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Earthbound! Chrono Trigger!!

Ever since I got my G1, the thing that has been synonomous with my android phone is retro gaming with emulators. It's actually one of the biggest reasons I will only buy an android phone with a keyboard, ergo I upgraded to Vision.
Shout outs for Earthbound and Chrono Trigger anyone?
If you've never played those games, do yourself a hugely enjoyable favour and buy super gnes or snesoid from the market and start playing them now!
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I've got the roms on my evo. Haven't tried any emulators on the g2 yet. chrono trigger its one of my favorite games of all time. Earthbound is just goofy.
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Did you ever finish earthbound? It gets pretty messed up by the end lol. I've used both the *oid emulators and super gnes. IMO super gnes works better; the music keeps playing even though sometimes things get slowed down. Snesoid would do weird things with the sound when the game would slow down. Perhaps it's been fixed since then.
One note is to always save games via emulator, but also save ~inside~ the game too. That way the savegame from within the game is on your sd card in case you install a new rom or need to wipe for another reason.
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Never got to far on earthbound but I did finish trigger. Also secrect of the mana was a great game. I don't have the patients to finish rpg's like I use to but they don't make rpg's like they used to.
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It's true, they don't make them like that any more. About 2/3rds of the way through earthbound it gets all psychedellic and psychological and has a really gratifying end. I actually just finished it right now haha.
Maybe I'll do secret of mana next, since I've had that rom on my phone for a while
But speaking of roms, I'm off to try the latest gingervillain! I'm pretty hooked on virtuous, but last time I checked in on what the villain was up to, it was quite promising!
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The only thing I really don't like about emu's on the G2 right now is the way the key mapping works. I wanted my D pad to be:
UP = Q
Left = .com
Right = A
Down = menu
But it wont let me choose those buttons. So I have to use W-S-Z-A. It's easier to track where your thumb is by the edge of the phone.
I wont be buying the game gripper because I have a case. I've thought about buying one anyways and modding it to fit but I really don't want to just throw away $20 right now.

jontornblom said:
It's true, they don't make them like that any more. About 2/3rds of the way through earthbound it gets all psychedellic and psychological and has a really gratifying end. I actually just finished it right now haha.
Maybe I'll do secret of mana next, since I've had that rom on my phone for a while
But speaking of roms, I'm off to try the latest gingervillain! I'm pretty hooked on virtuous, but last time I checked in on what the villain was up to, it was quite promising!
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Secret of mana had a beautiful story and ending. Well worth playing
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Kohr-Ah said:
Secret of mana had a beautiful story and ending. Well worth playing
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yup, SOM is better then chono and earthbound

Final fantasy 7 beats em all.

Ff7 is where all the retards started playing because of the 3d graphics.
Ff6 had a better plot, story line, and probably the best soundtrack of any video game ever. Just look at any "greatest of all time games" list, sabin would slam cloud game anyday with a bumrush hahah
US ff2 was also really really good.
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I liked cloud, I mean rpg's had to go 3d at some point even if it was best to stay at 2d. There has been a bunch of good 3d rpg's.
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Ya, I'm definitely going for secret of mana next. Good times all around.
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I have actually not played FF7. I still have the game and manual from when I bought it years ago.
I started playing FF8 and fell in love with that.

what emulator
what emulator is the best for the G2? and where are you guys finding roms?

Snesoid and super gnes both work really well. I think snesoid has a rom search engine inside it. That should help ya find stuff
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Any of you guys ever had a chance to play Terranigma? awesome snes rpg!

david279 said:
I liked cloud, I mean rpg's had to go 3d at some point even if it was best to stay at 2d. There has been a bunch of good 3d rpg's.
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I wasnt slamming on the graphics, I didnt like the story. If you like rpgs play jpn ff6/us ff3. It beats ff7 on every "best games of all time" list ive seen.
Alot of people say the ff7 is one of the most overrated games of all time.
Then again most of the time it comes down to which games you played as a kid. SNES was and still is the best system for me, followed by N64. Not nes since I wasnt really skilled enough at that age. Born in 84.

No, but I'm always on the lookout for a new one. Thanks!
I decided to play Mother 3, since I just finished earthbound, but I'm going to play secret of mana probably next. Then terranigma? I like having games to look forward to
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Classic Games
Earthbound - great game, ending was amazing... Had never heard of it until a friend of mine spent like $40 on ebay to buy a copy!
Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, FF3 (FF6) etc.. All Square (now SquareEnix) and all great games. When Square said they were not making games for the N64, but for Sony's PlayStation, I got a PS
Other RPGs (aside from the epic Link to the Past ). Lufia series (starts with Fortress of Doom), Breath of Fire, RoboTrek (very cartoony and 'PokeMon'-like... Developed by the same company that made Terranigma)

Don't forget the original phantasy star on genesis and sega cd. I liked the first super mario rpg. That was goofy but fun.
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Gaming on g3

we all bought galaxy 3 happily bcoz of its low price and the fact that it will support froyo
but in a month or so after trying out some games on g3,i felt like i should have gone for some other phone[even g5 does better]
android market has lots of games,but most of them are just casual[bored of them]
other good looking games wont work
*so i request all g3 owners to post names of games which which works perfectly[no lags]
on our phones....ALSO POST THE GAME VERSION WHICH WORKS
*lets try out all these goodlooking games [gameloft,e a etc..] and make a data base of WORKING games on g3
......lets make full use of our g3
DELETED THE LIST,THERE ARE TOO MANY GAMES,JUST READ POSTS TO KNOW ABOUT GAMES....

Try PES11...works good on custom ROMs...then Dungeon Hunter works...Fruit Ninja...Angry Birds...these are cool games

katkoriaarpan said:
Try PES11...works good on custom ROMs...then Dungeon Hunter works...Fruit Ninja...Angry Birds...these are cool games
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I agree. If you want high end games try a high end phone And have in mind this is a PHONE, not a psp.I would like to be able to play half life 2 but it is just not possible.
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@panos_dm
This is not about discussing high end gaming on otherphones.
This is about only galaxy 3 gaming exclusively.....
All quality games playable on g3 are to be discussed here.....
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@katkoriaarpan
Fruit ninja works perfectly,tried it,played it,bored of it
Angry birds also fine but lags at some levels
Pes2011 and dungeon hunter??no idea,heard that they are playable but be more specific about the versions,are they playable on stock version and if playble on roms,which ones?
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Meganoid, Speedx 3D. All tested with official 2.1 ROM

added angry birds rio

wesjeex3 said:
Meganoid, Speedx 3D. All tested with official 2.1 ROM
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added the games

Does anyone else have a problem with really bad lag in Angry Birds Rio?

Ninjump and papertoss are fun games....works perfectly..

@barqers
Lags only at the beginning.when a new level starts wait for 4-5 seconds.then start playing
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rohit3221 said:
Ninjump and papertoss are fun games....works perfectly..
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Thanks,added.i played all these games but cant remember all of them,so all users keep the games coming.......
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@katkoriaarpan
Fruit ninja works perfectly,tried it,played it,bored of it
Angry birds also fine but lags at some levels
Pes2011 and dungeon hunter??no idea,heard that they are playable but be more specific about the versions,are they playable on stock version and if playble on roms,which ones?
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Angry Birds lags on further levels...i play PES11...no lag smooth play...on Indroid 3.0
and yeah i dont use STOCK roms...better to opt for some Customs!

root your phone and install an advertising removal application. That should speed up things already....and make sure you have a less as crap installed on your phone
to add to the list here: I have Scrambled Net that keeps me busy from time to time
Next to that, only Angry Birds installed.
Tried Parallel Kingdom AOT and Pocket Legends (3D MMO) also, and they run very good....but boring after a week

My Latest list has:
Ben 10
Bubble Ball
Crazy God
Doodle Dash
Droid Odyssey
Homerun Battle 3D
GT Racing (lags)
Miss Jump
Mini Squadron (only problem is selecting the plane. No Lag)
Monkey kick off
Motorbike GP
Mr & Mrs Tarzan
MX Moto
Raging Thunder
Rope Cut
Shoot U
SKyball
Sphagetti Marshmello
Squibble
Turbo Fly 3d
Unicorn Dash
Ninja Rush
Ninja Rush Deluxe
Winds of Stell
Yoo Ninja

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Meganoid, Speedx 3D. All tested with official 2.1 ROM
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Speedx 3d lags like crazy, can't even get pass the menu
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wodka2650 said:
Speedx 3d lags like crazy, can't even get pass the menu
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Lol, not for me.
Maybe you've installed too many programs or have less memory free?

He anyone try Gameboid? It's very nice.
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wodka2650 said:
Speedx 3d lags like crazy, can't even get pass the menu
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It works without lag.....somethings up with ur phone
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I've got
-Angry Birds
-PES 2010

For all "deadspace" fans!

There is a deadspace game for android available online somewhere..you need froyo and chainfire with the qualcomm driver for it to work...it doesn't work on gingerbread roms btw...I had to revert back to froyo but the game is awesome.
update..after playing it for the past 2 days, the is the best android high quality game i have ever played..u can change customs, upgrade your weapons and every single aspect of the character...i have tried every gameloft game except for the w.o.w clone and i can't tell it has a better story and gameplay than all the gameloft games currently available for android..it almost feels like the console version and i suggest everyone tries it...9/10 so far but some of the controls are iffy

Isn't it a game loft game?
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It's EA and it supposed to be xperia play exclusive (which I hate)...it will make more money on the android market smh...it's sold on the EA site somewhere

kobby2k6 said:
It's EA and it supposed to be xperia play exclusive (which I hate)...it will make money on the market smh...it's sold on the EA site somewhere
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And its free on other sites which we are not allowed to mention on here,lol.
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Isn't it a game loft game?
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Say what you want about gameloft but their knockoff games sometimes are better than real ones,im surprised game companies dint sue them yet.

lviv73 said:
And its free on other sites which we are not allowed to mention on here,lol.
Say what you want about gameloft but their knockoff games sometimes are better than real ones,im surprised game companies dint sue them yet.
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yea i love gameloft games...especially modern combat 2 for the online pay but i hate the hackers (they are destroying the game)

Has anyone found why this game doesn't work on GB ROMs? Or know a workaround? Got it to work on my a100 tab but as noted above, doesn't work on my Epic

Ceelos09 said:
Has anyone found why this game doesn't work on GB ROMs? Or know a workaround? Got it to work on my a100 tab but as noted above, doesn't work on my Epic
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it only works for sgs models on froyo and also doesn't work on galaxy nexus (read it in a forum somewhere)..but some samsung phones that can run the game in gingerbread are galaxy ace, gio, mini and the droid charge apparently (can't confirm this phone). I think it has to do the way samsung gingerbread update messed with the gpu (assumption) plus the game was originally made for xperia play...i have tried all chainfire settings and i can't get it to work on my epic on gb and cm7 (it freezes the phone) but works fine in froyo..

kobby2k6 said:
it only works for sgs models on froyo and also doesn't work on galaxy nexus (read it in a forum somewhere)..but some samsung phones that can run the game in gingerbread are galaxy ace, gio, mini and the droid charge apparently (can't confirm this phone). I think it has to do the way samsung gingerbread update messed with the gpu (assumption) plus the game was originally made for xperia play...i have tried all chainfire settings and i can't get it to work on my epic on gb and cm7 (it freezes the phone) but works fine in froyo..
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I also tried running it using Chainfire3D, didn't work. It loads up about 2 seconds of the intro and just closes. For the time being, I'm enjoying GB more than Froyo so I won't be going back, although I wanted to play this pretty bad :\ sad days...
I got it running on my Iconia Tab tho using Chainfire 3D. The only problem is that it only runs in portrait mode, not landscape. So I'm cut off short from both sides of the gameplay. Turning into corners is a pain since I'm half blind and I can't see anything besides me unless its literally like beside me already :\ its playable, but kind of annoying.
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I also tried on gingerbread with no dice awhile ago, that's awesome thought to know that our phones can play console quality games.
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Posted a thread about this -- apologies for not finding this one first.
I'm severely bummed, because I love this game, and am only about 1/3 of the way through it. I loathe the idea of having the flash back to Froyo to play it, and am not going to... YET.
I mentioned in my other thread, though, that Shadowgun DOES work on the E4G with GB and Chainfire3D+NVIDIA plug-in. While the game does need the horsepower of the Galaxy S II, it plays well on the E4G, with just a little stuttering here and there as the graphics H/W can't keep up. Hasn't interfered with gameplay at all, though, and it's an AWESOME game!!
EDIT: Haven't tried it with an OC kernels yet. Just flashed Samurai 3.01++, with a turbocharge GPU clock, and support for CPU OC. I'll crank it up and give Shadowgun a try, report back here later.

dwallersv said:
Posted a thread about this -- apologies for not finding this one first.
I'm severely bummed, because I love this game, and am only about 1/3 of the way through it. I loathe the idea of having the flash back to Froyo to play it, and am not going to... YET.
I mentioned in my other thread, though, that Shadowgun DOES work on the E4G with GB and Chainfire3D+NVIDIA plug-in. While the game does need the horsepower of the Galaxy S II, it plays well on the E4G, with just a little stuttering here and there as the graphics H/W can't keep up. Hasn't interfered with gameplay at all, though, and it's an AWESOME game!!
EDIT: Haven't tried it with an OC kernels yet. Just flashed Samurai 3.01++, with a turbocharge GPU clock, and support for CPU OC. I'll crank it up and give Shadowgun a try, report back here later.
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Please do I'm curious to see your results!
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Is it possible to decompile the deadspace APK and recompile for use with gingerbread?
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This unfortunately does not work on my my Samsung Galaxy S Captivate running 2.3.5 and no way am i going back to froyo! Although i do miss playing it. It crashes at the EA logo and just sends me back to my home screen.

I used it on my TW based EI22 Epic rom. Coupled with chainfire it worked fine on gingerbread. Runs perfect with no additional mods on cm7 now.
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Ceelos09 said:
Has anyone found why this game doesn't work on GB ROMs? Or know a workaround? Got it to work on my a100 tab but as noted above, doesn't work on my Epic
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I downloaded DeadSpace from SamsungApps for free & it works great on CleanGB MTD.

Just to give feedback, Deadspace runs great on EI22 (CleanGB) and Cyanogen 7 RC0 through nightly 16, to include using Samurai kernel with overclocked GPU. I got mine from the Android Market, I think it was on sale. Great game to show off the Epic's performance and black levels.

[ 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.
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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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f3w1n said:
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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