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[Q] rom for Pure gaming device.

god day all you happy xperia play owner.
i will soon getting a new phone and i wont have any need for the xperia play as a actual phone. so this will be only a gaming device.
what im looking for is the perfect kernel and rom to give me as much quality gaming as possible.
currently on ICS++ and a ICS beta kernel from doom and am realy happy with it. only downside is emulators not working to a 100% (SNesoid. gameoid, n64oid and nesoid.) the issue is sound on = lagg and n64oid lags / reboots phone.
so what im looking for is a ICS rom (for the touch pads working) that gan give a good gaming experience.

I decided to go back to a stock 2.3.4 on my r800x. All custom roms and any that are ICS gave me lag in games, and low fps for some reason.

JokaWild

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Jokawild isn't ICS.
I think that if you want everything to work like it should, you should go back to stock.

ICS seems to be more demanding overall over Gingerbread from what ive seen.
Xperia play is pretty dated Hardware wise so a really trimmed down version of Gingerbread might be the best option for gaming
Ive seen a few threads point to use either DiXperia, Jokawild, or TruAncestor

I'm using the Xperia S Style ROM and man games run faster than they did before. V6 Supercharged of course.

GetPatriotized said:
I'm using the Xperia S Style ROM and man games run faster than they did before. V6 Supercharged of course.
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I can confirm this!
I just swithed to DiXperia (on of the many Xperia S roms) and i have seen a huge boost in performance with a full 200MB of Ram free while running.
The nice thing about DiXperia so far is that its completely barebones and you add what you want to it.
Definetely get on the Xperia S Roms

Agreed with above, im actually switching my phone over to an xperia S rom.

JokaWild is the best custom ROM that I know.. definetly great!

touch?
i can live with going back to GB since SE are not releasing official ICS. but is there anyway to have GB with touch pad support on emulators?

DarkForest Roms is a not bad options

jensenjr said:
i can live with going back to GB since SE are not releasing official ICS. but is there anyway to have GB with touch pad support on emulators?
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I second this.

Best rom for now?

Hi i want to know what is the best rom for now? Because i want to change my rom i cant decide which one is good.
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There's not a lot of active rom right now. So kinda hard to giv u some suggestion.
Kindly Hit Thanks Button if i've help u in anyway.

I've used a LOT of the XP roms and first let me say this: there is no truly "best" rom, it all boils down largely to a matter of preference.
I'm currently running TrueAncestor 1.6 and I really like it, but I do miss certain things about ICS. The thing with ICS that's worth understanding is there is no truly stable or complete ICS rom for the Xperia Play. Every ICS rom has bugs or missing features. Some are worse than others. MANY ICS roms drop support for the touchpads in major games (EA Games, Gameloft Games, Rockstar Games) due to a colossal screwup on Sony's part. You can sort of regain the touchpad functionality using things like USB BT Joystick 6 or GameKeyboard, but those are hacks and they eat system resources.
Speaking of resources, ICS roms are also much more system intensive. Your phone will run slower, games will run less well, and your overall performance will be less snappy than GB roms. It's not *terrible* for sure, but Overclock is practically necessary for ICS roms to help make up for that performance loss. The XP's hardware is dated (it was dated when it launched, technically) and it's starting to show. The paltry amount of RAM and single core processor really hurt it's ability to run ICS and still kick ass at games.
Overall though, as far as ICS roms go I'd recommend AOKP, though the dev has gone dark and not updated it in a while. It was pretty good and had a lot of nice features. I hear CM9 is also nice, and it continues to get active support and development, and will eventually be superceded by CM10. Even then though, I still ran into moderate bugs on both of them - AOKP had a persistent problem where the WIFI would stop working due to a bug in the Settings dialog, so turning on/off your Wifi could cause it to stop working altogether, and the only fix was a reflash. It was a major pain in the ass. Other ICS roms will just randomly crash or reboot, or programs won't work or will crash that should otherwise work in ICS. Overall, be prepared for instability and don't expect 100% from your phone with virtually any ICS rom installed. Blame Sony for only releasing a beta of ICS and then dropping support.
There are other good ICS roms, such as ICS++, Ice Cream Sony, and KA, but some or all of those might have lost dev support (it's been a while since I checked) and none of them really did much in terms of feature changes/support, so they've stagnated compared to more active roms.
Honestly, I realize now that there wasn't a ton in ICS that I needed, and having switched back to GB last week I'm very happy I did - performance is better, battery life is tolerable (slightly worse than AOKP was), and games run great, plus I have full touchpad support again. It looked nice, but it didn't really add anything, and the bugs and missing features finally pushed me away from it after almost a year of running it (I've been running ICS since the first ICS ports hit the XP).
As for GB roms - TrueAncestor is good. I was running JokaWild for a bit, and it was ok, but it didn't blow me away, TA's theme is more preferrable to me. I'm running DoomKernel v14 which seems ok - it's also a bit dated though and Doom could probably do some updates to improve it a bit more if he had the time, but I'm sure he's quite busy.
I hope this helps - and good luck.
Also, if you aren't Fastboot enabled, get that done - it's worth the money and you'll need it in the hunt for the best rom, otherwise your selection will be very limited.

I have been using ICS roms and they are my favourite, there is a developer called secho I use many of his ports along with the kernel he recommends my favourite so far

True ancestor with my bloatware remover is my choice
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Also its not Sony's fault about the touchpads its ea gameloft etc
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Thanx guys.. I think i will switxh to gb instead of ics
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illuminerdi said:
I've used a LOT of the XP roms and first let me say this: there is no truly "best" rom, it all boils down largely to a matter of preference.
I'm currently running TrueAncestor 1.6 and I really like it, but I do miss certain things about ICS. The thing with ICS that's worth understanding is there is no truly stable or complete ICS rom for the Xperia Play. Every ICS rom has bugs or missing features. Some are worse than others. MANY ICS roms drop support for the touchpads in major games (EA Games, Gameloft Games, Rockstar Games) due to a colossal screwup on Sony's part. You can sort of regain the touchpad functionality using things like USB BT Joystick 6 or GameKeyboard, but those are hacks and they eat system resources.
Speaking of resources, ICS roms are also much more system intensive. Your phone will run slower, games will run less well, and your overall performance will be less snappy than GB roms. It's not *terrible* for sure, but Overclock is practically necessary for ICS roms to help make up for that performance loss. The XP's hardware is dated (it was dated when it launched, technically) and it's starting to show. The paltry amount of RAM and single core processor really hurt it's ability to run ICS and still kick ass at games.
Overall though, as far as ICS roms go I'd recommend AOKP, though the dev has gone dark and not updated it in a while. It was pretty good and had a lot of nice features. I hear CM9 is also nice, and it continues to get active support and development, and will eventually be superceded by CM10. Even then though, I still ran into moderate bugs on both of them - AOKP had a persistent problem where the WIFI would stop working due to a bug in the Settings dialog, so turning on/off your Wifi could cause it to stop working altogether, and the only fix was a reflash. It was a major pain in the ass. Other ICS roms will just randomly crash or reboot, or programs won't work or will crash that should otherwise work in ICS. Overall, be prepared for instability and don't expect 100% from your phone with virtually any ICS rom installed. Blame Sony for only releasing a beta of ICS and then dropping support.
There are other good ICS roms, such as ICS++, Ice Cream Sony, and KA, but some or all of those might have lost dev support (it's been a while since I checked) and none of them really did much in terms of feature changes/support, so they've stagnated compared to more active roms.
Honestly, I realize now that there wasn't a ton in ICS that I needed, and having switched back to GB last week I'm very happy I did - performance is better, battery life is tolerable (slightly worse than AOKP was), and games run great, plus I have full touchpad support again. It looked nice, but it didn't really add anything, and the bugs and missing features finally pushed me away from it after almost a year of running it (I've been running ICS since the first ICS ports hit the XP).
As for GB roms - TrueAncestor is good. I was running JokaWild for a bit, and it was ok, but it didn't blow me away, TA's theme is more preferrable to me. I'm running DoomKernel v14 which seems ok - it's also a bit dated though and Doom could probably do some updates to improve it a bit more if he had the time, but I'm sure he's quite busy.
I hope this helps - and good luck.
Also, if you aren't Fastboot enabled, get that done - it's worth the money and you'll need it in the hunt for the best rom, otherwise your selection will be very limited.
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Hi thanks for the info and suggestion but what is fastboot enabled? What it can do? Sorry for newbie question im only new at cfw world..
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For best gaming experience, this ROM is highly recommended.
[ROM] DiXperia 2 'Everlasting' | Performance. Stability. Experience. | 13.08.2012

Xperia NXT 1.2
ICS sucks btw. This custom ROM is smooth and touchpads arent buggy as hell as on ICS..
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What is the best rom for gaming? R800at.

I am curious what people feel is the best rom for gaming and speed on an r800at, guess that part doesn't matter as long as its a GSM Rom.
Thoughts and if you can detail why you feel said rom is the best. Again I am looking for best gaming rom, speed and available memory.
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[ROM] DiXperia 2 'Everlasting' | Performance. Stability. Experience. | 04.09.2012
I used a lot of GB ROMs but I always return to this.
I believe it's smoother and more stable than others.

Cant believe u open a thread just to ask this Q. Scrolling down my xda app there's a bunch of thread asking the same. Not to mention in the general sect.
But since u new to Gsm i like to point out to ur Q that ALL GB ROM can gme & they hav their own pros/cons. So to know which suited u best, u just gonna hav to try it. Coz we may hav the same phone but our taste & view are totally diff. Cheerio.
Regards,
Sdojoin

Normally I balked at these threads, but okay. I like NXT Lite rom and Doom kernel, though honestly I find all gingerbread roms to be good with gaming performance.
You can check here on explanation of the cpu governors and and i/o schedulers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369817, it might help with tuning between performance and battery life. I'm using 'smoothass' and 'bfq' @ 250-1000 and it's very smooth, as far as this old phone goes.

Thank you everyone for the replies. As stated I am new to the GSM xperia play but have been on the CDMA for 18 months. I pretty much stick to my own stock VZ rom but heavilynmodded and debloated. So I am just trying to determine what are some users preferred choice(s) of roms as I have been limited to choices of roms when compared to the GSM model.
I guess I should also ask as I have been on 2.3.3 since pretty much the beginning but with the recent release of JB for the PLAY I would imagine that the xperia games launcher doesn't work as these roms are not built on Sony framework, am I incorrect in this? And also how people rate the gamepads on JB? I pretty much play some of the following
Shadowgun,
asphalt 6, backstab,
modern combat 3. (want to play 4 but its not smooth enough for me to play it emjoyably.)
NFS most wanted. (If you want to add me - ozzmanj1)
Order & chaos
The built in PS1 emulator
Other emus
Bards tale
Dead space
All kemco RPGs
Nova 2.
Sorry for the long list. But if someone sees any games above that don't really play nice with JB can you state below. Thank you
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ozzmanj1 said:
Thank you everyone for the replies. As stated I am new to the GSM xperia play but have been on the CDMA for 18 months. I pretty much stick to my own stock VZ rom but heavilynmodded and debloated. So I am just trying to determine what are some users preferred choice(s) of roms as I have been limited to choices of roms when compared to the GSM model.
I guess I should also ask as I have been on 2.3.3 since pretty much the beginning but with the recent release of JB for the PLAY I would imagine that the xperia games launcher doesn't work as these roms are not built on Sony framework, am I incorrect in this? And also how people rate the gamepads on JB? I pretty much play some of the following
Shadowgun,
asphalt 6, backstab,
modern combat 3. (want to play 4 but its not smooth enough for me to play it emjoyably.)
NFS most wanted. (If you want to add me - ozzmanj1)
Order & chaos
The built in PS1 emulator
Other emus
Bards tale
Dead space
All kemco RPGs
Nova 2.
Sorry for the long list. But if someone sees any games above that don't really play nice with JB can you state below. Thank you
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Some ics roms can play them with no trouble apart from mc4 but mc3 works good and so does gta vice city on low graphic settings on ics but as for jb there's touchpad lag in some games lie gta mc3 and a few others shadow gun works but I couldn't get the expansion pack (leftover) to work just kept force closes but some games can run pretty good like fifa 12
But if you want perfect gaming any gingerbread rom
For ics my personal favourite is miui Australia
And jb slimbean or Turbo ui
But these are just my findings and opinions
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
Some ics roms can play them with no trouble apart from mc4 but mc3 works good and so does gta vice city on low graphic settings on ics but as for jb there's touchpad lag in some games lie gta mc3 and a few others shadow gun works but I couldn't get the expansion pack (leftover) to work just kept force closes but some games can run pretty good like fifa 12
But if you want perfect gaming any gingerbread rom
For ics my personal favourite is miui Australia
And jb slimbean or Turbo ui
But these are just my findings and opinions
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Thank you. I game a lot (when I have the time) So I would prefer something that would be best with the following features:
Excellent for Gaming
A Rom that has the most available memory.
Is DiXperia and/or NXT2JB / NXT Lite good with these above perks? Again sorry for all the questions its just that now that I have all these choices of ROMs I cannot decide and thought I would pick everyones brain on it.

My vote goes toward jokawild. No titanium backup issues, great on gaming, better wifi strength, xperia stock look. Best of all its based on stock gingerbread.

[Q] Any game oriented Rom for the Defy?

Hello guys!
So, not long ago I started "modding" my Defy. Things were not that new to me, since I used to "mod" my Xperia Mini Pro).
The main point is, Xperia Mini Pro had a Game oriented Rom named Gingergames, so my question is, if is there anything similar to that for the Defy!
I took a few searches but could not find any so far.
For the record, I tried Quarx 4.2.2 rom, but it doesn't do good at games even though its looks are fantastic!
Thanks a lot!

some states that stock rom is good for gaming..

pakarbu said:
some states that stock rom is good for gaming..
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This is actually true, but I was hoping for a rom with especifical game optimization.
Well, after looking the internet up and reading a lot, I came to the conclusion that White Rabbit Next Gen ROM would have a good performance on gaming since it was deemed as very light, fast and reliable and the final fact is that my Defy is running all 3D games I have tried so far without barely any lags or slowdowns. I have tried Asphalt 7 and Contract Killer 2, and both run just smooth.
So, in case anyone else is wondering, I am not sure if White Rabbit Next Gen is the BEST Rom for gaming, but I can assure it is a pretty good one!

Well, I'm on Quarx's cm10 20130326 ROM and gaming is buttery smooth. I have been playing FIFA 12 and Need For Speed Most Wanted with no lags. I still wanna try GTA III and see if passes the test. However, I had to over clock. Here are my settings
300/16
600/28
900/42
1250/58
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New Xperia Play user here HELP PLEASE

Hi everyone,
So i just recently purchased a Xperia Play. And looking for the best or a very good rom to flash my phone with.
I am Mainly looking for one that increases game performance, and battery life and is stable as well.
can someone please recommend me a good one to get started
thanks

JaKSLaP said:
Hi everyone,
So i just recently purchased a Xperia Play. And looking for the best or a very good rom to flash my phone with.
I am Mainly looking for one that increases game performance, and battery life and is stable as well.
can someone please recommend me a good one to get started
thanks
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I am pretty sure there LOTS of ROMS like that throughout the forum but I would recommend Close2Perfection and Gin2KitKat. Try them both if you can and see what is good for you. BTW, both of them are GB ROMs.
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JaKSLaP said:
Hi everyone,
So i just recently purchased a Xperia Play. And looking for the best or a very good rom to flash my phone with.
I am Mainly looking for one that increases game performance, and battery life and is stable as well.
can someone please recommend me a good one to get started
thanks
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You should flash Gamerzrom or xAlien they both have good speed and battery life

X-Giga said:
I am pretty sure there LOTS of ROMS like that throughout the forum but I would recommend Close2Perfection and Gin2KitKat. Try them both if you can and see what is good for you. BTW, both of them are GB ROMs.
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Ok thanks i ll give Gin2Kitkat first.
is there anything missing in that rom, like wife, 3g, touchpad control etc
thanks

ltkj said:
You should flash Gamerzrom or xAlien they both have good speed and battery life
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thanks ill give those a shot too. the problem i am facing is i just got one after 2 years. so when i was searching around for roms their were heaps, and got confused.

JaKSLaP said:
thanks ill give those a shot too. the problem i am facing is i just got one after 2 years. so when i was searching around for roms their were heaps, and got confused.
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Well, I used the Gin2JellyBean Rom 2.5.2 (not a fan of the kitkat 3.0.0 look). It's very stable, has great battery life and it's also extremely powerful when it comes to gaming. Also, I haven't found something which is missing. Everything is working great and it's without a doubt, one(!) of the best Xperia Play GB roms you can find here.
But for now I'm using IceCreamSpeed V12. I like the design and it's an incredible good ICS rom, with full Touchpad Support (and if it doesn't work for specific games you can use the Touchpad activator, coming with the rom).

Alright so
I tested almost all "gaming" roms on gb for the xperia play for 1 year now..... And i have to say that NXT Light or Auroraplay is the best choice for you if you want to game
I am now on auroraplay and i have to say i can play everygame without overclocking and withotu lags
Btw: The GB Roms are much faster then the ICS roms so dont bother you use gingerbread for gaming
The best kernel for gingerbread is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849536
So use that with auroraplay and your xperia play will fly!!!!
Edit: No that roms hasnt any bugs and of corse you can use your touchpad

1. I have tried many ROMS too. but the SuperLite JB is one of my Fav's .. I used it as a daily for 1 year. Totally customizable because of AOKP settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2357756
and then I switched to MIUI.. ohhhhh.. MIUI is the real Beautiful Face of Android.. the usual android is soooooooooooooo Boring.. MIUI is a please to the eye.. Totally Customizable.. Loving it from within 5 mins of Installing it..
2. You have the Gaming Edition GB here .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2201338
3. and also the newer.. JB edition here .. http://en.miui.com/thread-3182-1-1.html .. the JB one is amazing.. and newer.. a totally fresh change.. but still ANDROID.