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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kokocabana:
the stock internal memory in the desire is partitioned into 250 megs for system, 40 megs for cache, and 147 megs for data. alpharev's site, http://alpharev.nl/ , has alternative hboots that have different sizes of the different partitions depending on your needs because a lot of roms dont use up the full 250 megs and most of that space is wasted.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
Exactly, are you using the partition layout suggested in first post?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woshiitcy:
Oh okay, sorry I am new at this :(

I thought my phone corrupted and maybe some of my application is till stucked inside :x

Now it is working after following some other forum about the partition table :)

Thank you guys for helping :) Appreciated it :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Post solution here to help others. ;)

Swyped from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
[General Questions and Answers] nibras_reeza:
Is there's a transparent live wall paper that loads the cam stream as background? And, also does some scaling to ensure that it looks like the screen is transparent.

I know it's a time and battery waster but you know, this would be cool. xD
[General Questions and Answers] ZAIGHAM ALI:
Try "Camera through wallpaper" in the market. I haven't personally tested it. I tried one a while ago but dont remember this being the one.
[General Questions and Answers] nibras_reeza:
Thanks.

Would try. =)

Any other suggestions?

Update:

Looks cool but it doesn't scale the out to make it appear like the screen is transparent.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeeshan.abid:
I have installed the AT&T 2.3.3 officialy bulid but its displaying the error.

LightSensor: debouncing current adc(682), report prev lux 1000.000000

because of this screen brightness reduces. can anyone tell its solution?

regard

Zeeshan Abid
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toy028:
If you dont mind having to reinstall your apps and settings then i would try a factory reset. Settings-Privacy-Factory data reset
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Scorbion:
Amazing results. Now is it possible to set sw render to be true by defult?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] subcu1ture:
So when you go to SW render it is like it turns off all the shaders?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] OTOGY2002:
Great trick;)

XDA is the best !!!!!!!!!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] markphyton:
Btw the Problem is when you change this settings it make jo result! After change you will Start the game the settings will reset! From true to false. Can any One say what i make wrong?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] bubblegumballoon:
If your going to use software rendering then you might want to enable frame skip as well. alot of games will run very slowly with software rendering and frameskip will give you that well needed speed boost :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
I wonder if this will also fix games that freeze before the game engine even loads, will have to try tonight.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yifanlu:
Interesting. I've also found out, in the zPak, there is a file named params.bin and in the data folder, there is a file (that doesn't exist) named options.txt. I think they may be used to tweak the emulator. However, I havent figured out the format yet.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gwaine:
Wow hairdewx...awesome stuff...thanks so much for figuring this out!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] netorino:
Tony hawk pro skater fixed some graphic bugs in character select, but the character still looks bad and still crashes when entering a map.

Marvel vs Capcom had serious issues with the graphics when char selecting and playing, they're gone 100% as far as I can tell, but it became a little bit slower when playing, but still very playable and much better than the graphics bug. Now if frame skipping would fix that... hehe

Thanks a lot for this trick!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
Not at the moment, but possibly if we can figure out how it generates the unique folder name in the ucc folder. Then it would be a matter of updating the tool.

Are you manually changing the preferences.xml file on your sd card after you run the game for the first time? The settings are not resetting for me... That's how I was getting screen shots of my games :)

I only enabled it for Tekken 3, but I didn't notice any speed differences. Maybe the hardware optimization is making it run faster than normal, making the SW-render seem slow?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] netorino:
Sounds like a reasonable explanation.

I just converted KOF '97 and had minor graphic glitched (still very playable) but this just fixed it completely. Also making it seem slower, but again that's comparing it to before. So maybe it's the way it's supposed to be.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
This seems to make sense. I have Air Combat running on my phone and I noticed the music in the game seemed to be a touch faster than I remember it, but admittedly its been a long time.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] subcu1ture:
Is it possible to add these options via PSXPERIA or will we have to manually edit each game?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
Very very interesting.:)

Looks like that now is only possible manually.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MechaBouncer:
This is awesome! I'm going to re-test a bunch of games that make heavy use of sprites that were unplayable before. 3D graphics seem fine, but 2D is more problematic. There was far too much screen flickering, and I suspect it was because the sprites were being used as textures on polygons for scaling and rotation effects or to put them over 3D backgrounds. Perhaps the hardware-renderer just doesn't know how to deal with them?

EDIT:

Also, could the "Up-rendering" be upscaling? Many PSX games only had a resolution of 320x240 and it topped out at 640x512. The Xperia Play's screen is 854x480. Perhaps this setting is related to some sort of filtering after it scales the graphics?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
Question: would Chainfire3D drivers help performance?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
Just to confirm the playability of a couple games I just recently tested.

Along with the OP, Final Fantasy VII now plays flawless, with perfect sound. I have yet to run into any slowdown, including any in battle.

Retested Suikoden II also. Seems to have eliminated the transition or zone graphic glitch. Game seems to run perfect so far.

EDIT: found that returning to the game from state save, causes a screen glitch on the left side. Simply going into the settings, zooming in, and then putting it back on normal fixes the problem.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] zerojay:
I believe what is actually being done is that all the sprites and stuff are handled as normal, but instead of rendering the updated framebuffer by flipping video buffers, they're rendering the screen out as a texture mapped to a single, full-screen polygon. This also gives them a very quick and easy way to support user changing of screen size/zoom by just manipulating the single polygon. I could be wrong though.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
Re FF VII: I thought multi disc games don't work? Are you just playing the first disc?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
Multi-disc has always worked, the issue people wondered previously was how to swap into the next disc. Its in one of the threads somewhere here, particularly, i think in ISO Converter thread. The solution was to simply use the save file after reaching the end of the disc and move it into your new one. If i recall, mills was going to test this on metal gear solid pending the time he had to finish the disc.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
Looking at a binary compare, it seems that the memory cards in each emulator are the same, so it might be possible to just move your memory card manually to other games.

Memory cards are stored in data/com.sony.playstation.XXXXXXXXX/files/save/{unique-id}/0.raw and 1.raw
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
Making an adjustment to my post from earlier, but putting here in case its missed. Suikoden II actually runs flawless also. It seems that returning to the game from the state save that's built in causes the screen on the left side to not match right. By simply going into the settings, zooming in, then returning it to normal fixes the error. I figured it out as the same thing happened after returning to my game in FF7. I'll be testing a few more games later today as well.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
Think that will also work the same for FFIX?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
I imagine it should be fine, this was one of the games i was going to test tonight, so i'll let you know.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
So FFIX seems to play perfectly as far as combat and gameplay go. The sound also seems to be perfect with no lag. The first FMV plays without any sound in the two times i tried to play it. The followup FMV about 5 minutes in plays just fine, but the sound is just a screeching noise. Granted, you could play through the game just fine I imagine and just turn the sound down for the cutscenes.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
How doea SWITCH disks works? Does that mean i need 4 different ZPAKS/APKs?

Also did you patch the game with fmv patch?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gwaine:
Anyone have luck with Castlevania SOTN? The software rendering trick explained here definitely does some nice anti-aliasing but the main character is almost all black and the health bar is totally blacked out. Yifanlu, did you see these problems when you tried this game? Maybe I should try re-ripping it from my CD.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awfulrofl:
Basically yeah, at this point you're going to need to create a different set for each disc. I was unaware there was a fmv patch, so that may solve the problem.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Nhialor:
Are we sure that you're going to need 4 different APKs? Maybe adding the second disk ZPAK to the existing folder would be a more common sense option than actually installing seperate games?

Also, without the customisation, Tekken 3 runs perfectly, however, after beating arcade mode, and watching the cutscene, the game seems to crash, something is happening in the background (credits?) but the screen is just black, music still plays etc. Anyone got any ideas?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
fmv patch? :confused:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
You can get Hi Res FMV patches for the Final Fantasy games :p
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
in a website (console copy world) there is a FMV patch for ffix (ntscu). The link i got was from FPSECE forum sticky. It solved my problems
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
Tried this experiment last night with Wipeout, did not work, still locks at logo screen.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] godforsaken:
[SCPS10008]Arc The Lad I：fix screen flicker。

[SLPS00097]Genso Suikoden I：no music。

[SLPM86168]Genso Suikoden II：fix graphic。

[SLPS02728]Breath Of Fire 4：fix graphic。

[SLPS01008]Einhander：fix graphic。

[SLPS01360]Pocket Fighter：fix screen flicker。

[SLPS02430]Chrono Trigger：fix screen flicker。
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Dyelon:
hahahah....man this native emulator f*cking sucks lol

grr!! lets just hope FPSE keeps getting better and better
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] shadowxm:
I just tested Megaman X4 (US) again with SW rendering, and it works.. looks a little slower than normal but completely playable (with previous settings it had a weird green flicker)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
You do realize he was posting his results with this "mod" to the emulator. Meaning that it actually works great.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] subcu1ture:
yeah wonder what he was on about... thought maybe he is the FPSE poster boy or something.

Native Emulator FTW
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
Added a video of FF7 running with SW-render set to true
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
FPse FTW :p :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] subcu1ture:
Well seeing that the native emulator was reverse engineered less than a week ago and it seems to be making leaps and bounds in compatibility over the past few days and officially supports Xperia Play I think it is doing really well.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] HankKing:
Hey has anyone messed with the on screen controller types, looking for a way to put R2/R3 and L2/L3
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
Just hit the menu button and choose the controller settings, one of the options is to put L2/R2 onscreen.

There is no L3/R3 on the original Playstation.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
The PSX had R3/L3 after sony released the Dual Shock controller :p the sticks didnt click in for fun :rolleyes:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
Ahh, never had a PSX that long. I was more of a Sega guy.

Looking through the options in the emulators though I don't see an L3/R3 option...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
I have a PSX, but I don't remember any games that used the L3/R3 buttons.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] skarletlightning:
ape escape used these
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] leemarie:
hi all

if someone could help that will be great

had sucsses with quite a few game , tried codename tenka

well it loads great , i guess just before the start screen , i get

( please remove one of the memory cards ) well not sure what to do

cheers
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] KoolMoeDee KMD:
Well ive tried it and I can say that ape escape is laggy in some parts and does not work even when analog mode is on as these are the main controls.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
You can edit the preferences file in the phone itself. Root explorer is an ASTOUNDING piece of software.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MechaBouncer:
File Expert also does a great job. That's what I use.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Dyelon:
Any tips on how to get the preferences.xml to show/create itself?

I've started up medal of honor/street fighter alpha 3 AND crash multiple times and no matter what, I get metadata.xml fine but no preferences.xml, neither in the games ucc folder nor the crash's
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
Try switching a game to widescreen and exiting. A preferences file should be generated. As a last resort you can manually make one yourself by copying the code from the first post and saving it into an xml file.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Dyelon:
Thanks so much!

EDIT:ah damn, didn't get rid of the flickering on Street Fighter Alpha 3! its running so sexy behind the flickering too =-(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MechaBouncer:
Right. In my own testing it looks like the preferences.xml file isn't created until you change settings in the emulator. It also works if you modify the control settings. I always make a change and undo it just to make sure it will generate one. It might work just by accessing the settings, but I don't know for sure.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] KoolMoeDee KMD:
Good find. This fixes all the issues regarding abes oddysee on the psx. Cheers
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yourmajesty90:
Gotta say both Emulators are different, but it's more enjoyable to install the converted image. :p

I'm also more inclined to the FPse and can't wait for the new update.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hairdewx:
FYI

The memory cards of FPSE and PSXPERIA are interchangeable, just rename them to the proper names.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MechaBouncer:
That's awesome to hear! I thought I would need to use another program to convert them on my computer. I'll have to try this.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Geeve:
Uhm, sorry to interrupt, but I had a few days off, didn't read some threads and have just a small idea about the PSXERIA project.

Can someone tell me how to install it and if there's a way to do it without rooting? (I saw somewhere that there's an .apk or something)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] subcu1ture:
you just put the .apk on your sd card then get some kind of file explorer from the market and open it from there and everything will be up and running.

( Remember to put the game data in the right place too)

Bubblegum has made a video tutorial on one of the thread bellow.

You do not need root.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ZellDincht1226:
Well, The Legend of Dragoon works nearly perfect minus very slight graphics glitches. I've also made a video showcasing it. (but it seems I cannot post links yet. Oh well.. Youtube is in my profile.)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] omersak:
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is now fully playable. Brilliant. Not even fpse would run it properly.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] The_Gatekeeper_:
The game Medievil works on my R800x up until the fourth level (had to play it the "other" way, which surprisingly work very well minus occasional audio pops). Are the games made for the PLAY region locked (only Europe has access to the PS Suite?). I'll mess around in it's setting to see if it will continue, and maybe go through the game again to see if it's a permanent fix.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Native Emu FTW!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LususNaturae:
I can't get the controllers to work

Can move about but can't use any of the symbol keys to attack or anything :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jdz7t8:
I have tried the same thing with Final Fantasy 7 SCUS-94163 with PSXPERIA set to software rendering using the crash bandicoot USA APK and it's not working. See for yourself, I posted the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCtHbJctfiM

I got to the "sony and squaresoft presents" screen, it wasn't displaying on the screen properly and i couldn't see the actual words, then when it got to the "new game or continue" screen the little selection arrow was not being displayed.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jdz7t8:
How did you do this? I can't get FF& to work properly at all!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ZellDincht1226:
Are you sure you enabled software rendering? Because that's what the game does when it's DISABLED.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jdz7t8:
Hey man you were right, when i went to check the preferences the whole folder was "0 KB" then when i clicked on preferences it said something about a corrupted file. So i uninstalled the ff7 APK, deleted the "com" file, re-installed everything and changed the SW with root explorer text editor. Working now. Thanks bro.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] vemoxy:
From what I know, PSXperia doesn't support multi-disc games? If so, am I limited to FPSE if I want to play through games with multiple discs?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
I'm currently experimenting with multi disk
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ncaissie:
This is probably why Sony hasn't released many PSX games. It gives me little hope for PS2 Ports. :(

Great work BTW.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Nhialor:
Wait til the PS Suite is released mate, that's when we will see all the ports and game releases.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
I don't about you folks there. We in Europe have had the exact same game roster since launch, with or without PSXperia.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ncaissie:
Same here in Canada. 5 psx games.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LususNaturae:
This makes me wonder . . . .

What exactly is the limit for the "official" gaming potential on the Play with it's hardware?

If SE decided to do it, would it be capable of emulating PSP & PS2 games or is it not able?

I don't know anything about PS2 hardware but it seems a bit too optimistic :confused:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Logseman:
The N gage, ironically, is probably the hardware limit.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
There was 4 games available on the market at launch of the play. There are now 8 :rolleyes:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ncaissie:
I know it has the power for PSP ports. The PSP has a 1/3 of the CPU but I'm not sure on the RAM and GPU.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ps3taker:
With the tablet S and P launch it will be even more.

Regarding PSP games - I could not believe it and still don't know if to believe - but listen to what Sony says here at ca 1:05 onwards on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY5GjUvJbII

Fingers crossed it is true and will apply to xperia play too.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
It was only a mistake... He want to say PSX games. Regarding to playstation pocket - all I believed is that there wait for release Sony tablets and then they make lots a more ports of old psx game (mayby even a final fantasy seria ? ) . Cannot wait...

Nice tablet IMHO.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
No he didn't. Nobody from Sony ever refers to it as the PSX. PSX was never even it's real name anyway it was the proposed original name that Sony dropped but the game mags held on to. They refer to the games and system now as PSOne.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] vemoxy:
Anyone managed to get Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver to work? I tried ripping the game and converting but it gets stuck after the Playstation Logo (black screen) with either SW Render on On or Off.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zirart:
Monster Rancher 2 problem

I tried this game and it works fair with software rendering, with some graphics glitches and some textures that are not shown. When I try to change for hardware rendering, the game goes perfect, but in other hand after 1 minute or less the game just crash and I tried some time and it always crash. There is some configuration that maybe prevent this?

The game is a lot better with hardware rendering, I would like to play it that way.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
OK. Agree - PSX is unoficial name made by the users.

But PlayStation Pocket - is in shortcut PSP - so he don't make mistake ;) .
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
Psp = playstation portable (lol)

PS pocket is called like this, full name
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Rogue Leader:
No, hes a marketing guy, he would get fired for mixing up his products and causing confusion like that. PlayStation Pocket is PlayStation Pocket, PSP is PSP, Playstation Suite is Playstation Suite, thats what he would have called it.

If he said PSP he meant PSP, there have been PSP games running on the Play, whether they will make it out into the world who knows, but they exist.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
Since PSPs are About 1/3 weaker than the ps2 (IDR) ,if UMD are ISOs in sure SErricson won't have tooooo much of a problem porting psp gamrs

Maybe even china town wars!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] dsswoosh:
The controls work fine for me.

Make sure you check the analog box on your PC conversion tool and it will work.

The game has major slowdowns though.

Which is a shame because i just tried PSXperia for the first time and this was the only game i really wanted to play.

Ho hum.......at least i know how to convert the games now.

Better than FPSE anyway. (Assuming the games work).
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] dsswoosh:
Ok i got Ape Escape working perfect.

Just set SW Rendering to true and frameskip to true and it runs ok.

The game is still unplayable for me anyway, the analog controls suck so bad.

I wish Sony jad put tiny joysticks there instead, the analog touchpad is really really bad imo. (such a shame, ape escape actually runs perfect :()
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Cat_On_Droid:
Edit the compatability list pls, marvel vs capcom work on sw-render

I used the XDA App to post this, what did you use?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ncaissie:
I agree. But oldschool games that don't use the sticks are awesome. Spiderman Total Mayhem works pretty good also.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yourmajesty90:
Indeed, they should've done them like the PSP one. The PSP Go is just as "retractable", so they couldn't complain about the lack of space as they could put 2 small joysticks. Would've been good if they were clickable too.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Nhialor:
Yeah but you have to remember that the Xperia Play also has the internals of a phone inside there aswell, and not just of a PSP, so while they might be the same size and shape, theres more INSIDE the Xperia Play than the PSP, but I also wish they had of put in little pads!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Wahrheit:
DBZ Ultimate Battle 22, Works only in SW Render.

Someone can give me a "Tutorial(for noobs :3)" to swap discs? Like in FF7.