GemRB. Has anyone heard of this or managed to get it to work on the Kindle Fire? I first ran into this on my Moto Atrix, and was able to get it to work, but haven't yet attempted it on Kindle yet. For anyone that doesn't know, this is the Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/Planescape: Torment engine, and pretty much acts like a .exe file. The way that I got it to work on my Atrix was just to install it on my pc, then copy and paste it into a certain directory, minus the original bg.exe file. Any thoughts?
How have I never heard of this?! I am devoting all of my time to make this work starting ......now. I WILL have it! Keep this thread updated if you manage to get it to work'
Working
I managed to get it working! At least with IceWind Dale 2.
Bear with me........
1. Uninstall GemRb on your Fire
2. Reinstall Apk and choose to download ALL OPTIONS including the Baldurs Gate 2 Demo (the uninstall and reinstall may not be necessary but i did this to ensure that the .cfg file was over-written
3. As you can see the demo works flawlessly. That is tits!
4. open the directory from your kindle on your pc: app-data/gemrb .....blah blah so that the game files are showing, and move it to the side. We will be using this later.
THESE STEPS CAN BE AVOIDED IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE TO OVERWRITE. I DID NOT
PLEASE NOTE: WE WANT TO OVERWRITE THE ORIGINAL GAME WITH THE FILES ON KF NOT VICE VERSA
5. Create a folder on your desktop and name it merge or chubbles or whatever you wish.
6. open the directory on your pc. with your completely installed game . Select ALL and copy it to merge folder. Have a cup of coffee.
7. select all and CUT the files from the Kindle directory to the merge folder and overwrite all files when asked. Have another cup of coffee because this takes a while with the KF transfer speeds.
8. Select all and COPY the overwritten files back onto the KF. At this point you should probably go pee from all that coffee and the transfer speeds, at least for me, are horrendous.
9. The only other steps are to modify a few settings in Gemrb.cfg. I DID NOT change any of the pathing or directory lookup, just the Name and initials of the game (iwd2)
This should work for the other infinity engine games, although I have yet to try them. Icewind Dale 1&2 were the only games that I did not complete in my formative years.
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Hi - is there any way on PocketPC 2003 to disable access to Solitaire and Jawbreaker. I'm pretty sure I can't remove them all together as they're in the ROM - but some registry hack to prevent access to them would be sufficient.
Try this...
You don't list what device or WM versions you are using, but here are two possible solutions you could try:
1) Read through the forums specific to your device, and learn how to cook your own ROM, removing the offending software.
2) Any file in your ROM can be "overwritten" by syncing to your pc and draggin a file with the same name to the folder containing the file you wish to replace. IE. I have a small, written for the pda application, which when run, displays a pop-up saying "This software has been removed because I do not wish for anyone using this device to have fun doing so!" or similar. I then name it solitare.exe and drag it into the Windows directory from my PC. It asks me am I sure I wish to overwrite the file, I click yes and bam! the file is "replaced". (I believe what actually happens is the OS delinks the file and places the new file in the old ones placeholder on the filesystem, it is still in the ROM as that is unwritable unless flashing, but it is no longer accessable, which is what you want to happen.
tried & failed...
I've created a solitare.exe as you suggested and placed it in the Windows directory - it doesn't seem to get run when executed however - The original game still gets run - I fear I may be doing something stupid.
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gremlin said:
I've created a solitare.exe as you suggested and placed it in the Windows directory - it doesn't seem to get run when executed however - The original game still gets run - I fear I may be doing something stupid.
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Why do you want to block them?
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pneuma said:
You don't list what device or WM versions you are using, but here are two possible solutions you could try:
1) Read through the forums specific to your device, and learn how to cook your own ROM, removing the offending software.
2) Any file in your ROM can be "overwritten" by syncing to your pc and draggin a file with the same name to the folder containing the file you wish to replace. IE. I have a small, written for the pda application, which when run, displays a pop-up saying "This software has been removed because I do not wish for anyone using this device to have fun doing so!" or similar. I then name it solitare.exe and drag it into the Windows directory from my PC. It asks me am I sure I wish to overwrite the file, I click yes and bam! the file is "replaced". (I believe what actually happens is the OS delinks the file and places the new file in the old ones placeholder on the filesystem, it is still in the ROM as that is unwritable unless flashing, but it is no longer accessable, which is what you want to happen.
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Hey pneuma.
2) Isn't working for me either. I thought gremlin was doing something wrong, but I just tried it myself, and, although my "fake" solitaire.exe (a renamed app) file is there, so is the original solitaire.exe. Tapping on the Solitaire icon under games runs the game as if nothing happened, although just opening the Games folder would tell you that it didn't work (the Solitaire icon is still the cards)
What did you do that we didn't? I'm using a Universal.
Peculiar...
Personally I haven't tried this specific to the games, but there was a nasty spash screen in the new WM5 for my Himalaya that I replaced in the method detailed above. It would appear however that solitaire might be a system program, as the following files:
\windows\solitaire.lnk
\windows\start menu\solitaire.lnk
have the following Target: ":MSSOLITAIRE"
but don't despair!
If you have resco explorer or some similar mobile based explorer replacement, try edit the links to point to the replacement exe, or even delete the links altogether, as well as the Games directory under "\windows\start menu\" (might not work deleting them though).
If the deletion or edits don't work you may well have to do the same trick, replacing these .lnk files with something else.
--Marc
Thanks to pneuma I think I've got a workable solution without having to hack into the ROM!
I've created two programs (using PocketBuilder) called Solitare.exe and Jawbreaker.exe which just pop up a response window saying "This Application Has Been Disabled"
I've also created two .lnk files - solitare.lnk and jawbreaker.lnk which contain:
22#"\Windows\Solitare.exe"
and
23#"\Windows\Jawbreaker.exe"
respectively
In my boot process I copy the executables and .lnk files to the \Windows directory and also copy the .lnk files to the
\Windows\Start Menu\Program\Games\
directory.
I don't think our users (sorry to diss them) are bright enough to figure out they have to remove all of these files to get the games working again.
Thanks for all your help.
Gremlin.
gremlin said:
(sorry to diss them)
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But you're dissing them all the way by treating them like this.
Why shouldn't they be able to play Solitair or JawBreaker every now and then during a coffee of lunch break. A bit of light releif never did anyone any harm.
I'm glad I don't work with you. (Bah Humbug)
I have no say in how the users are treated - I am merely a developer - I get told what needs to be done and I do it. I can offer my suggestions at design time but ultimately it is not my decision how the users are treated on the shop floor.
If I was in management it would be a different story.
I'm lovely to work with - I make the tea and everything
gremlin said:
If I was in management it would be a different story.
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Point taken. :wink:
I would argue that it's hardly worth the effort just to piss people off.
I'll have my tea with milk and no sugar.
Sorry, meant, how do i install games onto FPSece on my LG incite
Please and thank you
I seriously doubt your PDA can even handle PSX games.. let alone store more than one ROM on your Phone.. but if you really want to then i guess you should google it.
I googled it from before, but i found the game in 30 parts (Disc 1, part 1, Dis 2, Part 2, etc...)
nd they were all RAR files, so how am i supposed to install that as a ROM
chumpu said:
I googled it from before, but i found the game in 30 parts (Disc 1, part 1, Dis 2, Part 2, etc...)
nd they were all RAR files, so how am i supposed to install that as a ROM
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The sharing of psx roms is illegal and the discussion of warez is banned on this site
EDIT: I didnt realize that talking about getting links to roms was illegal until i read the post before me so i just deleted the links
I broke down the steps just to make them easy to follow because i remember searching for a while when trying to play my first game
I assume that you already extracted teh fpsece zip file to your phone. If you didn't yet, make sure you make a new folder on your phone somewhere on the sd card and label it Fpsece, or whatever you like as long as you can locate it. When you downloaded fpsece, it should be in a zip. Extrap all of the files in the zip (yes all of them) to the folder that you created on your sd card. Once extracted, go to your phone and open up File Explorer and find the new folder you created. Next click on FPSEce.exe (it has a playstation icon). From there you should be in the main menu. Select Options, Bios, Choose bios, and select SCPH1001.BIN. Now that you have selected it, go to options, Misc, Display, and select Portrait suince you dont have a keyboard or if you have a bluetooth gaming pad, you can select Landscape.
Now to play the game, press start, and if the game ends in like .bin, .iso, .img, .nrg, .z, .bz, or .znx, press ISO and select the game. If the game ends in .psx, .exe, .elf, or .cpe, press ESE. You should be able to play the game now!
Hee hee, its Leo from VG Cats. I like their comics. Happy Holidays!
THis thread is going now where and dur to questionable material, i am closing it.
Hello there!
I installed the baseball superstar 2010 app by clicking a loose .apk that I've put onto my sd-card on my HTC Hero, and now I am wondering, where my saved season results are being stored. Or any save-files for that matter. I cannot find any result of this game on my phone.
Does anyone know where I need to look (and what app do you use to browse your files btw?) Would like to know if anyone has ever succeeded in editing these results too. And how, ofcourse
you can download astro file manager, you can search everything on your phone.
Hi there. Thanks for the tip. I think I have the location. I thought originally that it would unpack and install in some kind of folder, like all games do when you install them on a normal desktop. But.... with astro, when I click on the .apk file which I also used (I think) to install it on my phone, it asks me: browse file or open app manager. So I think the place to be is 'browse file'.
But then..... I always assumed, that my savegame, or my own personalised player would be stamped with the date of today, or yesterday, when I last played the game. But I cannot find anything recent. And there are filetypes my phone doesnt recognise, like: mpl, dat, and ptc.
So now my question is: how can I view these files on my desktop pc (because I cannot seem to browse the .apk file there) and do you have any idea which one I should try to open???
Over the weekend I played a old version of Oregon Trail (1992) on my laptop. It is a fun game that is much shorter than I remembered.
I wanted to see if I could get it to work on my EVO, and thought I would post how I did is so other people could try if they wanted.
First, you will need to download the game. It is considered abandonware now and is avaliable on several sites. I downloaded it HERE. Note that this is not an APK, it is the MS-DOS version. Extract the files onto your SD into a folder called "oregon". Easy enough.
Next go HERE to download Android DosBox. I downloaded the WVGA version as it matched my screen resolution. The instructions at that site show to use ADB to push the APK and the config file to your phone. I just copied both to my SD card, then used a file manager to open the APK and install it. Either way will work. The dosbox.conf file must be on the root of the SD card.
Now you may have noticed that it says on the Android DosBox website that there is no virtual keyboard support. This presented a challenge, but if you have a phone with no keyboard look in the market for WiFi Keyboard. Once you set it as your keyboard it will give you a site that you can go to on your computer that will allow you to type. You can also access the page from another phone and use that to type.
No we are ready. On your phone open aDosBox. The config file you put on the SD already is already programed to mount the SD card as the "S" drive and put you into that folder. So to run the program you need to type 2 commands. First type in "cd\oregon" and hit enter. Do not type the quotes. This will move you to the oregon trail folder you made, and the screen should now say "S:\Oregon\>". Now type "oregon" and the game will load.
Notice the screen while playing will not act like a normal touch screen. You have to pretend it is a touchpad like on a laptop. Slice your finger to move the mouse cursor over buttons you want to press, then tap to click. You can do the sliding and tapping on any part of the screen.
There were then a couple things I wanted to change. I wanted aDosBox to automatically open the game when I ran it, I didn't want to have to type any commands. To do this mount the SD card and use notebook to edit the dosbox.conf file that you put on the root of your SD card. It will be one long line. The last bit of this file after the [autoexec] tag is just like a .BAT file, it allows you to execute commands automatically. Right now it should say:
Code:
mount s /sdcard
s:
The mount command creates a virtual drive that DOS can see. The “s” is the letter that will represent the drive, and /sdcard means that the files on your sd card can be accessed there. The s: is a command that makes that drive the one you are using. We want it to open run the commands I told you above automatically, so press enter after the s: and type this:
Code:
Cd\oregon\
Oregon
While you have this file open you may want to change how fast the game runs. This is a trade off. If you make it run faster animations will skip more, but new screens will load MUCH faster. Look in the code for the “cycles=2100”. This is the number you want to change. I recommend 5000 for fast loading, and OK animations.
Save this file, and unmount the SD card. Now when you open the aDosBox app it will load right into Oregon Trail.
Lastly, The Wifi Keyboard is a bit wonky in the game. If numbers are not working or it will only type CAPS then hold shift while you type the next letter. Then delete that letter and re type. I found that worked.
I thought that I would share this so other people could try it. I think it would be better with more mouse orientated games like “Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiago.” I hope at least someone likes this.
Also, try and beat 9328 as a high score!
Nice guide. Tried to run duke3d but i got a not enough memory error
Foreword : Without you guys, my Evo, my Fire, and my Iconia would not be what they are today (rooted and humming along). While I'm no programming genius, I discovered this trick this morning, and wanted to pass along a little something for the community that has helped me out so much. Without further ado...
For this you need the game Siegecraft installed on a rooted android device, a root file explorer, (I use Estrong's), and a pc. Difficulty=cakewalk
1) use your root explorer to navigate to the Siegecraft install location. On my Acer Iconia A100 it's /data/data/com.blowfishstudios/siegecrafthd
2) go into the "shared_prefs" folder. You should see only one file: com.blowfishstudios.siegecrafthd.xml copy this file to the desktop of your computer via lan or usb hook-up. delete the original xml file.
3) right click on the xml file, and choose "edit." find this line of code:
<int name="coins.avail.beta01" value="x" />
"x" is the amount of coins you currently have. change the value in between the quotations to 100000000, and save the file.
4) transfer the xml file back to the directory you got it from, and then restart your device.
5) start the Siegecraft game, and then go straight to the shop. you should see 100m in coins. pat yourself on the back that you just saved yourself over $180 in real money (if you would have bought 6 of the "Dragon's Hoard" in-game.
I've tried this using just Estrong's text editor, to save the trouble of having to transfer the file back and forth, but I just can't get it to work. Maybe someone smarter than me will figure it out.
Enjoy!
I have a picture proving this works, but the forum won't let me post the link. Still a noob I guess.
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