something.. can't remember the name..
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
Some other stuff might be needed as well. But as you can tell, that one is the 'biggie'

bluetooth mice worked no problem on galaxy s with froyo - would have thought it'd be easy to get mouse support on a xoom?

Lothaen said:
bluetooth mice worked no problem on galaxy s with froyo - would have thought it'd be easy to get mouse support on a xoom?
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So does it actually give you a typical mouse arrow?

Yeah I think so.. You can usually see the mouse cursor when choosing to select text in the browser. But that's on gingerbread... so.. I don't know. I think one of the problems I've had both on my grab and a touchsmart tx2 running ubuntu is that screen rotation makes the mouse position -> screen position a little crazy! Up is left and down is right and so on.

Lothaen said:
bluetooth mice worked no problem on galaxy s with froyo - would have thought it'd be easy to get mouse support on a xoom?
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I think thats a feature of touchwiz not Android.

Paradox5582 said:
So does it actually give you a typical mouse arrow?
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yes it does.
it was on a custom rom too - Darky if I am not mistaken - so not sure if its a feature of touchwiz or that rom.......

Welfare tv out. Your xperia is a console now

Its very simple and works great on my phone.
What you need,
A remote client like teamviewer
A laptop
A tv
Set up your remote c
Software so that you can view your phones screen via laptop, hook up laptop to your tv,
Pwn nubs on the bigscreen

Also works good for phones that are touchpad only becaue your hands arent in the way anymore

How do I set it up?
I see my desktop on my phone,how do I switch it around?

Look for droid vnc server on market, it shows the phones screen by default
Easiest way to set it up would be rtfm

What about refresh latency? I've seen Droid VNC but it didn't refresh fast enough...

swebosdev said:
Its very simple and works great on my phone.
What you need,
A remote client like teamviewer
A laptop
A tv
Set up your remote c
Software so that you can view your phones screen via laptop, hook up laptop to your tv,
Pwn nubs on the bigscreen
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Wow awesome!! I gotta try this!!
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swebosdev said:
Look for droid vnc server on market, it shows the phones screen by default
Easiest way to set it up would be rtfm
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What is rtfm?
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rtfm = read the f---ing manual.

vemoxy said:
rtfm = read the f---ing manual.
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haha....i actually googled that, saw it...and laughed at myself haha
but yeah I got it up and working....but the display is red and really....really slow
tips to optimize?

Dyelon said:
haha....i actually googled that, saw it...and laughed at myself haha
but yeah I got it up and working....but the display is red and really....really slow
tips to optimize?
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I've never had one of those apps or remote desktop apps display at a rate fast enough to play games.

hairdewx said:
I've never had one of those apps or remote desktop apps display at a rate fast enough to play games.
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damn!....thats definitely a possibility. I hope not.
The resolution looks great I just wish it wasn't soooo slowwwww....there's gotta be a good combo of apps/programs that runs fast
EDIT: just f*cked with it for a couple hours.....android side I tried droid vnc server and remote desktop add on...both worked well connecting to PC and vice versa....PC side I used tightvnc and vncviewer.....both worked well also...
BUT yeah, the display on MY pc of my phone's screen was tinted RED, and was really slow...like 1-3 second delay on everything....
there's gotta be a way to optimize this! I wanna play emulators on my TV from my phone goddamnit!

cool, gonna follow this thread. i guess you need a pretty f-ing good internet speed to get it to run good enough for fast games.

_terror_ said:
cool, gonna follow this thread. i guess you need a pretty f-ing good internet speed to get it to run good enough for fast games.
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I dunno man....the speed, or lack thereof, that it runs at is SOOOOO slow...it just seems like something is fundamentally wrong.
But yeah, I'm gonna follow this thread too. I would love to play n64oid and psxoid on my TV!! (maybe even buy some bluetooth gamepads and play w friends!)

SE should have put a HDMI from the beginning
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beltet said:
SE should have put a HDMI from the beginning
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seriously.....and on that note I'd be surprised if there wasn't a way to enable it somehow....the infuse 4g comes with an adapter that plugs into mini-USB and transfers to HDMI....there's gotta be a way to flash the phone so it can do it to?
if its a hardware issue, then yeah that's a dumb solution....but I'd be open to buying a hardware extension if someone modded it...

Dyelon said:
seriously.....and on that note I'd be surprised if there wasn't a way to enable it somehow....the infuse 4g comes with an adapter that plugs into mini-USB and transfers to HDMI....there's gotta be a way to flash the phone so it can do it to?
if its a hardware issue, then yeah that's a dumb solution....but I'd be open to buying a hardware extension if someone modded it...
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The play does have HDMI out somewhere. It can be enabled in the service menu.
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AndroHero said:
The play does have HDMI out somewhere. It can be enabled in the service menu.
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What kind of approach do you feel would have the highest chance of success to unlock the feature?

Dyelon said:
What kind of approach do you feel would have the highest chance of success to unlock the feature?
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get a donation pool going. mark me down for 15 if the feature works

AndroHero said:
The play does have HDMI out somewhere. It can be enabled in the service menu.
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I just guessing here, but I would imagine that the HDMI out option is available just on the developers kit. During the demo of Desert Winds at E3. There was a port connection between the headphone jack and the usb port. I have to assume that port was placed on the dev. kit to allow for demo of the game during development on a bigger screen. The retail version of the phone probably does not have this port connection. If it did it would be a nice selling point.

HDMI out is in the service menu, but they removed the necessary hardware for the commercial release.
Hardware-wise it's not possible to enable anything because it's not there
eros78 is probably right, the service menu option is just a remnant from the dev kits.

Wait a sec, will the Nexus 7's bluetooth stack support wiimotes for emulators?

A guy in this thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/vs2yt/nexus_7_official_google_response_no_mhl_yes_usb/) got me wondering ...
Does the Nexus 7 have a bluetooth stack that supports emulator gaming via wiimotes and game comtrollers?
I was already a but disappointed about no MHL ability. If it doesn't have a bluetooth stack that supports wiimotes/game controllers for emulators then that's the final straw...

Questions go in the Q&A section

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Questions go in the Q&A section
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Thanks for moving it to the right place Step666
Guess I asked this question in the wrong section, anyone out there have ideas on this and if the Nexus 7 has the proper bluetooth stack to use wiimotes? (for gaming emulators)

I don't see any reason why not, my Dell Streak 7 had the ability to do it with the app from the market.

Yes, it's not HTC Sense

WAIT! What?
I must be really late here, but are you telling me that Wii-motes are bluetooth supported and can link up to certain android devices?

Slap-Yourself :) said:
WAIT! What?
I must be really late here, but are you telling me that Wii-motes are bluetooth supported and can link up to certain android devices?
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Yes you are late and yes it can
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WOW! How did I miss that!?

cesjr02 said:
Yes, it's not HTC Sense
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Sense 4.0 fixed this btw I can natively use my Wiimote on my 4G LTE.
To OP: there's no reason to think otherwise. Other than previous HTC devices, most (if not all) bluetooth stacks have supported it.

If you are playing a rom that is multiplayer can you use 2 ps3 controllers or wii remotes to play multiplayer on the same Nexus?