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Anyone know of any decent (and free) units of measurement converters? For length, temperature, weights etc.
I've seen a few out there, just wondering if there was an industry standard type.
Thanks
HPJ
Try One-Calc Lite. (www.omegaone.com). Dont know if they still have the free lite version.
Its an awsome calculator and has lots of additional features including conversions.
Many thanks!
Calc98
Calc98 is free and excellent. Download it here
http://www.calculator.org/download.html
is this phone any good? how does it fare up against the iphone 4?
Android can do everything the iPhone 4 can't do, and the Xperia play has a larger screen, Gamepad, and what not?
thanks but i would prefer a more in-depth answer as to why and also if its a good phone or not (and why). thanks
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i would prefer a more in-depth answer as to why and also if its a good phone or not (and why). thanks
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Well I have a video review,
...a "How is it after 2 months?" session to see if it's quality stays consistent,
...as well as a COMPLETE written review.
http://verytechnical.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/sony-ericsson-xperia-play-4g-review/
That in-depth enough for ya?
EDIT: Long story short, you can find a handheld gaming system that handles tactile, portable gaming nicely, but they always fall short for... pretty much all of those non-game functions users over 14 need. You can find a lot of smartphones that handle all those necessities, but the touch controls are horrid, and every other physical controller option violates the "fearsome foursome" of external controller flaws; including that none of them aside from the Xperia PLAY have a lot of compatible games - SixAxis, ZeeMote, iControlPad, Gametel, BGP100...
...all of them fall flat on their ass when you start looking for something more than old emulated stuff. Xperia PLAY kicks ass as an emulator, but it's the only truly versatile smartphone with physical controls with the matching support of over 200 non-emulated games. There's no other device on the market that can hold the claim that well.
This is all from someone who came from 4th Gen idevices BTW. In comparison, its beat iOS at everything from media to games
Okay hardware wise they're almost the same.
1ghz CPU
512mb ram
5mp camera.
Adreno205 gpu to the sgx535
Apps will run similarly.
Okay better with iPhone :
The gorgeous hi res retina screen.
The app store
Smooth ui
Availability of apps.
Music, even though people might say otherwise.
Internal space.
Gyroscope
Better with xplay:
4 inch screen.
The ps controls
The exclusive apps
The Dlna
The PRICE
Audio feedback (xloud)
Image quality (with bravia engine )
The modding possibilities
WiFi hotspot (tethering)
A good forum
Price of apps.
Upgradeable memory (up to god knows how much with sdxc) lets say 64
Common peripherals ,ie Micro USB. So they're cheap if you misplace your charger etc.
Upcoming ics upgrade .
Upcoming PlayStation suite .
Current ps1 games .
Emulator possibilities.
Both are very good devices but unless if you were like me, a gamer, go for the iPhone .
The bads:
IPhone :
Heavily overpriced.
Not very revolutionary .
Overhyped apple product.(internals are the same as 3gs )
Relatively heavy.
Overshadowed by 4s .(last year's product)
Xplay:
Depreciation (not if you bought for like a £100)
Android ui (sorry guys spoilt by windows phone xD)
Weight 169 grams (if you're not a gamer you don't need this weight)
Lacklustre( maybe a bit overhyped too - so far but the upcoming months look really good imho)
But I still love my xplay, as I loved my omnia 7. May I recommend the ray if youre not into gaming and would like a good device .
My gf has a 4s and honestly, if you're gonna buy a new iPhone 4 save a bit more and buy the 4s instead .
Hope that helped.
Cheers
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Since buying an Xperia PLAY a couple of months ago, my old iPhone 4 hasn't seen the light of day and has been hiding in my draw since.
When I hold and use my PLAY, I know I'm holding a phone that was made especially for me. It's got:
- A nicely sized screen.
- Probably the best pair of speakers I've ever seen on a phone.
- Good battery life if treated well.
- That "WOW!" factor.
- 720p recording now.
- Great emulation performance.
- Can play pretty much all PS1 games using the likes of psxperia, FPSE and psx4droid.
- A large number of exclusive games.
- Is moddable and is a dream to run after rooting device.
I won't be buying another phone from here on unless it's a Sony gaming device running on Android.
I just love it when family come over in the holidays rocking up with their iPhone 4 and 4S thinking they have the best phone on the market. While they're talking to Siri asking for the weather, I'm having good fun playing Crash Bash with psxperia with a real game pad and at full speed.
KindaUndisputed said:
is this phone any good? how does it fare up against the iphone 4?
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The iPhone whether 4 or 3 or 6 is garbage , CNET and other hi-tech media mention it , IOS is the less customizable less user friendly .... I could go on. Best to actually compare it to a droid razr or galaxy s2 than any iPhone lol.
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Android ui (sorry guys spoilt by windows phone xD)
But I still love my xplay, as I loved my omnia 7.
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Have you tried out Launcher7 on the XPlay... Gives you that WP7 look and feel (at least for the launcher)... Ubermusic gives you a zune-style music player...
The biggest draw of any Android device over any of the other major platforms is customization. If you put the time and energy into it you can make Android do anything you want it to.
Plus this phone can take a bit of a drop and still be good the i phone will just shatter
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Have you tried out Launcher7 on the XPlay... Gives you that WP7 look and feel (at least for the launcher)... Ubermusic gives you a zune-style music player...
The biggest draw of any Android device over any of the other major platforms is customization. If you put the time and energy into it you can make Android do anything you want it to.
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Yeah but launcher 7 isn't as smooth. Nothing is as smooth as windows phone. 7 no offense
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Hmm. Stock launcher on r800i I.e mine is as smooth if not smoother , I used to be a WM5 , 6, 6.5 addict. Including 7 , but ... No WM7's launcher or WP7 ISN'T the king.
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thanks for all the help guys! i would like a good phone but also be able to play games as well (maybe not extensively but i imagine i would use the pad a lot) would you say this is the phone for me or should i get another phone but stick to touchscreen controls? reviews are quite varied, some say its great and others say thats its great only for gaming? could anyone clarify briefly please?
*at the time of posting i have not watched nor read the reviews posted by "TLRtheory" so please excuse me if this was mentioned in one of them*
I recently got an iphone to try since i hear these things organize peoples lives,then got sick of it after i jailbroke it, being on android all these years i felt it was inconvenient just to make ringtones,text tones and with its limited format, then i found out im stuck with that square front page so i gave it to my brother.
then i brought a play, i played it for a few days then placed a listing online to sell it, then pulled out a few days after because i would waste more money getting something better like a Samsung s2
this phone is great it gets used alot more than any cellphone i had, while im waiting around or in public i can just burn some time and play.
At first it wasn't a great phone but then got root uninstaller to disable alot of the services i dont need.
the controls really make this phone worth it, i had sold my psp and missed all those old games, touchscreen controls never went far for me, i couldn't imagine clocking castlevania or many nes roms with it.
There is only one thing this phone can do better than any other: playing games. If you don't see yourself doing that often, you're better off with other options. Buying a Xperia Play is like crossing the Rubicon, as it makes a statement about yourself.
It depends, men are from android and women are from ios.
Well I will be playing games often but I just want to know if it is a good overall PHONE regardless of gaming. I currently have the ZTE blade so maybe that will tell you something..
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As an overall phone, it's just as good as a Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire S or any mid high end Android device: very fluid movement of the UI, so-so camera... It will be a fairly substantial improvement from the Blade, though that's a fantastic device btw. As a phone, it's bulky, but it has a remarkably good external speaker for music, packs a decent battery and the screen has a nice resolution (higher dpi than the blade).
I came from the Blade and find the Play super. Only cost me €7 more then the Blade too. Its a great phone if you can get it cheap.
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As an overall phone, it's just as good as a Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire S or any mid high end Android device: very fluid movement of the UI, so-so camera... It will be a fairly substantial improvement from the Blade, though that's a fantastic device btw. As a phone, it's bulky, but it has a remarkably good external speaker for music, packs a decent battery and the screen has a nice resolution (higher dpi than the blade).
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Agree with all that, but the DPI is actually lower. Not noticable mind
So is it significantly better than the blade?
I appreciate the answers by the way
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And what is better about it ?
and what sets it apart from basically being a psp, basically how would you convince someone that it's more than just a psp?
Thanks in advance
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So, as the title says, is it just me or are other people finding the thumbsticks weird too?
I find them to be really quite good for Order and Chaos, yet for quite a few onlive games (notably Dark Void and Kane & Lynch 2) they are really too sensitive? Changing the settings does quite little for this?
I don't know, maybe there's something I'm doing wrong or there's an app that's been created to control the sensitivity but if there is.. I haven't found it yet..
P.S. First post.. yay..!
Gratz on first post.
Some programmers just know how to program their games better for them,
Some are just weirdos though, In example, if you try Modern Combat 2, then Modern Combat 3, The analog controls in 2 are superior, Even though gameloft made them both -.-
mc3 is using the touchpad like a anoalogue stick where as mc2 is using it as 4 direction buttons
I dont feel like its an analog stick though.
Have to slide it over and over and over to turn around, I think its better to use it as 4 directionals with sensing how far along the pad you are for the speed.
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I dont feel like its an analog stick though.
Have to slide it over and over and over to turn around, I think its better to use it as 4 directionals with sensing how far along the pad you are for the speed.
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not sure how on earth you would say mc2 controls are better though i got both bought them for bogof for £3 and mc3 is defo easier to use for aiming etc.
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but i guess each to their own.
SirRudolph said:
Gratz on first post.
Some programmers just know how to program their games better for them,
Some are just weirdos though, In example, if you try Modern Combat 2, then Modern Combat 3, The analog controls in 2 are superior, Even though gameloft made them both -.-
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Hopefully onlive pulls their trousers up and sorts it out as most games on there really just require the thumbsticks. I guess I'll just wait it out until someone makes a program to control how sensitive they are or until developers realise that making them super sensitive or really unresponsive is stupid! I don't think games on the xperia play are tested very well before being marketed...
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Hopefully onlive pulls their trousers up and sorts it out as most games on there really just require the thumbsticks. I guess I'll just wait it out until someone makes a program to control how sensitive they are or until developers realise that making them super sensitive or really unresponsive is stupid! I don't think games on the xperia play are tested very well before being marketed...
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Onlive isn't going to be great over a platform like a phone. They are the same games that are made for consoles or PC's then streamed over the net to your device. Expect alot of input lag on some games that require precision on the players side. It's not the developers it's the platform you have decided to play thier games on. It's not going to get any better unless bandwidth and throughput speed increase dramaticly or developers make games specificly for streaming over Onlive's service.
Actually.. Onlive has been doing a NICE job so far. I use it on my tablet it works great. However that said, I plan to buy the universal onlive controller so I can just BT use it on my android. Problem solved.
Skyerin said:
Hopefully onlive pulls their trousers up and sorts it out as most games on there really just require the thumbsticks. I guess I'll just wait it out until someone makes a program to control how sensitive they are or until developers realise that making them super sensitive or really unresponsive is stupid! I don't think games on the xperia play are tested very well before being marketed...
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You can change the sensitivity
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Mysticales said:
Actually.. Onlive has been doing a NICE job so far. I use it on my tablet it works great. However that said, I plan to buy the universal onlive controller so I can just BT use it on my android. Problem solved.
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I played Ball recently, no lag and was really fun. Onlive rocks
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Hello,
I recently purchased a 5X, and was excited to get ahold of it for a few reasons, coming from a Nexus 5. 64-bit, fingerprint, better screen and camera etc. But some of the games I play have been running terribly. And I'd love to know if it's just me (faulty handset) or if others can reproduce the same results.
Full disclosure, I do work for the company that develops the games in question although I don't work on them personally. No one else I know has this phone, so I can't ask any friends/colleagues.
The games are:
Crafty Candy
Bubble Genius
Mystery Match
If anyone could download any of these and give them a quick blast to see if they have performance issues as well, it'd be appreciated.
David
Hello all,
Have been a PC gamer for many years now and a gamer all my life (Spectrum 48k, 1982) , few games have hooked me in recent years like two of the three game i'm listing here and the fact that we've moved on so much with technology that I've gone from upgrading my whole system to play one of these games and upgrading the operating system to play another vs being able to play them same great games with the same performance on our mobile phones?? is quite odd isn't in it
Anyway, some of you may know about these, some of you may not, so i'll write up a quick tutorial on exactly how to install these games on your Oneplus 5 and what not to do
NOTE** You must own the original game in order to legally play these, I will not link the game / torrent / files or whatever, you can do what you will but I will not discuss this any further so please don't ask! XDA does not condone piracy
The games in question are as follows:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom 3
Quake 3 (with Arena)
The games come in two parts:
The apk which is a front end which can read the pak files which form the bulk of the games
The pak files which are installed when installed on your computer, usually within C:\Program Files\RTCW etc or wherever you installed it.
All of the front end's are freely available on the play store, I personally could not find RTCW on the play store, but as it is free I simply downloaded it, if they offered a premium version I'd certainly pop them a beer or two for their work
Return to castle wolfenstein
APK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0a3dy8tvt2wpro/1_return_to_castle_wolfenstein.apk?dl=0
Once installed you will need to copy the folder from your PC called main, the normal path is C:/Program Files/ID Software/Return to Castle Wolfenstein/main
Copy the "main" folder to your phone, then place it into a folder in the root of your internal memory in a newly created folder called rtcw4a, then open the app (rtcw4a)
*Note, you can change the resolution and graphics options to whatever you want, but AA will crash the game if altered, you can also change settings within game as you would on PC, multiplayer doesn't work afaik but the game runs at a nice solid 60fps at least.
Doom 3
App link in play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n0n3m4.DIII4A&hl=en
Again once installed you'll need to copy the folder from your PC called base from your PC installation of Doom 3, again it should be within the Program files/Doom 3 folder, you'll want to copy it to a newly created folder in the root of your internal memory called diii4a.
Note* again you can only change certain settings, the ones i've found to be best are as follows:
Disable lighting - Off
Use DXT Textures - On
Use ETC1 compression - On
Use ETC1 cache - On
Graphics:
Resolution: Normal
MSAA: None
Multiplayer does load on this but there wasn't anyone present, perhaps a LAN party would be possible
Quake 3 and Arena
This for me is the best of the bunch, not because it's the best game, because it just isn't but because you CAN play multiplayer, it's absolutely superb, you can host a LAN party between phones and the framerate is ridiculously high so massively enjoyable, just pray that no one is using a KB and Mouse if you aren't yourself cos you will lose
App link in play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n0n3m4.QIII4A&hl=en
Once again you'll need to copy the folder from your PC called baseq3 from your PC installation of Quake 3, again it should be within the Program files/Quake 3 folder, you'll want to copy it to a newly created folder in the root of your internal memory called qiii4a.
In regards to graphics I set my resolution to 1080p, left MSAA alone as it broke the game (force close) graphics within the game can be changed same as PC, multiplayer works for me as I do own all these games, even if you don't own them, because they're so old, you can buy them for pennies these days so personally I'd say avoid the pirate route, you'll only end up with a crappy version and bad karma
Final notes
All of the games have on screen buttons and have been absolutely rock solid for me,
You will need to be rooted to use a mouse? Not sure why but it requires it?
You will need to use the latest pak files to play these games, if you've already got them say through steam then you'll be set.
PS: I did not make these apps, this is simply a share and how to, props go to the talented bunch who made this possible (who afaik is Proger10 according to the Play Store)
Hope to see you in the arena
PS: Bare in mind, the Oneplus 5 does not allow TV Out via a cable, which is just wrong really, no idea why they've cut that out, suppose it's something to do with Googles decision to pull it even though they actually sell a USB-C to HDMI cable? Who knows.
You should maybe do a YouTube video showing these in action?
djsubterrain said:
You should maybe do a YouTube video showing these in action?
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Might do, have been quite busy of late, have put up two of these today, one of Zelda the windwaker and this.
@dladz, have you tried getting it to work on a custom rom based on lineage?
Getting tv display out?
You said in another thread all the hardware was there, but maybe it's just something they've disabled in oos. Hopefully so.. Or... To less of an immediate fix. Might be firmware they can update later?
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thx for the thread.. reminds me of the good old gaming days..
unfortunately i dont have the original copies any more.. still good to read the thread..
MrWilsonxD said:
@dladz, have you tried getting it to work on a custom rom based on lineage?
Getting tv display out?
You said in another thread all the hardware was there, but maybe it's just something they've disabled in oos. Hopefully so.. Or... To less of an immediate fix. Might be firmware they can update later?
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Not personally however on the HTC 10 (same android level) CM / Lin roms currently crash the phone forcing you to hard reset and the performance is sub par in comparison, it simply isn't optimised enough.
I fear TV out is a lost cause, Google started it on the pixel, Samsung have followed suit, OnePlus, the only other I'm not sure of is Sony, HTC and LG. HTC 10 definitely could do it but not sure about the 11.
Just a real shame.
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iamelton said:
thx for the thread.. reminds me of the good old gaming days..
unfortunately i dont have the original copies any more.. still good to read the thread..
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You're very welcome mate.....
Bare in mind that you can actually own a copy of a game for 24 hours for "evaluation purposes"
That is actually legal
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RtcW! The good old memories of the =EFG=
Thnx for porting, ill try it later this day
mayosan said:
RtcW! The good old memories of the =EFG=
Thnx for porting, ill try it later this day
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No worries mate, not my app, just a share. Works incredibly well on most phones.
I think wolf is still going isn't it? Have vivid memories of a 64 player game, complete chaos.
They've not done a multiplayer game since.
Maybe the new one ? Who knows.
Also the psp and GameCube emulators are 100% on this phone, so powerful.
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dladz said:
No worries mate, not my app, just a share. Works incredibly well on most phones.
I think wolf is still going isn't it? Have vivid memories of a 64 player game, complete chaos.
They've not done a multiplayer game since.
Maybe the new one ? Who knows.
Also the psp and GameCube emulators are 100% on this phone, so powerful.
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MP Market Garden!
Madness and pure fun. Indeed no mp got the same fast pace gaming, together with a large community.
We held every week the European Forum Games, planetwolfenstein.
Yeah, awesome period.
MrWilsonxD said:
@dladz, have you tried getting it to work on a custom rom based on lineage?
Getting tv display out?
You said in another thread all the hardware was there, but maybe it's just something they've disabled in oos. Hopefully so.. Or... To less of an immediate fix. Might be firmware they can update later?
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Display link adapters work, I had one working today. Just need to find one, cheap enough which is portable enough to be practical
My one at work besides costing over £100 easily, it's too big and needs auxillary power. I'll keep looking.
dladz said:
Display link adapters work, I had one working today. Just need to find one, cheap enough which is portable enough to be practical
My one at work besides costing over £100 easily, it's too big and needs auxillary power. I'll keep looking.
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Goodness o.o let us know if you find one! That's expensive :|
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Goodness o.o let us know if you find one! That's expensive :|
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0...dpPl=1&dpID=51fuOgrHfKL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1
Maybe?
Needs to have displaylink technology. States this one does. Cheapest one I've found.
More info, looks like this would work..
http://www.climaxdigital.co.uk/epag.../Shops/BT3449/Categories/Support&Locale=en_GB
Just clocked, it's not standard USB. It's bloody that USB 3 with the extra port over micro USB. Didn't see it first, shame. Might still be possible but an extra cable would be needed.
This may do the job: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plugable-G...97465&sr=8-6&keywords=usb+to+hdmi+displaylink
But £47 ?? Crazy expensive, for cheap plastic.