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Who remembers Syndicate Wars?

Hey. was wondering if anyone remembers Syndicate Wars, and more importantly, if it had been re-made for Windows Mobile (or similar) would be a awsum project!

Syndicate Wars
Yeah, with the futuristic cops?
I was thinking about this about a week ago.
Couldnt even remember the name to go checking though...
I think I shall be consulting the oracle.... ...Google

Syndicate Series PPC
Google is all seeing:
http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/blast-from-the-past-syndicate
It seems that Pinoy Tech are already working on a port for us.

Sweet !! Used to love that game

nice that will be awsum!

Now that brings back A LOT of memories. Can't wait for the port!!

Syndicate wars????? Pah!!!! I remember when it was just called Syndicate (showing my age now)

Anyone ever Pseudotron the whole city and then get into a car, then blow up the car?
Awesome flaming masses of screaming people.. =)
I would love to see syndicate on my PPC

cotc2001 said:
Syndicate wars????? Pah!!!! I remember when it was just called Syndicate (showing my age now)
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Am I showing my age if I say I remember it too? And how dissappointing was the ending!!!!

I think I still have a copy of Syndicate somewhere on my 386, time to get out the duster...
- 386sx
- 24Mhz CPU
- 4MB RAM
- 400MB HD
- 256KB Graphics
Damn, all the great memmories, Prince of Percia, Lemmings, DOOM, etc,etc,etc...

Yup, I remember it... that would be an awesome port!

Syndicate wars was awesome.
Possibly the only game ive played on a compuserve demo disk and then bought!!
Reckon I could code my Tytn to act like a 'persuadatron' ??

DAMN YOU ALL TO THE DARKEST CORNERS OF HELL!!!
You had to remind me of that game it was on my mind all day i couldnt get a single bit of work done all day i was wondering if it was possible to get it to run on my wizard. So ive been searching last 2 hours to finally find a damn version of syndicate (the first version it was smaller and lighter on requirments) and now im trying to see if i can get it to using one of the ms-dos emulators available next i might try to use that SCUMMVM thing ( there goes the rest of my night i hope u are happy)
Will post results as soon as i can so pray for it everyone.

Oh i did find a megadrive/ sega genasis rom version of syndicate that i was able to run on picodrive but it didnt have the same feeling as the dos game and also it would seem to randomly hang on using it.

ok i had some success i was able to start tthe game using dosbox atleast the intro started (with sound) but then it crashed back to windows.
Will try some more work on it and see what i can do.
any knowlegable person willing and able to help cuz i barely know squat about this stuff and am flying by the seat of my pants as they say

ok its almost 2:30 and i have to be up by 7 ( i hate monings) anyway i was mistaken dosbox can run syndicate. i was able to start it up and start the game only problem is that my poor wizard isnt strong ( fast) enough to run this game in emulation
i tried it on scummvm but couldnt make it work ( i copied all the data files into one folder and pointed scummvm to it but it kept on complaing no game found)
Somebody help this addict( meaning me).......find me a way to run my game properly and not click and wait as my old dial up used to be ( just reading my e- mail was a pain in the ass)

come on oh great developers please spare some brain energy on this lowly matter!

Not very related, but similar to syndicate, UFO 2 was also one of my all time favourite game... and lucky for me, it's available on PPC with fast performance... and extremely addictive... lol

mind sharing a link to the game ?( no warez just a description)

It's called PocketUFO.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pocket-ufo-v1-25.html
Freeware

Games & App's

I tought it would be nice to have a topic where folio 100 users could discuss good working games en applications...so here it is.
It would be nice if you could also tell us what firmware,rom, patches you are using.

Now on foliomod 1.3a
Officesuite running fine so adobe reader 10
Titanium backup perfectly
Games
Angry birds fullscreen
Buka hd ok
Tropical towers ok
Totemo HD sometimes needs to be restarded to correct some missing graphics
Castle warriors ok
Cestos runs only on small screen
Sent trom foliomod 1.3a

i'll only be posting perfectly working apps / games in this post, it will get updated.
GAMES
angry birds & seasons
reckless racing
pocket legends
air control (logisoft)
fruit ninja
dungeon defenders [first wave] (and it looks gorgeous on the 10")
zenonia 2
touch racing nitro
radiant HD (graphic glitches)
APPS
sketchbook express
tunein radio
yaaic
ebuddy
dropbox
look at my sig for mod info.

kepler1982 said:
i'll only be posting perfectly working apps / games in this post, it will get updated.
GAMES
angry birds & seasons
reckless racing
pocket legends
air control (logisoft)
fruit ninja
dungeon defenders [first wave] (and it looks gorgeous on the 10")
zenonia 2
radiant HD
APPS
sketchbook express
tunein radio
look at my sig for mod info.
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Nice, now a can install dungeon defenders

Re:
Hey,
Thanks for the tips.
So far I've installed: (besides already mentioned stuff)
Games:
NinJump (Textures are not optimized for the resolution of Folio but it works just fine)
Aps:
Winamp
Last.fm
Dolphin Browser HD (loving this one!)

Please check the link bellow, There's toons of good apps and games for Android, I didn't test many, but sure some will work fine:
Have Fun,
Bastospn

bastospn said:
Please check the link bellow, There's toons of good apps and games for Android, I didn't test many, but sure some will work fine:
Have Fun,
Bastospn
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No man, please, only post app's you have tested
And no links to warez or other websites like them!!
(I don't think this is a legal website?!)

OpenTTD works like a charm on 1.2
I will test it on 1.3 too when I have time to upgrade. But I see no reason why it would not work.

killerbie said:
No man, please, only post app's you have tested
And no links to warez or other websites like them!!
(I don't think this is a legal website?!)
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I'm Sorry, i didn't realize that the site was illegal , i saw the link in the Toshiba Forum and at first it looked okay. I already unistalled all the apps i have downloaded.
I was wondering how people are able to download payed apps from within 1.3 foliomod. Do you know any legal site to do that?
Regards and again please excuse me for my mistake.
Bastospn

bastospn said:
I'm Sorry, i didn't realize that the site was illegal , i saw the link in the Toshiba Forum and at first it looked okay. I already unistalled all the apps i have downloaded.
I was wondering how people are able to download payed apps from within 1.3 foliomod. Do you know any legal site to do that?
Regards and again please excuse me for my mistake.
Bastospn
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hehe if you want you can install illegal app's, i don't care
It's just the link that is bad for everyone, because that way mod's can understand it as 'spreading and promoting illegal software'

You are right

I just updated dungeon defenders and i must say its much faster and stable now! This game is awesome, a must buy in my opinion! Great graphics, amazing gameplay, and for 2.99 is a bargain. Better than many expensive console games.

bastospn said:
I just updated dungeon defenders and i must say its much faster and stable now! This game is awesome, a must buy in my opinion! Great graphics, amazing gameplay, and for 2.99 is a bargain. Better than many expensive console games.
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Could you make a review? Because I don't understand the game and the goals :s

The game objective is to defend the cristals from the evil creatures that were accidentally released from inside one of this crystals were the anciens had locked them a long time ago. You have to place defenses and traps in stratagic points to keep the cristal safe. You will need mana to cast this defenses, and you get it by resisting through this waves of creatures. You also can improve or upgrade this defenses. When you are ready you touch the cristal and the enemy starts the attack. If the crystal is destroyed you lose. You get weapons and armour by defeating this bad guys and by openning treasure chests... there are lot of variations and options you can try. When your hero defeat a series of waves we eventually goes to another room. By the way you can see the number and type of this creatures by stepping near the doors.

bastospn said:
The game objective is to defend the cristals from the evil creatures that were accidentally released from inside one of this crystals were the anciens had locked them a long time ago. You have to place defenses and traps in stratagic points to keep the cristal safe. You will need mana to cast this defenses, and you get it by resisting through this waves of creatures. You also can improve or upgrade this defenses. When you are ready you touch the cristal and the enemy starts the attack. If the crystal is destroyed you lose. You get weapons and armour by defeating this bad guys and by openning treasure chests... there are lot of variations and options you can try. When your hero defeat a series of waves we eventually goes to another room. By the way you can see the number and type of this creatures by stepping near the doors.
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i wanna add a little tip to this great review, you can swap your hero in the build phase so you can diff types of deffence like those spike things with some kind of gun or trap behind it from one of the other hero's, also if when you swap heros you can drop the mana they have before you swap so the one you swap to can pick it up

as for apps i have found to work well
My Movies - movie database program
Pulse - rss newsreader
Tv Show Favs - to keep track of what tv show episode i have watched.
Tweetdeck - twitter app
Winamp - music player, though have not tested wifi sync being a linux user.

Words with Friends: laziest iOS port evar?

Srsly, I'm blown away by how rushed and buggy this port seems. It's as if they did the minimum possible to get the thing to "run" on Android.
I've been playing Wordfeud for a long time, and I was excited about finally getting to play a Scrabble-ish game with my friends who have iPhones.
So far I have experienced:
Force closes,
Notifications that it's my turn when it's not,
No notifications when it is my turn,
Random letters showing up on the board that were never played but cannot be removed,
Scores changing randomly,
Games where neither player can play a turn,
Games where I see one score and my opponent sees another,
Having to view multiple ads before I can exit,
and More!
Srsly, wtf. I'm uninstalling this crap. Anyone else have similar problems?

yes all of these ...

A few months for a full iOS port with ads thrown in at the worst parts to make a statement. What did you expect from Zynga?

words with friends blows. seriously.
I get the force closes all the time, I noticed using dev tools that it runs almost constantly even though the person who I downloaded it to play with hasn't played in over a day(meaning I rarely open it). I get the stupid notifications when it isn't my turn.
Wordfeud is sooo much better, way to go zynga!

I had to revert to the old version after updating because every old game I finished and deleted showed back up on the current games list as me waiting for them to play. Then after reverting, it won't stop searching for an opponent. The worst part is its been searching for 2 days and still hasn't found one. So its eating my battery like a fat kid at a buffet. I wouldn't call it the laziest ios port ever though. How much could you really expect from an iPhone app on android? If you take the kid that eats his own boogers and put him in the gifted class, he won't exactly be rackin up the gold stars.

meeklo062704 said:
I had to revert to the old version after updating because every old game I finished and deleted showed back up on the current games list as me waiting for them to play. Then after reverting, it won't stop searching for an opponent. The worst part is its been searching for 2 days and still hasn't found one. So its eating my battery like a fat kid at a buffet. I wouldn't call it the laziest ios port ever though. How much could you really expect from an iPhone app on android? If you take the kid that eats his own boogers and put him in the gifted class, he won't exactly be rackin up the gold stars.
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Other applications have made the move much more successfully, i.e. Angry Birds.

That sucks that its not working for u guys. I've been playing it a lot with no problems. At least u didn't pay for it.
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When I updated, all of my finished games came back in the "not my turn" section, with no way to delete them. Really poorly done port, very irritated that they rushed this to market just to beat the iOS wordfeud. 20 bucks says the iOS wordfeud is flawless and sadly, nobody will notice because so many are switching to words with friends. I hope the World Wildlife Fund sues them like they did to the World Wrestling Federation for making a thing that can be abbreviated as "WWF."

Wordsmith free is much better, no force closes, and no freaking ads, which it's why I got rid of words with fiends.
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What is words with friends? All I hear is people complaining about it.

game doesnt work for me. i don't even use ad free and the opening page has this ad that cannot be displayed so i cant click my games

I only got it because I have some iPhone friends who can't play Wordfued with me. worst part is I finally bought WordFued also, and don't touch it.
I wish WordFued would port to iOS.

ive been playing on my gingerbread Hero and it works perfectly. the only downside to this game is the frustration when u cant think of a word

i just wish there was a ios port all together lol. SO MANY APPS!

I played Words with Friends once right after it came out, and I haven't touched it since. I just got so angry at seeing ads BETWEEN EVERY TURN. Seriously, an ad every 5 turns would have been annoying enough, but EVERY TURN? I was going to try the newest update again, but after reading the comments here, I might just uninstall it.

Rally187 said:
That sucks that its not working for u guys. I've been playing it a lot with no problems. At least u didn't pay for it.
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Same here. This morning was the first time i got a force close..... Wordfued has ads too. Just press home after you play your turn, then you dont even notice the ads, on either app.

WordFeud > Words with Friends

[ Discussion]-The one game you always go back to.

This isn't a ratings topic or a top whatever topic...This is a topic of what game you just can't get enough of. Don't get me wrong there's a lot of great games out there. I'm curious of the diversity of the crowd/ XP community.
For me...its Minecraft. I started playing it on android & after uninstalling to check out other games, I always bring it back. I like how smooth it runs. Its the one game that I have truly never had a problem with...but enough about my choice.
R800x-unlocked/ Aokp-m6/ 4.0.4

Im with you, always have installed minectaft, for me the best sandbox game.
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FIfa 12. Although i rarely play games on my play, despite having so many, i probably go back to FIFA the most... Or Snake 97 lol
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Dead Space.

The only one I've ever reinstalled so far is The King of Fighters Android. So good.

Dark Knight rises,reckless racing 2
Start to play wild blood ATM.....chances are great to become next favourite
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MMMMMMMMMMinecraft!
And Asphalt 7, but since i do development of roms, i mainly change roms so i dont stick with much gamez.

Being a classic gamer, I bought my xperia play mainly for emulators. The first console game I ever owned was Sonic 1 for the master system. Even these can always pick that up and not get bored

I found that the xperia play is great with NES and GBA emulators, maybe I'll try to get a SNES one soon as well.

pokemon FTW !!!

Pokemon and emulator gaming.

A little offtopic: whats the best gba emulator?
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A little offtopic: whats the best gba emulator?
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My Boy! is my favourite. The UI is tidy and easy to follow. It has the ability to disable linear filtering. Cheat support was included with the latest update. I get full speed in all the games I play without needing to use frameskip.
VGBA has good compatibility but the UI sucks and is battery heavy. Also the developer is employing dirty tricks like preventing people with LP installed from using the app.
GBA.emu you would expect to be good but performs very poorly on the Xperia PLAY and other single core devices. You get lag every 10-15s with frameskip on, and is slow as hell/unplayable with frameskip off.
Gameboid used to be my favourite until My Boy! replaced it. Both Gameboid and My Boy! are similar in the UI and performance. My Boy! is slightly better in both those areas, and seeing as Gameboid is no longer being developed, it made sense to buy My Boy!.

Sonic episodes 1 & 2
I allways go back to them!!

Draw Something... Yea yea yea, make fun of me, I keep uninstalling it because nobody plays it. I always go back to installing it after a few weeks without it because I feel like playing with someone. Nobody plays it anymore, so I uninstall it. Repeat process.

Minebuilder. Much more advanced than PE. IMO.
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Minebuilder. Much more advanced than PE. IMO.
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With lag and worse graphics.. But yeah is a nice game
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Mini Motor Racing
Takes me back to my Amiga days of Power Drive and Skidmarks!!

Always fifa 12 or MC3
Fifa 12 was the first game i got too

Windjammers for NeoGeo. Can't stop.

Your favourite hidden Gems

Hi everyone,
I'd like a thread dedicated to the hidden gems for Xperia Play. There has been many topics related to the best optimized games for the xperia play, but we all know them by now. I'm talking about EA, Rockstar, Gameloft or Madfinger games (Asphalt, NFS, Modern Combat, GTA, NOVA, Dead trigger...). Don't get me wrong, some of them are great, but they are blockbusters that everyone knows.
It could be nice to have a listing of people's favourite hidden gems, games that are not famous but worth playing anyway (optimized or not).
Here are some of my favourite ones:
- Pocket Monster: a nice little plateformer game. Very simple, but well optimized and worth a try.
- Obscura: another optimized plateformer game, but really artistic, with really beautiful graphics. A bit short though...
- Rayman Jungle Run: ok, it's neither optimized nor "hidden", but it's a really nice game you can play anywhere anytime. Try it!
Broken Sword Director's Cut: I admit I have not played the android version. I completed the Nintendo DS version. But it's supposed to be the same. And it's a really really good game. A must play (not optimized, but no need to be).
- Critical Strike: The android's version of counter strike. If you like multiplayer FPS, the game is for you. Optimized for our phone, and free, what could you possibly ask more?
That's all for now. What are yours?

Aeon Avenger: A RPG game by Kemco
Dead On Arrival: A shooting game like SAS: Zombie Assault 3 if you have ever played it.
Thats all I know so far
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Delver: awesome dungeon crawler

Minecrafts not hidden, right?
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CyberScopes said:
Minecrafts not hidden, right?
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I dont think Minecraft is hidden lol
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