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[Q] Compatible games?

I am a heavy gamer, and intend to buy a Iconia A100 for it sizes and speeds.
So, this will be place to list compatible games for A100, including Gamelofts games and others. If you already tested, please list on next posts and I will collect them all here on 1st post. Please also list the specific version for them.
Oh, thanks to vszulc remind, all THD games should work, as they are for Terga, aren't they?
THD games:
- Samurai THD
- Galaxy on Fire THD
- Pinball THD
- Guerrilla Bob THD
- Fruit Ninja THD
- Sprinkle THD
- Monster Madness THD
- Trainz THD
- Shadow Gun (not yet release?)
Gamelofts games (I expect all games release for Iconia A500/A501 should work well):
- Until get confirmation
Other games (please confirm which one full screen and play-able)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (confirmed by d1dd1)
- For update
* I saw "you-know-where" a GameLoft package for A100. Any one tried yet?

Good idea! I have a bunch of games installed on my A100, so I'll return later with some more details. But off the top of my head: All three regular Angry Bird games. As well as Angry Bird HD and Angry Bird Seasons HD. As well as the Tegra Specific titles that you can find in the Tegra app on the A100: Samurai 2 THD, Galaxy on Fire THD and Pinball THD.
You want some specific version numbers?
BTW: If there's a specific game you were wondering about regarding compatibility with the A100, a good start is market.android.com... You can see which one of your Android devices a game is compatible with on the www-market. Too bad they don't have that feature on the regular market app.
Sometimes a game will be compatible even though it's not featured there though, so its more of a rule of thumb...

I installed the sixaxis controller app to use my PS3 controller to play emulator games. I am loving it.
Has anyone tried "9mm HD". It doesn't work on the a100. I wonder what requirement it needs. It works on my phone.

Stupid Zombies doesn't work. I love that game. Works fine on my A500. Bastards need to get to fixing.
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 works without problems

Dungeon Defenders is also pretty good, and its free in the Tegra Zone.

Order and Chaos
Has anyone been successful in getting Order and Chaos to rub properly? I have heard of other devices useing a all devices version but I cant seem to locate it anywhere..

pimpygrub said:
Has anyone been successful in getting Order and Chaos to rub properly? I have heard of other devices useing a all devices version but I cant seem to locate it anywhere..
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You have to modify the build.prop to get O&C to work. The "all devices" hacked version no longer works as of July and another one hasnt been produced since.
To modify the build.prop you'll need to be rooted and have root explorer (or an equiv) and change this: ro.product.model=A100 to this ro.product.model=A500 in the build.prop file under system.
Once you do the above you should be able to find O&C in the market and download it. Works great, the only thing I've found odd are input boxes. Once you type something in a input box you have to minimize the keyboard rather than pressing enter or tab. For example at the login screen put in your login and then minimize the on screen keyboard.
A word of caution about modifying you're build.prop, if you don't know what you are doing you can soft brick your tab! So be careful, just because the above worked for me doesn't mean it'll work for you.
So you can add Order and Chaos and Vendetta Online to the list of games that will run on our wonderful acer tab
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Is O'n'Ch still working on A100? I recently bought an A100 in frys and I'm waiting for it to come to Poland. First things first I will root the device, as I would love to play O'n'Ch on 7''. I have also sent email to gameloft about O'n'Ch not supporting the 7'' tablets,but they didn't reply me yet.

Dead space works great for A100, but i ordered this from gamestop so it came pre-installed.
Madden 12 works great! Been playing this for a few hours now.

Albion_1 said:
Dead space works great for A100, but i ordered this from gamestop so it came pre-installed.
Madden 12 works great! Been playing this for a few hours now.
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Hows Dead Space. I want to buy it but look to be only exclusive to xperia play and acer a100 from Gamestop.

zombies
reverendbill said:
Stupid Zombies doesn't work. I love that game. Works fine on my A500. Bastards need to get to fixing.
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Stupid zombies works perfect on my a100 that I bought today

I installed and work fine with my Acer A100 :
- Fruit ninja
- Aspalt 6
- My paper Plane
- Tintin HD
- Cut the rope
- Samurai II
- RipTide GP

Ok on my A100 for:
- Shine Runner
- Pool Break
- Pool Bar HD
- Checkers
- Uno HD
- Zen Pinball PHD

@JusThinK
How Asphalt 6 worked on your tablet?
I'm trying to get the game with the discount, but I can't!!!!
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m2b999 said:
@JusThinK
How Asphalt 6 worked on your tablet?
I'm trying to get the game with the discount, but I can't!!!!
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Same here. I see several games and app not being compatible with this tablet. Kinda sux cause I really wanted to make this tablet my all around device.

Has anyone tried editing their build.prop file to something like a Samsung Nexus? I have a Nook Color, and I'm constantly tweaking the build.prop with Root Explorer to get apps to show up and install properly. I'd try it right now, but I'm at work.

ED2O9 said:
Has anyone tried editing their build.prop file to something like a Samsung Nexus? I have a Nook Color, and I'm constantly tweaking the build.prop with Root Explorer to get apps to show up and install properly. I'd try it right now, but I'm at work.
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I'd like to try it. Can you point me to the file directory and which line to edit.
EDIT: found the file under /system now i see these lines related to device:
ro.build.id=HTJ85B
ro.build.id.display.id=Acer_A100_1.018.01_COM_GEN2
ro.build.id.system.id=Acer_A100_1.018_COM_GEN2
Which do I change and what do I change to?
Doing some search tells me to edit ro.build.fingerprint but still not sure what to edit it to.

aznmode said:
I'd like to try it. Can you point me to the file directory and which line to edit.
EDIT: found the file under /system now i see these lines related to device:
ro.build.id=HTJ85B
ro.build.id.display.id=Acer_A100_1.018.01_COM_GEN2
ro.build.id.system.id=Acer_A100_1.018_COM_GEN2
Which do I change and what do I change to?
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Change this:
ro.product.model=A100
to this:
ro.product.model=A500
Be sure to put the system directory in read/write mode before trying to change anything in there. Oh and becareful changing things.. you can easily brick your device!
doing the above edit to you're build.prop will make most apps, and the system settings think you're device is a a500 which will let you run more stuff. I've had mine set like this for a while now with no issues and games run great, especially order and chaos and even 9mm.
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I tried your method but I don't see anything different. Still cant open Order & Chaos. Is there any other app i cant test that works for a500 that does not work on a100?

Dead Space, Chainfire 3D, and the SGS3

Dead Space is just not happening on this phone for me. I have the game on my Asus Transformer tablet, but I find it very cumbersome to control an FPS on a big, unwieldy thing like that. I'd love to play it on my phone instead. However, it crashes every time.
After some research, I installed the free version of Chainfire 3D and installed the three recommended plugins: Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Powervr. Also the CF3D driver, of course.
The game loads up, shows the EA logo, tells me to use headphones, and even gets as far as the load screen that gives little tips and tricks. "Tap to continue" appears on the bottom of the screen. And before I can tap - crash!
This is the case using each of the three plugins. I also tried the "Reduce texture quality" option AND the "Unroll textures" option with the Nvidia plugin. No dice.
Does anyone have any suggestions? (Besides "Play Dead Trigger instead." I'm doing that. )

Have the same issue. I believe it just isn't compatible yet.

Try playing Dead Trigger!
Seriously, as I understand the SGS3 doesn't have the dedicated graphics hardware for those games as they are right now. The only other fix I can think of is to find a way to partition the on-board RAM and/or memory so that part of it functions as dedicated graphics memory to help with the load those games put on the system. That would be tricky, but it works for low end PCs without a graphics card that use shared RAM for graphics and processing.

This sux, enjoyed playing it on my infuse.

Thanks for responding, guys. I guess I'll just have to wait and hope for an update from EA. They did just update app the for another phone like yesterday, and the SGS3 is still kind of a big deal, so there's a chance, I think.

Can we get some dungeon hunter 3 love?
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Dead space runs like a dream for me on sgs3.....
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Works fine for me.
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Yeah, they must have fixed it.
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[Q] VPN problems with RT

When I connect my vpn, wi-fi changes to limited and probably because of that, some macro apps say I am not connected (like hulu or abc for example) but netflix works and also I can download apps from the store.
Does anyone know how to solve this limitation ?
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Might be a split tunneling issue...
Do you lose access to web/WAN based resources from a x86 based laptop too when using the same vpn profile?
If so you might need to speak to whoever set the vpn up on the firewall device.

The same problem is in the "full" version of Windows 8.
Until MS will present patch for this (Windows Update) there is no solution to the problem.
Hopefully we will not have to wait long for it...
For now all I can advise is patience

galtom said:
The same problem is in the "full" version of Windows 8.
Until MS will present patch for this (Windows Update) there is no solution to the problem.
Hopefully we will not have to wait long for it...
For now all I can advise is patience
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I had a bad idea to update my notebook from 7 to 8 and noticed that...same problems with macro like hulu etc...so only possible run on desktop mode (just lazy to go back to 7 since 8 is not useful)...but I on the tablet I still like some things
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aalvico said:
I had a bad idea to update my notebook from 7 to 8 and noticed that...same problems with macro like hulu etc...so only possible run on desktop mode (just lazy to go back to 7 since 8 is not useful)...but I on the tablet I still like some things
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Be happy that everything works in desktop mode - it would be truly tragic if in desktop mode Chrome would have the same problem.
I am wondering if they will do something about about browser abilities.
For example HBO Go - it needs Silverlight to work. This means that the only way to watch anything is to run browser in desktop mode.
Since so many stuff is not working in Moder UI, apps in most cases are quite useless - I have to admit that Netflix app is AWESOME! - what was the point for Modern UI in first place?
If Ms truly wants to make it work (like it did with Windows itself in the past) it needs to open Modern UI - just set very clear requirements for developers in order to avoid fragmentation in future.

[emulator] [NDS]+[tweaks] DraStic for android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drasticdemo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drastic
heard a lot about this emulator
many consider it a lot better than nds4droid
Much better than most emulators
the first link is of the demo version and the second is of the paid one
try buying the paid version if you like the demo version
First, to get nice performance
Enable multi threaded 3d rendering option in the options menu (change options) and restart the emulator (may give graphical glitches)
If your emulator is still slow, set filter to none (makes the screen look pretty bad, however liked by some people)
Disable sound for even more speed
And don't mess with the amount of frameskips
Here are SkyandDirt's tweaking (battery) which really was helpful
With this I could run the emulator for 3.5+ hours without heating up my device
max702MHz (mines at 590)
min384MHz
ONDEMAND
90%hotplug
128MHz max GPU
It saves a lot of battery at those settings and runs the emulator without slowing it (at least for me)

Yes it's great, I'm playing through prof Layton and the spectre atm.
Pokemon x and y though will be for the 3ds only afaik

meangreenie said:
Yes it's great, I'm playing through prof Layton and the spectre atm.
Pokemon x and y though will be for the 3ds only afaik
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Have you tried diamond or pearl on the emulator?
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No I haven't tried, I'm not into Pokémon.
I've heard they run fine though, but make sure to get patched versions of those ROMs as they have anti piracy protection built in.
Example the prof Layton last spectre rom wouldn't get past the first puzzle until I got the patched version of the rom... In now on chapter 7

I tried Pokémon HG, White and Black 2... 100%! FULL SPEED! Amazing!
There's only a problem, the games crash really often.

PwNeGeR said:
I tried Pokémon HG, White and Black 2... 100%! FULL SPEED! Amazing!
There's only a problem, the games crash really often.
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Did you get the patched versions ?

meangreenie said:
Did you get the patched versions ?
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Yeah, It is. With all the emulator like Desmume it works fine.

Pokémon Diamant/Perle/Platine/Black 1&2/White 1&2/HG/SS work (patched versions)! Tested with my N4. New super Mario Bros and Mario Kart also work
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4

From what I've heard and read, emulators in the Play Store like Desmune are ported from their Windows versions, while this one is made from the ground up to work on Android.
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Seems pretty nice
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Pokemon white running at full speed without even a single lag!
This emulator is soooo good!

I've tried DSoid, nds4droid, and the tiger DS emulator and I can assure you, DraStic is the best DS emulator you can get. Well worth the money.
Sent from my Nexus 4

i've played more than 17 hours of pokemon black 2 with emulator and it works even better than desmume on windows.seriously.

anyone knows where the savefiles go???

justin11141 said:
Have you tried diamond or pearl on the emulator?
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Works fine, but there are some texture glitches (you can see black lines/dots separating objects, especially in the open world).
ngoralph said:
anyone knows where the savefiles go???
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/storage/sdcard0/Android/data/com.dsemu.drastic/savestates

Updated emu and lost all roms and save files

ermacwins said:
Updated emu and lost all roms and save files
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The old save files are probably still in /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/com.dsemu.drastic/savestates (as long as you didn't delete the app/its data before updating). The new app directory is /storage/sdcard0/drastic.

klvnhng said:
The old save files are probably still in /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/com.dsemu.drastic/savestates (as long as you didn't delete the app/its data before updating). The new app directory is /storage/sdcard0/drastic.
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I uninstalled app before updating. Thought that files that were later created wouldn't be deleted. So now still try look for online save files and see if will work with this emu

Anyone having issues getting battery save files (.dsv) from drastic to play on desmume (pc emulator)? The save files play fine on my Nexus 4 with drastic, but desmume says they're corrupted. Any ideas?

Anyone having crashes? When I play Pokémon MD: Explorers of Sky sometimes it crashes to menu

[Q] Ubuntu on Galaxy Tab 3 7.0

Hello, I wonder if any developer has a project on ubuntu for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 3 (SM-T210), I'd love to try the ubuntu on my tablet, some developer? (Bad english = I'm Brazilian)

I've researched a lot about it. but the results did not reach.

K3VYNC said:
Hello, I wonder if any developer has a project on ubuntu for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 3 (SM-T210), I'd love to try the ubuntu on my tablet, some developer? (Bad english = I'm Brazilian )
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You could download Linux deploy from google app store.

halifax0 said:
You could download Linux deploy from google app store.
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I want to install native Ubuntu, without VNC connection D:

I know that there are several different Samba apps on playstore that my work for you.?
-sr
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samalama76 said:
I know that there are several different Samba apps on playstore that my work for you.?
-sr
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I was thinking something like download an ARM version of Linux to install / flash on my tablet..
Is there any way?
*** NATIVE, NO VNC ***
(Note: I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME) 13.10 on my desktop)

K3VYNC said:
I was thinking something like download an ARM version of Linux to install / flash on my tablet..
Is there any way?
*** NATIVE, NO VNC ***
(Note: I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME) 13.10 on my desktop)
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I am just throwing this out here because I'm not sure if its what you want exactly, but it may help.
The webpage is whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian
Check it out, hope it helps. It may give some ideas if nothing else, and if it doesn't help, sorry in advance.
-sr
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Oh, thanks bro!!
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Holy crap, that was my first topic ever created lol.
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Well.... did it work?
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Lol, everyone learns things there own way. you would be surprised at the amount of work involved to get a fully functional NATIVE port going. my first took me almost a year on Allwinner Hardware, second 2 went pretty smooth and still took 6 months. the biggest issue you have with a device like a Galaxy is drivers, and UART access to catch were your kernels are crashing (and trust me they will) but you can kinda work around that by having your init scripts dump the log to SD(assuming it is working).
As for drivers? Wifi is fairly simple to get going, its usually just configuration changes. Touchpanel drivers need to be heavily modified to remove muli-touch(not completely..read on) as Xorg and linux in general does not play nice with multi-touch. you CAN use multi-touch to emulate scrolling (ex:2 fingers enables scrolling) and right click events, really it is completely possible to use the full chips capabilities you just need to code the events properly in the source. bluetooth I have not bothered to use but I see no issue with it. GPU!!!!! god I hate the GPU mess. that is the biggest hurdle. I got lucky on my tablets as I was able to port X11 Mali drivers from rockchip over to Allwinner and AMlogic. I use my first Allwinner Tablet daily paired with a cheap mini-keyboard,touchpanel from DX.com. Its not easy, by any means but its a challenge(for me an addiction) and once you get it running on the NAND and power up watching your system log on the LCD...it just gives you that feeling of satisfaction. I am currently in the preliminary stages right now for the Tab 7 working around the OTG issues but there is hope! yes the PMIC chosen by samsung sucks and is partly responsible for our OTG problems( the powering portion anyway since it can only output enough to run low amp devices until I can find the LDO registers for the Boost regulator) but I will not stop until I get it done. KNOX is a major issue at this time as usual but won't be in the long run. It is tough probing the devices registers using i2c-tools so I bailed on that one and ported a tool I used for another platform which Is working out nicely to get valuable data from the chips via a kernel module/userland combo.
I try to keep everyone updated but when there is nothing substantial to report you will hear from me when their is. Ubuntu will run one way or another.