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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Solar.Plexus:
Looks really good and thanks for the video, TLR. I need to start playing some of those little RPG games!

Sent from my R800x
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] UndisputedGuy:
HOW have you got SFIV:HD???????/
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
OFF TOPIC -

3rd party website's (just search Google). You will need root as its a Titanium backup file. It has been ripped from an LG and modded.

Works ok not a bad game.

Video running on Xperia S -

[YOUTUBE]IBcFD7wYZLU[/YOUTUBE]

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Xplay:
ok im sold....ETA on this thing?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cyrusalmighty:
I think I like SNK vs. Capcom on fpse better then any other street fighter. But as far as this locnet-Gamekeyboard update I really can't wait. Can you imagine how it will raise the value of this phone? Please hurry locnet I am ready to buy this.

Sent from my ICS KA twizz-elve
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Nabeel_Nabs:
There was a version which didn't require root floating around.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Depending on where you're looking, the non-root version of SFIV HD that works on all devices should be in the same place. Ya' didn't hear it from me though :p

BTW, that "locking up" controls issue I spoke of was fixed in the 4th BETA of the new GameKeyboard, and I can confirm that saving profiles definitely does remember layout positioning this time around. Dunno if it's worth making a whole new video for that though. LocNet also said diagonal support will come around when the official update is near (whenever that may be. I was given no ETA).

Still no word on the analog touchpad support though. I'm sure it's too big of an opportunity for them not to eventually support it though, and I pray they're too smart to pull a yongzh and screw over every non-ICS user...

...but I wouldn't put it past me if the touch-pad support doesn't come in the actual update release. It'd be awesome, yeah, but they're already kickin' ass and taking names :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Solar.Plexus:
Good to hear that they're working on diagonal d-pad support and custom game profiles. Thanks for the update.

Sent from my R800x
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
I wish they would just release it and work out the minor bugs as they go.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MegaBUD:
Looks great... cant wait for a release...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
cool thread :)

i wonder does it work on a hardware keyboard? i got an xperia mini pro and already mapped the keys but it doesnt seemed to worked.

the game i tried are Last Stand and Minecraft PE
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zerosuit Connor:
Amy way to add these to the launcher?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Nah... good news is our main man DeanBoro's back in action; and has already spoke that all of the unfinished/temporarily suspended projects he was working on are back in action - including the

ICX Launcher

that'll allow us to have that beautiful Game Launcher-style illustration, without having to depend on whether or not a dev is competent enough to update their AndroidManifest.xml.

Oh yeah? Then DON'T wait - it's

out

... where EVERYONE can play with it :-)

(Expect a video very soon)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zerosuit Connor:
What's ICX I thought it was ICS?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] IE-coRe:
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

ICX was the first ICS ROM for the Play

take a look to my signature...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zerosuit Connor:
Ohs was thinking of the droid x Rom ahaha, while we are in a thread where people know about rooting and such can you check my thread? It would mean a ton, its just some questions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1613186
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] UndisputedGuy:
Does it work with games that use the phones sensor? Or a game that requires swiping the screen e.g. Temple run?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Magelix:
I didnt find it on the market only the old one and the description doesnt say anything about it

.emulate touch screen action. sorry didnt pay attention
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
I believe you can set up swipes, gestures and sensor movements as a "macro" which can then be mapped to a hardware key. I'll admit, I haven't experimented with the Macros option much yet.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
i hope it works on cm7
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] GetPatriotized:
Won't let me buy it :S Been waiting for this for a while now. WOW
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Won't... let you? Hmm... is it giving you the "Can't be installed in this country" error or the "Incompatible with your device" error?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Magelix:
Me too i cant get it bummer
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] GetPatriotized:
Incompatible error :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
Anyone managed to get this working with Real Racing 2? I can get it working right up to the menu screens, but as soon as the race starts, nothing. I can't bring the keyboard up with the menu screen & when I choose "Tap here to call out keyboard after exit" it disappears immediatley... although that last problem seems to happen no matter what I'm running, even on the homescreen.

edit/ also, using the home button to get to gamekeyboard settings kills the game & takes me back to the home screen after.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Have you already forwarded this to the dev with your FW and model #?

Sadly, I can't even get Real Racing 2 to load on my Xperia Play without crashing.

But I think I can stril be of some assistance. A trick I used to do is to take a screenshot of the layout you wanna overlay. From there you can use the menu key to call the GameKeyboard while viewing the image in your gallery... and of course your settings persist in-game.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
That is a genius idea. I just tried it, but sadly it doesn't work. It's as if the keyboard is being refused to run if Real Racing is running in the background. Perhaps it requires so much RAM when a race is actually running that it shuts down all background apps? Just a thought.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
I can't figure out how to get the gamepad to pop up in game
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mael5trom:
cheeseman isn't torture with hw controls.....as so good...

just need to find other games to try now.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fma965:
I Need some game suggestions.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
That's sort of what I tried to accomplish in the initial post. THIS LINK is what I'm using as sort of a central hub for people to get/import and export/share their GKP configurations for games this works well with.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] boxkillor:
awesome...it doest work on mine.followed the tutorial exactly, but not a single button nor does thr dpad work...

german 800i

rooted

doomv10

stock 62
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mael5trom:
Theres a tutorial? i just kept binding things until it worked based on what i could remember from TLR's original video.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten mine working without watching his video either, lol.

So what are some games you guys have been itching to try? Cheeseman was my big thing, but Im still looking for more gaming awesomeness for my Play.

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I've got one for you guys, Lord of Darkness!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bicore.lorddarkness

Very fun korean hack'n'slash, its free but only for Korea. Heres a link if you guys dont have market enabler - http://www.4shared.com/android/jrrWKDOe/LoD10m.html
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] lightningdude:
I tried using this keyboard on Celes Arca, but it don't work properly. Without the keyboard running, you are able to use the dpad, but not the buttons. With the keyboard running, the dpad stops working, though the buttons work. So those that are already a little compatible won't be compatible with this keyboard, most likely, given this test.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
I am having problems getting the game I posted to work, but its works fine with every other game Ive tried. I cant tell if its me or something with the game.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ShahinTehShiz:
Any idea if anyone could PM me where to "look" for Street Fighter? >.< Tried google but couldn't find any good running versions that work
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Hmm... I'm thinking the doom kernel might have something to do with it.

You could try importing one of the GKP pre-sets I made and the associated game to see if it'll work for anything.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
I had it running earlier on Doomkernal. I think the app has some SU issues. But some bugs are to be expected in beta. Try un-installing and re-installing, i had that issue and i noticed that that app was working correct and hardware presses but touch (rooted part) had no action. When installed second time it did ask for SU allow and worked fine.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Anyone tried Real Racing 2 with this app? Working with touchpads or d-pad?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
It does nothing on cm9. The presses look like they work but no dpad
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
The other app joystick 6 has touchpads. Used it on cm9 gameloft games. Sadly dead space closes the app
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Sounds so far like people haven't gotten it to work on Real Racing 2. Every time I start the game it crashes so I've given up.

I have inquired about adding touch-pad compatibility on GameKeyboard... and I really hope they aren't one of the dev teams who cut off all the non-ICS users if or when they decide to implement it.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
if they do add touchpad compatibility on this, it may be not necessary to get the ICS beta... maybe we could map touchpads to the onscreen sfpse/n64oid sticks and then setting transparency to 100%. dunno if possible though.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
I googled "xperia play street fighter IV crack" and found the 'all devices' version pretty quickly. I just installed the 480x854 version and it worked as best I could hope. It works great with this app. Shame Real Racing 2 doesn't work, but honestly, this app is worth the cash just for Street Fighter. Especially if when we buy it on release, it's not optimized.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Hey TLR. I am trying to use one of your gamekeyboard settings file for inotia 3 and my dpad up isn't working. Any ideas? Still trying to figure this app out. Thanks..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] SirRudolph:
Not much to say, just awesome.

This should be a part of ICS to say the least.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Primax12:
Works great! But is it me or it can only emulate one point at a time?

I'm on miui v4 btw.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Hmm... do you have anything hard-mapped to the up button?

I just re-downloaded and applied my GKP to it and it worked fine for me :\

Your MIUI may be fighting it. They implemented multiple inputs in the second BETA I was sent (as I illustrated in my BETA 2 video), and multi-touch input (which of course applies to the hardware keys) is definitely in the full version.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Doesn't work well on cm7 in gta3 needs better spas it doesn't respond when pushing up or right

Edit- the dpad works with nonanalog steering so it works well until your out of the car and walking
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] keysz26:
drag racing bike edition

hi guys , i set up gamekeyboard config on my xplay and have spent ages trying to find games that use onscreen buttons to test it on, but can only find drag racing bike edition, and it does work very well although it only uses 2 buttons, but can people post lists of game that work well. im trying to find some decent side srollers or racing games. cheers
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Wow, I feel like I'm getting spammy now, but have you checked the comically oversized text+link in the OP? Got a nice list goin there
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Could you try gta3 and see if you get better luck while walking?

it must just b the analog controls doesnt work well with dead space either
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ShahinTehShiz:
Hey TLR, how would I configure the game pad for "Death Rally" ?

Heres the Market link if you want to check it: LINK
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Put the dpad over the on-screen stick and a button over shoot I was just playing it it works ok touchpad is better on joystick 6 but you gotta be on ics
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
I'm unable to test that one. Soon as it boots up, it start eating away loads of phone storage until the phone is full, then proceeds to crash. Why isn't this consuming from the SD?

If someone has gotten it to work without eating their phone storage alive, export a GKP and I'll be more than happy to add it to my database.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
Same here. I have 70mb free in my phone too, which I think is pretty reasonable. Very poor design indeed.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
I would recommend RE4 and FF1.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Heres a video I made about RE4, GameKeyboard makes this game playable, unlike the atrocius touchscreen controls.

[YOUTUBE]NtD7gnX1xy0[/YOUTUBE]
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Awesome video! If LocNet does decide to update this with non-ICS specific analog touchpad compatibility, this game will be the first one I give a "control makeover".
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] iibishop:
Holy MotherF&*k! Im.. i.. Damn don't know what to say man lmao. This is what we all need. Sh$#, im gonna buy it for the sake of my gaming life. :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Added CheeseMan to the GKP database

...oh, and ALSO!!! ...if any one of you have ever had to endure X-Men Arcade on a touch screen... then you owe it to yourself to play it for REAL with buttons.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
TLR, you should start a list on XDA with all the games that work well becuase of GameKeyboard. We are off to a great start! :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiche:
Great job Thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Contra 4: Redux works as well

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Heres my gkp for Resident Evil 4

http://www.4shared.com/file/BQV8nh3E/re4.html

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Wanted to show you guys a setup I have been using for twinstick shooters that don't support the touchpad. This is a really bad cap, I don't know why the color is all distorted, but you can see how I have the dpad and circlesquarextriangle arranged. Similar to how the game pewpew2 allows the dpad to be used in this way, it allows the physical button to work in the touchpads place.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
The idea is that if touchpads were supported, we could use the right one instead of swiping the screen in many games to control the camera. :\ I email'd the developers, and they said something like "there are technical difficulties, we will se what we can do". Well, better than nothing. What did they say to you, TLR?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Red_Kop:
I heard that you have to configure the control every time you load an app (ie it doesn't save your config)?

Is this true?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
Well, you can save and load multiple profiles.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] boxkillor:
well it just actually wont work, i guess it depends on the region since the , e.g is dpad is binded different in the config.

To keep it simple : in the settings test menue, even if i bind the dpad to the right config.

Dpad Up -> Dpad Up, it wont work by pressing dpad up.

Furthermore the normal buttons wont do their job either.

But if i bind like Square to Z , it will work. Binding the keypads to "Gamepad" dont work.

any suggestions?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zerosuit Connor:
Can someone make a tut for how to make this work? I bought it but it won't work, considered asking for a refund
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
They responded to other questions I had, but not that one.

Original Post has been updated with a Basic Setup Tutorial.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] boxkillor:
well it worked lol. thx tlr for the tut..now it doesnt work anymore again , i changed nothing and it suddenly stopped working :/
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
This happened to me once. Make sure you have any QWERTY keyboard you've downloaded disabled & reboot your phone. Worked for me.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] boxkillor:
thx bro' will try out ;)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
I have found an easy fix for when it stops working is to open the gamekeyboard menu, and long press the first text box to select my regular keyboard and then long press again to switch back to gamekeyboard, press the second box and you should get the superuser toast message. If you got the message, it should be working fine. I think the app has a problem catching root for some reason. But I do that and it takes two seconds and always works for me, you shouldn't need to reboot your phone.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cyrusalmighty:
I still cannot set this damn thing up even with your tutorial. The reason is that the "step 2" area is greyed out on inital setup. I really dont know why:confused: I enable the game keyboard, confirm pop-up, hit back button, and upon returning into gamekeyboard set-up, the step 2 is still greyed out. The game I am trying to use this with is Biohazard (Unofficial RE4 Korean version). I even tried loading "LegionTheWhats"(lol) RE4.GKP preset, but when I return to RE4 game I have no control on gamepad. I am using KA12 ICS. Any ideas?

Edit* Is this app not compatible with ICS or maybe my rom? I hear Joystick Center 6 which is for ICS is easier to setup and has touchpad control. Is this a better bet for me?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
The step 2 area is supposed to be grayed out, long press it to bring up the "input method" window.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cyrusalmighty:
Yes, I know it says, " Step 2: Tap here, then long press here, select input method from pop-up" But i never get a pop-up as i long press it. Something tells me its the rom Im on as its based off the ICS beta with bugs and all.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Are you able to switch your input method anywhere else on your play?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Yeah. As legion inadvertently noted, you don't really have to use the input changer they offer if you can do it elsewhere (text message, net, Google search). That's all the longpress would've triggered.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fma965:
Yh blame ics. But if you looked you would see this

Press it and select game keyboard.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cyrusalmighty:
No, I'm serious.lol. Im sure it's the Rom I'm on giving me problems. I just downloaded this app to my girls gingerbread Xperia play(r800a) and the step 2 box gives the pop-up box as it should. So maybe it's not ICS, but it's that it's a Beta of ICS(in this case KA12). I never get the "input method" option at all, but shouldn't checking the box in settings menu pull it out?

Sent from my ICS KA twizz-elve
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Sorry to hear that. After getting ICS on my brother's Atrix, I got real interested in possibly putting it on my Xperia Play... yet you'd have never seen anyone change their mind as fast I did when I heard about just how many compatibility issues were going on with games on ICS.

I bought Xperia Play especially to have the one and only physical gaming phone that wasn't mediocre for everything outside of emulation... so I don't even want the slightest sense of sacrificing anything... even if it's just a few corny Gameloft rip-offs. I don't consider it an upgrade when I have to lose things.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
I agree I wish cm7 had better gamepad support. Cm7 is by far the best performing rom as far as gaming. In gta3 you can turn almost all settings about maxed slight over clock and the game plays full speed. An stock rom drags at default settings with overclock. But I want the buttons to work
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
It should enable it as an option, but really you should be able to select GameKeyboard as your primary without actually using GameKeyboard's "Step 2" area.

It's just changing primary keyboards; you can do that almost anywhere.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cyrusalmighty:
Lets not jump the gun here and fully blame ICS since we only have the beta build with ROMs being based off. I think it's just my rom and hope all games are compatible with ICS later. ;) .I agree we should not have to sacrifice anything when updating our phone especially games, when our phone is a gaming phone. In a couple days some other Xperia models should be getting official ICS and then we might know how and if these new gamekeyboards are working.

Sent from my ICS KA twizz-elve
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] pitamus:
When the normal keyboard pops up slide down the notification bar and press choose input method
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] rubbergnome:
Is there a way to make a one-button-shortcut on a homepage to change between input methods? The quickest one is a shortcut to language settings, but i'm not that lazy. More.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
Hi. This app is great. I can play almost all android games with my xperia mini pro hardware keyboard.

Games I have tried are Last Stand, Jet Car Stunts, MOS speedrun, Roboto, Run Like Hell, Leps World, Pep The Dragon and much more. All are playable with my hardware keyboard with the gamekeyboard app.

I got one questions though, is there a way of mapping the touchpad controls and swipe controls to the d-pad? I can't figure it out
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiche:
here my gkp for redbull kart WT https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.kempt.kartfighter&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwidWsuY28ua2VtcHQua2FydGZpZ2h0ZXIiXQ..

Don't forget to select manual mode on the game control
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
Have you tried long pressing on the google search bar widget? I have been thinking about messing around with tasker to see if I could get it to launch a game with the gamekeyboard active with the right profile.

!! Jet Car Stunts, nice one! Forgot about that game.

Would also suggest Final Freeway 1/2 and Wacksy Taxi.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Hoe do you get the lb and RB to show up? Its not selectable for me.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
select 8 buttons<select gamepad<gamekeyboard settings
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Awesome! Added to the main database of GKPs.

Take a note from kiche and Legion! If you make a setup that works well, don't just keep it to yourself; share the wealth!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
I dont know about you guys, but I had a blast playing real racing 2 using hardware keyboard with gamekeyboard app.

Choose method e in rr2 control settings, and I set A button to gamepad A, and enter button to gamepad B. I put gamepad A to the left of the screen to move the car to the left and gamepad B to the right of the screen to move the car to the right.

In your cases dpad left to gamepad A and dpad right gamepad B.

It works great and had fun playing it on a keypad instead of a touchscreen controls :P
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Could you specify version of Real Racing 2?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
The latest version from the market. Version 000418
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Will look into it when I back home today :). Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: Can you provide your GKP file for RR2 too?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Izzy Stinson:
I would love to but what is gkp and how can I send it here?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
http://forums.xperiaplaygamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5480

You should know right now what is this. You must make "backup" of your settings and upload it for us :).