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Recent influx of 3d games

The last week there seems to be a huge influx of quality games some made for android some ported from the Iphone... Wich is awesome but unfortunently not so much for the nexus one.. Why is that?
Primarily the ones from gameloft...
Some titles such as Gangstar: west coast hustle and modern combat: sandstorm will install but wont finnish downloading data to sd card... then the one game I would buy a I phone to play Dungeon Hunter finally ported over and it force closes after install..
Im not even going into asphault 5 on the nexus..
Anyone have better luck then me? Do they work fine on the droid? If so Why does nexus get the crap end?
New Titles that work great for me:
Backbreaker and hockey nations
Im using apps2sd and jit could this be effecting dungeon hunter? I just want to know if anyone else is having this experience? Sorry for typos I typed this up with swype

Ensane said:
The last week there seems to be a huge influx of quality games some made for android some ported from the Iphone... Wich is awesome but unfortunently not so much for the nexus one.. Why is that?
Primarily the ones from gameloft...
Some titles such as Gangstar: west coast hustle and modern combat: sandstorm will install but wont finnish downloading data to sd card... then the one game I would buy a I phone to play Dungeon Hunter finally ported over and it force closes after install..
Im not even going into asphault 5 on the nexus..
Anyone have better luck then me? Do they work fine on the droid? If so Why does nexus get the crap end?
New Titles that work great for me:
Backbreaker and hockey nations
Im using apps2sd and jit could this be effecting dungeon hunter? I just want to know if anyone else is having this experience? Sorry for typos I typed this up with swype
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JIT has always had a negative impact for my gaming, due to it's instability. I'm sure some of your problems are based on the combination of apps2sd and JIT.

I'm running stock 2.1 and the only gameloft 3d game that works for me is Let's Golf. I'm hoping things get straightened out soon because I really want dungeon hunter. There isn't a direct link to their android site from the main page though so maybe things just aren't ready for primetime yet.
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I have a few 3D games like Raging Thunder on my SD card through apps2sd on cyan 5.0.6 and it's perfect. I previously had it internal (before deploying apps2sd) and there is no difference in performance that I've noticed. It may be down to poor optimisation of the game (common with iPhone ports) or the instability of JIT

I read the reason why gameloft games don't work well is because there direct ports from iphone using powerVR optimization making the droid a better option... Altho gameloft customer service I hear is also piss poor and it took some people awhile to get a working copy of asphault 5 when it was released...
So far the same situation has occured u can buy these games only off there site for android but they dont seem to be working fort anyone

Ensane said:
I read the reason why gameloft games don't work well is because there direct ports from iphone using powerVR optimization making the droid a better option... Altho gameloft customer service I hear is also piss poor and it took some people awhile to get a working copy of asphault 5 when it was released...
So far the same situation has occured u can buy these games only off there site for android but they dont seem to be working fort anyone
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Thats weird. I've been playing all the time without any issues. Im using cyan 506 and app2sd. Never encountered fc or whatsoever.

With all of these influx, what's left is to let Android officialy install apps on sdcard. Hope that Froyo will definitely bring this to the surface.
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yea I have high hopes for froyo hopefully its released tomorrow.. So is anyone playing dungeon hunter on there nexus?

Gameloft's problem with android market?

I was wondering why Gameloft has a problem with android market bc yesterday I bought a game via my Galaxy Tab and they took it out of my paypal but I never got the game and now I have sent them two emails and have to call them tomorrow and I am like 85% sure this would not have happened with the Android market.

Out of curiosity, did you read the license for the games purchased from their site? You can only re-download a game on the same phone you bought it (and same sim-phone number), and only for 3 years. Not sure if i remember well, but it might even had a limit of how many times you can download a game!
I would never ever buy anything from their site.
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AlexTheStampede said:
Out of curiosity, did you read the license for the games purchased from their site? You can only re-download a game on the same phone you bought it (and same sim-phone number), and only for 3 years. Not sure if i remember well, but it might even had a limit of how many times you can download a game!
I would never ever buy anything from their site.
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Yea, I wasn't going to buy from their website at first, but then I figured I was just being paranoid and bought it, and now I am out $5...Well, I guess thats what I get for trying to buy something from them legitly(if thats even a word...)

vamp6x6x6x said:
Yea, I wasn't going to buy from their website at first, but then I figured I was just being paranoid and bought it, and now I am out $5...Well, I guess thats what I get for trying to buy something from them legitly(if thats even a word...)
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Legitimately is what you're after
There is an upper size limit on apps from the marketplace, currently 50MB I believe, by offering applications directly they can bypass this limit. For example, NFS:Shift is roughly 120MB and Asphalt:HD is just on 100MB. I'm pretty sure both download additional data to the SD Card as well.
Other games have a small client and just download a mass of extra data (e.g. that shadow souls or whatever that new RPG game is called that downloads ~1GB of data), so they could adopt that method, presumably they choose not to.
They also probably want a bigger cut of the profits by charging directly, they'd probably have much better exposure in the marketplace though.

knightnz said:
Legitimately is what you're after
There is an upper size limit on apps from the marketplace, currently 50MB I believe, by offering applications directly they can bypass this limit. For example, NFS:Shift is roughly 120MB and Asphalt:HD is just on 100MB. I'm pretty sure both download additional data to the SD Card as well.
Other games have a small client and just download a mass of extra data (e.g. that shadow souls or whatever that new RPG game is called that downloads ~1GB of data), so they could adopt that method, presumably they choose not to.
They also probably want a bigger cut of the profits by charging directly, they'd probably have much better exposure in the marketplace though.
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Legitimately thats it....
Update with them: They sent me the games that I wanted(spider-man hd, dungeon hunter hd(buy one get one free)) and created me an account after I called them and explained my mistake so it was cool...
Until the bug in the game spider-man hd where it wont load the stage called, "Mystery Infection Strikes City" so I called them and they said to keep spider-man hd on my tablet and they should be issuing an update in a few months and they sent me a free game(hero of Sparta) for all my troubles.
About them on the market: Well that sucks bc if they were on the market they could issue updates faster; but then again since they have different versions for different devices(for some reason) it may get a bit confusing.

FYI NFS installer is around 20mb (smaller for Ashphalt5HD), the 120 MB is the total after downloading the data once in the game.
So that's not a reason for market avoidance (both NFS and Ashphalt are on the market anyway, least here in the UK and also both are available for free in samsung apps regardless).
I downloaded Spiderman of the site, and evertime i try it i get a "this is not an official copy of spiderman" error and it closes, i have tried over wifi, or 3g, and with the SIM i had at the time of purchase in the tab.
I'm not that bothered about the game though, it was one of my vouchers from the samsung pack anyway.

jamiemac1977 said:
FYI NFS installer is around 20mb (smaller for Ashphalt5HD), the 120 MB is the total after downloading the data once in the game.
So that's not a reason for market avoidance (both NFS and Ashphalt are on the market anyway, least here in the UK and also both are available for free in samsung apps regardless).
I downloaded Spiderman of the site, and evertime i try it i get a "this is not an official copy of spiderman" error and it closes, i have tried over wifi, or 3g, and with the SIM i had at the time of purchase in the tab.
I'm not that bothered about the game though, it was one of my vouchers from the samsung pack anyway.
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Strange as my voucher Spiderman works fine??
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Gameloft games working great...

I used Gamelofts website and bought a few of my favorites (Its buy 1 for 4.99 and get a game for free btw). It thinks the phone is an I9000 SGS but everything is working great and the games look amazing on the the 4.5"screen.
I was bummed that I could not use the version of the games that I bought for my Inspire,but so is life.

Agreed, Dungeon Hunter 2 HD looks amazing. Also, Settlers 4 works, but I got a crash once.

Does Gameloft allow re-download free of charge? Let's Golf looks good and I'd like to have it on my Infuse and Transfromer.

thanks for the heads up!

I did this to, I bought a few games from there mobile site cause it thinks my Infuse is a Galaxy S phone but when i went on there today it now sees my phone as an SGH-I997 and says there are no games available for my phone. Guess i'm lucky i bought games while I could!

doost650 said:
I did this to, I bought a few games from there mobile site cause it thinks my Infuse is a Galaxy S phone but when i went on there today it now sees my phone as an SGH-I997 and says there are no games available for my phone. Guess i'm lucky i bought games while I could!
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Can you re-download games at no charge or do you have to pay each time?

doost650 said:
I did this to, I bought a few games from there mobile site cause it thinks my Infuse is a Galaxy S phone but when i went on there today it now sees my phone as an SGH-I997 and says there are no games available for my phone. Guess i'm lucky i bought games while I could!
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Yeah the same thing for me. I did figure out that if I put it in Airplane mode and use WiFi you can tell Gameloft you are using a SGS I9000 and see all the games.

Good thread about to download some tonight

Wow, thanks for the heads up on this! I was just about to write a post asking why the Infuse can't use anything good from Gameloft and if it will ever be able to- i.e. does the Infuse just have the wrong GPU?
I know this is sort of a work around, but I'll take it. Gameloft has some of the best, most polished Action, 3D, RPG, Sim, etc. titles around (I have a few favs- NOVA1-2, MC:BP, Order&Chaos, let's golf on my iPhone4 and iPad). I'm even willing to re-pay to re-play some just to see them on this beautiful screen we have! I was just about to get Asphalt 6 and Shadow Guardian for my iDevices, but maybe I'll go Android with these if they run as well.
+ thanks to you if I can figure out how!

bump any word from gameloft on when they will get us some games?

gameloft doesnt seem to want to support att phones, it is odd but they had games up for the vibrant and not the captivate.
also you should be able to run apk's for other devices if you use chainfire3d and download the api for the tegra2 and qualcomm chipsets.

Dani897 said:
gameloft doesnt seem to want to support att phones, it is odd but they had games up for the vibrant and not the captivate.
also you should be able to run apk's for other devices if you use chainfire3d and download the api for the tegra2 and qualcomm chipsets.
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Explain what I need to do with them please
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H.A.W.X works great, just saying
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-Kevlar- said:
Explain what I need to do with them please
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chainfire 3d is in the market, after the app install the driver needs to be installed from inside the app, the phone will reboot.
I don't remember where I found the plugins for qualcomm and nvidea but they are xda somewhere. once yoy download then to the sdcard you go into chainfire 3d and select "install plugins" it will search all folders on the sd cards. after it finds all the plugins you install them one at a time. you can uninstall from the "manage plugins" menu. once you have a plugin installed go into open gl settings and load it.
depending on the game yoy may need to hide chainfire 3d (there is a setting for that) and maybe even spoof build.prop to make it run. chainfire 3d will give the api support but that doesn't mean the game isn't locked to the device by other means or that the device will meet the requirements to run the game. (it should being that only the adreno 220 has a significant advantage over our gpu and only 2 us devices use it)

Thanks!
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I had black ops pegasus on my captivate and when i switched to this phone i couldnt get it anymore... Sucks that was a good game too
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[Q] Gameloft games to low

I have installed the gameloft games on the sensation and the games are 1/4 screen to low any else have this issue? Touch spots are in the correct place.

me too
i downloaded nova 2 apk online and had the same issue on the cut scenes but not during gameplay. the gameplay was just laggy and the surrounding were loading correctly. only some titles r compatible with the sensation. its because of the screen resolution.

oh.. well, maybe try purchasing legitimate games from them instead of stealing. the 4 Gameloft games I purchased all work flawlessly

While I can agree with purchasing the games legit. I have to say that gameloft tends to tell me my device is unsupported in the same way that hulu + and netflix do but I should be able to run the apps just fine. So occasionally I have to pursue other means to enjoy the content until it is available to me officially. Yes I understand those apps are free but I am more making the point that support for apps and games need to be updated more regularly. I am more than willing to pay to play...

archangel52005 said:
While I can agree with purchasing the games legit. I have to say that gameloft tends to tell me my device is unsupported in the same way that hulu + and netflix do but I should be able to run the apps just fine. So occasionally I have to pursue other means to enjoy the content until it is available to me officially. Yes I understand those apps are free but I am more making the point that support for apps and games need to be updated more regularly. I am more than willing to pay to play...
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The screen is off because sensation is supported for it yet. I have 5 gameloft games all from their site and they work perfectly. There's a reason that the tailor the games to each device.
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I have many cracked Gameloft games for my HD2. I've tested many of them on the Sensation and either they don't work or don't scale properly. You get what you pay for. I would have bought them for my HD2 but stupid Gameloft would never give me a way even though they ran great.
I use the Gameloft wapstore now and it will tell you the games they support for the Sensation. It's not a massive list but it will grow I'm sure. I bought four games from them so far and enjoying each one.

I have 4 games I've purchased from Gameloft's site through the phone.
all work perfect, to scale.
selection is a bit pitiful but atleast we got SOME games for our phones...
by the way, they are having a 2 for 1 sale with the games being only $3. so basically $1.50 a game.
spend the little money and save yourself the headache of non/incorrectly working pirated APKs.

same for me: warez didn't work or fit the screen properly, so I bought the games once the Sensation was supported at Gameloft wapstore, they all work very well
BTW, if some have the same problem: if I try to go to Gameloft wapstore using WIFI, I get an error message ("too many redirections to load the page").
If I go to the same page connected with 3g, it works! So I buy and dowlload the app using 3g then start wifi fir SD datas.

I have Asphalt 6, NOVA, Rainbow 6, Modern Combat 2.
Make sure they are all HD versions and are for our phone/snapdragon-adreno. They are all full screen, no issues so far.
The only game I had an issue with was Gangstar, it's in full screen but off the edge. My favorite game too..

I use cracked versions of some gameloft games, and they are all full screen. (I agree that we shouldn't use illegal copies but from my country I can't purchase anything from gameloft, also, can't access paid apps on market, so for me it is legal)

thanks
Thanks for the input.

So I just switched from a G2 to a senny, I had 4 gameloft games that I bought from the market. I transfered them but only nova works, order and chaos, modern combat, and asphault 6 all give me the not compatible message.
What do I need to do here? Anyone got a link to an hd version of these games?

ridingonfumes said:
So I just switched from a G2 to a senny, I had 4 gameloft games that I bought from the market. I transfered them but only nova works, order and chaos, modern combat, and asphault 6 all give me the not compatible message.
What do I need to do here? Anyone got a link to an hd version of these games?
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Call gameloft they let you re download games.
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I sent them an email but I haven't heard back yet so I guess I will have to find the phone number and call

Game questions

I have owned my Atrix 2 for around a week now and im very satisfied with it.
The only issue im seeing is that ALOT of the best games (modern combat, nova, asphalt 6) etc. Are not compatible with this phone.
Is this just because its new and the devs will update their games for it? Or would i have to install a different ROM or something? Answers are appreciated.
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I think it has something to do with the cpu/gpu not being compatible with tegra 2 based games.
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Wow. That sucks. So ill never be able to play Modern Combat or anything even if i installed a different ROM? Sorry, i'm new to Android.
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As far as I am aware those games as in Asphalt 6 etc. have Nothing to do with needing a Tegra Processor considering I can play them on my Old MyTouch 4G which I know for a Fact does not have a Tegra Chip and I also never did the thing to make the games Think it has one. They are just Gameloft Games and if you Look at what is pre-loaded on the Phone (Letsgolf 2) is installed which is a Gameloft Game so my assumption is they are still working on optimizing the games for this GPU/CPU Chipset and or they already have and you are loading Out of Date Versions.
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Yea I was right I went straight to Gameloft's Website and tried to get GT Racing Free+ and it is currently Not available for the device so it gives an option below showing which games Are available and the Ones showing that will function on this phone are Uno, N.O.V.A 2 - Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance HD, The Oregon Trail HD, and Spider-Man: Total Mayhem HD.

Thanks so much for your info. So with a little patience you think theyll be optimized for this lovely phone, correct?

And im not loading any out of date versions, at the app store they dont even show up on the list, which means they are not compatible

They should be compatible sooner or later. The PowerVR SGX540 GPU is very common among Android phones (all the Galaxy S phones use it, the new Galaxy Nexus uses it).

Yea I'm pretty sure it is just a matter of getting the phones optimized for the GPU and screen resolutions etc.

We should start a thread with a list of working games.
I have Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction (Gameloft) working with no problems at all on my Atrix 2 :-D

By all means you should in the general section. Go for it!
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Any news for compatible games for the Atrix 2?

I also have Captain America working without any problems as well!

I was able to find a working version of Order & Chaos...
good thing too..I was beginning to get the shakes