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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
SWEET....... now... time to fire up WING COMMANDER...... HAHAHAHAHA
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] speedyink:
...If this works as it should there are some amazing possibilities here.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] FTAiii:
It doesn't seem to allow for different mapping profiles for different games, just 1 generic mapping, but agree - lots of possibilities !

I'm gonna go work up some mappings for Ultima IV !
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] tekken179:
Ahh i tried to search for people discussing this and i didn't find anything and posted a topic lmao... some1 shared the link to here.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
$2.99 tempting. Now while Wing Commander was already said.. Ill say another that I could see myself playing..

Shufflepuck Cafe and Bar Games!

Hrm.. Install Win95.. yes this could have some options..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] tekken179:
Just bought it myself

been playing

commander keen

jill of the jungle

sim city 2000

monster bash

castle of the winds

daggerfell

:D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] metcard:
Does this mean you could play Daytona USA on the xplay?

I remember playing Daytone USA in DOS mode back in the day.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Ok with the on screen mouse, I just got done playing Nukewar (Fun fun game)

Playing Bargames right now. Need to map the X to be the enter button.

Also learned the option use the dpad as an input toggle is worth using. Easier for those up down left rights in the game.

Profile mapping WOULD be nice.

Edit: Ok one flaw in this program.. How on earth can I map the space bar or the enter key to a button...? So many games play like this.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Could someone check Sensbile World Of Soccer 98, Manchester United The Double and Lous 1,2,3 ? How does it works ? I thinking about buying this emulator.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
So far, every game I have tried worked without config. Also Any GoG game that uses dosbox works. (Oooo I forgot.. I can play Dungeon Keeper on android now)

ONLY issue I have seen be meh, is that I cant map enter or spacebar to a gamepad key. Also has sometimes an issue with screen rotation. (Gets stuck in landscape mode sometimes when I NEED it vertical while I type on keyboard) Minor gripe, but so far its solid.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Just contacted the dev of dosbox turbo with the comments from this thread. He said the ability to map enter and spacebar will be in the next release. Also I asked about the possible profile loading for those who needs "x" mapping for "x" game.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
Oh god, if this thing can actually run daggerfall fullspeed I'm gonna cry. Did anyone try that? How does it run? And what about the controls? On andosbox it ran really slow, and I couldn't get some of the controls to even work.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Interesting, Managed to get a Windows 95 image booted, it crashed the explorer.exe but still started up.. http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=24936 to make your own win 95 image (if you dont just download a predone one)

This really is starting to look good. =D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
Hello Everybody,

I'm the author of DosBox Turbo. One of the members here kindly pointed out this thread to me today and suggested I drop by.

Wanted to let you know that I'm sorry for leaving out the "Enter" and "Space" mappings, it just slipped my mind! :eek: But, the good news is, I'm finishing up a quick bugfix release (v1.2.1) and some of the new Xperia Play specific features I already have completed include:

Ability to map Enter & Space to an Xperia Button

Ability to see what current button mappings are w/o having to select each one.

Once I'm finished testing this release, I'll push it out to the Android Market (sometime on Mon or Tue).

I'd be very interested to hear your feedback/suggestions for new features, as I do not have an Xperia Play, so I'm just coding this stuff up without really having a chance to test it. Some of the new features I have planned for the very near future include being able to use the Analog touchpad on the Xperia Play as a true analog joystick, as well as supporting saving button/configuration profiles.

Cheers,

Gene
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mael5trom:
Thanks for taking the time to drop in and let us know what you have in the pipeline, i actually just bought your app earlier today and have been playing raptor call of shadows, im also looking around for other dos classics i missed when i was younger, the games i would never probably bother with on a pc haha.

the suggested improvements are pretty much everything i could ask for off the top of my head, keep up the good work.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Gene.. Question, Can one do a Ctrl+Alt+Del? Also later down the road, a "windows" key could be good.

Been fiddling with this booting of Windows 95 lol. Another thing that could be nice is a "reset dosbox" option in menu vs "exit" and reloading.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
As far as I'm aware, DosBox proper doesn't support a reset function or CTRL-ALT-DEL (correct me if I'm wrong). I did a bit of research on this, and it seems to be somewhat difficult to implement (reference this thread over in the DosBox forums) for various reasons. On Android, it would be possible to kill the app and restart it via a button, but it wouldn't be much different than hitting exit and starting over. I'll look into a way of cleanly implementing such a feature in a future version if you guys feel it would be beneficial.

By the way, there is a thread over on the ASUS transformer forums with some people having success running Windows 95/98. I also recorded a video of an old version of DosBox Turbo running Windows 95. I apologize in advance for the poor video quality and lack of sound (I was using an old camera phone to record it).

Edit: I forgot to answer your Q. about the windows key. I'll add the windows key for you extreme users running Windows. =)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gururise:
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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
Sure! Happy to drop in an answer some questions. I'm a big RTS Fan (Warcraft II, etc). In case there are any other RTS fans here, I can certainly recommend playing Warcraft II and set the Mouse Tracking mode to "absolute" and in the Gesture Configuration map the Double-Click to "right click". This will allow you to tap once for left click, and double-tap for rightclicks to move units. Long Press and drag your finger to highlight units. Makes playing RTS games very comfortable on the Touchscreen alone.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
2 versions? 1 version? Gene, I missed the memo, what did I miss here? Lol.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
Noticed that too. Currently looking into the possibility for DB Turbo to do something similar.

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The problem is the API Sony released for the Xperia Play only supports Gingerbread (2.3+). Using the API wholesale would preclude anyone on Froyo (2.2) or older from using your application if you include Sony's API's.

The API is also designed in such a way that using the JAVA reflection technique for compatibility is difficult. Therefore, most emulators that had Touchpad support released a separate version if they wanted to support Android 2.2 or lower. Seems someone may have figured out a way to use reflection (or some similar) to hook the Sony API's up in a manner compatible with Froyo. I'm currently looking into this, and seeing if it can be easily incorporated into the next release.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Fnorder:
*Cash register sound* Email sent!

Woot. This has let me put the Epic4g's 2 useless keys to work.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ohiwastedmylife:
Has anyone used GOG games with dosbox turbo? I got beneath a steel sky for free and tried running it in dosbox and got an error saying that i needs to be run on Win32. The only file that came with the d/l was an .exe and nothing else. Can anyone help me out with this?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] VenomousWoe:
I've gotten games from GOG to run, as well as DOS games from Steam. I've gotten Wing Commander 1 and 2, Ultimate Doom, and XCom to run successfully on my Nexus 7 (TIE Fighter doesn't count as that's a disc game).

As for your problem, I think I might know why you're having trouble. It looks like Beneath a Steel Sky uses ScummVM instead of DOSBox to play the game. You might want to try and use that instead. There's an Android version of it on the Play Store, I believe.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Dont forget, ScummVM on android needs other downloads too to "match" the engine of the game. Also yes, I use GoG stuff too for some of my games like HOMM.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] VenomousWoe:
Gene, may I put in a feature request?

I would like it immensely if you put in 8 directions for a physical D-Pad. Games like Tie Fighter and Wing Commander really need it. Right now I'm using the touchscreen joystick (which does support 8 directions), and mapping the left stick on my PS3 controller to that, as well as the onscreen buttons. It's a functional solution, but not exactly elegant (joystick "bounces"to a direction when tilted even lightly, as opposed to moving at a constant speed).

Still, I enjoy DOSBox Turbo. Probably my most used app. The only game I tried that it couldn't run was Wing Commander Privateer.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] edgarson:
Hello

Does somebody know the best settings for dungeon keeper?

Unfortunately it's quite laggy, especially when there's more things in the view.

Does dosbox use multi core ?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] prometheanbob:
Not working on Kindle Fire anymore?

I used this without an issue back in April/May on an original Kindle Fire, but now it's not working on a Fire HD 7". It won't start, crashing immediately with an error message that the app stopped working. Anyone else with this issue or a possible resolution?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Android-Desire:
2012-2016 no update for savestate woooow.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
It's awesome that the author of this app is so active. Cheers man! Your idea about using analog touchpads is many gamers' dream (mine at least); I think one should be used for movement in general (I mean, WASD or stuff like that, I don't recall any true analog dos games) and the other, the right one perhaps, for the mouse. Or maybe allow different types of mappings. That would be the greatest thing ever. Gonna purchase it right now.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Gene, Other thing I may ask, You may want to see about mapping left and right shift, ctrl, and alt. Rem early days.. sometimes that did matter hehe. =)

Also has anyone managed to get Win95 to boot fully? Been trying myself. Had it boot once.. and only once. But explorer crashed. Now it hangs on Win95 logo and if I try to boot it from the dos screen, says that it wont run on dos less then 6.x (Not sure which version of dos this app uses)

I could try loading a dos disk, but still heh.

Edit: Well ok Win95 Safe mode booted up fully. =D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
You are right, there are probably not too many games that support analog play, and the ones that do all seem to have equivalent Keyboard controls, so its probably not critical to support analog controls, but here are a few popular games I found that do support analog joysticks:

DOOM/DOOM2/Heretic/Hexen

Formula Grand Prix 2

Prince of Persia

JetPak

I'm not sure how many others are out there.

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:D I fondly remember those days. Already got you covered here, the next release (1.2.1) will have those buttons.

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Hmm... can't offer too much help here, as I've only installed Win95 and ran it once w/o problem then never used it again. I can tell you, that I used the same method that was described in the transformer thread I posted earlier. Some users over on that thread even managed to get Win98 running.

I do remember the image I downloaded was corrupt and needed a scandisk to repair. Other users tried a different image, and had to replace some driver that was crashing win95 (i'm not sure what driver that was though).

One more thing, which may or may not help is, I remember reading over on the DosBox wiki somewhere, that its recommended to use core=normal or core=pentium_slow. The default core in DosBox Turbo is core=dynamic, but that can be changed in the settings. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the Windows 95 explorer crashing.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
As I thought. This is not a reason not to add touchpad support though; as I mentioned I strongly believe it would be awesome for mouse emulation and other things. Anyways, Daggerfall still runs quite slow, and I also found that the right trigger doesn't seem to get recognized by the game. In the menu I could map it, but in-game it doesn't work.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
I'll look into the right trigger before I release 1.2.1, it could be I messed up the mapping on that button. Anyone else having issues with right trigger mapping? (I don't have an Xperia Play to test on).

As it is now, you can use the physical arrow buttons on the Xperia Play to emulate a mouse and/or analog joystick by Setting the input mode you want (ie. Touchscreen Mouse) and in the Button Mappings Setting, select the option "Map DPad to Input Device". But I agree, it would be much better (any more intuitive) to use the excellent analog pads on your Xperia Play to emulate mouse movements. That is a feature that is on my TODO list, and will be coming very soon.

While the default settings will work for the majority of games, Daggerfall is quite a heavy game, having said that, here are a few 'tweaks' you can try to speed things up:

* Try using the lowest amount of memory necessary to run the game (Try 4MB or 8MB, only go higher if the game needs more, ex: fallout needs at least 16)

* Always use CPU Type = dynamic. (default)

* Audio emulation is very cpu intensive on single core processors, if you dont need audio, you can turn off the audio in the settings menu.

* Screen scaling is very cpu intensive, if you don't need screen scaling, turn it off.

* Do not use CPU cycles = Auto. While it will work fine on most games, if you really want to get max speed, you should be setting the cycle rate manually for each game.

* Select maybe 15000 cycles with the "Force CPU auto" option turned off. Map the volume up/down keys to Cycle Up/Down. When you are in game, you can use the volume up/down keys to select the optimal cycle rate for the game that your CPU can handle. If you go too high and your CPU cannot keep up, you'll get audio distortion, if you go too low, the game speed will be slow. Once you figure out the optimal cycle setting, go back to the config menu and save it.

On another note, a user recently sent me a video of Fallout running at full speed on his Dual core CPU. I'm not sure how will it will run on a slower single core cpu, but nonetheless, its kind of cool.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Shoot, Now I cant wait for monday for this update... If I get the enter, space, left/right ctrl mappings and so. You know what this means? I can play Epic Pinball! Win! lol.

Also can other XP users confirm/deny for me. That once you use dosbox turbo, slide the xp open (it switches to landscape) then when you close it again, it doesnt change to vertical? (Even after I close dosbox) Using fxp rom on it. Its a "minor" annoyance that I can get around but still.

Also gene, not sure if this is something you can work out easy or not. While in landscape mode.. the dos prompt will be UNDER the keyboard. Would be cool if the screen auto scrolled above that so we could see.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] krisdee:
I found that circle button close application just like BACK button.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] zetsurin:
Anyone tried out Syndicate Wars, or Command & Conquer? If these perform OK, I'm sold! :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] krisdee:
[YOUTUBE]YnUES-mc_PE[/YOUTUBE]
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
I tried Daggerfall and, with all those tweaks, it still runs pretty slow. It's on the playable edge... on the other side, though. Anyway, without touchpads the combat system it's quite worthless. On the other hand, ultima underworld runs great but the dpad isn't recognized. I mean, it's because it's mapped to WASD isn't it? If I use it as input device, it moves the mouse cursor. I used gamekeyboard with my ultima underworld setup (with andosbox) and it runs perfect. Now it only needs touchpad support to avoid touching the screen altogether :D gotta try Arena.. UU just doesn't grab me.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
I just released the update (v1.2.1) to the Android Marketplace. The updates related to the Sony Xperia Play are:

Fix broken Right Trigger mapping (sorry!)

Right Shift Mapping

Right CTRL mapping

Right ALT mapping

Enter Key mapping

Space Key mapping

Up/Down/Left/Right buttons are now re-mappable to any key

Display current button mappings in Config

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I just released 1.2.1 which lets you remap the dpad to any keys you want. In the previous version the dpad was hardmapped to the arrow keys, which is why you might have seen that issue in Ultima Underworld.

Regarding speed, it probably is the case that the CPU in the Xperia play is just barely fast enough to handle Daggerfall. While benchmarking DosBox is difficult due to it being an emulated environment, I've added a page on performance to the FAQ, where I try to spell out what kind of performance expectations you can have based upon your CPU.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23972003&postcount=3 This should fix your issue.

Tho... Those of us on FXP.. dont seem to have issues with the stuff we use. However, if it is an issue, Gene could maybe "block" the use of the "back button" which would prevent closing out dosbox unless you did a menu exit. That may solve that issue?

Edit: Easier way now to fix the O button on some roms.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24114936&postcount=9
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
Back button is mapped to ESC by default, so I'm not sure why it would be closing out the app, unless the Back button default mapping was changed.

Anyone else having the problem of the circle button being mapped to the back button? I followed the Sony Developer guidelines in mapping the circle button, but I don't have a physical device to test with. I could certainly block the use of the "back button" if its a problem, but hopefully it won't come to that.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] tekken179:
Just updated dont see option to map enter ot space bar to a hardware key :-( edit: some reason theres another update all is fixed lol
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Could someone make me a favour? Could You check how works two game ? Elite II Frontier and Elite III Frontier: First Encounters? And how works controls ? Sorry for an ask but I'm still not sure to buy this app.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Yea, we know. He told us todays update would do this. I had to poke him about this at 1st. =p Now I can play epic pinball!

TheVicious, As for those games, I dont know about, however I should point out, that again it may work.. but using a dual core android or tablet may run these better. Either way you have a huge selection of games to play which makes the app worth paying for. =D Since Gene did show up here for US to make the fixes and adjustments that help us. Now we can really use this sucker. =D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
I managed to get Arena to play at a decent speed. That's great considering I hope in more optimization :P anyways, now I'm just waiting for touchpad support to play all these rpgs and more.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Gene and whoever else can check this:

1: Sometimes the Button Mapping screen, when you click to assign a button, doesnt scroll down unless you open or close the xperia play, then it scrolls so you can select a button to map (The popup screen doesnt scroll)

2: The O button mapping, anyone know if its working? I just recently made my keypad mapping work like this, "key 305 BUTTON_B" instead of "key 305 BACK ALT WAKE_DROPPED" So Gene, not sure what you told your app that "O" is on the hardware button in the code?

Now for some protips: I have learned not to change the CPU to auto, keeping it on Dynamic for me seems to have the best sound and gameplay performance so far. Would be good to swap some universal tips if you find the right XP settings that work best for general use.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] gene_wildhart:
Inviodu the

I haven't experienced this myself, but I will run some more tests and see if I can figure out what's going on.

Ah! Now we are getting somewhere! According to the Sony developer documentation, the "O" button is mapped to BACK ALT, which is what DosBox Turbo expects to see. With it re-mapped to BUTTON_B, I suspect the mapping in DosBox Turbo will no longer be able to recognize the 'O' button. Just curious, what is the reason for changing the mapping from what Sony defaulted it to?

The Dynamic CPU core is probably 75-120% faster than any other CPU core due to the ARMv7 optimizations, so I would definately stick with Dynamic core unless you have a reason to use something else.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Thats something "I" have been trying to figure out too. However for us on non stock roms, it "seems" that O is functioning as the back button, not as button O. Which on some games (Say like Minecraft) The game would open the game menu up, or just close it out all the way. (Like someone else on this thread said Dosbox Turbo did for them on hitting O)

So I really dont know what to believe anymore with button O. If someone else wants to chime in on what is what. Been monitoring the other sections of the forums on this too.

So Gene, Question, are you able to dual recognize button O? So it covers both types of mapping?

Also one possible reason for O being "Back" is due to that "X" could be used to open an app after moving around and so.

So yea, wouldnt mind more info myself.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] krisdee:
OK I found solution.

When you have "Map O button = None" or "Map Back button = None" pressing those buttons will close app.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mysticales:
Which is caused by the rom mapping it as "Back Alt" which maybe is why some roms now have it as "Button B" to prevent the button from closing the app out as the back button would.