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"Best" ROM for retro gaming?

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

Asphalt 7 : Heat on Arc S

Is any one here able to play Asphalt 7 : Heat (New stable 1.0 version. Released yesterday). I tried with out downloading mmc data (I always prefer data download through the game). But it is crashing at the Gameloft screen itself. Anybody facing the same problem.?
Device : Arc S
Os : MIUI (ICS 4.0.3)

Worked fine for me :/
Sent from my Arc S with JJ's ROM installed + stock kernel.

ok
works fine for me too

Both of you guys downloaded MMC data separatly or from the game itself??
Sent from my LT18i using Tapatalk 2

jithuelad said:
Is any one here able to play Asphalt 7 : Heat (New stable 1.0 version. Released yesterday). I tried with out downloading mmc data (I always prefer data download through the game). But it is crashing at the Gameloft screen itself. Anybody facing the same problem.?
Device : Arc S
Os : MIUI (ICS 4.0.3)
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Hey on ics I had same problem
But on gb it worked great.
Data downloaded from app
Sent from my LT18i using xda premium

Does it work with DoomKernel ?!

Working smooth where, both with JJ's Hybrid and Ice Cream Pureness, the kernel is always the same for me XArcS

I play Asphalt 7 also on my Arc S, running rooted 4.0.2.A.0.62 firmware, without lag.
Actually, playing it via HDMI on HD TV is quite awesome, graphics is not best but still nice

hey guys, Asphalt 7 working awesome on my 4.1.B.0.587 ics build! I have the max graphics device config on my phone - the graphics are insane!! the reflections are real time are awesome and theres motion blur - i got it from this htc thread -
:laugh:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821281
only problem is that the game is very laggy:/ Does anyone know how to make it smooth with as best graphics as possible?
thanks!
:fingers-crossed:

Work fine for me. On stock GB 2.3.4 .
Wysyłane z mojego LT18i za pomocą Tapatalk 2

Try this !!
jithuelad said:
Is any one here able to play Asphalt 7 : Heat (New stable 1.0 version. Released yesterday). I tried with out downloading mmc data (I always prefer data download through the game). But it is crashing at the Gameloft screen itself. Anybody facing the same problem.?
Device : Arc S
Os : MIUI (ICS 4.0.3)
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Hey..Im not facing any problem in that game..i already finished playing it..the problem might be your apk or data files...
i have provided some website links ..plz try downloading from one of these..
androhdclub.com
androidfanpage.blogspot.in
Hope this helps you..

CM10 and AOKP gaming issue

So first up CM10 when i play games with this rom i experience a crash and then the phone reboots.
AOKP i play for a while and then i have sound issue, only some sounds like the bomb fuse on fruit ninja and for horn only some sword slashes work and then after a little while the i get the error the game dose not respond(for fruit ninja i have this error after the final score).
So my question is, these are some common issues or is it just me ?

i had multitouch issue on my hox with old cm10

i had this issues with cm10 alpha 8 and they said in the thread title that multitouch is fixed, but i dont think multitouch is the problem for me

I think the best option is to try a different ROM. Maybe ARHD.
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[Q] List of the games that are not supported

Okey, I found out there are some games (most common gameloft games) that do not work on this phone, or they work but only with mods and some of them have lag issues.
I've made this thread so we can put the list on, and not be suprised when they try to download them from store, or they have weak performance.
So, can we get the list of the games that are incompatible with HOX or HOX+ ?

if you have some of these games then write them here

N.O.V.A. 3 - heavy lag
GTA 3 - laggy
Batman The Dark Knight Rises - laggy
Asphalt 7 - laggy
The Amazin Spiderman - bit laggy
Wild Blood - heavy lag
Mostly Gameloft games.
If somebody experienced same thing with different game, post it up.

GTA3 runs fine for me on CM10 with ncx's kernel and on my mate's HOX which is running ICS ARHD with stock kernel...

do you have rooted device? if you install a non-stock rom you won't have these lags! as i know, they're persistent only on the firsts ics roms

glukosio said:
do you have rooted device? if you install a non-stock rom you won't have these lags! as i know, they're persistent only on the firsts ics roms
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No, my phone is not rooted. I'm on JB though.
@Azurael
I know that, but on sense 4.1 is painful experience.. And I hate HTC for making only 8 apk to be multitasked.

OpenGL issues...?

Hello.
I'm an active Xperia lt15i user from the day it arrived in Poland.
I've tried around multiple roms, played a lot of games...
There are some issues with it, and I'd like to ask - is it only my phone, or all Arcs have these issues?
(I'm running P.A.C. 4.2.2 milestone 1, but I had the same problem when riding on stock GB, CM7, stock ICS, CM9, 4.1 AOKP, 4.1 Paranoid Android, CM10 and P.A.C 4.1 from an old thread. Most of them with Lupus up to v12 JB)
First - games like Splinter cell Conviction, Starfront: Collision or Assassin's creed Altair chronicles have graphical glitches that make games unplayable. Splinter Cell, for example, makes all textures (except characters) black. Starfront's hud is made from pink/red triangles and circles around minions change into big green squares that cover 50% of screen. Assassins creed simply works only in menu. After the loading screen I only see dialogue boxes. Rest is black.
Also, any emulator that has a "use OpenGL to render" does not work after using that function. Nds4droid (or whatever) simply does not render 3d after checking the option. N64oid and all other n64 emulators have black screen. Even if I check graphic enhancement in GBA emulator it makes the screen go black. (not the whole screen, just the game is not rendering)
I need to add that if I use "software" renderer 3d works, but at 5-8fps, as to be expected with software renderer.
Is that a hardware issue, or it is a common problem? I don't know, because I don't know anyone with a 2011 Xperia, especially Arc or Arc s. Is there a fix for that? Maybe crossfire for GB? (I did not try it)
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Also, is there a rom for Arc that is based on Gingerbread, but has JB interface/paranoidandroid hybrid settings? I mostly ask because I'm running 4.2.2 and don't want to learn the old settings Ui again...
Thanks in advance.
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