Hello Everyone.
I have just purchased a Sony Experia play for my sons Christmas present.
All I know is it is unlocked to any network and this is purchased from the UK.
What if anything are the 1st steps to enable emulation rom loading etc. on this phone. ??
I can`t find any tutorials on the 1st steps to take. Out of the box (Not even sure there are any)
Or is the phone good to go ….as it is with loading rom emulation etc.
There is no FAQ on this subject at all, and if there is?? I can`t find them.
Basically I would like my son to be able to acquire all the Good Stuff that this phone is capable of getting. E.g.: loading Roms. Iso, game files, emulation etc. etc. (like the psp, if this is even possible?)
Thank you for your time and any help.
Basically, you just have to install the emulator apps, load some roms into the sd card, do some quick configurations, and it's ready to go.
Gameboid, snesoid, n64oid, fpse are the most popular ones. You'll have to map the buttons to the gamepad first though. GBA emulators require a gba bios file. Finding one for the emulator using google shouldn't be too difficult.
Google keeps removing emulators from the market, but you can get the "oid" ones from slideme. There's an app called "emulator roms plus" that will help you find emulators, roms, and it can also install a gba bios. Personally I use tiger gba, tiger snes and tiger genesis (by Tiger King) instead of the "oid" versions.
You can either download the apps with your computer, load them onto your sd, then install, or use the phone's internet browser and download directly from there.
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Hello Thank you Sir for your input..
Dam after reading numerous threads on rooting and bootloader unlocking I was under the impression ,that I had to do some major flashing to enable some sort of custom FW to get this Beast to run all the good stuff.
Real glad that this is not the case.
xval66 said:
Hello Thank you Sir for your input..
Dam after reading numerous threads on rooting and bootloader unlocking I was under the impression ,that I had to do some major flashing to enable some sort of custom FW to get this Beast to run all the good stuff.
Real glad that this is not the case.
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No, most of the good stuff is available out of the box. You only need to root/unlock if you want to do technical things like overclock, edit system files, and install custom roms/kernels.
xval66 said:
Hello Thank you Sir for your input..
Dam after reading numerous threads on rooting and bootloader unlocking I was under the impression ,that I had to do some major flashing to enable some sort of custom FW to get this Beast to run all the good stuff.
Real glad that this is not the case.
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The plays dual channel DDR2 ram means it can pretty much handle anything you can throw at it straight out of the box.
Bootloader unlocking/rooting ect is more for people that like to mod the phone and for flashing custom roms ect
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AndroHero said:
flashing custom roms ect
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Are you allowed to elaborate on this please if the rules permit ??
This sounds like err not too legal or am I missing somthing.
Sorry if this sounds like a real silly question ...and if it is ? Then please shoot me down for asking it.
Thank you for your continued Support and help.
Best Regards.
xval66 said:
Are you allowed to elaborate on this please if the rules permit ??
This sounds like err not too legal or am I missing somthing.
Sorry if this sounds like a real silly question ...and if it is ? Then please shoot me down for asking it.
Thank you for your continued Support and help.
Best Regards.
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Flashing custom roms is legal, though you have to unlock your bootloader to do so and that might void your warranty as SE put's it. So if you mean by 'not legal' is the same as voiding your warranty, then yes.
As said in this thread it do most things out of the box and pretty good i might ad
Regards Dousan...
Thanks Guy`s you have made it almost crystal for me now with the experia play options.
Really appreciate all your help and advice.
Thank You.
On an added note any general computer experience with emulators or file browsing and opening will help you work this emulator app's pretty fine
fpse and gameboid will need bios files if you need a hand finding them just reply here i'm sure more than enough people will help you
also in fpse once you have loaded the bios save the settings so as you don't have to load the bios everytime you open the emulator app.
other information including compatability with the emulator is over in the themes and apps thread!
Your son is going to love this phone, it's so pro!
xval66 said:
Are you allowed to elaborate on this please if the rules permit ??
This sounds like err not too legal or am I missing somthing.
Sorry if this sounds like a real silly question ...and if it is ? Then please shoot me down for asking it.
Thank you for your continued Support and help.
Best Regards.
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Custom roms are custom software for your device, most custom roms are based on the offical sony software. But some like CM7 are built from source (AOSP).
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"custom roms" when talking about bootloaders and such = custom Android installation
"roms" when talking about emulators = the games themselves
A lot of newbies seem to get confused by these terms being used in more than one context within a single thread.
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tekken179 said:
fpse and gameboid will need bios files if you need a hand finding them just reply here i'm sure more than enough people will help you
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Afaik it's not legal to share the bios file's, you'll have to google them yourself, but is easily found when doing so and wich ones to use for best results
Ohh and it's not allowed on xda to share, link or discuss warez and such
Regards Dousan...
Hello everyone. It's my first post so I'm supposed to say something more bout me. All I can say so far is I'm new into android device but I had updated my Desire FW to 2.3.3 GB.
Let's back to the topic. I'm literally dying to play this game as it's one of my fav types so far. I can't download it from Market, can't deceive market that I'm using other phone (trying to edit build.prop but it didnt work at all). I have rooted my phone as well to do those mentioned. I won't give up because everybody know as a fact it's possible to play this game on our Desires and it's quite rude of Gameloft they 'don't support our phones' (their official website don't, I'd try it as well). Desire S is almost like a twin (but quite younger ).
I apologize if this threat has been mentioned before, I used seach feature and didn't find anything special.
If you guys know how to solve this problem (I'm fighting this 3rd day actually) please let me know in this thread or either pm.
Try MarketEnabler from the market.
I found a way out of this misery. I actually purchased a game for other device (DS in that case). It works perfect, no lag, no dc's. Just brilliant
If somebody will find it useful and has quite similar problem as me, try to do it on gameloft.com . I have this game cheaper than the market (£3.00) and it's just a text with link to game download which starts automatically. It's just .apk so it should be working whatever your device is.
Found that SOE has a section on android market, but says its not available for my carriers in USA.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sony.playstation.NCUA94608_0&hl=en
Found a few more listed, not many comments on them, so Ill assume its not really known. Anyone have info about these? Thanks.
Edit: Well seems verizon and so just are screwed, anyone manage with CM7 to get around this and get the playstation pocket going?
Hey everyone, I'v been searching around and noticed that this place seems to have the answers. I have a few questions and some things which I'm not sure should happen to my Xperia Play.
Firstly, I noticed that I cannot update Facebook. I don't use it, but the fact that I get a error which is "Error whilst proceeding purchase" is really annoying me. Plus the fact I'v notice apps missing in the my apps is really annoying me. Has anyone else had this?
Another one is I downloaded RF2012 from gameloft. Once it downloaded, my internal memory went straight down to 36KB from 50MB even with it being on my SD card. Once I turned my phone on and off, all my home screens where back to factory and RF2012 was not playable but was on my phone. I noticed that this has happened to someone else and I'm wondering has anyone got it installed successfully. Here is the other thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1564261
Finally, this is more of a noob question, and I didnt want to hijack the thread. I saw someone whos from the UK mentioned King of Fighters. I know that this is a port from the iPhone/iPod version and have seen videos of people playing it on there android phone, including Xperia Play. I'v searched on the market and cannot find it. Is it not officially released in the UK? Heres the thread and post by sufy1000
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560805
Hello yes it's me sufy1000.
I can't find King of Fighters on google play as well guess the developer might have removed it ( I have no idea why....)
The link for King of Fighters on Google Play used to be https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ggee.vividruntime.gg_1403, if you want to keep checking that link to see if they ever re-add it
I have seen videos on the internet of people playing minecraft on the ouya. I loaded it from my gs2 and the controlls dont work at all. What can I do to make it work???
Why is this forum dead .. ;/
SpencerWeiss said:
Why is this forum dead .. ;/
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Apparently everyone is either content with what they have (including me) and don't bother adding too much stuff, or they have given up on the OUYA and they curse the day
Anyway, to stay on the topic, I tried a handful of stuff and apps but I could never get it to work. The new Amazon Fire TV has a special edition of the Minecraft that works with only their controller. So either someone finds a way to rip it off and port it to the OUYA, or you have to wait for the coming 1.0 version which the developers said it would probably have controller support.
I know this doesn't help, but even all the people asked in the youtube video comments but the guy never answered. I also seen a post on Google+ saying he is playing Minecraft on Hisense Google TV but again, he never answered my question...