[Xperia Play General] BensJammin:
Sorry I forgot.

Well, I absolutely love my S7300!! Seriously, I haven't played a game on my XP since. But this is also because I decided to change my battery back to the original sized one as I thought 'Im not using my phone so much now so I dont need the massive battery'. This proved to be a big mistake as the phone went into a bootloop which I couldnt get out of meaning I had to do a factory restore and lose all my installs etc. Absolute disaster!! Now my XP is just being used as a regular phone with Facebook etc :(

Anyway, I digress. IMHO the S7300 is an amazing piece of kit for what it costs.

Build quality isnt amazing, but it feels nice in the hands and the button layout is quite good, although L2/R2 are quite awkward. Analog sticks are true analog, verified by playing games such as Gun Bros with the on screen sticks..

Battery life isnt great, lasts a few hours when gaming, but I tend to have it plugged in while gaming anyway, Gets a little warm on the back, and mine is running at 1.3ghz on the custom rom Im using.

However, gaming on it is awesome. I haven't come across any compatibility issues yet (probably as it spoofs a SG2) and one of the best things for me is the HDMI out, which allows all my games to be played on the big screen. It has changed my android gaming experience completely.

Some games are mapped to the gamepad automatically, although the buttons are different to the XP ones. (Cross on XP pad is equivalent to Square on S7300). However, the mapping tool is brilliant. I am a big fan of gamekeyboard and spent a lot of time making good gkp's, but this mapping tool on the JXD is so easy. It misses some features that GK had like ability to remove and resize buttons, but it negates this by adding some things like ease of use (on screen button pauses game and brings up map) and also something I really wanted in GK, which was the ability to split the DPad to either side of the screen. You can also select the analog stick function, with either analog or dpad, but also 'view', which will continually turn the screen in a fps game until you let go for example.

I tried to install link2sd but couldnt get it to see my partitions (I made various partitions to no avail) but then I realised there is an SD swap option in the custom rom installation which mounts the external as an internal, so I now have effectively 32gb internal space, more than enough. Afterburner climax?? Not a problem :)

Speaking of custom roms, I have never had such a good experience installing one. The one I have is called NCEE 1.1 and it is literally 3 files you put on sd card, hold vol up and press power. It then presents you with a menu on how you want your rom setup, what speed, which apps installed from the start etc. It really is tidy.

Gaming is great on it, and some games run a lot better than on the XP. Jet Set Radio runs at full speed, flawlessly, whereas it was slow as hell on my XP at 1.8ghz!

However, and this is a disappointment for me, the main game I really wanted on the big screen which is Real Racing 3, runs slightly laggy, not massively but enough to stop you hitting an apex. However, games like Most Wanted run flawlessly!

I cant praise this unit enough and it gives a good insight into the future and evolution of android, and mobile gaming as a platform.

I still love my XP, just not quite as much now :)