Hello All,
I am going to try to put together a list of games that currently function on the XOOM, which ones do not and which ones are made specifically for tablets. I will add in statuses for all my games and hopefully others will fill in the cracks and we can get an informative list out.
NOTE:
Developers! If you happen to stumble across this list and your game is tested compatible with the XOOM, please let me know, I will add it asap!
Furthermore, if anyone notices that a "broken" game is fixed, please post! I will show it as being corrected.
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Post 1 - News, Updates and Thanks.
Post 2 - Tested and Functional Games divided by category (Nonfunctional now as well).
Post 3 - Special Case Games, Emulators and Remote Gaming.
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- 7/6/11 -
I have been informed that it is possible to sideload Order and Chaos to the XOOM (presumably by extracting the APK from a phone) but the game occasionally crashes and characters do not seem to be saved server side. This is probably gameloft's licensing engine at work.
- 6/27/11 -
Hello guys. I sold my XOOM today on Ebay so I won't be able to directly test apps anymore. I replaced it with a VZW Galaxy Tab, I know that sounds like madness but it is much easier to haul around and make calls on (I am much more opposed to paying Verizon 77 a month than I am to looking like an insane person carrying around a tablet everywhere).
Anyway, I will keep scanning this thread and adding in submissions every week or so. Game on.
- 6/20/11 -
Order and Chaos has been released directly to the market but not showing up for the XOOM. *COUGH* works on my galaxy tab.
Turbo Granny: works perfectly.
Shaky tower: uses landscape, works very well though I would argue that the tilting is a little slippery.
Grand Prix Story: Works fine when in portrait mode. In landscape the status bar obscures the game UI, so just use portrait.
Burn the Rope: Requires you to pick up your tablet and spin it all around, but works just fine.
Cut the Rope: Will be available soon via the Amazon Marketplace, probably this friday.
- 6/14/11 -
Heroes 3: After quite a bit of experimentation I have not been able to get Heroes 3 to run. The app is called VCMI and the developer recommends installing logcat to check for missing files.
Imaginary Range: An interactive comic book by Square Enix seems fully functional and free! It is definitely experimental but very interesting, no issues so far on XOOM.
Zenonia 3: Will be available within the month according to gamevil.
Gun Brothers: Is releasing a THD version fairly soon.
- 6/14/11 -
ZOMG: Heroes 3 on Android! Nerdgasm! Currently trying to get it to work. Will post updates when I get things running.
- 6/10/11 -
T-RACER HD - A very flashy tegra 2 racer.
Grand Prix Story has a lot of graphical glitches on Honeycomb. (Bummer the other 2 karisoft games work pretty well).
Homerun Battle 3D works on 3.1
X-Men Arcade
Contra 4 Redux
Ground Effect Pro HD: Ported from Xperia Play
Gameloft:
Hero of Sparta still crashes for me
Spiderman is fixed
Nova: Still broken
Thanks to everyone for submissions!
- 6/3/11 -
PORTED: Legion has notified us that Age of Zombies has been adapted to all devices including the XOOM! And it happens to work wonderfully.
FIXED: Squibble now is perfectly functional!
SORT OF FIXED: No gravity no longer crashes but menus are still misaligned.
- 6/2/11 -
GAMELOFT: Has begun to fix their games for Android 3.1.
Asphault 6 is fixed! More updates as I finish installing the other 3 games.
Hero of Sparta: Crashed!
Nova: Crashed!
Spider Man: Crashed!
Thanks a lot to vista64 and riffer for mentioning this! I will keep checking for new versions.
- 5/31/11 -
Plants VS Zombies! Gameplay is perfectly functional. There is a bit of lag when displaying your "new item" after every level. Background graphics are a tiny bit pixelated on the XOOM. Otherwise it is perfectly smooth and plays awesome!
Battleheart is now 100% functional on the XOOM! Mika Mobile has reduced the loading times to basically nothing! If you enjoy RPG's with excellent strategy and fast action get this game!
- 5/30/11 -
NEWS: All of Yongzh's emulators have been pulled from the market due to open source licensing conflicts.
Apparently he did not provide an open version of his emulator ports as was required by the licensing of the software he used.
The good news is that all of his emulators are available for free for a limited time on the SLIDEME app store! Including N64OID!
http://slideme.org/
Visit the site with your XOOM and download the marketplace app ASAP! It doesn't require registration for free apps.
ONE DAY TIL' PLANTS VS ZOMBIES! CONFIRMED TO BE WORKING ON XOOM BY OTHER XDA MEMBERS!
Added a link to the pocket ISO tool to the emulators section. This is a great tool for shrinking down the size of PSX roms. Useful until we get our SD card officially supported. http://www.fpsece.net/download.html
- 5/26/11 -
iRafa.ru has dropped in to let us know that their Millionaire game is tablet optimized.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.irafa.millionairefree
Robotek is a beautiful strategy / luck freemium game. It is very unique, runs beautifully and worth a try overall.
4 Days til' Plants vs Zombies! (If the XOOM is excluded there will be tears).
- 5/20/11 -
Riptide GP is out! It is fully compatible and all it was cracked up to be! Get it now!
Bang Bang Racing now allows you to chose up to 4 control schemes! (recommend split screen)
Nano Panda - An adorable puzzle game involving pandas and gravity. Quite challenging. Plays perfectly.
- 5/18/11 -
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...-wallpapers-from-the-last-2-weeks-5511-51811/
Android police has a really great thread to show off the past 2 weeks worth of new games. Feel free to poke through them and install whatever suits you. If something works well, post it!
- 5/18/11 -
Updated: Vidriera has posted an excellent tutorial on getting BG2 to work, including that on the main page.
Added: Vidriera again has informed me of a very high-quality remote desktop app that allows smooth gameplay over wifi from your PC.
- 5/16/11 -
BIG NEWS: Gameloft has changed their DRM policy to allow games you purchased on an old device to be downloaded onto new devices!
http://www.droidgamers.com/index.ph...to-re-download-purchased-games-on-new-devices
NEWS: Plants vs Zombies will be available on the Amazon App store May 30th!
Asphault 6 has been released for the XOOM! If you already own it for another phone, try logging in to download it! Don't pay twice!
- 5/14/11 -
The 3.1 Update has effectively ruined Battleheart. /rage
Contract Killer (a hitman style game) is working splendidly!
Angry Viking - An action game built out of anger and rage!
- 5/13/11 -
One more update: BATTLEHEART! Has finally arrived on Android and it is fantastic!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.KelliNoda.Battleheart
- 5/13/11 -
NEWS: Gameloft has released a XOOM version of Nova!
NEWS: Gameloft has added Asphault6 to the Android Market but the XOOM is unable to download.
Toki Tori - A click to move platformer and puzzle game, looks incredible!
Moron Test - Shrunken and totally misalligned, considering how frustrating the game is already I would pass.
Battle Fury - Shrunken and controls are misalligned.
Bang Bang Racing THD - Looks awesome, controls are VERY badly designed. You will have to literally juggle your tablet to keep your car on the track.
- 5/10/11 -
Gem Miner: Dig Deeper - A casual mining economic game, plays perfectly.
Grow - A casual "biggest fish in the pond" simulator. Has background graphical glitches.
- 5/9/11 -
Chalk Ball - A brilliant casual game where you direct a ball by drawing.
Skydiver HD: Mach II - A gory and simple game.
Tales of Pocoro - A retro RPG themed puzzle game.
Evac HD - A neon themed pacmanesque game.
Galcon - Works wonderfully. A very simple but fun strategy game.
Hex Defense - Great graphics and music, tower defense game.
Return Zero - A tron style tunnel racing game.
Also!
I am adding a classic PC games section with tips and how-to's!
Big thanks to vidriera for bringing this to my attention!
- 5/7/11 -
Clever Contraptions - Slick and innovative, extremely well designed and fun. Would like to see higher res graphics.
Pinball HD - Ultra smooth, amazing graphics. By far the best pinball game you can ask for.
Spider Man HD - Our first Gameloft Game plays fantastically, even if it shows a tiny bit of age.
- 5/6/11 -
Big News! We have official Gameloft Support!
Thanks to Legion for the link! http://goo.gl/28fj5
- 4/29/11 -
Guerilla Bob: THD - Naturally works fantastic, looks even better
QBism HD - A very nifty 3d block puzzle game.
Among the Undead (Beta Demo) - Looks and plays fantastic, a Zombie RPG.
- 4/28/11 -
Magesty: Amazon App Store - Fully functional and brilliant on a tablet!
Paradise Island - A fully functional and interesting freemium resort sim.
Further Beyond Fighting - A 3d fighting game, menu problems, controls very unresponsive
X-Plane is reported to work correctly now (and is on sale)
Vikings - A pretty neat puzzler.
- 4/22/11 -
Death Worm - Fluid, Beautiful, Fun, Great Music, Extremely high quality!
Hot Springs Story - From the developer of Game Dev Story, looks and plays great, no performance issues awesome management game!
History Channel: Great Battles - Has lots of potential, currently somewhat slow.
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LegionTHEFecalExcretion for Gameloft Compatibility and submissions!
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For submissions
Thanks to vista64 and riffer for notifying us about the gameloft fixes.
Big thanks to vidriera for lots of submissions and for letting me know about the BGII port!
and theimpaler747 for the sticky!
Antigen doesn't look great and the tilt is a bit touchy
Angry Viking! - Kind of insane but runs perfectly.
Battle Bears -1 - (sticks on splash screen, switch to another app and back once you hear the sounds start and it works fine)
Battle Boats - Looks awesome, no gyroscope.
Babo Crash Deluxe - Does not scale at all, just a small window at the top. And does not work properly with the gyroscope/accelerometer.
Contra 4 Redux - Works great
Death Worm - Fluid, Beautiful, Fun, Great Music, Extremely high quality!
Evac HD - A neon themed pacmanesque game.
Further Beyond Fighting - A 3d fighting game, menu problems, controls very unresponsive
Full Metal Warriors - Half size.
Grow - A casual fish tank simulator, has background graphical glitches.
Guerilla Bob - Looks and plays amazing.
Gun Brothers - Plays fine, Zoomed in a little far and sprites are twitchy.
Hungry Shark - Very small screen, but functional.
Hyper Jump - Scales properly to full screen in portrait mode, but does not work properly with the gyroscope/accelerometer.
Mega Jump - No accelerometer.
Meteor Blitz - Black Screen
Ninjump - Just fine
Pew Pew 1 & 2 (no issues)
Rapture Raptor - looks and plays fantastic (lol btw)
Slice it - Will not load
Sky Force Reloaded - Closes immediately
Space War HD - looks great, ship pathing is a little jerky cause of the Xoom's size.
Tank Hero!
Last Stand - Works and looks fantastic (zombie shooter).
Zombie Fields - (It will play but you have to tab in and out a few times to get the menu to show, I have noticed this trend with a few other games.
X-Men Arcade - Works Great.
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Contract Killer - Runs perfectly by all accounts.
Deer Hunter: African Safari (no issues)
EXZeus - Got a serious injection of AWESOME!
Quake2droid and Quake3Droid (Q3 runs especially well). (Special thanks to Anderdroid for the update!)
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DynamoKid: Touch - Playable but does not scale at all, also has a very unfortunate name.
Replica Island - Works just wonderfully, exactly as you would expect from someone who works at google.
Rocket Bunnies - Works like a charm!
Squibble - Now functions perfectly!
"They need to be fed" - Looks and plays amazing (I especially like this one).
Toki Tori - Amazing looking, fun and fluid. An excellent game overall.
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Atilt 3D Labrinth - Looks like it was made for the Xoom.
Badaboo
Beware the Bad Seed - Works just fine now.
Chalk Ball - A brilliant casual game where you direct a ball by drawing.
DJ Rivals - Looks and works great.
Diner Dash 2 - Graphical glitches, menu and background in 2 different places.
Flight Control - Looks and works just fine
Farm Frenzy - No issues, runs very well.
Gem Miner: Dig Deeper - Works wonderfully.
Grand Prix Story: Works fine when in portrait mode. In landscape the status bar obscures the game UI, so just use portrait.
Haypi Kingdom - does not work. FCs
LoveCatch - Does not work at all. Just says incompatible with the device.
Pinball Deluxe (you will need to press below the menu buttons to get them to work, game play is great otherwise)
Pinball Ride - Full 3d, great game, no issues at all.
Pinball Yeah! Full 3d, looks a fantastic. Auto rotation issue fixed! Press Camera icon at top right to take advantage of Xoom's screen size.
Pocket God - No issues, super smooth.
Paradise Island - A fully functional and interesting freemium resort sim.
Must Eat Birds. Works wonderfully on the Xoom.
Moron Test - Shrunken and Misalligned.
Roller - arcade ski ball game
Skydiver HD: Mach II - Gory and amusing.
Super Dymanite Fishing - Looks and plays awesome.
TouchMix - works great, but not total full screen
Voleyball HD - Tablet designed, looks and plays great.
Words with Friends (works, slight alignment issues)
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Angry Birds (all versions)
Blow UP - Looks fantastic, uses the full interface well
Burn the Rope: Requires you to pick up your tablet and spin it all around, but works just fine.
Crush The Castle
Cut the Rope - Supposedly runs great, is overwhelmingly adorable.
Collapse - puzzle game
Clever Contraptions - Just like "The Incredible Machine" slick and innovative if not a bit low res.
Colorix HD - Works but many graphical glitches.
Geared - Doesn't respond to any input, covered by the status bar.
Hextacy Lite
Millionaire - Trivia Game.
Moblox - very shrunken but fully playable.
Nano Panda - A highly challenging and great looking puzzle game involving motion and gravity.
Papa Stacker - Looks fantastic, uses the screen well.
Shaky tower: uses landscape, works very well though I would argue that the tilting is a little slippery.
Spaghetti Marshmallows - Looks and plays great, scales very well.
Space Physics (a little pixelated, plays nice)
Stupid Zombies (like angry birds) looks great but the touch input is slightly off. Aim lower than your target or you will miss.
Super Tumble - Shrunken but functional.
Tiki Towers - Shrunken and unable to select menu options
Tales of Pocoro - A retro RPG themed puzzle game.
Totemo - Looks brilliant, if not a bit zoomed.
Trap! works great and has updated graphics and such for the larger screen.
Walkabout - Very polished and high quality, looks and plays extremely well.
X-Construct - Looks and plays awesome very fun game.
Vikings - A pretty neat grid-based puzzle game.
Qbism HD - A beautiful and engaging puzzle where you fit blocks into a 3d frame.
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Armageddon Squadron
Asphault 5 - Game is shrunken and misalligned, still seems to play.
Drift Mania working nicely
Ground Effect Pro HD - Ported from Xperia Play
Jet Car Stunts (newest v1.0.5 works great for me after calibrating the controls)
Light Racer 3D (no issues)
Riptide GP - Not an official tegra game but still the most amazing looking racing game on the Xoom.
Raging Thunder 2 - Works correctly.
Return Zero - A tron style tunnel racing game.
Reckless Racing - Pixelated but functional.
Mini Squadron - Pixelated and zoomed but functional.
No Gravity - Goes without crashing now but the graphics are misalligned on menus.
Turbo Fly 3D - Looks and plays great.
Turbo Grannies - Runs well, abuses elderly.
Speedx 3D (no issues)
Winds of Steel - Perfect!
X-Formula - Looks and plays fantastic. Uses gyroscope correctly!
X-Plane is reported to work correctly now (and is on sale)
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Among the Undead (Beta) - A slick zombie based RPG.
Caligo Chaser - Looks incredible
Crusade of Destiny - Full screen, Closes after 30 seconds of play.
Cyberlords Arcology - Plays and scales nicely.
Demon Hunter - Plays just fine
Illusia - Works and plays wonderful! Fun game too, (keypad is way too big, but no problem using it)
Legends Arcana
Mana Chronicles - Excellent.
Pocket Legends (UI is a little pixelated, 3D renders nice)
Spectral Souls - Takes full advantage of the screen, looks amazing!
Zenonia - Plays Fine, touch at the top right of icons to activate them.
Zenonia 2 - Awesome.
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Armored Strike - Just a tad bit slow on menus.
Armored Defense - Functional but background is shifted and towers can't be built where you think they can.
Battle for Mars - seems to work fine, takes advantage of the full map.
Battle Fury - Shrunken and controls are misalligned.
Castle Warriors - Similar to galcon, but 3d and looks amazing.
Everlands HD - Xoom optimized.
Galcon - Works wonderfully. A very simple but fun strategy game.
Game Dev Story - Plays very slowly, doesn't seem to use hardware graphics at all
Grand Prix Story - Graphical glitches, very difficult to play on XOOM
Ghost Wars Pro - Works awesome, kind of like swords and soliders.
Grave Defense Gold - Excellent and challenging TD.
Guns and Glory - plays but is extremely shrunken
Hex Defense - Great graphics and music, tower defense game.
Highborn - A brilliant hex based strategy game, very fun with lots of personality! (Amazon App Store)
Humans vs Aliens (like Plants vs Zombies) - works fantastic.
iSink U (no issues)
Iron Sight - Black screen, then eventually the download screen but no progress.
Magesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim - Absolutley perfect! Uses the tablet interface wonderfully, no issues at all!
Medieval Castle Defense - Kind of tiny but works fantastic.
Robo Defense - Looks and plays great. (Was recently updated for hardware acceleration)
Spark Chess (designed for tablets, requires Abobe AIR)
Spaghetti & Marshmellows - A world of gooish game, very fun.
Steambirds - Fixed!
Tower Raiders Gold - Plays excellent, shows the entire map!
Townsmen 6 - Tons of graphical glitches on menus and interfaces throughout the game. Barely Playable.
Transformers! (Amazon Market) This is a sweet little game, cell shaded tactical combat!
Uniwar - Perfect
War of the Titans - Shrunken, unable to select menu options.
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Crazy Snowboard working nicely.
Flick Kick Rugby
Glow Hockey - Great!
Homerun Battle 3D - works on 3.1
Solipskier works with compatibility mode off
Pool Break Demo / Pro - looks and plays great
Tiki Golf 3d - Looks and works great, neat game btw.
Virtual Table Tennis 3D (no issues)
All of these can be seen in detail via the "Tegra Zone App"
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nvidia.tegrazone
Current Apps:
Backbreaker THD - Interesting but not highly recommended, you just control one player, not play an actual football game.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideaworks3d.tackletegra
Cordy - Included on the Xoom, a quality platformer, freemium levels
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.silvertree.cordy
Dungeon Defenders - Included on the Xoom, one of the best games on Android.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.trendy.ddapp
Fruit Ninja THD - Has a 2 player mode, looks great.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.halfbrick.fruitninjathd
Guerilla Bob THD - An already fantastic looking game looks just a little bit better.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.angrymobgames.guerrillabobthd
History™ Great Battles Medieval - This has great potential but seems to suffer from performance issues. Give it some time it looks like it can be a winner.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.slitherine.gbm
Pinball HD - Ultra smooth, amazing graphics. By far the best pinball game you can ask for.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gameprom.pinballhdc
Samurai II Vengeance - My personal favorite, very similar to God of War a stunning and engaging game.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.madfingergames.SamuraiII
Monster Madness
REMOVED FROM THE MARKET: Possibly due to some bad reviews (I didn't have any trouble with it).
Expect a re-release fairly soon.
Vendetta Online - Space MMO. Requires a monthly membership. Has a single player sandbox mode.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.guildsoftware.vendetta
Hardware Solitare / Spades - Card games with great backgrounds.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.silvercrk.solitaire_iv
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.silvercrk.spades
3D Breakout Extreme
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.scarpelli.breakoutextremethd
BangBang Racing
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.playboxgames.bangbangracing
T-Racer HD
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nvidia.devtech.SFETegra
Upcoming games:
Galaxy on Fire 2
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BIG NEWS! The XOOM has official Gameloft support now!
http://goo.gl/28fj5
OFFICIAL GAMELOFT GAMES:
(Use stock browser to download unless you want a "not original copy" error.)
All 4 Gameloft Games intended for the XOOM have been patched by gameloft to function correctly on 3.1.
UNOFFICIAL GAMELOFT GAMES:
If you just can't wait for a certain Gameloft Game, check out Legion's compatibility thread below to see if another phone's version will work with the XOOM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000450
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Wii Controller Apps - no issues at all.
Datel Retro Wireless Controller working! (I am using one now)
Check this thread for details! (Thank you Jvward!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=997756
OID Emulators:
These emulators are considered to be the best on Android for classic systems.
NES, SNES, GAME GEAR, GENESIS, GAME BOY COLOR, GAME BOY ADVANCE
Due to open source licensing conflicts Yong Zhang has had his Google Developer Account Terminated and his emulators removed from the market.
The good news is that you can download all of these emulators for free from the SLIDEME app store for a little while. N64OID included!
http://slideme.org/
Visit the website and download the Android SlideMe app. (It is called SAM) It does not require any registration for free apps.
FPSE:
Set the screen size to "Small"
You must use the 4/3 centered screen size. The overall for "small" looks nice but does not register input.
Disable HLE mode
Turn OFF frameskipping
Use lots of memory card saves with big RPG's!
Video in FF8 and 9 will turn grey if you load a savestate without first loading a memory card save (Just load like you would from an actual PSX and then load the save state).
There is a tool called Pocket ISO that can shrink the size of roms used by FPSE. Do this on your PC and transfer the files over, it works very well so far. Savestates and memory card saves will be transferred.
http://www.fpsece.net/download.html
PSX4Droid:
This emulator is now free via Zod's website. He has been removed from the Android market "Officially" for the use of the registered trademark "PSX" and unofficially just in time for the release of the Xperia Play.
The latest version is 3.05
http://www.zodttd.com/wp/
I had some trouble getting this to run on the XOOM, but Zod has taken an interest in making it work correctly for honeycomb.
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Splashtop stands as perhaps the fastest and most responsive remote desktop client. It works by only transmitting a portion of your screen 1024*768 or 800 x 600. This seems to minimize the amount it has to stream at once and keeps it flowing smooth.
To set up,
Step 1: Buy the app for a whole 2 dollars on the Android market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.splashtop.remote
Step 2: Download the streamer for your PC.
http://www.splashtop.com/remote/download?from=product
Start it up and make note of the iP address.
Step 3: Run the Android app and first create a "local" connection (to use over wifi when near home) with the IP address you got from your streamer. On the advanced menu set the resolution to 1024x768, your router can probably stream that perfectly.
Step 4: Now create a connection for 3g and remote wifi access. Use your IP address from your router's configuration page (if it starts with 192.168 it is your local network IP and not your actual IP address). Use the 800 x 600 resolution.
Step 5: Go to your router's config page and make sure you forward ports 6783 to 6785 so remote access works properly.
Some other notes:
1. You can play any game so long as it is in windowed mode
2. The Datel Retro Wireless Controller works just fine! Just treat your controller as a keyboard and bind your keys by the letter instead of to the button.
3. Thanks a ton to vidriera for letting us know about this.
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Special thanks to vidriera for pointing this out!
Some of the best games ever made can now be played on Android!
Baldur's Gate II
1. Download GemRB
2a. Download the BG2 Demo for free
Click on downloads, select all 3 options, wait.
2b. Copy over your existing BG2 install
(I am trying this now, will update soon)
3. Setup Keyboard Options
Make sure Additional Controls > On Screen KB is selected unless you want your character named "eeeeeee"
Goto On Screen Keyboard > Customize Layout then make a dragging motion just above the bottom right of your screen to place the KB (this is to keep it out of the way of your top left menu)
4. Setup the Mouse
Go to Mouse Emulation > Calibrate Touchscreen and tap the top left and then bottom right corners and you will cover the screen with a green button with 2 arrows. Press the Menu key.
Go to Mouse Emulation > Advanced Features and uncheck relative mouse movement (laptop mode).
Vidriera has come up with a way to get the full game working. Check out his instructions here and use the config file attached to this thread.
Okay, so I finally got Baldur's Gate 2 working with GemRB. It was weird because the gemrb files are hidden when using MTP (default) transfer. So, before installing gemrb from the market, this is what you do:
1. transfer the contents of your FULL "BGII - SOA" directory to "/mnt/sdcard/app-data/net.sourceforge.gemrb/ (GOG version should work, but I'm not sure)
("mnt/sdcard/" is the root of your xoom storage as it appears when connected via USB(with MTP) )
2. Install GemRB from the market, open it and hit "okay" at the bottom of the list.
3. Download the config file I attached to this post and put it into the directory where you put your bg2 files.
4. Open GemRB again, and the game should load just fine. There is a 3-second delay built into the splash screen for SDL, so you can change your settings if you want. The only setting that I changed is to disable "relative mouse movement" in the mouse emulation/advanced features section and I also did a touchscreen calibration there.
This works on 3.1, and I would assume it also works on 3.01 but I haven't tried it. One other thing: the volume buttons will not work in-game, but you can hit the recent tasks button and then change the volume while that little menu is up.
EDIT: forgot to mention, you should OMIT ALL OF THE EXE FILES when you transfer to your xoom.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have re-attached the file at the bottom of this thread.
Planescape Torment
(try the same setup as above, will verify soon)
Free Heroes 2
Rather than re-invent the wheel, I will share this link that fully covers all the info.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...magic-2-homm-2-on-android-and-boy-is-it-good/
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Hextacy Lite works great
Add Tank Hero! I love playing this on my XOOM, especially via HDMI out. I have a video on my youtube channel if you want to see how it looks.
Steambirds. Scales up great, looks great, but touch interface doesn't work very well at all, leaving it unplayable.
my gf has an ipad and the tablet version of fruit ninja is way better looking than the THD verison on the xoom.
Pool Break Demo looks and plays great
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kb.Carrom3D&feature=search_result
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk
Jewels is broken and Antigen doesn't look great and the tilt is a bit touchy but I am guessing that is just cause of the size of the tablet a tilt labrinth works good
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App
I bought Nova for the Motorola Atrix since they both have Tegra 2 cpu's.........lo and behold.
I tested both Spiderman and Modern Combat 2 previously and they both crashed on loading the main menu. This was before the latest updates to the oc kernel and the system update. And most importantly, that was before I disabled app compatibility mode using spare parts! I am trying them both again right now to see. These are the only games Gameloft offers for the atrix at the moment.
should also point out that Raging Thunder 2 works after disabling app compatibility mode in spare parts.
have tested and can confirm Modern Combat 2 and Spiderman are not working
WORKING FINE
+ Battle Bears -1 (sticks on splash screen, switch to another app and back once you hear the sounds start and it works fine)
+ Castle Warriors (no issues)
+ Deer Hunter: African Safari (no issues)
+ Pocket Legends (UI is a little pixelated, 3D renders nice)
+ iSink U (no issues)
+ Jet Car Stunts (newest v1.0.5 works great for me after calibrating the controls)
+ Light Racer 3D (no issues)
+ Pew Pew (no issues)
+ Pinball Deluxe (press the bottom of menu buttons, game play is great)
+ Space Physics (a little pixelated, plays nice)
+ Spark Chess (designed for tablets, requires Abobe AIR)
+ Speedx 3D (no issues)
+ Virtual Table Tennis 3D (no issues)
+ Words with Friends (works, slight alignment issues)
MOSTLY WORKS
+ TouchMix (works great, but not total full screen)
+ Turbo Fly 3D (tilt controls not working, touch controls work fine)
Note: I did have SpareParts installed with compatibility mode on .. I'll try them out with it off, if needed.
Solipskier works with compatibility mode off
Hyper Jump and Mega Jump both just scroll to the right... Hyper Jump seems to work otherwise (though it isn't really playable like that). Mega Jump only uses half the screen.
Any way to calibrate the accelerometer?
I don't own a xoom yet but I wanted Pocket Legends to work so I tested at Best Buy and it works very well.
AirAttack HD, Homerun Battle 3D, Basketball Shots 3D, Buka HD, Heavygunner, Flick Kick Field Goal, Super KO Boxing 2
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WORKING
+ Angry Birds Rio (from Amazon App Store - no issues)
+ Angry Birds Seasons (no issues)
+ Crazy Snowboard (new version, no issues)
+ Hockey Nations 2010 (no issues)
+ Mini Squadron SE (slight UI pixelation, game plays fine)
+ Space War HD (no issues)
NOT WORKING
- Deer Hunter 3D (view is shifted to the left, shots are not on viewed target)
Worms (EA)
WORMS for ea appears "not" to be working.