Are there any good turn-based strategy games out there on Android? I came across the old Military Madness game and had some nostalgic fun which got me to wondering. Or any oldies I can play on emulators?
I'd also like to play some of the old LucasArts/Sierra adventure games but I think I read the ScummVM doesn't work on newer versions of Android is that correct?
gbcoid and gameboid are the best gameboy emulators. If you don't want to pay for an emulator that lets you save, I use GVBA for my gameboy rpg needs...
i have gameboid and i usually look for turn based rpgs, some examples i got are pokemon, final fantasy, fire emblem, golden sun, riviera - the promised land
www.conquerclub.com
It's obviously not an app, but it's the best turn-based strategy game out there and you can use it on your phone via the browser.
Thanks I'll check it out. Been trying to install some SNES strategy roms and when I get them to download and/or work, half the time it's in Japanese which doesn't make it too easy to play, lol.
You might want to check out UniWar. I tried it on my old iphone, and they ported it over to Android. I'm not sure how large the online population is anymore though.
Advance War 1 and 2 are the best
Felys said:
Advance War 1 and 2 are the best
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And where would they be found?
effluent said:
And where would they be found?
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those are for the gameboy advance so you'll need an advance emulator
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Hello,
One of my friend gave me Tomb Raider for pocket pc, It's really interesting and it's same as what you play on your PC. Now I want to know if any body know other top game like this for pocket pc?
Thanks
there is
need for speed
age of empire
warcraft2
duke nukem 3d
doom1-2
quake1-2
heretic-hexen
wolfenstein
c64 emulator
amiga emulator
ps emulator
tons of other emulators
there are too everquest based rpg's
lemmings
to mention a few on the top of my head
Rudegar said:
there is
need for speed
age of empire
warcraft2
duke nukem 3d
doom1-2
quake1-2
heretic-hexen
wolfenstein
c64 emulator
amiga emulator
ps emulator
tons of other emulators
there are too everquest based rpg's
lemmings
to mention a few on the top of my head
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hi,
i would like to ask you, what need to have that games in pocket.
i have tytn.
thks
liva said:
hi,
i would like to ask you, what need to have that games in pocket.
i have tytn.
thks
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If I understand you correctly, you ask what devices you need to run them. Any Pocket PC - the TyTN is pretty OK for gaming.
BTW guys and gals, read my games reviews posted to this forum. There are TONS of nice games. For example, I'd start with K-Rally, Edge, SkyForce Reloaded and Enslave - just to list the four best game released last year.
Im having difficulty in finding games for this phone.
The only ones ive got which are worth playing are Poker and 10 pin Bowling from the microsoft website.
I keep finding flash games but they want a keypad.
What games are worth looking for? I know there is an Age of Empires game...
Hey,
heard about scummvm?
It's a lil Virtual Machine for old Games like Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones.
Scummvm is designed for point-and-click adventures.
There is a PocketPC Version also.
look here:
http://www.scummvm.org/
I love it, but most games are hard to handle, so you have to try a lil bit
Have fun...
Baxter. said:
Hey,
heard about scummvm?
It's a lil Virtual Machine for old Games like Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones.
Scummvm is designed for point-and-click adventures.
There is a PocketPC Version also.
look here:
http://www.scummvm.org/
I love it, but most games are hard to handle, so you have to try a lil bit
Have fun...
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Looks good!
I'll give it a go.
Thanks for the info!
rikpotts said:
Im having difficulty in finding games for this phone.
The only ones ive got which are worth playing are Poker and 10 pin Bowling from the microsoft website.
I keep finding flash games but they want a keypad.
What games are worth looking for? I know there is an Age of Empires game...
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Inspired by your thread i tried to search for age of empires
I found this Site http://www.filaomobile.com/
It is linked from a german site which says AOE Gold 1.25 is free downloadable for PocketPC. But it's not possible for me, to open that site, cause i'm at work and Webpages in Category "Games" are blocked
You could give a try, maybe you'll find aoe on that site.
MS are giving away Texas Hold em for free again.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/totalaccess/software/games/texasholdem.mspx
Ive been addicted for ages. $24k and rising!
Actually,if you search harder, you can find TONS of game that you can play on Polaris.
Emulators:
Pocket GBA
Pocket NES
Pocket SNES
DOS Box (DOS Emulator that can be use to run DOS programs including DOS games).
etc...
Freeware:
Shift
Pipes
Znax
etc...
Paid Games:
(A LOTS )
Arvale & Arvale 2
Anthelion & Anthelion 2
Combo Tower 3D
Pocket Mini Golf
Monopoly
Scrabble
....etc (many,many more...)
Ported PC games:
Ages of Empires (like u said)
Palm Heroes (Heroes of Might & Magic)
Flashback
Myst
Myst 2 : Riven
Worm World Party
Lemonade Tycoon
Pocket UFO (UFO Defense)
etc...
Even with some tricks u can play Warcraft 2 with Stratagus engine without using keyboard (keyboard is used when saving)
Some of the ported game are free & some are not
There are hundreds upon hundreds out there, my favourite is Worms World Party, addictive game and can even be played multi player.
If you're new to android like me, it's not obvious where to find great games. This little video that I saw on engadget is a great starting point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-XaaQXIxw&feature=player_embedded
Some of those games looked great! Where do I find them? Im guessing they aren't in te android market...
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Some of those games looked great! Where do I find them? Im guessing they aren't in te android market...
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what do u mean where do you find them? they are all in the android store. Theres little green captions that come up and tell you the names of each app if that was your question.
As a direct result of that video I went out and bought Shoot U! ($2.99) and LightUp ($1.99)
I don't game a ton on my phone but I love the puzzle/time passer type games for when I am waiting for something for anything more than 10 minutes
Jewels
Sudoku
Robo Defense
Solitaire
LightUp
Shoot U!
Good enough for me
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what do u mean where do you find them? they are all in the android store. Theres little green captions that come up and tell you the names of each app if that was your question.
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Thanks I didn't see the names ill watch it again (while I was watching the first time I was thinking how the hell am I going to find these they should've put the name of each game)
torect is an addicting game if you guys havent tried it!
im only on 52 out of 1000!!!!!
My Best Games:
Raging Thunder
Armageddon Squadron
Homerun Battle 3d
Speed Forge 3d
All must haves IMO!
What are the best scrolling shooters available that work with the XPlay controls? I've given R-Type a go and was wondering what others recommend
AirAttack HD Make sure it's the Xperia PLAY version!
There's also a game called Overkill. It's not specifically Xperia PLAY Optimized, but it works perfectly with the D-pad and X to shoot.
scrolling shooters? oh there are dozens but here are my favourites(long time STG fan.-)
for some shooting goodness fire up FPSE Emulator and get the following PS One Games:
-Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus(Salamander 1+Lifeforce AND Salamander 2 included,Salamander 2 is just great!)
-Gradius Deluxe Pack(Gradius 1+2,classic but i personally prefer Salamander)
-Gradius Gaiden(best of all Gradius imho,japan release only,nice graphics,much more accesible than classic Gradius)
-Parodius Deluxe Pack(Parodius 1+2,classic)
-Sexy Parodius(completely whack+hillarious..)
-R-Type Delta(best ps one shooter,period)
-R-Types(R-Type 1+2)
-G-Darius(some twisted shooting action with different paths,long bossbattles and psychedelic style graphics thrown in)
-Einhänder(the only Squaresoft Shooter,still great)
-Thunder Force Verfect System(great!)
on Genesis i highly recommend Contra:Hard Corps(they should have named it Contra:Hard Core,its really a challenge,its contra on speed) and Gunstar Heroes,intense shooting action,also the Thunder Force Series,on SNES Axelay is great also the SNES Contra
Neo Geo:Last Resort(great R-Type like Style,very challenging),Aero Fighters(Sonic Wings),Pulstar,Viewpoint(isometric unique style but frustrating),Shock Troopers(really really great one!),Metal Slug 1-5,Ninja Commando
Tiger Arcade(CPS2):Mars Matrix,Giga Wing,Progear no Arashi,Ecofighters,1944 The Loop Master
and finally if you want to see something very intense and weird or just for the fun:
fire up an NES emulator and get the game RECCA:Summer Carnival 92.its an japanese game especially made back in 1992 for a shooting game competition called summer carnival.thats just insane what they did with the very limited NES hardware,you won`t believe that this is a NES game:there are a mass amount of ultra fast bullets and enemies with no slowdowns,huge bosses and the music is great also the stages backgrounds are really tripping you out,its an adrenaline bomb-)
no actual games will give you the joy and challenge of those oldschool shooters,trust me..and finally,thats what the xperia play is for:emulation .-) when i see such half assed ports like R-Type where there is no option for turning off this touch overlay even with "xperia play optimized" stamp..really better to emulate
There is a port of Tyrian on the market. You have to configure the controls through a non obvious interface, but it is probably one of the best vertically scrolling shooters ever made.
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As above.
Psone:
R-type Delta
Einhander
Snes:
Super R-type
R-type 3
Tigermame:
R-type
R-type 2
R-type Leo
Let me add for SNES:
Axelay
Darious Twin
orangesunshine said:
scrolling shooters? oh there are dozens but here are my favourites(long time STG fan.-)
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Neo Geo:Last Resort(great R-Type like Style,very challenging),Aero Fighters(Sonic Wings),Pulstar,Viewpoint(isometric unique style but frustrating),Shock Troopers(really really great one!),Metal Slug 1-5,Ninja Commando
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emulate
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... forgetting the BEST Shooter on that System, maybe of all times:
Blazing Star !
Speaking of shooters... want to see something HARD? Look at this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70iFdnI-xfA&feature
genesis/megadrive:
hellfire
wings of wor
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There is a port of Tyrian on the market.
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Now you are my favourite person on the whole internets.
i tried to make it work via dos emulators, but never worked.
just like Raptor: Call of shadows, wich is my fav dos based shooter. Somehow you can make it work on android, with full controls, but i never found the way to do it.
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... forgetting the BEST Shooter on that System, maybe of all times:
Blazing Star !
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what app/rom setup do you use to get this working? looks like a good one
Blazing star is awesome, as is Pulstar (both NeoGeo). Dont forget theres GigaWing (CPS2) All three of these games, and many more, are playable on the awesome emulator Tiger Arcade Game Emulator, or TigerMame on the android market. Remeber though you must have the original games in order to have the roms. I only remember these games because I dumped enough quarters into the arcade games as a teen... Oh and if you like the Turbo-Grafx 16, Sinistron is pretty good, not as good the above ones but still fun.
So in a nutshell:
NeoGeo:
Blazing Star
Pulstar
CPS2: (Capcom Play System 2)
Gigawing 1 & 2
hmm tiger arcade is giving me graphics issues and control issues. I see the text and coin graphics but nothing else... also cant seem to map the controls to the xpderia pad. ah dear
What version of Tiger Arcade do you have? Mine works flawlessly on my xplay.
My settings for Tiger Arcade. V 2.2.0
Orientation: Landscape
Scaling Mode: Stretched
Key Mappings:
-Up - Dpad up
-Down - Dpad down'
-Left - Dpad left
-Right - Dpad right
-Coin - Select button (next to srat)
-Start - start obviously
Button A - X
Button B - Circle
Button C - Square
Button x - Triangle
its the one currently on their site:
http://apps.tigerplay.net/
the apk download says 3.0.3 but my phone is charging so I cant see if thats the version listed in the app itself
dannejanne said:
Speaking of shooters... want to see something HARD? Look at this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70iFdnI-xfA&feature
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hehe some CAVE goodness..there are many CAVE bullet hell/manic shooters,main problem is:they are mostly vertical/TATE shooter and this is unfortanetly too small on xperia plays screen,you simply can`t concentrate on the ships hitbox(except Progear no Arashi which was made together with Capcom and is a horizontal shooter)
but if you want some really manic shooting i strongly recommend to fire up a pc mame emulator,for instance there is a extra lagless SHMUPMAME version,you can grab it on SHMUPS.COM,turn your monitor to vertical and try
-Donpachi(classic)
-Dodonpachi(my favourite till today,beautiful drawn sprites,great soundtrack,big explosions,supernice bulletpatterns)
-Dodonpachi Daioujou(ruthless one,you will throw your controller/stick onto the wall .-)
-E.S.P.rade(first in the "ESP" series)
-Espgaluda 1("easiest" Cave Shooter)
-Ketsui(Hardcore!)
-Guwange(probably the most stylish one if you are into japanese settings and oh boy the music in stage 3..)
-Dangun Feveron/Fever SOS(THE Disco Shooter,fast and frenzy.-)
all of them are great on their own! there are also numerous ports of the newer CAVE games on xbox 360(Mushihimesama Futari,Espgaluda 2,Dodonpachi Resurrection,DeathSmiles 1+2,Pink Sweets/MuchiMuchiPork are the ones that come to my mind).simply put CAVE are the masters of bullet hell shooting .-) i`ve got an old CRT monitor standing vertical with a arcade stick just for all the vertical shooters .-)
and for Blazing Star:yeah i totally forgot that one,really great shooter!
i`m personally really enjoying Mars Matrix and Giga Wing on the Xperia Play cause they have some sort of full screen vertical,which i didnt like on the big screen but for the Xperia Play its perfect,from the ps one games its Gradius Gaiden and the Salamander Deluxe Pack which i like the most.
OK so lately I finally bothered to take the plunge to finally grab a mame emulator I was just to lazy to start getting the games back etc.
So my question is exactly what kind of games cab you get running on these emulators personally I want killer instinct working but to no avail will it work, I'm using mame4droid ATM but I've only had a few games working pacman, space invaders, bombjack is what I've tried so far
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tiger mame i think is the best plays most games i want like streetfighter 2, alpha2, alpha3, the third and all metal slugs plus have the save state did try killer on an older version but did not run http://apps.tigerplay.info/ have ago its free
Since i want to play all metal slug episodes (and not just 1 & 2), KOF 2001, 2002 and 2003, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike and other recent roms, i have no choice: TigerArcade
Tiger Arcade. absolutely. Plays NeoGeo CPS1 CPS2. And it has multiplayer support.
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Still completely useless to me as it doesn't run any of the MK games. They are the only games I actually want to play on this and they don't run.
hi gusy
market is blocked on my cauntry , also buy tiger full version is blocked on m,y cauntry .
tiger arcade have save/load status , i don't know how can i use tiger mame full version
Killer Instinct will not run on the Xperia Play. The versions of MAME being used are far too old for it to work.
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Killer Instinct will not run on the Xperia Play. The versions of MAME being used are far too old for it to work.
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I play Killer instinct on my phone via Tiger Arcade. And it is actively still updating. Its just that the app is no longer oin the android market. The app is free however if you want to use save/load states it costs $5 to purchase, I paid and its the best thing. Nothing like playing Dungeons & Dragons with save option.
I have played Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat on here before, I think though on the newer version the Killer Instinct no longer works, however MK does. I think v2.02 was when KI was working, but dont quote me.
It is on the SlideMe market:
http://slideme.org/application/tiger-arcade
A list of compatible games:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905686
The latest version of the game is here: V3.03
http://apps.tigerplay.info/
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I have played Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat on here before, I think though on the newer version the Killer Instinct no longer works, however MK does. I think v2.02 was when KI was working, but dont quote me.
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I can assure you MK does not work in tiger arcade (neither do MK2 or MK3). I tried it just yesterday.
MK1 works on mame4droid, albeit with glitchy sound and occasional slowdown.
mehdi.moha said:
hi gusy
market is blocked on my country , also buy tiger full version is blocked here .
tiger arcade have save/load status , i don't know how can i use tiger mame full version
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hi friends
is there any hope/help/way for me ?!
any help is really appreciatted
tekken179 said:
OK so lately I finally bothered to take the plunge to finally grab a mame emulator I was just to lazy to start getting the games back etc.
So my question is exactly what kind of games cab you get running on these emulators personally I want killer instinct working but to no avail will it work, I'm using mame4droid ATM but I've only had a few games working pacman, space invaders, bombjack is what I've tried so
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Hey I'm using same emulator as you and I can literally play hundreds of games with it
Are u using the correct rom set?
Its great now it supports scanlines
Altho no save option sucks
Its the best Mame emu imo