I couldn't think of a better place to ask this, and seeing as I can't find anything on the Internet, I will try here. As most of you probably know, some games require a user to be online at all times. Seeing as I don't have 3G, and only use Wi-Fi, this can present a bit of a problem when I want to play games offline (such as Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man). I've resorted to keeping an eye out for offline APK's, but the trouble is too much. I would GLADLY buy the game if there was a way I could play these games offline. My question, is if there is some kind of app that tricks your phone into thinking it's online? That way the game I wish to play could do it's 'update check', and simply bypass it, so I can play the game. I haven't heard of anything like this before, that's why I figured I'd ask here. Or possibly if there is a way to patch an APK file so you can play it offline, would be beneficial as well. Any answers would be much appreciated!
James_Evan_Bond said:
I couldn't think of a better place to ask this, and seeing as I can't find anything on the Internet, I will try here. As most of you probably know, some games require a user to be online at all times. Seeing as I don't have 3G, and only use Wi-Fi, this can present a bit of a problem when I want to play games offline (such as Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man). I've resorted to keeping an eye out for offline APK's, but the trouble is too much. I would GLADLY buy the game if there was a way I could play these games offline. My question, is if there is some kind of app that tricks your phone into thinking it's online? That way the game I wish to play could do it's 'update check', and simply bypass it, so I can play the game. I haven't heard of anything like this before, that's why I figured I'd ask here. Or possibly if there is a way to patch an APK file so you can play it offline, would be beneficial as well. Any answers would be much appreciated!
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Just buy the game, and you will not need rare patches or tricks to bypass the license verification cracked games
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Hi all,
I was wondering if any android app existed that aggregated information on game roms.
I had in mind something like the XBMC library experience whereby you can scroll through a catalogue of films which each have their poster/dvd cover, a snippet of information and their IMDB ratings (etc). There is even a plugin for XBMC that does this for games.
The reason I am interested is because I find the current method through snesoid/n64oid disappointing. My current workaround has been to use the shortcut functionality of the aforementioned and link directly to a ROM and replace its icon with that of the game box art.
On a related note - is there any way to manually add shortcuts to games into the Xperia Play app? This would go quite far to providing what I was after.
Many thanks in advance for any information.
EDIT: I should say for clarity that I am looking for something that will then launch the applications, not just list them.
Jonnyapps said:
Hi all,
I was wondering if any android app existed that aggregated information on game roms.
I had in mind something like the XBMC library experience whereby you can scroll through a catalogue of films which each have their poster/dvd cover, a snippet of information and their IMDB ratings (etc). There is even a plugin for XBMC that does this for games.
The reason I am interested is because I find the current method through snesoid/n64oid disappointing. My current workaround has been to use the shortcut functionality of the aforementioned and link directly to a ROM and replace its icon with that of the game box art.
On a related note - is there any way to manually add shortcuts to games into the Xperia Play app? This would go quite far to providing what I was after.
Many thanks in advance for any information.
EDIT: I should say for clarity that I am looking for something that will then launch the applications, not just list them.
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I think you are looking for something that doeasn't exist. It would need advance development. From my understanding you want to implement a feature into the PS stock app that loads games to load games that are meant to load via emulators. Wouldn't that mean the Playstation app would ahve to be an emulator? lol Try describing what you really mean maybe some dev can do something for you
Hope this helps
arian009 said:
I think you are looking for something that doeasn't exist. It would need advance development. From my understanding you want to implement a feature into the PS stock app that loads games to load games that are meant to load via emulators. Wouldn't that mean the Playstation app would ahve to be an emulator? lol Try describing what you really mean maybe some dev can do something for you
Hope this helps
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that's not what he is saying. he wants a app which can list the roms he has and then get data for them from various online databases and scrapers and then launch it with the installed emulator
so his emulator roms and possibly games are in a sort of catalogue.
atleast that's what I think he meant.
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fma965 said:
that's not what he is saying. he wants a app which can list the roms he has and then get data for them from various online databases and scrapers and then launch it with the installed emulator
so his emulator roms and possibly games are in a sort of catalogue.
atleast that's what I think he meant.
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Yes. This is what I am after. I have just found something called 'Launch Me' on the Play Store which, whilst having terrible reviews, says it does at least some of what I am after.
The problem I've had in hunting these things out is that 'Android ROM launcher' tends to turn up google results for Android roms and launchers
I shall cough up the £2 and try this app.
Since I am new I just wanted to introduce myself and ask that if anybody is capable of answering some intermediate to advanced device specific Nexus 5x questions including but not limited to hardware/software, as well as related questions to the community and the technology Market, I would greatly appreciate it. My goal is to go from apprentice to Master of my android device. More importantly, I hope to gain a better understanding of the technology behind the scenes and how specific functions are compiled and executed so that I can satisfy my curiosity as it pertains to my Nexus and also the community.
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CT
Yeah, just post those questions here
Eurofighter_ty said:
Yeah, just post those questions here
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Ok. So maybe I will start with the question thats been nagging at me a lot lately. I've searched and found very little information pertaining to the topic of my interest.
Main question: What is a game Emulator, and how does it differ from something like Game Guardian or Game Gem??
My ballpark guess based off what Ive read is that an emulator is something that allows you to for instance play gameboy games on your phone, or old school nintendo on your phone. And on the other hand Game Guardian allows you to edit values in the game.
But the bigger question is how Game Guardian works on a broad scale. I would assume that simple games are pretty easy to change values. However, how would it work on more complex games such as games that involve servers and multiplayer and games that developers have taken action to try to prevent such applications from working? And what about detectability. I am a big gamer in my spare time so naturally I am curious about these things and how they work, what they work on, and what they may not work on.
I guess I should also mention that any of the info listed above may be wrong or slightly misleading. My main question is the question I've been scouring the internet in order to find adequate answers.
Thank you for responding to my post.
Respectfully,
CT
Like you guessed, an emulator is a program that emulates the hardware of a different machine, for example GameBoy or NES so that you can play games from those machines.
Game Guardian is an app that modifies the running processes (game in this instance) register values. There are similar apps for Windows. They work by you looking for the value you want to change in the register and then inputting a new value. For example you want to change your HP. Your HP is 100 so you look for that value in Game Guardian, if there's only one you've found the value you wanted. If there are several, you change your HP and then look which one of those values that matched the first time changed and you continue until you've found the right one. This method might not work at all with more complex games and multiplayer games that store/check the values on the server.
CazeW said:
Like you guessed, an emulator is a program that emulates the hardware of a different machine, for example GameBoy or NES so that you can play games from those machines.
Game Guardian is an app that modifies the running processes (game in this instance) register values. There are similar apps for Windows. They work by you looking for the value you want to change in the register and then inputting a new value. For example you want to change your HP. Your HP is 100 so you look for that value in Game Guardian, if there's only one you've found the value you wanted. If there are several, you change your HP and then look which one of those values that matched the first time changed and you continue until you've found the right one. This method might not work at all with more complex games and multiplayer games that store/check the values on the server.
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Understood. On the subject of compatibility, are more complex games, for arguments sake lets go with a well known game developer EA.... do their softwares and services embed methods detect and then terminate sessions when you attempt to access with a rooted device? I've heard about android pay, but are there other major apps that can do the same thing? And furthermore, are there any specific countermeasures one can take to bypass this.
Hi guys, quick update.
Happy to say I accomplished I have successfully made a custom recovery using twrp. I should note that I took my sweet time and read and watched so many videos so I was familiarized with the ins and outs.
Just gunna post the links I used cause if you are a Mac user, you will definitely want to take a look since the process is slightly different...
I used this how-to geek for my guide: https://www.howtogeek.com/240047/how-to-flash-twrp-recovery-on-your-android-phone/
want to thank SlimSnoopOS for this post which is Vital for people using mac: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68758793&postcount=3
and I used this catalog to get the twrp.img that corresponds to my device: https://twrp.me/Devices/
Pretty happy I was able to do this right. Now I suppose I should evaluate my next move....
Hello everyone! I have no experience when it comes to how nfc works, especially when it comes to the Disney Infinity base and figures, but I had a really cool idea when thinking of my friends young son. I was wondering if there was any way to get the base to speak to a PC, so that when I place a figure, it would play the correct movie associated with that figure.
With my limited knowledge, I would assume you would have all the movies ripped to a drive on your PC, then once you figure out how to get the base to speak to the PC, you would run a script or program that would recognize the figure and then play the correct movie, so a Buzz Lightyear figure would play Toy Story, a Baloo figure would play Jungle Book, etc.
The kiosk in the stores worked in a similar way, it would play a demo video when the figure was placed on the base, I was just wondering if there was any way to do this at home. It would be cool to run something on a HTPC so that the little ones could grab their toy, place it on the base, and their favorite movie would start playing automatically.
Any advice on what to research would be greatly appreciated.
Alright, so I'm pretty late to the party, but this isn't going to be possible without drivers for the base under Windows. Oh wait, they don't exist.
It DOES work as a generic HID device under Windows, but with no way to activate the device, good luck even parsing the raw input.
Best course of action is a USB sniffer with a console. You'll need to read the init process from the console, and then replicate that. Then it's just a matter of reading the data sent back.
I'm not sure if the codes on the figures are unique, but I'd guess they are. You'd have to have some fun getting dumps and matching them up to what the figures are. Nobody seems to care about Infinity. Most people care about Amibo, or I guess Lego Dimensions.
Then, once the hard work is done, you'd just launch VLC with the correct video file as an argument.
Rate how much you enjoy gaming on Android, and what you would like see changed!
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Rate how much you enjoy gaming on Android, and what you would like see changed!
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I like Big Gaming...
Especially Venison!
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I often play games on my android. These games really assist in spending short leisure times with fun.
Personally, I kinda liked gaming on Android - and also kinda hated it at the same time.
I liked it because there were good games despite their issues, such as:
Fate/GO (Good story, but plagued with gacha hell & unreasonable root detection)
SAO - Integral Factor (Fun, free, gacha hell)
Animus : Stand Alone (paid)
What I hated about gaming on Android:
License checking - Any paid games from Play Store ; for example, the aforementioned above Animus : Stand Alone, requires Play Store License checking. That, in my point of view, means that unless the owner of a paid game has signed in with the account they used to pay for the game, they may not play that game.
Gacha Hell - Includes Fate/GO & SAO - Integral Factor. Sure, with enough skill & experience, this issue may be bypassed. But, for the fanbase, getting the SSR they want in these games, for example, requires either sheer luck and/or real-time money. Sorry, but I'm not sorry to say this out.
CAPITALISM - sorry, gotta say that one in full caps. But, microtransactions.
Weird & Questionable root detection - Only on Fate/GO. Their root detection is so insane that Magisk dev topjohnwu discovered a security vulnerability - [url]https://www.xda-developers.com/procfs-leak-lg-oneplus-huawei-xiaomi-asus/[/URL]
Fortnite Mobile, a non-Play Store game, also suffers from this issue.
Not fun enough- Honestly, other than the 3 games I mentioned above & PUBG Mobile, I don't think any other Android games are fun enough. Sure, I can sidestep this issue by playing retro games with emulators, but, so far, the only good emulator is PPSSPP - DraStic, a DS emulator, requires Play Store license checking.
Mandatory Internet access - Most Android games are digital release only. Fate/GO & SAO-IF are also plagued with this issue, as both were incomplete on release. Sure, updates do fix bugs & add more content, but, single-player games requiring internet connection scares me about the future of gaming, especially on Android.
An example of a game that (kinda) bypasses this flaw : iPad's Infinity Blade series (discontinued & removed from App Store, unfortunately). The only times it actually needs internet access is for cloud saving. However, it still relies on the App Store; as it's a paid app (license checking).
Hello,
I am new to XDA and hope this is the correct forum to be posting my question. I have been running LOS on a few devices in my household and, like most people, had to supplement apps from F-Droid with Apps from the Play Store (via Aurora).
Recently I have been trying to get Uber to work on the phone in order to be able to rent a bicycle. The app starts fine and I can log in but then it crashes. Presumably it is because I have no way to load Google Maps via Play Services.
Is there a way to get apps that require Play Services to run? I tried installing MicroG but then all my existing Aurora Store apps stopped working so I ended up uninstalling it before I could test whether or not I could get Uber to work.
To make matters more complicated this is not for me but for my other half (her wish is to be able to rent a bike) but ideally this would not involve me having to break and rebuild her phone - so any pointers in the right direction are most welcome and very much appreciated.
fishnetfancy said:
Hello,
I am new to XDA and hope this is the correct forum to be posting my question. I have been running LOS on a few devices in my household and, like most people, had to supplement apps from F-Droid with Apps from the Play Store (via Aurora).
Recently I have been trying to get Uber to work on the phone in order to be able to rent a bicycle. The app starts fine and I can log in but then it crashes. Presumably it is because I have no way to load Google Maps via Play Services.
Is there a way to get apps that require Play Services to run? I tried installing MicroG but then all my existing Aurora Store apps stopped working so I ended up uninstalling it before I could test whether or not I could get Uber to work.
To make matters more complicated this is not for me but for my other half (her wish is to be able to rent a bike) but ideally this would not involve me having to break and rebuild her phone - so any pointers in the right direction are most welcome and very much appreciated.
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Go to your local bike rental
https://stallman.org/uber.html
kurtn said:
Go to your local bike rental
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LOL. Easier said than done. I personally detest Uber but as involuntary SysAdmin in a five person household it is a constant battle to strike a balance between protecting privacy, supporting ethical small businesses and dealing with "why can't I do any of the things my friends are doing on their mobile phones?" conversations.
fishnetfancy said:
LOL. Easier said than done. I personally detest Uber but as involuntary SysAdmin in a five person household it is a constant battle to strike a balance between protecting privacy, supporting ethical small businesses and dealing with "why can't I do any of the things my friends are doing on their mobile phones?" conversations.
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My solution: dedicated phones. One for social media. One for covid 19 tracker. One for quadrocopter flying...