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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] leots:
I bought it to check for myself if I can download it. It was stuck at "Looking for resources to download"... I refunded and I'm waiting for others to report success!

Also guys, do you really think it will run smoothly on the Xperia Play? In GTA III you have to lower the settings and lot to have no lag... Tbh, I was surprised when I saw that it will be compatible with the Xperia Play...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sfex3best:
If you xdafy your xperia play you can get any game working smoothly.:thumbup:

I mean the hardest game to load is batman tdkr I think and it works at full speed for me.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago):
Guys what u thin we will play gta vice city before Christmas???
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sufy1000:
It's already out but I can't see it in the Google Play store!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LilProphet:
That's what Rockstar said 15 minutes ago... wow
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Holy....
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sufy1000:
Well let's hope it gets released by tonight!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] narflynn619:
That's why I'm sitting back here relaxing and watching some good ol' Prison Break episodes while everyone test the app before I make a purchase. Hehehe EVIL :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LilProphet:
In their latest update, R* said it will be available "VERY SOON", I hope that means a few hours.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
I feel like in Gameloft titles relase dates....
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
Did you mean "Midnight/Tomorrow" as in midnight tonight, as it was yesterday when you originally wrote that? lol
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
yeah must of :( LOL :) Starting to really hate Google. Love Android as a base and love the hardware of my mobile machines, but why cant Google step up their game and sort the market out. :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ILikeTheWayYouMove2:
Agreed what's happening wish they wouldt tell us the sixth if its not goin to be the sixth

But when its finally released I'm sure all will be forgot ")
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TwilightLoz:
Apparently it was out on the play store. People tried downloading it but recieved an error (something relating to the XAPK file). They pulled the game from the play store and rockstar said it'll be back on soon.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
I'm no longer waiting for this - it can hit in 2020, doesn't matter....
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] waynekirby:
I can't believe the BS they are feeding us all, claiming it wasn't supposed to be on the PS yet?!?! Then why on the trailer even write '6th December' ??? Absolute jokes.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ILikeTheWayYouMove2:
Well it still is the 6th (in UK anyways) so fingers crossed :$
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Last time, only Square Games is trusted developer - The Bard's Tale has awesome support, brilliant optimisation, and super everything.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
The Bard's Tale is the best game for our phone in my opinion. And the support of InXile is fantastic. I did a count there have been over 10 updates to it all improving on the previous update since this game was released. Plus I played it on my old Xbox in 2004, and my olc Commodore 128 when I was 6 (1985)

Great game.

Now back to the title of this thread.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
Think we will see it soon. I brought it so have been able to view the link on the store (Even as it got taken down) the download now states 1.4GB instead of a 3mb app so will try download in min. For anyone that has not brought it, keep refreshing that link in first post :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
"Hey guys, due to unforeseen technical issues, the Android release of Vice City will be slightly delayed. Our goal is to get this out for Android by the end of next week. Our apologies for the delay to all our fans on Android devices and please stay tuned for updates."

I knew that....Another Gameloft style corporation born... I'm done with that :/.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sufy1000:
OMG are you serious?! :crying:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
m.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/47021/vice-city-10th-anniversary-edition-now-available-for-ios-devices.html

I lost every trust even in Rockstar, maybe 21.12.12 is not a joke, the end of the world is coming... Screw that, better play on PC or go back to Zombiewood and Real Football 2013.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sufy1000:
Please kill me now.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] HipCat:
Oh no, they removed their app and have delayed the release by a few days to fix it. How terrible.

What is with these hyperbolic reactions? :silly:

They're fixing it. This is a good thing, they're not ignoring it. Be patient.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Miles Wolf:
I can't believe that somebody says these things seriously. xDD
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] igor_anta:
Guys really, I think you're overreacting. It is extremely more difficult to develop for Android compared to iOS so it's understandable that they might have encountered some unforeseen glitches.

If they didn't delay we would get a buggy game and there would be even more frustration. Do you ever see anyone complaining about Blizzard or Valve postponing games all the time so that they release bug free, complete packages.

So in short, relax, chill, take a breather. The game will be out when it's ironed out. Till then play one of the other 10000000 games we have for the Play :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] cacarod2007:
I totally agree with igor_anta. In fact, we should not even be angry at gameloft too, for delaying games. Look how nicely they have been supporting our xplay, each and every huge game they release is play optimized. Did we expect our play to come this far? What if modern combat 4 and heroes of order and chaos were not playable on xplay? Did we have the right to complain then? Look how GLU and Madfinger have abandoned us, we cannot play shadowgun deadzone. So lets just enjoy the marathon run of games as much as we can, without being too harsh on the game developers. I am very greatful to gameloft and even have hope that they will continue xplay support for future games like Asphalt 8: infinity, Dungeon hunter 4 etc.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
You're right guys, but they should've told us before 6th December, maybe 5th or so, I don't like telling something for a last moment - it means somebody is not responsible.

We must wait and we will wait - we can\t do anything :D. But it makes me fell a bit frustrated.... Nevermind xD.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] HipCat:
Oh, my bad. Several days. There we go. And c'mon, no need for name calling. That's just rude and immature. We're all cool, right? Everyone got their 80s shades on? Word. :cool:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Correct. No need to blame ourselves cause of some stupid game delay. We have to be patient, just like always actually.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] str3tch72:
Oh yeah, but I think Rockstar could test it before put not working version in Play Store...

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
I'm thinking why they even put it there if they knew that it's not ready and will take more than few days to fix this. They get many 1-star opinions/reviews.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AvRS:
I've cleaned up the last couple of pages. Can I remind everyone that they must not start name calling and being abusive towards other members. Also just remember this is a public forum so also just watch your language even if you're annoyed about a game.

Thanks

AvRS
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] solomon4400:
I got an idea whe y'all done you monthly periods then come back on the forums because nobody wants to see y'all mood swings straight. Geez its just a game
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CyberScopes:
+1

Its just a GAME!!!

Have some patience, theres hundreds of other android games u could play until it comes out.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yekasangredevago:
Here I give you a link from a gameplay of Grand Theft Auto Vice City, from my Xperia Play! Uploaded by me! ;)

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUOUccw4Ys&feature=youtu.be
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sonymakebullshit:
Is that a leaked version? i can't find it in google play
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] narflynn619:
Pirates! I smell pirates everywhere!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Correct. Posting links like that is not allowed, even if someone bought a game.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ramnex:
Someone should bring this to the notice of a moderator, this borderlines on copyright infringement considering this is an otherwise paid application

Sent from my GT-I9100

If I helped you, please hit the thanks button!

---------- Post added at 05:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:00 PM ----------

Those who have bought the game would have already downloaded it from the play store, considering that there is no other method of purchasing the game

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If I helped you, please hit the thanks button!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AvRS:
This is a friendly reminder to all that warez/illegal download sites are not allowed on xda and any instance of this will not be accepted. Please report any further members posts that include these links and they will be dealt with accordingly.

Thanks

AvRS
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ramnex:
Thanks mate! Keep up the good work!

Sent from my GT-I9100

If I helped you, please hit the thanks button!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] narflynn619:
Yey! No more stinky pirates!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] leetxperia:
Wow! I cant wait :3
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
I brought the game so had the apk and STILL had to get the data files else where :( BUT. Plays ok on the stock R800i Play i tested it on, controls same as GTA3 (no movement with touchpads :( ) and would say it lags the same as GTA3, not any worst but no better. Still VICE CITY on my Xperia Play is priceless :) Happy days!!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] narflynn619:
Like GTA3? Heh, what did I say about Xperia PLAY being on that list?

Deja vu. I'll pass on this one.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
some print screens from Xperia™ PLAY
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
Saying this i now change my statement as have now found the display settings! turn most things down to low and you have playable game and dare i say it, now smoother and faster then GTA3.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yekasangredevago:
Sorry? for all who are throwing hints, I do not post any download link at any time, it's just a video of the gameplay, and not where I got it, so stop talking nonsense.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
There was links but Mod delete this dude.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LilProphet:
Do you have dyslexia?

Anyway controls are really hard in VC, shooting is very crappy, it was way better in gta 3 or I dunno.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] iRhyiku:
Using DiXperia with lupusGB and a few tweaks I can get this game playable on low - med settings :)

heres the controls if anyone is interested:

DPAD - Walk/turn(car)

X - RUN/accelerate

SQUARE - Jump/break/reverse

Triangle - Get in/out vehicle

Circle - Punch

Menu - Duck

Select - Camera

Start - Menu

L (in car) - look left

R (in car) - look right

Touchpads (incar) - change radio

Seems like the controls are identical to GTA3 from what I remember..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
So far after playing a while have found some issues but nothing to bad.

1) No hardware button on Xperia Play to answer the phone. Have to close pad to use onscreen.

2) on motorbikes we have no lean back or forwards as the down key is handbrake and up is horn. Not sure if this issue effects helicopter as not that far into game (pointless to cheat) but some bike tricks will need onscreen joystick to complete.

Hope they find away round this in future updates as love this game. :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ridder215215:
I watched a gameplay video, and is it possible that you'll have to push the gas button twice to "pop a wheelie"? That's the way on an iPad.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] BrianChase:
Actually, you can answer the phone by tapping (I usually have to hit it twice) the little box that comes up telling you you're getting a phone call. Has anyone been getting crashes to desktop? I get a crash every two or three cut-scenes watched, and if the game feels that I've been playing for too long. Also, the game runs pretty piss poor even on lower settings as far as I can tell.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ILikeTheWayYouMove2:
What settings do you have to use for it

Eg screen resolution %

Shadows

Visual effects ect
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] BrianChase:
My resolution is somewhere around 30% and my draw distance is about 65% with low graphics settings and the shadow setting turned off. Unfortunately lowering resolution seems to have no effect at this point and lowering the draw distance makes it impossible to dodge on-coming cars :(
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DiKeJ:
Draw Distance - 18%

Screen Resolution - 20% or 40%

Visual Effects - Medium

Dynamic Shadows - OFF

Subtitles - ON (I know nothing to do with performance :D)

Frame Limiter - OFF

With that config, and OC to 1.8GHz and my DiXperia 2, this game is flying on my Play :D.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] iibishop:
Dunno why it lags alot in my Xplay. But its perfectly smooth at Max Settings in my Optimus G.

Might flash and clean my Xplay just for gaming purpose. :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fma965:
i have my resolution on max and just draw distance down works fine and looks great, check my signature
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] aaron15ryderz:
it forces closes after a few mins playing.. i'm on markphyton V3 rom, OC 1.5 with doomlord kernel.. anyone experiencing the same?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fma965:
why are people who still using the ram hog ics when jb is so much better
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] iRhyiku:
Last time I was on JB, some emulators for me wernt working all too well.

i.e. SNES9X. and since all i do is emulate and I do love the MIUI look..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yekasangredevago:
I too feel the same, I think it's a matter of the ram, since this rom ICS, has no more than 150 free ram, will have to wait to come to a more stable version of JB, :P

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what happens is that the ICS rom Markphyton, is 100% functional, in my case the GTA Vice City is the only game that gives performance problems, and few games that do not work in ICS

(Here is the check list for me: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2028714)

JellyBean Instead, what I've seen, it still has some bugs a bit annoying (but it's amazing the work they are doing)

I'm aware all the time of the post (Wedgess & Cosmicdan) waiting for a more stable version with better performance: D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Thewonderboy:
Just a question to all you tech wiz with fancy doctoring apps ~

Do these GTA's (3 and VC) use GPU at all ?

Most phones and their games (and older PC games) were really CPU heavy and since thats one particular department where XPlay is lacking, it makes me wanna ask Did rockstar ever put some time into quality portting and engine modification.

I read somewhere that XPlay relies on its GPU alot.

Adreno 205 isnt bad chip, it should equal or in few cases outshine tegra II's GPU (if Im not completely oblivious when it comes to reading benchmarks).

If they "just ported" it with minimum modifications to engine and the GPU truely isnt utilized to its maximum, I call bad port :rolleyes:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Jordanooo:
Does anybody else notice that even with draw distance on full, the cars on the road are still only drawn at a close distance. Like if I take over a car on the wrong side of the road, I take the risk of a car suddenly appearing in front of me. Anybody know a solution?

Sent from my Nexus 4.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
Its back out now added video by us and link and info :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] UndisputedGuy:
Is it worth buying or is it too laggy?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
If you play around with display settings you can get it running on Play sweet. Can see you have a Tablet, worth buying for that alone if use with a USB controller :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] UndisputedGuy:
Thanks for the answer. I'm not sure how it'd even perform on my tablet though. I can't be sure it will work well despite having a quad core processor.

Will likely buy it on my phone after fixing my link2sd error which unmounted my partition and now windows won't really read my SD card so i can't even use minitool.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] The Alpha Gamer:
Does the Android version have the custom soundtrack feature that the iOS version has?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
I get a "not available in your country" when I go to the link above from my phone.

USA.

Anyone else getting this?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] modmymobile:
There is a new comment in topic [12/6/12] "XAPK File validation failed" in Vice City for Android.

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Update for 12/12/12:*This issue has now been resolved and Vice City is now available for download on supported Android devices. *Thank you for your patience. *

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] mulllen666:
Works fine for me. Great game
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] BrianChase:
Does it still have the frequent crashes the last build had?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago):
Guys listen to me if u want to play games on Xperia play

U have to make an new flash with the official .62Rom and the only change u should to is to remove with titanium backup that app u don't want then to buy the ram manager and activate the swap at 256 mb nothing else no zram no min frees touch no nothing more,I have it like this and believe me I run the GTA vice city at 1.2 overclocking and it run smooth without lag at all at draw distance 25

Visual effect max

Resolution 80%

I will upload later a video to believe me...

Cause when Sony build the .62 Rom was know what to do
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Now shows up for R800x. Just bought. Downloading
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] |SavageD|:
Thx, a video would be very helpful
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Are the touchpads half-assed in this one like they were in GTA3?

...don't mean to be a negative nancy, but the controls were so bad last time around that it seemed like GTA3 was more of a bragging right than anything practically playable - even worse considering how Gameloft's cheap knock-off (Gangstar: Rio) had more detailed graphics/models, better performance and better controls.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yekasangredevago:
Controls should be so (in my opinion)

the only thing lacking in controls have occasion to modify.

is handling the bike, as in the play 2.

that when you walk, you press the analog a bit up and squats, so you go faster.

And if you press the analog down, gets up the bike. : D

and to aim the weapon, Mantega R1 and L1 that is changing lenses, (not with the left analog) and then point to stop, drop and longer. Because sometimes gets stuck pointing.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] BrianChase:
Vice City is a more expansive game and takes further use of the ps2 controller in comparison to GTA 3. Basically, we have the exact same controls on the Play as we had in 3 but to make up for the new features in the game there are many more times that we have to use the touch screen. If you hated the controls in 3 you will really really hate these (and I don't blame you!)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] The Alpha Gamer:
No-one knows if it can have custom soundtrack?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] a3HeadedMonkey:
Is there another way to pull wheelies on bikes/fly helicopters/fly planes other than closing the gamepad & using the touchscreen?

It seems the controls are borked on the Play, much like GTA 3 was after the update. This is why I went back to ver. 1.0 of GTA 3. Because you couldn't fly the Dodo otherwise.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sufy1000:
I want to know too! Anyone ?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Wow, what a great game - really love how our Xperia Play officially is supported by Rockstar. But the damn fools forgot to integrate GTA Vice City with our Xperia Play Launcher (i know not many may not use it)... I've made a request on their website to update the game with this, so it fully is Play-optimized...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] MegaRacingHD:
Runs a little bit laggy on my Play with JB AOSP Rom. But still playable.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] w4lkm4n:
Confirm .the game work flawless on setting 25% distance ,100% grafic ,max and dinamic shadow

:)

Sent from Xperia Play using xda premium
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] yekasangredevago:
I was playing GTA Vice City since I installed with that configuration.

But after a couple of missions, the game is delayed too long, even with overclock to 1.5 Ghz.(And I am in gingerbread - NXT2JB v1.1b - with 250 of ram free)

I think Rockstar have to optimize it more.

And I think our Xplay still has power to run a game as well, with 50% graphics! and overclock, there's more! ;)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] narflynn619:
I think I won't be buying this game judging on everyone's posts. Hell, they didn't even care to improve GTAIII and left it half-baked for us PLAY users, so don't expect Fockstar to optimize it more. Better play this game on the PC.

PS, waiting for MC4 to appear at the Wapshop! ;)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ILikeTheWayYouMove2:
The game runs perfect if you just get the right settings I use

Draw distance-35

Resolution -60/40

Visual -Med/Low

Shadows-off

Frame limiter-off

No overclock and it works perfect apart from when crossing island then it freeze for a split second
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] |SavageD|:
If the game is running slowly, someone should compress the textures and and music a bit :/. Saw some one did a mod with GTA 3 for android maybe they could also compress the textures for this game?? I also remember Mods for GTA San Andreas on pc where users could downgrade the game so low end computers could run it smoothly.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] LordBattleBeard:
I don't know what so many people are complaining about with this. I'm running the game with max settings, higher draw distance and resolution than default, shadows turned on and I'm getting practically no lag whatsoever.

Granted the controls are not exactly perfect, I would have liked to see the game adapted to the GTA IV control scheme, and the touchpad controls could definitely be smoother (same problem as with GTA III), but I'm just grateful that such a great game was even optimised at all. Its not like they need xperia play users to boost sales. If you think the imperfect controls make it unplayable then try playing with the touchscreen. It won't be long until you realise that they aren't all that bad after all ;)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Red_Kop:
Unplayable for me.

Everything on lowest.

Major slowdown, crashes and even phone reboots.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] mmm273:
its about rom you using...

my results:

STOCK SE GB - low/medium = playablle

TurboUI (JB) - low/medium = plaable but some lags

CM9,1 - medium playable but lags sometime

NXT Light Edition - medium / 80%text / 40%distance/ dynamic on = perfect, no lags, smoth game

so if you buy xperia play for playing games (like me, and 90% owners) I recommend NXT LE (+doomkernel v14) and gamest run very smoth ( no OC)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] UNCUT88RAW:
My phone reboots after 1,5 hours of game time. Before that, the game becomes slower and slower. Sometimes the pause menu flickers or gives me a white screen. I guess the RAM is full when the game hangs and system reboots the phone.

I´ve set resolution to 100% and distance to 25%, all other options are set to low or deactivated. Playable, but it is laggy. Little Haiti tends to be unplayable because of lag.

Can someone confirm this problem?

(By the way: Has someone also achieved 100% in this game?:D)