Android Games Catch-All

Just ordered a Nexus one. Subscribed!

It is a fun phone. I do deeply miss Sword & Poker 2 on my iPhone. It was just a perfect game to play while waiting for a PC to reboot at work (something I seem to spend a lot of time doing!)

farley3k wrote:

It is a fun phone. I do deeply miss Sword & Poker 2 on my iPhone. It was just a perfect game to play while waiting for a PC to reboot at work (something I seem to spend a lot of time doing!)

Try Abduction!, Galaxir, or Speedx 3d. They load quickly and are fun in short bursts.

The games I've enjoyed so far:

Tower defense: Robo Defense, Tower Raiders, Retro Defense, Crystallight, Spira Defense

Others: Jewels, Jewellust (Bejeweled clones), Blow Up (physics time waster), Radiant Lite (Space Invaders/Galaxian-ish)

Games I haven't had time to play yet: WordWise (scrabble-like) and Space Physics

Dr.Ghastly wrote:
Katy wrote:

Ah-hah, thank you! I will pass that on to my husband, who is considering purchasing a Droid or an Incredible. He's not much of a man, but likes Bejeweled.

Fixed..

Paper Toss and Plants vs. Zombies just aren't going to redeem him, are they?

He did decide that he liked the Droid well enough to buy it. I may slip a game or two on there...

Got my Droid today. Must read thread.

Stele wrote:

Got my Droid today. Must read thread.

Heh, there are as many people tagging the thread as there are suggesting games.

What, me? All Twisty, all the time.

You have to get gameboid and Rom buddy. Gameboid is a gameboy advance emulator and really cheap, $3.99 and Rom buddy is only $1.99 and then you can download all the.gba games. I've played final fantasy 1 and finished it in 29 hours. Working on ff4 now. Awesome gaming for only $6.

Ps. I have the incredible and I love it.

Where do you download the .gba games?

Citizen86 wrote:

Where do you download the .gba games?

I went here:

http://www.doperoms.com/roms/Gameboy_Advance_Gba.html

Didn't bother with ROM buddy, I just downloaded to PC and moved them to the SD card over the USB cable. Saved $2.

DanB wrote:

I think the nesoid and snesoid emulators can map inputs to keys but don't quote me on that, you could always buy it and get the uninstall refund if they don't.

Trying the free lite versions now myself. They do seem to have customizable key inputs. Only seem to be missing the save state feature of the pay versions.

Anybody know for sure if there are any other differences for the pay versions? When I was just playing a game I went back to home screen and it kept it paused running in the background. I was easily able to switch back and not lose my progress. If that works well enough then I'm not sure if I need save states. At least a lot of the SNES games had a save battery as part of the rom that should still work.

Not that $4 is a ton of money but so far I'm running all free apps and games and can see being entertained with free stuff for a while. Haven't even read the rest of this thread yet, just checking in on the emulators and this was the only mention of them.

And also I wasn't sure what the google policy is on apps... will I be able to transfer purchases to a new phone in 2 years? Are they tied to my google account?

Of as far as other games I like so far... aTilt 3d Labyrinth, a great free ad-supported labyrinth tilt-controlled game. Looks like hundreds of maps of various skill levels. And the ads are just a click-through every 5 maps or so, pretty unobtrusive.

And OpenSudoku. It has two modes of entering numbers, starts with 90 puzzles, and saves progress of whatever puzzle you are working on for later. Since I completed every puzzle of Brain Age 2 a while back, I needed something new.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

Tetris and Bejeweled are on sale for $1.99.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/ca.jamda...

http://www.appbrain.com/app/ca.jamda...

Reviews sound horrible for both. Screen size issues seem to be the big complaint. Seems EA isn't quite ready for Android yet.

Read the rest of the thread now. Have 11 more games in my list now at appbrain thanks to you guys. Installing. It'll be weeks before I get through all the free stuff.

Stele wrote:

Anybody know for sure if there are any other differences for the pay versions? When I was just playing a game I went back to home screen and it kept it paused running in the background. I was easily able to switch back and not lose my progress. If that works well enough then I'm not sure if I need save states. At least a lot of the SNES games had a save battery as part of the rom that should still work.

Well what happens when you switch focus on Android (go to home or switch apps) is that the app isn't killed, it's paused and bumped down the process list until you come back to it (when it'll be moved back to the top of the process list). Assuming that it's been coded well, on pause an app should cache it's current state; although this isn't saved in the sense that it's written somewhere to be retrieved at any arbitrary future point. Switching back to the app should reload the state and let you continue where you left off. But any app that is far enough down the process list or has been idling long enough becomes eligible to be killed by the system, when that happens it and any cache are destroyed and you lose where you were. When you come back to the app it has to starts a whole new instance*

'Save state' in an emulator though is different, there you are writing out the contents of memory and any required settings to disk so you can return the emulator to exactly the state you left it in and do so at any arbitrary point in the future. Subtly different but more like making a game save than.

*The fact that non-active processes are paused is the reason why app killers are mostly redundant in Android, especially for the better spec'd phones.

DanB wrote:
Stele wrote:

Anybody know for sure if there are any other differences for the pay versions? When I was just playing a game I went back to home screen and it kept it paused running in the background. I was easily able to switch back and not lose my progress. If that works well enough then I'm not sure if I need save states. At least a lot of the SNES games had a save battery as part of the rom that should still work.

*cool task info*

'Save state' in an emulator though is different, there you are writing out the contents of memory and any required settings to disk so you can return the emulator to exactly the state you left it in and do so at any arbitrary point in the future. Subtly different but more like making a game save than.

Thanks for the info. And I know save states, but most emulators I have used also use the in-game battery saves somehow on games that have them. Like I tried Super Metroid last night, my favorite game of that era incidentally, and went through the opening scene, and saved on my ship in game slot 1. But next time I loaded it up, it was as if nothing had ever been saved.

That seems a pretty cheap way of forcing you into buying the other version, if save states are the only way to save.

EDIT: So apparently I missed the "save and close" option when exiting the game. Once I did that, the battery save was working on both Super Metroid and Super Mario All-Stars + World (tested on the "world" game). I think I can probably live with the built-in saves for now.

What is funny is that they let you save states when you have the free version, but then when you try to load the state it tells you that you have to upgrade to paid version for that feature. Be nice if there was a warning while saving.

Eh, I always kind of viewed the save state as cheating though, as you were able to save right before a difficult part and re-load until you got through it, as if you didn't die all those times and you get by the part with all your lives. Get it? Didn't stop me from doing it, but I felt dirty...

Citizen86 wrote:

Eh, I always kind of viewed the save state as cheating though, as you were able to save right before a difficult part and re-load until you got through it, as if you didn't die all those times and you get by the part with all your lives. Get it? Didn't stop me from doing it, but I felt dirty...

Could you beat Battletoads without it though?

I saw a guy do it once, on an actual NES back in the dorms... it was epic. We were sitting around talking about NES games and I mentioned Battletoads, and this guy says "I can beat it" so I call "bullsh*t" and we said the guy next door to me has his NES hooked up, we are going to his room right now and you prove that, and so we went and he did...

And the last level of Battletoads has to have the best graphics on the NES that no one has ever seen, but that's a whole other topic...

Well no, Battletoads doesn't count. That one's a given

2 things:

Part of the reason why people game complete games these days is because they provide save points, back in the day they didn't so I don't think you should feel dirty about using save states (imagine trying to complete god of war III without saves!), that said I try not to use them.

@Stele: You knew someone who could complete battletoads - that is truly epic (and in fact I'm rather delighted to hear that someone could do that).

Speaking of emus... I was getting frustrated with the on screen buttons with my N1 then I found this app that let me use my Wiimote through bluetooth. I was laughing in a nerd heaven after I got it working. Meanwhile my wife was teasing me that I would never carry a wiimote in my pocket to play games... I was thinking that if I could fabricate a shelf that I would attach to the wiimote and then set my phone on it... I would. As is you have to set the phone down and that is kinda annoying. The app has support for the nun-chuck and classic controller as well, I tested them.

http://www.ccpcreations.com/index.php/post/946/&language=english

MonoCheli wrote:

Speaking of emus... I was getting frustrated with the on screen buttons with my N1 then I found this app that let me use my Wiimote through bluetooth. I was laughing in a nerd heaven after I got it working. Meanwhile my wife was teasing me that I would never carry a wiimote in my pocket to play games... I was thinking that if I could fabricate a shelf that I would attach to the wiimote and then set my phone on it... I would. As is you have to set the phone down and that is kinda annoying. The app has support for the nun-chuck and classic controller as well, I tested them.

http://www.ccpcreations.com/index.php/post/946/&language=english

My hero. Holy crap it works. Playing NES with my wiimote on my Droid right now.

Will hook up my classic controller for SNES. Wow.

Stele wrote:

My hero. Holy crap it works. Playing NES with my wiimote on my Droid right now.

Will hook up my classic controller for SNES. Wow. :shock:

I am not sure which droid you have but if you have the motodroid (with the real keyboard) the game gripper looks nice. I was mildly jellous when I realized that it used the existing keyboard and was not a bluetooth attachment for any android phone. But I guess that is what I get for not getting a physical keyboard.

http://sites.google.com/site/gamegripper/

Edit: I forgot to say, Yeah it rocks doesn't it!

Not sure if this was the post, but I found a game for preschoolers - http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/Ki...

Also, now a PS Emulator is out - http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/dr...

also

http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/Ki...

Heck here is a nice list of stuff -

http://101bestandroidapps.com/catego...

karmajay wrote:

Also, now a PS Emulator is out - http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/dr...

Has been "coming soon" for a while. Nice to see it finally here, but there's no Lite version to try out first. Would want to play with it and see how it runs on my standard non-overclocked Droid before I dropped $6 on it.

I guess as Crispy says you can get a refund in the first 24 hours. But hell I don't even have a proper PSX emu for my PC with games ready to go. Would probably want that before I could try it.

karmajay wrote:

Also, now a PS Emulator is out - http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/dr...

The next thing we need is to get an app that will let us use a ps3 remote with android like the wiimote.

Anyone else playing Parallel Kingdom?

IMAGE(http://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/PK_screen.png)

Oh, if you start playing, use my referral code, please! It's bfhyl. I need food!

Don't remember who recommended Cestos but I just wasted an hour or two playing it.

Anybody else got it and want to friend up to play? Not sure how to do that exactly but I see a Friends list in game... Would be more fun than random strangers.

I got psx4droid working. I am impressed that my phone can do the emulation so well. The audio can get a little janky/wrong at times but the video is great. I used imgburn to rip some of my old psx games into bin files. I think I may be more likely to finish some of those rpgs that I don't have the patients to sit down and play anymore now that I can play them on the go. Fyi it also works with my wiimote although most of the games I want to play are turn based rpgs so the on-screen keyboard isn't too bad.

Looks like IGN has officially launched Android coverage:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ign-la...

Crossposting from the Roguelike thread:

I just found Quest! for Android. It's very roguelike.