I know there's already a thread on Games but its specific to Honeycomb for now so I think I would ask on a separate thread so it's easier to weed out answers specific to ICS compatible games.
EDIT: Updated to ICS also to run my own tests. Thanks also to those who have contributed.
EDIT2: If you want to edit build prop to emulate a500 to see your games again, you can follow crossix root mod and edit the build.prop under /data/local/rootme/loop
Thanks to crossix for his root and help with build prop location to edit.
Make sure to make a back up of original or rename it.
Heres what I edited: According to crossix you probably just need to update the 2 ro.build lines but I havent done it that way yet.
ro.product.model=A500
ro.product.brand=acer
ro.product.name=a500_ww_gen1
ro.product.device=picasso
ro.product.board=picasso
ro.build.description=a500_ww_gen1-user 4.0.3 IML74K 1328620975 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=acer/a500_ww_gen1/picasso:4.0.3/IML74K/1328620975:user/release-keys
Please be careful to edit the exact lines or you may brick your device. If you do brick I assume a hard reset or flash update.zip again will bring the original back.
GL games I can see again:
Asphalt 6
Back stab
9 mm
MC3
Order n chaos
Tin tin
Nova 2
GT racing
Brothers in arms
Block breaker 3
NFL pro 2012
Gets golf 3
Oregon trail
Fantasy town
Green farm
Uno
Real soccer 2012
Games before build prop edit. Haven't checked if they still show but should work with stock build.prop
Aftermath XHD
Bang Bang Racing
Castle of Shadows
Dead on Arrival
Drag Racing
Galaxy on Fire 2
Gun Bros
Intertia
Samurai Vengeance 2
Sleepy Jack
Shadown gun
Crazy Snowboard
Soulcraft THD
Asphalt 6 thx to jahciple
Destroy Gunners thx to jahciple
tip-off thx to jahciple
Words with Friends thx to jahciple
Brisksaber thx to jahciple
Jewels thx to jahciple
Frontline Commando thx to jahciple
Overkill thx to jahciple
NFL Pro 2012 thx to jahciple
Roc of Champions thx to jahciple
Lane Splitter thx to jahciple
Drift Mania thx to jahciple
Top Truck thx to jahciple
order & chaos thx crossix
Sonic 4 Episode 1 thx fisterkev
Sonic CD thx fisterkev
Sentinel 3 thx fisterkev
Jelly Defender thx fisterkev
Cordy thx fisterkev
Monopoly thx fisterkev
Anomaly Warzone Earth HD thx fisterkev
Deadspace thx pintek
Osmos HD thx to pintek
Meteor Blitz thx to pintek
Blood and Glory (NR) - does not show up in market though - thx to theonew
Pocket Legends - thx to theonew
Star Legends - thx to theonew
Raging Thunder 2 - thx to theonew
Gangstar Rio: City of Saints - thx to theonew
Temple Run - thx to theonew
GTA 3 - thx to theonew
Battlefield 2 Bad Company - thx to theonew
Dungeon Hunter 3 - thx theonew
Thx to onurus for these updates:
Angry Birds Space
Defender II
Radiant Defence
Temple Run
NOVA 3
Thanks Deshabilitado.
green farm
I updated without doing the factory reset and all my games still work.
hanging with friends, asphalt 6, tip-off, dgunners, etc.
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jahciple said:
I updated without doing the factory reset and all my games still work.
hanging with friends, asphalt 6, tip-off, dgunners, etc.
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Thats great news. I will update thx. And which D gunners?
Asphalt 6
Dgunners
tip-off
You can't use the old build.prop for the HC rom on ICS, I'm working on a new build.prop though...
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You can't use the old build.prop for the HC rom on ICS, I'm working on a new build.prop though...
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You're right I was thinking he mightve used your build prop and it stayed the same after he updatedto ICS. But ofcourse it would've overwritten it. And ya ICS build prop is not the same as HC. Which I should already know. Doh! What a newb!
Can't wait for your build prop for ICS. That and root.
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I did use crossix build.prop, but it overwrites it when flashing ics.
Dgunners as in Destroy Gunners. Words with Friends, Brisksaber, Jewels,
Frontline Commando, Overkill, NFL Pro 2012, ROC, Lane Splitter, Drift Mania,
and Top Truck also still works.
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Got order & chaos working, any gl games that are borked because of device detection should work just by changing the deviceid to a500, I dont have a build.prop from an a500 so I can't fix market yet to find more apps.
Games that have had problems:
N.O.V.A. 2 HD - controls don't work at all (seems a touchscreen issue)
Dungeon Hunter 2 HD - controls flicker in and out, again seems touchscreen issue
ShadowGun - controls are way off, pretty much unplayable
Games that work fine:
Sonic 4 Episode 1
Sonic CD
Sentinel 3
Jelly Defender
Cordy
Monopoly
Anomaly Warzone Earth HD
That's all I've tried so far. The games that have problems start and run fine, just the controls are off. None have FC on me yet.
Has anyone else noticed a problem with Fullfat games like Flick Golf and NFL Kicker. They work fine for a few minutes, then all touch input quits. I guess there are several games that have touchscreen issues with ICS, so add this to the list.
Thanks for the input guys. Ill update the OP later with market links when i get home. Along with individual thanks.
Deadspace working as it should (i can actually find it on marketplace OMG!!!!!!)
Dgunners Ice burst i had to manually install wouldn't show up on compatiblity but it works flawlessly
Shadowgun the controls to go hell in a handbasket man i'm really missing root for sixaxis x.x
Osmos HD working normally
Meteor blitz working normally aswell
need that sdswap so i can install ALL of my games that i have on my cappy that are compatible on my acer cause.... for some reason i'm missing 3 gigs from my internal.... hope a atempt to put linux on the side an have it vnc server connecte didn't eat something on the partition...
Updated OP with market links and +1 thx to those who contributed!
I decided to upgrade to ICS finally but I think I'll have to go back till we get a build.prop a500 mod for ICS. I cant play any of my gameloft games.
Here's my input:
Aftermath XHD
Bang Bang Racing
Castle of Shadows
Dead on Arrival
Drag Racing
Galaxy on Fire 2
Gun Bros
Intertia
Samurai Vengeance 2
Sleepy Jack
Shadown gun
Crazy Snowboard
Soulcraft THD
jahciple said:
I updated without doing the factory reset and all my games still work.
hanging with friends, asphalt 6, tip-off, dgunners, etc.
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Which asphalt 6 are you running. I have the market one for when I did a500 build.prop and it doesnt work. Says not compatible request a refund.
After updating the build prop I was again able to see the games I had with crossix build prop for HC. Thanks to crossix root method and pointing me where the editable build.prop was located.
GL games I can see
Asphalt 6
Back stab
9 mm
MC3
Order n chaos
Tin tin
Nova 2
Shadowgun is playable if you have sixaxis working with a gamepad just thought i let everyone know.
Anyone try the build.prop change yet? With MC3 its much smoother when you pan but occasionally the screen freezes and I have to press power to and wake it up and resume the game.
Grand Theft Auto 3
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Grand Theft Auto 3
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Is this the one from the Market? I updated my build.prop to a500 and it wont download data when I open this game. I know it worked on HC though wit the same a500 mod but for HC.
I had Tetris installed before the upgrade and it launches but doesn't take touchscreen input...
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hi guys. Im using ICS Beta with KA11 rom. I've overclocked to 1.4 ghz, and set gaming profile in ram manager. but when i was driving car, the games lagging a very. and I Can't get working gamepad. Gamepad/Touchpad didn't work. Should I back to stock ?
The games not lagging, it just runs at a low frame rate for some reason. As for the gamepad, I don't know.
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hi guys. Im using ICS Beta with KA11 rom. I've overclocked to 1.4 ghz, and set gaming profile in ram manager. but when i was driving car, the games lagging a very. and I Can't get working gamepad. Gamepad/Touchpad didn't work. Should I back to stock ?
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I assure you it's not your phone. It's gameloft game developing at its finest.
But people saying game didnt laggy
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I got a R800X 2.3.3 fully bloatware free and no programs running when i play this game and is very slow, to the point is not fun to play at all, its too bad because it looks as a good game if the framerate was good
Believe me, it's the game, not your phone.
Woow its good. But how can i fix this lag problem. And gamepad problem ?
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I wish they released a patch or someone find a way to play at good speed, find weird that they optimized the controls for the play but not the running fps (my play gamepad works fine in this game) i just cant play because of the speed
If anyone is interested in trying to play Sonic 4 Episode II with Chainfire3D and NVIDIA Plugin i wanted to share my experience that it's not working for me. The Game will hang in the first Level on my Galaxy Nexus
ROM: Paranoid Android 0.9b
If anyone gets a working result with a different rom please post here
Tried it to with CM9 + franco kernel. No luck.
I used chainfire3d too. Only thing I got was a black screen. I do hope they launch it for more android devices.
Hi all. My Gnex is on JB bigxies rom+stock kernel. i cant play games like : gt racing, nfs shift, nfs hot pursuit etc..it is becouse developers didnt update games to JB? ...
Does your phone lags while playing videos too?? for example when i watch Transformers 3 my Gnex lags in some action scenes.Video details:
Size 4,33 GB 1056x448
Bit rate 4017 kb/s
format x.264
is this normal?how to solve lag issue? P.S i tried Mx playr already.
anyone here?
i guess 30min is too long for you to wait.
I am going to travel after 1-2hour .thats why i am rushing.(
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Hello, I am having a issue where only Gameloft games wont start. Other games start. (not from gameloft). The games I am trying to play is Minion Rush, Asphalt 8 Airborne, and GT Racing 2. All the games are free and downloaded from the Playstore.
No apps are modded and not using ad away.
Phone Info:
S3 Running Liquid Smooth 3.2 Nightly 08/24
Android 4.4.4
A couple if people were discussing problems with asphalt 8 in the Tmobile forums a couple months ago. I think they had to get a certain version from gameloft or something along those lines. You should probably contact them about your issue.
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