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Gameboid Instructions-Mini-guide, Installation from phone, no pc needed :)

Just letting you all know, if you did not already, Gameboid works amazingly on the desire.
Instructions.
1), Download the GBA BIOS.bin file, wack it in a folder on your SD card called something like "GBA files".
2), Open up Gameboid and find the BIOS file.
3), when its loaded pick a ROM and play your heart out.
I am currently playing pokamon emerald with full speed and sound.
I know this is in the G1 section for full instructions or help, but just posting to let you all know its bloody amazing and works a treat.
Gameboid -LATEST.apk
GBC Bios file
GBA Bios file
Their you go could not be easier, if this is too hard to grasp, then give up!!.
Seriously its really simple!
Edit: You can also download roms from within the app
Sent from my HTC Desire using the Moon as a subnet via the mobile application powered by Tapa Tapa Talk!

Yeah me too and i also been playing GBCoid (gamboy colour) Pokemon Card game...jesus i'm a sad sad 23 year old.

Gameboid and all the pokemon games... life is sweeet

ephumuris said:
Yeah me too and i also been playing GBCoid (gamboy colour) Pokemon Card game...jesus i'm a sad sad 23 year old.
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Hahahahaha im 26 so dont worry pmsl

Can you use BT or Wi-Fi to multiplay?

I dont believe so atm. If only
then it really would be the best app around !
Loving playing through pokemon emerald at the moment!

potter1984 said:
Just letting you all know, if you did not already, Gameboid works amazingly on the desire.
Instructions.
1), Download the GBA BIOS.bin file, wack it in a folder on your SD card called something like "GBA files".
2), Open up Gameboid and find the BIOS file.
3), when its loaded pick a ROM and play your heart out.
I am currently playing pokamon emerald with full speed and sound.
I know this is in the G1 section for full instructions or help, but just posting to let you all know its bloody amazing and works a treat.
Gameboid Full
GBA Bios file
Their you go could not be easier, if this is too hard to grasp, then give up!!.
Seriously its really simple!
Edit: You can also download roms from within the app
Sent from my HTC Desire using the Moon as a subnet via the mobile application powered by Tapa Tapa Talk!
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any working links.

p3lon said:
any working links.
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Unfortunately google made the dev remove his products but pm me and I'm sure I can help
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

added a fresh link

Load bios failed
followed directions and it says Load bios Failed. the valid bios file must be specified in settings.
any help?

This is excellent thanks!
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Ledonjuan said:
followed directions and it says Load bios Failed. the valid bios file must be specified in settings.
any help?
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solved it. that bios is wrong
use this one Ive attatched

DjLukeW said:
solved it. that bios is wrong
use this one Ive attatched
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Actually the bios is correct for Gameboy COLOUR, but i will add yours for Gameboy ADVANCED..
Remember to check what game your going to play!!
GBA or GBC....

DjLukeW said:
solved it. that bios is wrong
use this one Ive attatched
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ok thank you it loads now but it just shows the game boy screen. Wasn't the roms supposed to be included? and how do I load them?

download the roms you want from www.doperoms.com put them on your SD then open the app and load

Hi Guys.
Just got this working on my desire after a struggle with out of date files not to mention corrupted files but it all seems to be working fine now
Brill
Only problem is I cant exit.
If I just exit via the home button it carries on running in the notification bar
Have to go into a task manager or such like to kill it???

duryard said:
Hi Guys.
Just got this working on my desire after a struggle with out of date files not to mention corrupted files but it all seems to be working fine now
Brill
Only problem is I cant exit.
If I just exit via the home button it carries on running in the notification bar
Have to go into a task manager or such like to kill it???
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When in game press menu - more - close

Updated

Can't work
Hi all, I am using Gingerbread 2.3.3 now and the gameboid refuse to work. When I tried to upload a ROM, then suddenly it stopped functioning. It worked perfectly fine when I use Froyo 2.2.1. Can someone help me? or do I need to downgrade it to Froyo just for Gameboid.

Your a lifesaver. I searched earlier this year for this and struggled to find it. Pokemon FTW

Anyone Got 2.3 Bugs?

So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
Second, and the most annoying thing I noticed, is the back lit buttons stop lighting up after a certain period of time. The soft buttons under the screen and the slide out keyboard still work, they just don't light up. Rebooting fixes the problem.
Third is the built in battery manager seems to have some issues as well. Although it seems to inherently do a better job of saving battery life than in previous versions of Android. On my phone it sometimes won't come out of it's no-syncing state and allow data usage. Other times it will allow data usage after waking back up, but data seems extremely slow. Again a reboot fixes the issue.
And the last thing I noticed today. Although I haven't had any noticeable signal issues or dropped calls, I was getting drastically different signal readings sitting right beside a guy with a DROIDX at work. As in he was showing full 3G service and I was only showing one bar of 1X and like a -100 RSSI. I realize it's two different phones, but my understanding was that the X and the original 2 were pretty similar.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed any of these things or if I'm the only one with some bugs? Or if anyone has any ideas about a solution for any of the issues?
FYI I'm far from an expert, but I'm not a complete Noob either. Although I don't have a ton of posts I've been hacking my cell phone since the days of my Razr and have had and rooted three Android phones to this point.
Anyway, thanks a bunch guys!
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.

kiwilit43 said:
So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
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You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X

kwheel596 said:
Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.
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I noticed the same thing. And actually LauncherPro in general wasn't working too great for me after the GB install. I actually kind of like the stock launcher in GB so I ended up deleting LauncherPro anyway.

phoffer said:
You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X
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Yeah sorry I should have gone into more detail. Yes I did delete all entries I saw that referenced Swype, including the ones listed on the link.
To be even more specific when I try to do anything with Swype it says "The applitcation Swype (process com.swype.android.inputmethod) has stopped unexpectedly."

I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.

silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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mines the same and its weird cause it only does it to games
also i have the problem of the backlights only working when they want to.

Maybe Google's way of telling us to get off the games and get to work?

silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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Glad I'm not the only one with back light issues.
And I actually just noticed the games disappearing this morning. Weird.
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

The backlight issue bugs me to no end. I try to figure out how to restore it without rebooting but no success so far.
One other issue is that I can't access the multitouch keyboard. I disabled it because I really never used it, but then I felt like using it one day and there is no place to check to use it. I have SwiftKey installed as my only 3rd party keyboard

I'm having an issue with ridiculously low volume on phone calls......any fixes out there because it's hard to use your phone, as a, you know, phone, when you can't hear the other person on the line. I may have to SBF back and wait for the official 2.3 if it doesnt improve.

Rebooting takes care of the call volume problem.
Rooted Droid 2 running Froyo 2.2 with the 2.3.20 update

Yeah I had the low call volume too, I think everyone did. It went away after the first reboot.
As fas as the games disappearing. Someone mentioned Bejeweled, that's one of the ones on mine that keeps disappearing. There are a few that do it, I don't remember exactly which ones, but Bejeweled and Stupid Zombies are two that I remember always disappear.
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I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.

silverfang77 said:
I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.
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What screen was it on before? They were disappearing from screen two to the right of my home screen.
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my games are on the 2nd page to the left and for me its stupid zombies, angry birds, angry birds seasons, and angry birds rio that keep disappearing, the other 4 game shortcuts i have don't disappear. I also tried reversing where they sit and the same 4 shortcuts disappeared, even sitting in different locations.

Hmmm, who knows. Even though all of mine weren't disappearing, just certain ones, it got annoying to me. I just deleted the shortcuts from my screen and pull up the games from the launcher now.
It is strange that its only certain games, and that we all seem to have the same ones disappearing.
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

I believe that's where it was on mine as well.

Hopefully I wont jinx myself by posting this, but I think I found a solution to the back light issue. Applied it this morning and haven't had any issues yet. If anyone is still reading this thread, I will post up results and the fix tomorrow if it continues working.
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

We are indeed reading the thread and eagerly anticipate your backlight solution.
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NOVA 2 just wont work! HELP!!!

Hi all, i've been all over the internet including the gameloft forums and cant find a fix.
Gameloft support are useless, every time i ask a question they send a free game (yes i'm complaining), without an answer.
I want NOVA 2 to work.
The game crashes after the intro video, i see a loading logo music starts then it just closes, not warning error or nothing.
Is it just my Xperia Play? i know other people have had this problem but its seems to be small majority.
I'm in the UK.
I have a sim free Xperia play with a T Mobile contract.
I have Version 1.0.2 of NOVA 2.
2.3.3 Android
I am not rooted or unlocked.
All my other gameloft games work fine.
Could it be another app causing the problem?
Any advice or help would be great, i am going slightly mad with this problem.
Blonqe.

Play another game

Works ok for me.
The look control sucks anyway. What the hell? We have to slide it like a track ball. That sucks badly when some is shooting you in the back.

ncaissie said:
Works ok for me.
The look control sucks anyway. What the hell? We have to slide it like a track ball. That sucks badly when some is shooting you in the back.
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Yep. Gameloft need to sort the look controls to work like a control pad and not a touchscreen for all their fps games.
@OP Downgrade to 2.3.2 and all Gameloft games work fine.

Not true, I bought it first day of release and back then I was still on 2.3.2. Same problem as I still have today!

Ok.
Solution then -
When you see nothing but black screen, hold down the home key and then select Nova 2.
Or hit the home key to go to home, then hold the home key and select Nova 2.
Gameloft black screens are fixed simply by reselecting the game without actually exiting it.

Rainbow 6 is a good game

dsswoosh said:
Ok.
Solution then -
When you see nothing but black screen, hold down the home key and then select Nova 2.
Or hit the home key to go to home, then hold the home key and select Nova 2.
Gameloft black screens are fixed simply by reselecting the game without actually exiting it.
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Thanks for the solution, unfortuantly I have tried this, works for modern combat 2 but not nova 2.
Like I say the game loads I hear some music while the loading screen is on, then it justs knocks off!
I'm clueless and I think gameloft are too, thise forum was my last go at finding a solution :-(
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I have the same issue, I've found any solution: uninstall, reinstall, reset settings of the phone, nothing. Crash after the video intro and go back immediately on the home screen. I have a play in 2.3.2 with gingerbreak.
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If you publish the logcat of the whole process from opening the app to the FC, there may be a chance to see what's going on.

Dorry to be a complete noob, where do I find the logcat and hoq do I obtain it?
Step but step would be appreciated.
Cheers
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[Updated] Dungeon Defenders

How many of you have problems with the game?
It hangs when I start a new game
It actually loads until the part where the character appears on screen and when it loads all the navigational pad and buttons, it hangs
I thought this was updated for SGS2 already?

rantzzz said:
How many of you have problems with the game?
It hangs when I start a new game
It actually loads until the part where the character appears on screen and when it loads all the navigational pad and buttons, it hangs
I thought this was updated for SGS2 already?
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Yeah...No.
Lemme explain:
The app was updated to work with the GS2,but at first it didn't work properly(Or in my case didn't work at all,like it does for you.Unless you believe that it works like what you describe).It closed just after selecting my character,like when I ran it with CF3D.
Sometime yesterday though a second update was released,that clearly stated that Galaxy S II users should completely uninstall and then reinstall to update.After that ,it does work.It's still buggy though,it lags and it closes randomly sometimes,But hey,it's a first step in the right direction!

When it hangs the music is still playing in the background
Interestingly, the main menu, at the bottom right corner, the version is still 5.0
I already downloaded the 5.3.1 version...

rantzzz said:
When it hangs the music is still playing in the background
Interestingly, the main menu, at the bottom right corner, the version is still 5.0
I already downloaded the 5.3.1 version...
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That reminds me of when I tried to play the game on my DHD with the nVidia plugin(didn't know that a Qualcomm version was available,I thought it was Tegra-only).It hanged when first showing the level,music played,but all I could see was a door.Nothing would move.
So,try uninstalling,deleting the files from /sdcard/Adroid/data/com.trendy.ddapp.xxx(don't remember exactly the name) if they aren't automatically deleted,and then reinstall anew from market.Hope that fixes it.

Doesn't work... I uninstall via "Manage Applications" and the folder in sdcard\android\data\com.trendyXXXXXXXX was already removed
Redownloaded via market, wifi-ed the additional files again, also same situation
I don't understand it, if I can play Samurai II, why can't this work.... got CF3D running on nvidia plugin too!

rantzzz said:
Doesn't work... I uninstall via "Manage Applications" and the folder in sdcard\android\data\com.trendyXXXXXXXX was already removed
Redownloaded via market, wifi-ed the additional files again, also same situation
I don't understand it, if I can play Samurai II, why can't this work.... got CF3D running on nvidia plugin too!
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That's the problem!You shouldn't be using the NVidia plugin!The game works with no plugin now.Tegra version has problems for other handsets.

It does work, though your might need to uninstall the app first.
It runs perfect on mine. no shutdowns whatsoever.
Except that after a few waves, the round move cursor gets extremely hot. (near the front face camera).

tolis626 said:
That's the problem!You shouldn't be using the NVidia plugin!The game works with no plugin now.Tegra version has problems for other handsets.
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Good man! Not using plugins solved the problem!
I can confirm the insane heat at the camera area
Freakin hawt!

Yeah. It would have been hotter if not for the heat sink in the phone.
It's a but unnerving pushing intense graphics on the phone though.
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There is a new update for DD! 5.3.4... anyone tried it out yet?

This game is poorly optimized. It runs like crap on any phone, even Tegra 2 phones.

How to remove/hide the Navbar on Mojo?

Hey again guys. I've been doing further research and I'm positive the console I want to buy next is a Mojo.
I plan to root it as soon as I get it, so the important question is: how do I make it so the navbar doesn't show up? Apparently its always present by default, making all apps even XBMC not actually fullscreen.
Hopefully someone can tell me that. Thanks!

Satoshi Matrix said:
Hey again guys. I've been doing further research and I'm positive the console I want to buy next is a Mojo.
I plan to root it as soon as I get it, so the important question is: how do I make it so the navbar doesn't show up? Apparently its always present by default, making all apps even XBMC not actually fullscreen.
Hopefully someone can tell me that. Thanks!
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That's were I've heard your name.. on the "The Retro League" podcast lol
I haven't heard those two in ages.. wow!
I should go get me some right now lol
Cool, ha.. to your questions.
I think there's app on the app store which remove the navbar in jellybean.. not 100%
I would think CM12 would have that as an option.. again not sure sorry.
MX player does hide it but games don't.. that I recall anyway.
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I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.

Satoshi Matrix said:
I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.
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Try Auto Hide Soft Keys APP which worked fine for me on rooted jellybean. Kodi/XBMC on the Lollipop (CM12) ROM works without this app because of immersive mode which hides the navbar, so I would suggest when you get your MOJO to switch to that ROM.

I know this is probably a crazy noobish question, but is there any way to download game apks from the google play store directly to my imac? I'm pretty new to google play, and it keeps saying to sign in on the device. but thats just the thing, I don't have a mojo yet. I'm still trying to figure out if I will get one.
So what the heck? Can't I just download to my computer and then "sideload" later?

Satoshi Matrix said:
I know this is probably a crazy noobish question, but is there any way to download game apks from the google play store directly to my imac? I'm pretty new to google play, and it keeps saying to sign in on the device. but thats just the thing, I don't have a mojo yet. I'm still trying to figure out if I will get one.
So what the heck? Can't I just download to my computer and then "sideload" later?
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I'm not sure why you would need to sideload apks to the MOJO since it will be fully functional with google play after using the rooting method for jellybean. On CM12, missing apps can apparently be fooled into appearing in google play by changing the device to something else like an nvidia shield tablet using Market helper http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2146216
But there is a way to download apks to the computer if you must: try this

Satoshi Matrix said:
I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.
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I'm newish to android but I think you still need to use the navbar regardless of lack of touch...
At least with jellybean, cm12 feels better integrated to android but still need to get to the all apps menu button.
I think the issue is jellybean didn't let apps remove easily, were as cm12 does.