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PSX4Droid - Any issues?

I was thinking about checking this emulator out to finally (maybe) play FF7. However, when I looked at it in the market, there were a lot of complaints about it not being updated anymore, and some performance/playability issues? Has anyone recently tried it on recently released phones (I have a stock DroidX)?

plays great on my incredible

There are many problems with the emulator. It will only run SOME games okay. The games it runs just seem to be random.
FF7 will work just fine... seems to be an easy game to emulator. However, another simple game like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is unplayable.
Most games are probably unplayable if you like sound. The sound is so bad on most games that you have to mute it.
The list of games that work perfectly is probably under 20... and most of those are games you don't care about
The emulator is no longer supported by the developer. He even made a comment on twitter saying "what needs to be updated?"
The emulator ignores the phones GPU and only runs off of the CPU... so faster phones don't get any performance gain. It also needs a ton of compatibility fixes, as there are so many games that just do not work.
With that being said, if the only game you want to play is FF7, you're in luck! Is it worth the money? Not if you ask me.....

Is there another PS emulator that is better supported, and works with more games?

sfreemanoh said:
Is there another PS emulator that is better supported, and works with more games?
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There is no other PSX emulator

Any games like oblivion or Diablo?

Perferbally 2D since my phone is not the moat powerful, but 3d is fine too. Also classic games (gba, SMEs, etc) are welcome too. Thanks!
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There are games like Destinia, Zenonia and such, not ideal but hey..
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okmijnlp said:
There are games like Destinia, Zenonia and such, not ideal but hey..
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Hey thanks for the quick reply, but yeah I've tried zenonia2, put a good dozen or so hours into that before I realized that it was a bit too repeitive for me haha. I guess i'll try the newer zenonia 4 but with the pay2win model gamevil put into that I'm not even Sure if I will enjoy it hahaha
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If you have a tegra 2/3 device try soulcraft thd (might work on non tegra devices now though. Great graphics, still in beta I think).
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ReDDs3D said:
I guess i'll try the newer zenonia 4 but with the pay2win model gamevil put into that I'm not even Sure if I will enjoy it hahaha
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Zenonia 3 was fun even without paying anything

joefarar said:
If you have a tegra 2/3 device try soulcraft thd (might work on non tegra devices now though. Great graphics, still in beta I think).
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Soulcraft is not optimized for anything really.. On my One X and it lags constantly. You play for 30 seconds, and you're done with a map, and then there's the loading screen. Honestly, you look at the loading screen way more often than actually playing the game.

Avadon: The Black Fortress was released as part of the Humble Bundle, just requires a 1280x800 or higher resolution screen.

Not sure if it would be too resource intensive, but I'd recommend Dungeon Hunter. Playing the first few quests really resparked some Diablo nostalgia.

Haha I had the lite version on my iPod touch a while back, damn that was fun . I did not know that it was on Android!
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ReDDs3D said:
Also classic games (gba, SMEs, etc) are welcome too.
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If you are after classic games then download the emulators for the play store;
'Gameboy Colour A.D.' = Gameboy/Gameboy Colour emulator and is (free)
'GenPlusDroid' = Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear and Master System emulator (free and paid versions)
'SuperGNES' = Snes emulator (free and paid versions)
'Mojo NES' = Nes emulator (free and paid versions)
'N64 Emulator' = As title (free)
'PSX Emulator' = Playstation One emulator (free and paid versions / 'FPse for android' is better but only paid)
'Marvin - ZX Spectrum Emulator' = As description (free)
'CPS2HD Emulator' = Capcom emulator (paid only)
There are of course many others and alternatives to the ones mentioned above but thought these were worth mentioning as many have free versions to play with.

I haven't had the time to test it toroughly, but you might want to look into Delver: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5pbnRlcnJ1cHQuZHVuZ2VvbmVlciJd

kil43 said:
If you are after classic games then download the emulators for the play store;
'Gameboy Colour A.D.' = Gameboy/Gameboy Colour emulator and is (free)
'GenPlusDroid' = Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear and Master System emulator (free and paid versions)
'SuperGNES' = Snes emulator (free and paid versions)
'Mojo NES' = Nes emulator (free and paid versions)
'N64 Emulator' = As title (free)
'PSX Emulator' = Playstation One emulator (free and paid versions / 'FPse for android' is better but only paid)
'Marvin - ZX Spectrum Emulator' = As description (free)
'CPS2HD Emulator' = Capcom emulator (paid only)
There are of course many others and alternatives to the ones mentioned above but thought these were worth mentioning as many have free versions to play with.
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I've really wanted to play gba and Snes games so I downloaded gameboid and Snes9x and Snes9x works perfectly without a hitch but on gameboid I get some bad sound glitchyness which annoys the hell outta me, which makes no sense as snes is a harder console to emulate than gba
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Yeah, SuperGNES, AFAIK, is only free if you don't want/need to save. If you want to save you have to pay. Snes9x EX is free and based on the free, open source Snes9x (SuperGNES is optimized for Android, so it may be faster on some devices).
SNES harder to emulate than GBA? It's a decade older, more or less. You may be right, but it's not logical.
GameBoid runs fine on my phone, but I have a pretty solid device. I wouldn't play anything requiring quick fingers, though. Not with touch screen controls. What you want to do about that is, get a PS3 controller (about $30-$40 shipped on Newegg) and Bluetooth pair it to your phone. There's an app (Sixaxis) for getting it to work with games.
I wouldn't expect anything like Oblivion to come out for Android, but I'd love to see something like Torchlight. (To hell with Activision and Diablo.)
Oh, there are a few Nethack clones on Android, but I'm sure you don't want that pain. Nethack is the ASCII-graphics game the original Diablo is more or less based on (random dungeons, dungeons with random monsters and loot) but it is notoriously hard.

[Q] Gameloft Games Not Compatible?

Don’t know much about how compatibility is determined on the play store weather it’s up to the developer to say a device isn’t compatible. But I noticed on launch day nothing was really blocked due to compatibility but yesterday most of Gameloft’s library disappeared for me was curious if anyone was able to try Dungeon Hunter 4 & Order and Chaos on the shield.
Anyone have insight on why certain apps are being blocked?

It's a new device and normally will have to wait for game updates before certain company's list the Shield as compatible (its the game developers that enable compatibility lists on their Google dev accounts).
I do know Modern Combat 4 will work with controls on Sheild as its recently been updated with HID support but whether it's available to download is another story.
For now your probably better off sideloading games from another droid you own (if you do).
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cloudsever said:
Don’t know much about how compatibility is determined on the play store weather it’s up to the developer to say a device isn’t compatible. But I noticed on launch day nothing was really blocked due to compatibility but yesterday most of Gameloft’s library disappeared for me was curious if anyone was able to try Dungeon Hunter 4 & Order and Chaos on the shield.
Anyone have insight on why certain apps are being blocked?
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App developers can change their games compatibility. Gameloft, in general, doesn't support controller on many games, so I wouldn't be surprised if they started marking them as incompatible.

Do you happen to have a rooted phone or tablet? If you do you can download the games to that device and back them up with titanium backup. Then you can export the backup and import it to your shield if you have rooted your shield. You might be able to just pull the apk out of the titanium backup and sideload it on the shield if you have not or don't want to root the shield.
I did this exact thing with the game Avadon to get it on my Kindle Fire when I had that. It isn't pirating since you own the game and a lot of the time games will work on unsupported devices this way. Once you have them installed they typically show up in the market but will still say unsupported and not allow you to update them.
I would imagine without controller support those games would need an app like Gamekeyboard and root to emulate touch controls with the physical buttons. I am currently using that app to play Final Fantasy Dimensions with the Shield. The only thing I cannot do with the physical controls is browse the inventory out of combat. In combat and walking around I can use the physical controls fully. It's pretty awesome.

Evo_shift, how did you root the Shield? Thanks!
Edit: nvm, saw the thread.

Yeah, I was wondering why I couldn't find Modern Combat 4!

Evo_Shift said:
Do you happen to have a rooted phone or tablet? If you do you can download the games to that device and back them up with titanium backup. Then you can export the backup and import it to your shield if you have rooted your shield. You might be able to just pull the apk out of the titanium backup and sideload it on the shield if you have not or don't want to root the shield.
I did this exact thing with the game Avadon to get it on my Kindle Fire when I had that. It isn't pirating since you own the game and a lot of the time games will work on unsupported devices this way. Once you have them installed they typically show up in the market but will still say unsupported and not allow you to update them.
I would imagine without controller support those games would need an app like Gamekeyboard and root to emulate touch controls with the physical buttons. I am currently using that app to play Final Fantasy Dimensions with the Shield. The only thing I cannot do with the physical controls is browse the inventory out of combat. In combat and walking around I can use the physical controls fully. It's pretty awesome.
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Don't need root to sideload from one phone to another (or tablet or shield).
ES File Explorer supports backing up apps to .apk without root permissions. From there you just copy the APK onto the shield, launch it in a file browser and android will install. No root required.
As for final fantasy. I guess no out of combat inventory is annoying, but at least you do have native touch.
My brother had a kindle fire, we used the ES file explorer method and since then have rooted the device, added the play store and a custom launcher. Shame that you have to do those mods but once you have its definitely a bargain. Missing bluetooth and camera etc, but its cheap and runs most things pretty well we've found.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Don't need root to sideload from one phone to another (or tablet or shield).
ES File Explorer supports backing up apps to .apk without root permissions. From there you just copy the APK onto the shield, launch it in a file browser and android will install. No root required.
As for final fantasy. I guess no out of combat inventory is annoying, but at least you do have native touch.
My brother had a kindle fire, we used the ES file explorer method and since then have rooted the device, added the play store and a custom launcher. Shame that you have to do those mods but once you have its definitely a bargain. Missing bluetooth and camera etc, but its cheap and runs most things pretty well we've found.
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Wow, cool. I had no idea something like that wouldn't require root.
The lack of bluetooth is why I ended up selling the Fire when the Nexus 7 was released. It did everything I wanted it to do just fine and I got it during one of Amazon's big refurbished sales and was my first tablet so I didn't want to spend a lot because I wasn't sure I would use it. Finding out I wasn't able to use a bluetooth gamepad was a real bummer to me. Now, my kids have basically taken over the Nexus (and they are only 4 and 2 years old but there are nice educational apps). The shield is my new toy that they will not have access to and basically replaces my Nexus 7 since I only used it for gaming

I contacted Gameloft and all they said there's nothing in the works, but when there is they will announce it. Lame
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Not all games allow apk back up without root. There will be a little lock icon for the ones that are protected. I think all Gameloft games allow sideload, since the game checks your Google account during the first time opened to validate. Most games released in the past year (at least) still check the device if compatible, so even sideloading does not mean the game will actually work when you open it.

For modern combat, turn off mouse control via quick settings and the game works great.

im still waiting for my shield, does wild blood or nfs most wanted work?
I can map the keys through game keyboard if they can run on the shield

nielo360 said:
im still waiting for my shield, does wild blood or nfs most wanted work?
I can map the keys through game keyboard if they can run on the shield
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NFS Most Wanted works (touch only).
Throwing this out there. If you like racing games, be sure to check out Asphalt 8. It works and is compatible with the Shield controller.

I install the dungeon hunter 4 and use the tincore keymapper to map the screen button and work like champ.
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Are you able to set the graphics on very high on DH4?
Asphalt 8 is the first one im going to play when my shield gets here tomorrow.
i heard tegra 3 games should work/ these work on htc one x
so if anyone has:
Dungeon Hunter 2
9mm HD
would like to know the results.

Gangstar vegas works with touchscreen + high graphics mod from xda plays awsome
Im going to try mapping keys to it.

Asphalt 8 FREE for Xperia Play?

I dont know if i'm the first to discover and advertise this, i'm sharing anyway
The new FREE version of Asphalt 8 in the PLAY store are unavailable for our Xperia PLAY devices, right?
But did you know that, in the Gameloft's WAP SHOP we can download it? its the free newest version of the game, and seems optimized, since the downloaded APK title is "Asphalt_8_Free_GLShop_Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_Play_android.apk" :victory:, i'm downloading the data through wifi right now, after this i'll test and see if works :laugh:

The game for wapshop version is 1.1.1 and i already have it long ago and test it.
The game still have some of big/small lag and if you want to enter the Tokyo track, you will definetly force close.

as expected, the game is running like ****, terrible lag, what is the ****ing problem with asphalt 8? PLAY don't have enough RAM? Don't have processing power? or it's a lack of optimization?

The plays hardware is severely ancient by today's standards. I finally moved to a Nexus 5. I hated leaving the play. But it was time. The only games still being released with XP support are Kemco's JRPG games.
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It definitely works on xperia play. It even has various control profiles like "xperia play a" "xperia play b" and so on. I have played it for 1 week and it goes pretty well. It forcecloses in Tokio track cause it has an excessively decorated environment. I managed to play in tokio with turbo script and swap partition and it goes well for the first seconds, and after that it lags as hell. Looks amazing but it's a really innecesary eye candy excess for a racing game in which you only focus on driving, not on the beautiful buildings around you...
Aside from that, it takes some time to load and some animations go laggy, but others are surprisingly smooth... And the important part is that races themselves are smooth too
I'm on hyper gamer 1.2 rom with lupus ICS beta kernel, 1.6 oc and swapper2 with swappiness set to 100. I prefer not to activate turbo script for this game though.
PD: I haven't tried this game on my Xperia play because of people saying it just fc and that sh*t. Don't get convinced by everything that people say. If you can, always try things yourself and you could be awarded with a great surprise
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Asphalt 8 is now available for the Xplay in google play and is optimized
It's version 1.2.1b which has a little more improved graphics than 1.1.0 that was available on gameloft's wapshop. Also it has better multiplayer and more cars like Lamborghini gallardo, an old known but good to see again
If you login to facebook the game will retrieve your saved game you had on the wapshop version, so you can easily make the upgrade without losing your progress. Also it installs as a different app (doesn't replace 1.1.0 and doesn't recognize data files from it either so you'll have to free some space before installing)
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Still not compatible on my Play Store, and no downloadable version on my Wap Store.

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Still not compatible on my Play Store, and no downloadable version on my Wap Store.
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Try enter gameloft.com from pc browser n download asphalt 8 from there.
but the game still not very compatible. if u have windows 8 u can download it free from windows shop :laugh:

HEZAiKU said:
Try enter gameloft.com from pc browser n download asphalt 8 from there.
but the game still not very compatible. if u have windows 8 u can download it free from windows shop :laugh:
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It is windows compatible? Lol
Is an .exe file what you can get at windows shop?
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julian280 said:
It is windows compatible? Lol
Is an .exe file what you can get at windows shop?
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For Windows only for 8 and Phone. :good:
I have try to create Swap partition n using Swapper 2.
After that enable Gaming mode using Xbooster.
And then using GLTools on Asphalt 8.
I give 8/10 for this, playable and sometimes have a tiny/big lag.

[Q] Which android emulator is better to play clash of clans on pc?

recently, i just tired of playing coc on phone, and plan to play it on pc.
However i have no idea about android emulator, and wonder which one is better. THX

stephenriw said:
recently, i just tired of playing coc on phone, and plan to play it on pc.
However i have no idea about android emulator, and wonder which one is better. THX
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Iam using Memu and its working great