You know you've wanted to play some games on an emulator on your phone. Old classics from the NES/SNES/GameBoy era.
Here's what I've tried so far (all under CM7):
Using my wiimote + nunchuck:
Download BluezIME-v1.14-Wiimote.apk (or the latest version that ends with Wiimote) from http://code.google.com/p/android-bluez-ime/downloads/list
Install it, and select Bluez IME as your input method. (Settings > Language and Keyboard)
Put your Wiimote into discoverable mode by pressing and holding 1 + 2 until the 4 indicator lights start flashing
After a few moments, BluezIME will recognize your Wiimote and list it
Select the Wiimote
Now you can use your Wiimote as a virtual keyboard!
Go into your emulator and select keyboard as input method, and configure the keys to your liking.
So far I've only tried SNESDroid as an emulator, but this should work with ANYTHING that accepts keyboard input, including your SMS app, web browser, etc. It's mapping your Wiimote keys to keys on a virtual keyboard on your phone.
Enjoy!
I'm big on emulators. I actually have quite the collection of real Sega, NES, and SNES cartridges. I wish VB supported the bluetooth drivers needed to use controller connectivity. I love having SNESDroid. I use my PS3 controller as an SNES controller for my emulator on my laptop. With CM9 about to drop, I will definately be making the switch, and hopefully CM9 will support the bluetooth drivers needed.
I would love to play someone in some Killer Instinct, or something else if they want to play on a PC emulator. All you need is ZSNES v1.42, the ROM, and Hamachi. Works perfect. I have a killer instinct tourney server on Hamachi.
Wodensman said:
I'm big on emulators. I actually have quite the collection of real Sega, NES, and SNES cartridges. I wish VB supported the bluetooth drivers needed to use controller connectivity. I love having SNESDroid. I use my PS3 controller as an SNES controller for my emulator on my laptop. With CM9 about to drop, I will definately be making the switch, and hopefully CM9 will support the bluetooth drivers needed.
I would love to play someone in some Killer Instinct, or something else if they want to play on a PC emulator. All you need is ZSNES v1.42, the ROM, and Hamachi. Works perfect. I have a killer instinct tourney server on Hamachi.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow, now I feel old after readying that... Lol
Sent from...that shallow place in the back 40
So, does anyone want to play some SNES with me? You need zsnes 1.42 and Hamachi. I mainly play Killer Instinct and Biker Mice From Mars, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors. pm me for details.
As for emulating on phones, The app fb recommended doesn't have Sixaxis support yet, so I use Sixaxis Controller app. On the ICS roms, when you use that app, it makes the emulator a little laggy at times, like during high combos on KI.
wicked4u2c has posted a video on how to set up emulators on Android devices. He covers downloading the emulators/games, setting up wireless controllers, and connecting your device to your TV. If you get the chance, watch some more of his videos, they're excellent and cover many different Android related topics!
Also, while the free emulators are decent enough, I personally use Robert Broglia's emulators. They do cost a few bucks for each one, but his emulators are extremely accurate and very customizable. The ones I use (MD.emu, NES,emu, GBA.emu) run great on the Galaxy S 4G with only minor slowdowns here and there.
Have you guys heard about the new dream cast emulator?
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
So cool fb ! and dreamcast emu ? Where ? Dreamcast was pretty much the last console i bought.... i feel so old
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda premium
I love snes9x ex it has Wiimote support built in. Can't wait for this Aries build with tv out! It's gonna be epic!
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
Has anybody played with the dreamcast emu nullDCe I have it on my pc and found out that someone has made a android version. Well I've downloaded it and I get as far as the dreamcast logo any ideas
Sent from my SGH-T959V with Cm9 using xda app-developers app
Tunderpimp said:
Has anybody played with the dreamcast emu nullDCe I have it on my pc and found out that someone has made a android version. Well I've downloaded it and I get as far as the dreamcast logo any ideas
Sent from my SGH-T959V with Cm9 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Whoa, nullDC for Android? Do you have a link to the emulator? I'd definitely like to give that a try
http://www.mediafire.com/?cskk4r8wvb97n9r
That should be it. I found a Sega Saturn one too I'll find the link to that one. When I've got a little more time.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
Here's a link to the Sega Saturn one you can choose the build.
http://www.paulscode.com/forum/index.php?topic=200.msg3051#msg3051
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
I sure many of you know about Dosbox, those who don't you can play old Dos based games like mechwarrior, xcom, and warcraft 2 the best part is battlenet works!
Sent from my SGH-T959V with Cm9
Phonejoy work?
Can anyone tell me if phonejoy works with our phones? I'm on Gingerbread trying to find a controller that works.
Wow. For once I am glad someone pulled up an old thread. Been trying to connect the wii remote for a week now
Sent from my Xoom using xda app-developers app
@ Cooptx- I read something about Samsung have f'ed something on our phones....something to do with L2cap connectivity.
As fb said he got it working, but he was on an MTD rom. I'm trying to get it on BML.
Look up Phonejoy. I've read about success stories with our device, I just can't figure out where to buy. The website is in between repairs.
BML is GB roms right? I am on MTD, so I should be fine.
Sent from my Xoom using xda app-developers app
Yeah mtd works fine with Wiimotes but not so great with tv out
bml is the opposite. Can't win.
Ultragen has tv out with no green bar in landscape. It seemed to be a pretty solid rom too. I just like GB better. Seems to be snappier for me. My quad scores are double on GB also. I think this phonejoy thing is gonna be the best bet for our phones on GB. However, the website seems to be out of stock.
[email protected] said:
Ultragen has tv out with no green bar in landscape.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really?! Hmm. Gonna have to look into this!
Related
Just read on Engadget that a Nintendo64 emulator has finally been released for Android!
Its called N64oid and is $5.99 on the market, but worth every penny. Still a little laggy with some games, but pretty good. Played Mario Kart64 with no issues, but will probably struggle with more CPU intensive games such as Goldeneye.
Market link: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.androidemu.n64
I just...downloaded it...thank you for sharing.
Edit: I bestow your first thanks upon thy username.
I'm really curious to see how people can get these games to run on our evos, keep us posted!
Sent from my EVO 4G running MIUI with the XDA app!
now if only we had a fix for the bluetooth to allow the use of a wireless controller, this would be perfect
I really believe in the developer especially having bought Snesoid from him and played it religiously like everyday! Games were really laggy at first but the first update made super mario 64 work SMOOTH
Its time like this that I wish I had the Motorola Zoom. This would be so awesome to play on that.
Iflyrc said:
now if only we had a fix for the bluetooth to allow the use of a wireless controller, this would be perfect
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get wiimote from the market, it allows you to use your wii remote as the controller i dont think it works with sense though
Mario 64 here i come..yes!!
Just tested it out...with mario kart 64 and super mario 64.
list of problems i have:
sound is very laggy(i figured this one)
Mario kart froze on me 3 times in a row before it fully worked(but then it ran pretty good)
Super Mario 64 sound was ok and ran right out the gate.
Great work for the first release!
Zori said:
I'm really curious to see how people can get these games to run on our evos, keep us posted!
Sent from my EVO 4G running MIUI with the XDA app!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You download the app via google/market, install, the you just search [insert N64 game] rom, then put the zip file on your sdcard, open the app, find it, and start playing.
astacks said:
Get wiimote from the market, it allows you to use your wii remote as the controller i dont think it works with sense though
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you gotten it to work? I downloaded it, and shows it as connected in the app, but when I enable other inputs [ie bluetooth gamepad ] in the N64 emulatore, it doesn't work.
Are you using a sense rom, because I don't believe it will work with sense?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
theundeadelvis said:
Are you using a sense rom, because I don't believe it will work with sense?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, I'm on AOSP [CM7] When I'm in the wiimote app, I can see it confirming when I press B, 1,2, home ect, as the keys on the screen light up and its connected successfully. Just when I try to use it in the game, it doesn't work.
So I take it this emulator runs relatively well on our evo?
jxr94 said:
So I take it this emulator runs relatively well on our evo?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah it works pretty well. Still a little laggy here and there, and won't play some games at all. But other than that, its pretty sweet.
Conker
Does conkers bad fur day work? That seemed to be pretty CPU intensive.
Awesome news. SOmeone post a vid!
jjcd51590 said:
Does conkers bad fur day work? That seemed to be pretty CPU intensive.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No reason it shoudn't, if its laggy, overclock a little bit.
teh roxxorz said:
You download the app via google/market, install, the you just search [insert N64 game] rom, then put the zip file on your sdcard, open the app, find it, and start playing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha I meant like how well, I know how to run them I just meant I've been running psx emulators for a while with only moderate success and since n64 is running at 64 bit I was wondering how well it ran. Thank you though, that was very considerate!
Sent from my EVO 4G running MIUI with the XDA app!
Has anyone got paper mario working on this?
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
jgalan14 said:
Has anyone got paper mario working on this?
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No wont even boot up I tired several different roms from different sites all don't work...
One of them did cause the screen to flip but the on screen controls never showed up and then it just goes back to the rom list.
Has anyone got the wiimote to connect with their infuse? I would really like to use it with n64oid but it just wont work! Any ideas??
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
not compatable with the samsung bluetooth stack, if you want to downgrade to bt2.1 it might work but i ont really know how to do that. better off waiting for cm7
What wiimote? The Nintendo wii remote? You are kidding right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
rjan22 said:
What wiimote? The Nintendo wii remote? You are kidding right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what's there to kid about. many phones can connect to the wii mote. search the market. there are a few app that accomplish syncing a wiimote to android. unfortunately the wii mote is not compatible with the Samsung bt3.0 stack. cm7 is bt2.1 and fixes that problem.
rjan22 said:
What wiimote? The Nintendo wii remote? You are kidding right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No joke...thanks for responding before doing a basic Google or market search...its working on my atrix but the infuse has a much better screen and HDMI mirror function
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
Ok sorry I didn't know you 2 are kids, because I can't see adult using this on a smartphone.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
umm wii mote + hdmi+ smartphone + sega emulator = portable entertainment and a way to make friends envious. it is a common request actually and its great for travel and parties (my friends are geeks-hence me frequently visiting a cell phone forum) and it is great especially if you have kids or a nephew (I have 2 nephews)
This sounds awesome. Any other non-conventional devices connect to the phone?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
well the wii mote doesn't work on the infuse(works on most other androids) , but you can use a standard mouse and keyboard to game and navigate the ui. there are some game controlers that work but I can't remember which ones. search the sgs sections if you are interested.
Awesome, keyboard/mouse would come in handy considering these come with HDMI adapters, tomorrow will be a fun day. Lol
Infused Infuse
rjan22 said:
Ok sorry I didn't know you 2 are kids, because I can't see adult using this on a smartphone. [End quote]
Its an android phone...you have no games or fun apps? Why didn't you get a blackberry buzz killington? Why click on this topic?
And I will look for those other controllers in the cappy forum...thanks!!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
Anyone know of a way to change the Bluetooth stack manually because I had it working on cm7 captivate........
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
CM7 uses "googles bluetooth stack which is why it works. This might point someone in the right direction as I have no idea on how to change it.
On all non AOSP kernels the "Bluez" Stack has to be cooked into it. It's tougher than..., well I don't want to mention it.... and easier done with CM which is based off of AOSP.
Same with Sense roms as well, which is why I had such a hard time bouncing between AOSP and sense roms when I had my N1.....
Plus with our HDMI output, wouldn't it be just as easy to use the onscreen buttons on the phone even though there will be an overlay on the main screen...?
Well I got it to connect to my Infuse (and Touchpad). All the keystrokes are detected. Only problem is that they don't translate in N64oid or Tiger Snes--as if they aren't working.
Anybody find a workaround?
bedwa said:
On all non AOSP kernels the "Bluez" Stack has to be cooked into it. It's tougher than..., well I don't want to mention it.... and easier done with CM which is based off of AOSP.
Same with Sense roms as well, which is why I had such a hard time bouncing between AOSP and sense roms when I had my N1.....
Plus with our HDMI output, wouldn't it be just as easy to use the onscreen buttons on the phone even though there will be an overlay on the main screen...?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Most emus with external controller support have the option to disable the controller overlay. Doesn't do you any good to not have the overlay without external input though, but I have tested this via HDMI output on the *-oid emus
havent tried wii mote, but i have successfully connected a ps3 controller & used it with psx4droid & snesoid
from Sams inFuse... inFused GB
Though the product title might suggest a bladder control product for the elderly, the iControlPad is one amazing gamepad!
I received my iControlPad from the UK yesterday. It was everything I hoped it could be. It works beautifully with the emulators I had already on the my phone.
Connected pretty easily with the Bluez IME app installed and only took a few seconds to configure key mappings in each emulator.
I put a video up showing how the Continuum mounts with the universal bracket and how it looks in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRhYaTzIzE
That is awesome! How does it actually connect to the phone so that the controller works? I dont see it plugged in anywhere.
Nice... how much does that thing go for?
And what about battery life?
Also, does it work with all emulators?
I just got my first one yesterday, so I'm new to the emulator thing. Seems pretty cool though!
Especially for downtime for me at work and basically just anytime for my kids....
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA App
It works beautifully with all the emulators I've tried.
It has a lithium-ion battery....I haven't really played extensively on it but the battery hasn't been an issue whenever I've used it.
It connects to the phone via bluetooth.
There is an app called Bluez IME that treats the iControlPad as an external keyboard if you will, so that any game that allows for keyboard controls can use the iControlPad.
The problem I've found so far, is I haven't been able to use the analog nubs as true analog controls. The Bluez IME app doesn't have analog support for the iControlPad yet....and I haven't spent a lot of time looking for ways to use the analog nubs in any games.
with shipping, it was $89.
yeah, that's rough.....but the shipping was about $25.
What emulator are you using?
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA App
samuelhadams said:
What emulator are you using?
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://roms4droid.com
has all our needs
I use NESOID, SNES9x EX, and N64OID. I used to use SNESOID but there are some graphic issues I noticed in some games that aren't there in SNES9x EX.
Unfortunately, at the moment, N64OID doesn't rotate either way, which forces you to mount the ICP one way.....and that happens to be the way I'd prefer not to mount it.
I know this app wasn't working in Honeycomb, but yesterday I thought about giving it another shot after FPSe refused to run Chrono Cross without crashing, and low and behold it worked.
So yeah PSX4droid 3.0.7 works on ICS for some reason unknown to me, and the settings are a lot less painful than FPSe.
I do not condone nor like warez
So any mods etc read that line before judgement
Do you have the apk for this as i know the app was removed from the market and available for free on some websites with the developers open consent and or permission but i cannot seem to find it at the moment.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
The reason it was removed from the market is because Zodttd had some issues with google market removing his apps due to some stupid reason which hes fighting. But hes also considering removing from Cydia on apple jailbroken devices as well.
i will try 3.0.7 later. i know 3.0.5 did not work.
I came across the actual apk on his site a couple times but I know it wasn't easy to find.
I just went ahead and bought fpse, it works so much better for me on my phone and tablet. And plus, I have a ps1 and ps2 emulator on my laptop as well.
I2IEAILiiTY said:
I came across the actual apk on his site a couple times but I know it wasn't easy to find.
I just went ahead and bought fpse, it works so much better for me on my phone and tablet. And plus, I have a ps1 and ps2 emulator on my laptop as well.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also brought fpse but with the openGL plugin it is running like crap atm and i cant figure it out so while i was figuring it out PSX4Droid was going to be my dummy box lol.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
Danzano said:
I also brought fpse but with the openGL plugin it is running like crap atm and i cant figure it out so while i was figuring it out PSX4Droid was going to be my dummy box lol.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yea I haven't messed with opengl on here too much cause I mostly play on my laptop.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2
I have an ICS rom on my Xperia Play so I can play Nintendo 64 games on N64oid emulator with touchpad support, that is awesome. But now I want to install a GB rom, so I was wondering if there is some way to keep the touchpad support. A lot of sources on the web confirm that this is an ICS exclusive (for some reasons), somebody knows if it's possible to solve this problem?
Thanks for reading
EDIT: I know that Mupen has touchpad support on GB (and that it offer more precise controls), but it isn't as good as N64oid is.
If it were that easy, it would have been done. Its been mentioned countless times, and its not happening. Sorry.
Sent from my R800i using xda app-developers app
It works with Gamekeyboard.
cyraxx84 said:
It works with Gamekeyboard.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
... Gamekeyboad has touchpad support? I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.