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[Q] Gamepads Compatible With Vibrant

Hey everyone-
I've been looking around lately for a possible solution to my gaming woes on the Vibrant recently, namely the fact that the onscreen controls normally suck in any emulator. Because of that I've been looking for a gamepad, or game controller of some sort, that's compatible with the Vibrant via bluetooth or some other physical means. Beyond the wii remote (which I don't think works on the galaxy s line anyway), is there any solution that's built for android phones that'll work on the vibrant? I've already checked out the game gripper, but that's for keyboard phones. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears, thanks in advance.
-bobofosho123

bobofosho123 said:
Hey everyone-
I've been looking around lately for a possible solution to my gaming woes on the Vibrant recently, namely the fact that the onscreen controls normally suck in any emulator. Because of that I've been looking for a gamepad, or game controller of some sort, that's compatible with the Vibrant via bluetooth or some other physical means. Beyond the wii remote (which I don't think works on the galaxy s line anyway), is there any solution that's built for android phones that'll work on the vibrant? I've already checked out the game gripper, but that's for keyboard phones. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears, thanks in advance.
-bobofosho123
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Well, i have been using a Wiimote plus a nunchuk, and it works pretty good...i have been playing The Legend Of Zelda OOT with N64oid, and besides some fails here and there (that are not the fault of the WiiMote but the emulator itself), it works flawlessly, i like it a lot.

the zeemote works http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page.asp?skuno=86194#grey
i know it says combatible only with blackberrry but this youtube video shows how to install on galaxys--->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJO-M433hXQ&feature=related
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djluis48 said:
Well, i have been using a Wiimote plus a nunchuk, and it works pretty good...i have been playing The Legend Of Zelda OOT with N64oid, and besides some fails here and there (that are not the fault of the WiiMote but the emulator itself), it works flawlessly, i like it a lot.
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I didn't realize that the wii remote worked on the vibrant, I checked in the market today and it said in the description that it wasn't compatible with the galaxy s series of phones because of a custom bluetooth stack issue or something. Although, if your running a custom rom maybe its not a problem. Either way I'll give it a try, thnx.

yalkowni said:
the zeemote works http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page.asp?skuno=86194#grey
i know it says combatible only with blackberrry but this youtube video shows how to install on galaxys--->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJO-M433hXQ&feature=related
thanks button if i helped
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Hey man thanx for the link, I already found that, but actually I believe I found an even more elegant solution here: http://phonejoy.weebly.com/buy.html. It's a custom psx controller called the phonejoy that's modded to work on android devices, direct from China lol. Anyway, thanks for the help.

djluis48 said:
Well, i have been using a Wiimote plus a nunchuk, and it works pretty good...i have been playing The Legend Of Zelda OOT with N64oid, and besides some fails here and there (that are not the fault of the WiiMote but the emulator itself), it works flawlessly, i like it a lot.
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May I ask what rom you are using? I've been hoping to find a rom that supports wiimote for a while.

CM7 works with the wiimote. I've tried it, so cool.
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iynfynity said:
CM7 works with the wiimote. I've tried it, so cool.
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Good to know, I'm on CM7 now so that'll save me some green. Although I'd really like a dual analog controller for the vib, ahh well...thanks for the heads-up.

You can use dual analog once you connect the classic controller pro to the wiimote
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thepcdude said:
You can use dual analog once you connect the classic controller pro to the wiimote
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Cool, so the newer classic controller works! Good thing I'm buying one tomorrow . Thanks for letting me know. And just to confirm, the classic controller PRO (that one specifically), works in addition to the old one right?
-bobofosho123

Both pro and non pro work, you can see videos of them working on youtube.
And remember wiimote only works with bluetooth 2.1 (cm7) for now
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You can buy a PS3 controller. They connect via bluetooth and work pretty well.

Well since the dead thread is already brought back, has anyone tried using a bluetooth pad along with tv out? I've seen a kang cm build that says it has working tv out and was wondering if anyone has tried it yet.
Edit: link to kang build, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461705

Interesting proposition. Do you have the necessary tools to try it? If so, I'd like to hear the result.
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I used the ics passion rom with TV out and two wii controllers to play super Nintendo games with my wife.
It works great
Even with multiple controllers.
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Emulators took down..

Did Ouya play store take emulators down? I was thinking about buying one but may not of this is the case. I know you can sideload but..
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Danzoman316 said:
Did Ouya play store take emulators down? I was thinking about buying one but may not of this is the case. I know you can sideload but..
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Not that I can see, also there are plenty of free emulators on the ouya store that run every bit as good as other 'paid' emulators.
The exception in my findings is that epsxe for android is far superior to other playstation emulators on the platform (also they support ouya out of the box).
Robert Broglia is the name to remember with emulators at the mooment.
Mupen64 is good but if you can find a 2.7 version of n64oid, it works even better for n64 games..
Retroarch android has many of these emulators built into the system and it is open source and free.
http://forum.themaister.net/viewtopic.php?id=235
Cheers Danny.

I dunno. I paid for several of them. I was playing my GBA emulator of Final Fantasy 5 last night. All of my Emulators were on there. Actually they just updated the "Stock" NES/SNES/Atari Emu (it's weird though)
Ouya plays roms like a champ! The GBA emulator works flawlessly as does all the SNES roms I've tried. The SNES emulator is very jazzy and grabs all of the cover art automatically. I haven't used the "stock" version because you have to throw everything into a "Roms" file on the internal storage I think. I like my roms separated by console.

Which Emulators with Controller?

For Mame Which is the best that works with firetv? Is this a good one? MAME4droid(0139)-1.6.1-MULTI.apk. Any other recommendations?
Also is there one for Sega Master System? brings up memories from the old days. :fingers-crossed:

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For Mame Which is the best that works with firetv? Is this a good one? MAME4droid(0139)-1.6.1-MULTI.apk. Any other recommendations?
Also is there one for Sega Master System? brings up memories from the old days. :fingers-crossed:
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RetroArch has been pretty good so far, although I experience issues with key mapping

ThatsMajor said:
RetroArch has been pretty good so far, although I experience issues with key mapping
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I returned the controller I purchased from amazon as the controller wasn't smooth with mame. Can I use icade?
I'll give the retro arch a shot. thanks for the reply.

I use a Bluetooth Red Samurai gaming controller i picked up from GameStop for $15 for all Android games and Android emulator. No problem and in the back of the controller you have the option of switching from Keypad to Game pad mode.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716838

I've been using the Ouya controller so far. Works really well and has the added bonus of being a mouse when needed.

WisdomWolf said:
I've been using the Ouya controller so far. Works really well and has the added bonus of being a mouse when needed.
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I can't seem to pair the icade bluetooth controller to firetv at all. when bluetooth is in pairing mode, firetv does not see the controller.

navigates said:
I can't seem to pair the icade bluetooth controller to firetv at all. when bluetooth is in pairing mode, firetv does not see the controller.
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probably different bluetooth versions?

navigates said:
I can't seem to pair the icade bluetooth controller to firetv at all. when bluetooth is in pairing mode, firetv does not see the controller.
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If you are rooted, try installing the stock 4.2 settings.apk and pairing from the bluetooth category there. That's what I had to do to get my bluetooth keyboard to pair.

Where is that 4.2 settings apk at?
I am tired of being stuck with the old 4.0 version apk.

WisdomWolf said:
If you are rooted, try installing the stock 4.2 settings.apk and pairing from the bluetooth category there. That's what I had to do to get my bluetooth keyboard to pair.
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I would very much like to know where i can find this stock 4.2 settings.apk? And why the firetv needs to be rooted? (Mine is btw)
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I've repurchased the amazon's controller and it works very well. I'm glad I got the controller that works. RetroArc works very well as well. Back to my old days of wonder boy

navigates said:
I've repurchased the amazon's controller and it works very well. I'm glad I got the controller that works. RetroArc works very well as well. Back to my old days of wonder boy
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Did you have to do anything special to get your FTV controller to work with Retroarch? I've had no luck whatsoever.

Two Controllers?
Has anyone been able to get two controllers connector for two player games? Would love to be able to play some old school ROMs with my son.

martian21 said:
Has anyone been able to get two controllers connector for two player games? Would love to be able to play some old school ROMs with my son.
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Yes Retroarch version with mame 2014 rom and two firetv amazon original controller works well. I made a custom build and signed the apk with one click signer. here is the link. I've tested it with double dragon.. I couldn't get two players to work with the official mame4droid.
Works very smooth except when too much screen draw happens. I hope they made a quad core retroarch version. its so close. what game are you looking to play?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzSAltRGg2Raa0lIR193eTV3TEk/view?usp=sharing

navigates said:
Yes Retroarch version with mame 2014 rom and two firetv amazon original controller works well. I made a custom build and signed the apk with one click signer. here is the link. I've tested it with double dragon.. I couldn't get two players to work with the official mame4droid.
Works very smooth except when too much screen draw happens. I hope they made a quad core retroarch version. its so close. what game are you looking to play?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzSAltRGg2Raa0lIR193eTV3TEk/view?usp=sharing
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Thanks! I don't have any controllers yet but was thinking of picking up a couple so I could re-live my NES glory days. Would be great to be able to multiplayer. Contra comes to mind.

Yeah thats nice. Contra surely was a nice one. I can't think of any two players. I'll get contra tonight and give it a try. any other suggestions?
My old ones are sega master system with transbot and captain silver. with pico. works very well except the stick dose not work and have to use the arrow keys.

Retroarch doesnt seem to work on the Fire TV Stick. Creashes when loading anything or going into settings. Anyone care to confirm?

Which version?
The 1.0.0.2 version works fine,but the later builds still have botched control mapping and some cores refuse to work.
If you have root and know what you are doing,you can install the latest version of retroarch and copy the cores and get back 1.0.0.2 to paste them into it for access to things like Yabause.

retroben said:
Which version?
The 1.0.0.2 version works fine,but the later builds still have botched control mapping and some cores refuse to work.
If you have root and know what you are doing,you can install the latest version of retroarch and copy the cores and get back 1.0.0.2 to paste them into it for access to things like Yabause.
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Pretty much no one has root on the Fire Tv Stick. I tried version "RetroArch-armv7-v1.0.0.2-r34.apk".

RetroArch and Firetv controller stick support

I’ve installed the google play version and it works ok but I cannot seem to use the control stick in the games. There is also a development version of the application on the dev’s site but with that version I cannot seem to even use the controller. I can however see a lot more cores added. Has anyone gotten any success by using the controllers. I like retroarch mainly because all the cores and games are in a single neat place. The only issue I’m having now is the usage of the control stick.

Hopefully they'll have the Retroarch update out soon.
It better have fixed the control issues.

retroben said:
Hopefully they'll have the Retroarch update out soon.
It better have fixed the control issues.
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They have a development update which has lots of cores but does not work with the firetv well at all. its also 110 mb vs the 55 mb of google play

retroben said:
Hopefully they'll have the Retroarch update out soon.
It better have fixed the control issues.
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They have a development update which has lots of cores but does not work with the firetv well at all. its also 110 mb vs the 55 mb of google play
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I made a combined version and the controller stick works with mame 2014 only.
I took the assets folder from the latest version and put it in the google play verison. you have to sign the apk. i used one click signer. prior to the sign. I had zipped up so its a readable archive. So far it works perfectly fine. The sound on sega 16 bit games is also fixed with the additional emulators but the stick does not work. I guess the sitck support is based on the emulators maybe.
also if anyone would need to know, the bose lifestyle has a game mode that reduces delay incase anyone faces that.

Mortal Kombat X Controller support

Does anyone have a sixaxis profile for Mortal Kombat X, or know how to map the Red Samurai controller for the game. The game looks great but I can't connect my PS3 controller or my Red Samurai Controller.
Thanks

dk1keith said:
Does anyone have a sixaxis profile for Mortal Kombat X, or know how to map the Red Samurai controller for the game. The game looks great but I can't connect my PS3 controller or my Red Samurai Controller.
Thanks
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You have it installed on the FTV? I tried on my rooted FTV through the play store using market helper and it still said it was uncompatible.

xm41907 said:
You have it installed on the FTV? I tried on my rooted FTV through the play store using market helper and it still said it was uncompatible.
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I sideloaded it and it seems to work I just can't control it because I can't get the PS3 controller or my Red Samurai controller to work with it. Just using the mouse pad on my keyboard works, but that was just to test it. I need a sixaxis profile, but haven't had any luck finding or making one.

dk1keith said:
I sideloaded it and it seems to work I just can't control it because I can't get the PS3 controller or my Red Samurai controller to work with it. Just using the mouse pad on my keyboard works, but that was just to test it. I need a sixaxis profile, but haven't had any luck finding or making one.
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btw... I am rooted

dk1keith said:
I sideloaded it and it seems to work I just can't control it because I can't get the PS3 controller or my Red Samurai controller to work with it. Just using the mouse pad on my keyboard works, but that was just to test it. I need a sixaxis profile, but haven't had any luck finding or making one.
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None of my devices are compatible, so I can't obtain the apk to sideload.

The only easy way is grabbing it from that one YouTube video,but only with an unlimited money mod.
It used to have an unmodified version,unless it is included still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrmbMHYklw
You would grab the Adreno download since that is the FireTV's GPU.
Be careful if you download on Windows.
The app is free but with IAP,and I really hope the unmodified apk is included.

retroben said:
The only easy way is grabbing it from that one YouTube video,but only with an unlimited money mod.
It used to have an unmodified version,unless it is included still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrmbMHYklw
You would grab the Adreno download since that is the FireTV's GPU.
Be careful if you download on Windows.
The app is free but with IAP,and I really hope the unmodified apk is included.
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That is the one I used and it installed and runs fine. Not sure about the mods though. Can't find a controller to work with it. I don't see how to make a sixaxis profile for it either. Are you using it with a controller?
Thanks

I only have my K400r keyboard which works fine with Goat Simulator for Android including the built-in touchpad for onscreen analog movement.
If only they would fix it by adding gamepad support and ditching the REQUIREMENT of touchscreen controls.
It SHOULD play nearly identical to the console versions (it at least looks nearly as good),but they neglected to support gamepads.

retroben said:
I only have my K400r keyboard which works fine with Goat Simulator for Android including the built-in touchpad for onscreen analog movement.
If only they would fix it by adding gamepad support and ditching the REQUIREMENT of touchscreen controls.
It SHOULD play nearly identical to the console versions (it at least looks nearly as good),but they neglected to support gamepads.
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I'm quite disappointed with Mortal Kombat X. It's nothing like the previous MK games. more of a tap fest than a real fighter. The graphics are awesome though. I don't think I'll waste the space to have it on my FTV.

xm41907 said:
I'm quite disappointed with Mortal Kombat X. It's nothing like the previous MK games. more of a tap fest than a real fighter. The graphics are awesome though. I don't think I'll waste the space to have it on my FTV.
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WTF is wrong with gamedevlopers these days??
they took away THE element of this game and just transported the graphics.
it really feels like they dont know whats about gaming and fun is at all and concentrate only on graphics and senseless effects.
this feeling you have already on the console versions (way to much weapon/magic tricks) but hey still ok thanks to the wast amount of keykombos you gotta learn.
but this android version is just pure garbage. no controllersupport means this game is useless. its effortless blood and magic mania
what a shame, what a waste

bofh999 said:
WTF is wrong with gamedevlopers these days??
they took away THE element of this game and just transported the graphics.
it really feels like they dont know whats about gaming and fun is at all and concentrate only on graphics and senseless effects.
this feeling you have already on the console versions (way to much weapon/magic tricks) but hey still ok thanks to the wast amount of keykombos you gotta learn.
but this android version is just pure garbage. no controllersupport means this game is useless. its effortless blood and magic mania
what a shame, what a waste
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This is more of a card game masquerading as a fighting game. Not bad, if that's the type of game you want to play, but it should be advertised as such.Fighting games are hard on tablet systems such as Android and Ipad. The interface just doesn't work well for multiple button movements. It's lacking the tactile feel of buttons.

bofh999 said:
WTF is wrong with gamedevlopers these days??
they took away THE element of this game and just transported the graphics.
it really feels like they dont know whats about gaming and fun is at all and concentrate only on graphics and senseless effects.
this feeling you have already on the console versions (way to much weapon/magic tricks) but hey still ok thanks to the wast amount of keykombos you gotta learn.
but this android version is just pure garbage. no controllersupport means this game is useless. its effortless blood and magic mania
what a shame, what a waste
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well I'm glad it just wasn't me...I thought there was no way they made this for android and didn't give it any controller support.
Oh well...I guess that's just what they did