Hey there guys! I want to buy a Sony Xperia U and I am not sure if it has a gyroscope. I tried to google it, but some sites say it has, some say it hasn't, so I am asking you. From what I know from my iPhone, some newer games require a gyro (such as Real Racing 3, Minion Rush,etc.). Does this apply to Android devices or are all the games compatible with it?
adrian_misto95 said:
Hey there guys! I want to buy a Sony Xperia U and I am not sure if it has a gyroscope. I tried to google it, but some sites say it has, some say it hasn't, so I am asking you. From what I know from my iPhone, some newer games require a gyro (such as Real Racing 3, Minion Rush,etc.). Does this apply to Android devices or are all the games compatible with it?
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No gyro, but it has an accelerometer, which is probably sufficient to play these games (Sorry I don't play them, so I cannot confirm for sure.).
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Hi guys, im able to install Play games such as Dead Space, and hot pursuit, however the keys such as shoulder buttons and playstation face buttons dont correspond to anything on the mini pro's keyboard, any ideas?!
i doubt ther programmed to use the mini pro's keypad , but im sure some pro dev can do some key mapping or something to make them playable
Dont know any pro devs with there talent for sale do you?!
tommyfarr said:
Dont know any pro devs with there talent for sale do you?!
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Wierd question
I cant do it, but i'd pay someone else to!
By searching... I've read that we should need chainfire3D to be able to play NFS Hot Pursuit as on Xperia Play...
Thank you for the constructive comment, I did search, this was a last resort.
Hi All,
I'm prepared to be told this is a silly question , but thought I'd ask anyway, as googling it hasn't brought me a clear response.
I have an S3. I understand that if you have a sony xperia play, you can access the playstation store and download titles. Is there any way that this can be accessed from a non-sony phone? Like my S3!
Or is there an alternative way to play what they can play on my phone?
Hope the negative responses I'm bound to get aren't too harsh!
Thanks!
Depends on what you want to play.
There are several PSX and other emulators out there, so if you want Playstation1 you're good to go.
Playstation Store has afaik never been cracked/ported to other platforms but the underlying games could theoretically run on your device with Chainfire3d.
The Xperia Play has a Qualcom Adreno205 GPU, I'm not sure if it's supported by the generic Qualcom plugin for Chainfire3d but it might.
The question in itself isn't really silly since the Xperia Play is an ARM-based Android handset with inferior performance as compared to the S3 so there is no obvious reason why a port should not work. If you'd ask how to get your PS-Vita games to run on the S3 that would be another question but the Vita also runs on ARM so... =)
d4fseeker said:
Depends on what you want to play.
There are several PSX and other emulators out there, so if you want Playstation1 you're good to go.
Playstation Store has afaik never been cracked/ported to other platforms but the underlying games could theoretically run on your device with Chainfire3d.
The Xperia Play has a Qualcom Adreno205 GPU, I'm not sure if it's supported by the generic Qualcom plugin for Chainfire3d but it might.
The question in itself isn't really silly since the Xperia Play is an ARM-based Android handset with inferior performance as compared to the S3 so there is no obvious reason why a port should not work. If you'd ask how to get your PS-Vita games to run on the S3 that would be another question but the Vita also runs on ARM so... =)
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Thanks, I'd thought about a PS1 emulator. But thought it might be easier to get the games from PS Store if they're there for the taking!
What's Chainfire3D? App? Mod?
Thanks again for your help
Chainfire3D is an app/mod requiring root which can emulate the graphic engines of other phones so as to be able to play games not officially released for the platform or which are only available in a lower resolution.
It is mostly used to play Nvidia Tegra1/2 (THD) games on the performance-wise superior but less hyped Mali GPU in our S3.
Lowyo said:
What's Chainfire3D? App? Mod?
Thanks again for your help
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087427
Here you will find everything about Chainfire3D, a must have to play the Tegra games and stuff.
d4fseeker said:
Chainfire3D is an app/mod requiring root which can emulate the graphic engines of other phones so as to be able to play games not officially released for the platform or which are only available in a lower resolution.
It is mostly used to play Nvidia Tegra1/2 (THD) games on the performance-wise superior but less hyped Mali GPU in our S3.
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Chainfire3D sounds interesting. I've not come across a game I've wanted to play that was incompatible, but nice to know there are options out there.
So with this method I could play incompatible games, or as you previously suggested I could use an emulator, which are perfectly acceptable as I'm not a HUGE phone gamer, but thought I might as well abuse the tech I now have!
But no known way of accessing and downloading games from the playstation network?
Probably a question for the Xperia Play forums but, is it only PS1 games that they have access to? No playstation network exclusives games like Journey, or PixelJunk Monsters?
I was wondering if these kind of games (developed on the unreal engine) only work for high-end devices with tegra 3? Because I recently download this game, "Dark Meadow" and it force closes. So I want to know if it is possible to run these kind of games on Xperia Phones. I read about Chainfire 3D but the truth is some games doesn't work if you have this driver installed. (And I really didn't see a lot of improvement, so...)
It is possible to play this game Dark Meadow on my Live? And can anyone tell me what Sony smarthpones have Tegra 3? Thanks in advance....
I'm really dissapointed, because the game seems to be good, I was reading that this company "Phosphor Games" also would release a new game called "Horn" which really seems awesome, is like a combination of Zelda and Infinity Blade, but since I couldn't run this game on my phone, I don't think I could run this game when it comes out..... :C
as far as i know sony don't have any phones with a tegra 3 or a quad core processor
in case you got it/bought it from the Play Store, you should report this as an incompatibility issue. But in case you got it from somewhere else, well, you're bound to expect the unexpected haha. Some games work just fine on our Xperias, yet the Store refuses to show them on my phone. 9mm is one of those rare ocassions.
Let's see how this develops, I am worried about gaming support for our devices too.
Yeah I've got it from the Play Store, it's a free app and it says there that my phone is compatible. But I read in other sites that this game is only supported on tegra 3 devices, so I think that's why it didn't work on my phone. I know there are some games that in the Play Store says they aren't compatible with our phones but they are. For example I play Modern Combat 3 on my Live. But I have to modify the build.prop so that it identifies my device as a SK17 which is compatible with almost all gameloft games. I'm worried to about support for our phones because I think in the future there will be a lot of games that need tegra 3 and would be really cool, but maybe we would not be able to enjoy them in our low-end phones.
Exactly. I remember reading an article on the frontpage about the SGSIII running Tegra-exclusive games, which was pretty cool, but I wouldn't hope to see that coming to our devices, let alone running smoothly.
But all games based on the unreal engine are ONLY for tegra devices? Because I also was reading gameloft will release their first unreal engine based game and it would be a shame that we won't be able to play it only because our phones are non-tegra capable.
I recently just discovered that my Motorola Xoom has a Gyroscope sensor! I've seen what this can do for games on the iPhone/iPad (like the incredible first-person-shooter accuracy in Shootout), and I want to try it out myself, but I have an Android. I've been scouring the googles for over an hour, looking for a list of gyroscope-enabled games for android, and so far all I've found is people who are incredibly confused as to what exactly a gyroscope is, in that it is not an accelerometer, and they just end up listing accelerometer-enabled games. Or I find lists of iPhone-only gyroscope-enabled games.
So does anyone know of any good games for Android that make use of the gyroscope, NOT just the accelerometer? I'm not talking about sensor-graphing apps, I have one of those, its how I found out I have a gyroscope.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Try "the last contact"
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I recently just discovered that my Motorola Xoom has a Gyroscope sensor! I've seen what this can do for games on the iPhone/iPad (like the incredible first-person-shooter accuracy in Shootout), and I want to try it out myself, but I have an Android. I've been scouring the googles for over an hour, looking for a list of gyroscope-enabled games for android, and so far all I've found is people who are incredibly confused as to what exactly a gyroscope is, in that it is not an accelerometer, and they just end up listing accelerometer-enabled games. Or I find lists of iPhone-only gyroscope-enabled games.
So does anyone know of any good games for Android that make use of the gyroscope, NOT just the accelerometer? I'm not talking about sensor-graphing apps, I have one of those, its how I found out I have a gyroscope.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Helicopter 3D is amazing!
Great thread, looking for the same answers. Googling, testing the 2 above suggestions.
TRS_80 said:
Great thread, looking for the same answers. Googling, testing the 2 above suggestions.
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I discovered "9mm" by GameLoft, it is a GREAT fps, if you are willing to play an FPS on an Android, and it has an "enable gyroscope" option in the settings. Unfortunately, maybe it was because my Xoom just doesn't have the hardware to play it (theres no graphics settings), but I didn't get what I expected out of the gyroscope. It felt just as inaccurate and clumsy and difficult as an accelerometer-inferred FPS. But maybe that was because of the amount of time it was taking to process the gyro on my Xoom, along with the 3D graphics of the game; I wasn't getting a very good framerate.
Also, I've heard that apparently "N.O.V.A. 2", and I guess one could infer NOVA 3, support the gyroscope for aiming. But I don't really enjoy playing FPSes on a mobile device, especially one as big as a tablet.
moeburn said:
I recently just discovered that my Motorola Xoom has a Gyroscope sensor! I've seen what this can do for games on the iPhone/iPad (like the incredible first-person-shooter accuracy in Shootout), and I want to try it out myself, but I have an Android. I've been scouring the googles for over an hour, looking for a list of gyroscope-enabled games for android, and so far all I've found is people who are incredibly confused as to what exactly a gyroscope is, in that it is not an accelerometer, and they just end up listing accelerometer-enabled games. Or I find lists of iPhone-only gyroscope-enabled games.
So does anyone know of any good games for Android that make use of the gyroscope, NOT just the accelerometer? I'm not talking about sensor-graphing apps, I have one of those, its how I found out I have a gyroscope.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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there are many mobiles have a gyroscope,why don't you try Samsung GX S4?
mohammad ahamad said:
there are many mobiles have a gyroscope,why don't you try Samsung GX S4?
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Why would I do that? I already have a gyroscope. And I can't afford a new phone.
But man oh man, I wish we had a list like this:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Gyroscope-apps-and-games_id15299
EDIT: A lot of the apps listed in the above iPhone list ARE actually available for Android!
UPDATE
There's a hell of a lot of gyroscope-enabled games for Android now!
- Pretty much ANYTHING made by Gameloft, including Asphalt 8 Airborne, NOVA 3, and Modern Combat 4
- Real Racing 3
- That iPhone gun shooting range game that started all of this? Shooting Showdown is now available for Android, and it is gyro-enabled
- Voxel Rush
There's lots more too!
A tilt 3d labyrinth
best game i have ever found for gyroscope.
(in small size)
sorry for late post
Recently many awesome games are released for tegra x1 like Metal gear rising revengeance. But I want to play it on non tegra device. With the help of gltools we can play tegra games on non tegra. But I don't have any template of Tegra X1. It will be really helpful if anyone gives it. Please help me so that I can play Metal gear rising revengeance on Mi5,S7 or other high end device. Thanks in advance. I hope that I will get help for this problem.
Just out of curiosity, has anything been made in regards to spoofing android phones to run X1 games? (Sounds unlikely at the moment, but want to confirm if anyone knows?)
jajabinx35 said:
Just out of curiosity, has anything been made in regards to spoofing android phones to run X1 games? (Sounds unlikely at the moment, but want to confirm if anyone knows?)
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Same question