Bear with me people as im pretty new to this
Ive got all the decent emualtors onto my Xperia play. SNES / Genesis / GBA / Gameboy etc and they all play fine.
I do notice however that on all the emulators if i set the frame skip to auto, then the sound if perfect, but the frame rate skips sometimes which is more annoyance than anything but still noticeable
If i change the frame skip to zero then the frame rate is buttery smooth but then i get cracks and pops in the sound (all emulators)
Now my question is, is that is this an issue with the emulators or an issue with the play being just not quite quick enough to play these perfectly.
And also, im planning on rooting my phone so obviously if i was to have a slight overclock on my phone, say from 1GHZ to 1.2 or 1.3, would this actually make a difference to them in terms of playing absolutely full speed, or would it make no difference at all?
well thats a tough question,
you can get sound issues when a device is struggling to play a game
and when the device can play the game full speed but the emulator has issues
i too have alot of emulators
marvin - spectrum
gensoid - mega drive
fpse - ps1
gearoid - game gear
tiger arcade
pce - pc engine
snezoid -super nintendo
jarcade - arcade/ mame roms
n64oid - n64
mame4droid
now the only two that gave me sound issues were n64oid and fpse
but since i have rooted my phone and removed bloatware and overclocked
to 1.4
those issues are more or less gone
apart from n64oid do get jittering now and then
but i think that running a n64 on a phone is a feat in itself
yes overclocking does make a difference to running games/emus
more horsepower = smoother gaming
i do recommend rooting
remove bloatware
and overclocking
As many of you know, games particularly running from emulators such as n64oid, snesoid etc.... crash often with the ET4G. Even some non emulator games are crashing as well. Anyone know if this will be fixed anytime soon? It's a shame, want to play games with this amazing phone......
i've had the same problems with a few non emulator games
I have a pretty large collection of ps1 games & was wondering if the playing experience was good enough on the xperia play running fpse? Is there noticeable slowdown?
Yeah, plays them (well most of them perfectly), just been playing Gran Turismo 2 on my XPlay, look in general forum to see which games work, FPSE doesnt work straight away with the PSX controls, you have to map the buttons, but that takes seconds
I don't know what version of FPse you are using biggary, but i've tried quite a few games on the latest FPse and i didn't have to map the buttons.
Hi,
All game emulators i always used (gearoid, ataroid, gensoid etc) are experiencing the same problem since i moved from Xperia Arc go Galaxy Nexus : the game's sounds keeps stoping about each 5 seconds and then go back to normal again. I don't have this problem in other applications (ie. music player, native Android games etc).
Does anybody have a clue why is this hapenning ?
Thanks !
No clues?: )
I tested with Ataroid, Gearoid, Gensoid, Nesoid, Snesoid, GBCoid, Gameboid and they all run fine.
I don't have N64 or PSX emulators though, so I can't comment on them.
I'm using 4.04 stock, unrooted and locked bootloader (if that has any effect), But I remember they all worked fine when I was on 4.0.1 stock
I know this is a very subjective question, but I would like some input on which ROM you guys think is best for the "oid" emulators on this device? I imagine it to be something based on Gingerbread, with as little bloat so perhaps AOSP or CM7? Or is the stock experience fine for this use?
Many thanks!
Atomix86 said:
I know this is a very subjective question, but I would like some input on which ROM you guys think is best for the "oid" emulators on this device? I imagine it to be something based on Gingerbread, with as little bloat so perhaps AOSP or CM7? Or is the stock experience fine for this use?
Many thanks!
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If you just use emulators you can also try an ics rom.
Sorry for my bad English. It's not my native language.
on ics (if you find a smooth ics rom, that is) emulators should work fine. also on ics n64oid has analog support (which on gingerbread only mupen64plus has), and it's overall better than mupen64plus on gingerbread in speed and it runs animal forest quite well; dunno for the rest though. on the psx front, fpse has analog support on ics, while on gingerbread only psxperia gives you analog support on psx games and of course there are not many analog controlled games supported by psxperia (soul reaver and mgs don't work, for example).
the other 100% digital controlled emulators should be exactly the same as on gingerbread. thing is, i tried what seems to be the best ics rom to date and it was quite laggy. maybe you'll find a good one for you, as you don't need good gamepad compatibility on android games.
either way, this device is the absolute best mobile emulating machine. even on gingerbread you don't really lose anything. there are just a handful of analog controlled psx games which are not supported by psxperia/mupen64plus, and they play perfectly with the dpad on fpse/n64oid.
therefore, your choice. if you really care about analog control on games you can't play as you wish on gingerbread, look for a smooth ics rom. if you don't care, i suggest trueancestor 2.3.7, as it gives you so much free memory.
Ok thanks ill check it out.
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Hi,
I'm only play retro games in my xperia play too. That's the reason why I bought one... At this moment I'm using CM9 RC2, an ICS rom, and the emulators run well.... I'm playing zelda ocarina of time with the lastest n64oid version, touchpads works nice.... very similar as the joystick... Link can run and walk :victory: things you couldn't do with the D-pads.
The snes emulator that works in the ICS roms is, SNESDroid... the SNesoid didn't worked
Other emulators that worked:
GB color: GBCoid
GBA: GameBoid (you need a bios, tell me if you don't have one :highfive
NES: Nesoid
Hope this help you.
Cheers :good:
I suggest True Ancestor ROM too, always free RAM and bloatware removed. It offers great performance in N64oid compared with others ROM's, the mainly reason I use my Xperia Play
Mynzer said:
I suggest True Ancestor ROM too, always free RAM and bloatware removed. It offers great performance in N64oid compared with others ROM's, the mainly reason I use my Xperia Play
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I got better performance using N64oid on a ICS ROM (AOKP to be more specfic) and the touchpads work great..
i.e. yoshi's story was skipping on True Ancestor, but ran flawless on AOKP.
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The emu's I'm using (has worked for every game i have thrown at each of them)
FPSE - PSX -touchpads on ICS
GBA.emu - GBA
GBC.emu - GBC
MD.emu - MegaDrive
N64oid - N64 -touchpads on ICS
NES.emu - NES
Snes9x EX - SNES
All work with xplay controls on AOKP
iRhyiku said:
I got better performance using N64oid on a ICS ROM (AOKP to be more specfic) and the touchpads work great..
i.e. yoshi's story was skipping on True Ancestor, but ran flawless on AOKP.
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The emu's I'm using (has worked for every game i have thrown at each of them)
FPSE - PSX -touchpads on ICS
GBA.emu - GBA
GBC.emu - GBC
MD.emu - MegaDrive
N64oid - N64 -touchpads on ICS
NES.emu - NES
Snes9x EX - SNES
All work with xplay controls on AOKP
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Interesting, I quite like aokp too. Are there any features that don't work on ics roms on this device? Things like FM radio don't bother me, but for example data would be needed .
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iRhyiku said:
I got better performance using N64oid on a ICS ROM (AOKP to be more specfic) and the touchpads work great..
i.e. yoshi's story was skipping on True Ancestor, but ran flawless on AOKP.
EDIT:
The emu's I'm using (has worked for every game i have thrown at each of them)
FPSE - PSX -touchpads on ICS
GBA.emu - GBA
GBC.emu - GBC
MD.emu - MegaDrive
N64oid - N64 -touchpads on ICS
NES.emu - NES
Snes9x EX - SNES
All work with xplay controls on AOKP
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My experience on CM9 was that the OS was smoother than the stock Gingerbread but the emulator's performance was not as good. I could not have full speed with frameskip 0 on Snesoid or Gameboid and a clean sound at the same time. Plus the screen was all pixelized. Maybe AOKP performs better than CM9 ?
Now I'm on CM7, it is fast, there is plenty of free internal memory but I have those issues:
- bad battery life
- no proximity sensor
- some games don't work with the touchpads
I'm wondering if I should try TrueAncestor.
I think you should. There are always psxperia and mupen64plus for touchpads. At least they work with the majority of games that absolutely need touchpads
You can always install cupcake on your phone and get the "retro" games from the android market