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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Read this thread (thank you arquillos , all credit goes to him)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1326087&page=8

from his blog -

retro-android.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/android-emulators-list.html

Found this emulator, which seems to do everything: 4 1/2 out of 5 **** based on 303 reviews

Android 3.0 or higher only

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch (Its Free!)

List of devices it can emulate:

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RetroArch Plays the following kind of games:

- PlayStation 1 (emulator: PCSX ReARMed)

- Super Nintendo (emulator: SNES9x Next)

- Nintendo Entertainment System (emulator: FCEUmm / NEStopia)

- GameBoy / GameBoy Color (emulator: Gambatte)

- GameBoy Advance (emulator: VBA Next)

- Arcade (emulator: Final Burn Alpha)

- Neo Geo Pocket Color (emulator: Mednafen NGP)

- Virtual Boy (emulator: Mednafen VB)

- Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (emulator: Genesis Plus GX)

- Sega Master System/Sega Game Gear (emulator: Genesis Plus GX)

- Sega CD / Mega CD (emulator: Genesis Plus GX)

- PC Engine / PC Engine CD (emulator: Mednafen PCE Fast)

- WonderSwan Color / Crystal (emulator: Mednafen Wonderswan)

- Cave Story (game engine: NX Engine)

- Doom 1 / Doom 2 / Ultimate Doom / Final Doom (game engine: prBoom)

SPECIAL FEATURES:

- Plug and play detection of many USB / Bluetooth gamepads

- Real-time rewinding in games

- Very advanced pixel/vertex shader support (will push your GPU to the limit)

- Totally customizable touchscreen overlays

- Expandable with new cores, and the ability to make your own cores and use them with RetroArch

- Totally free - no ads, no 'collecting stats', no push ads, no BS

Android 3.0 or higher only
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Here is the apk..... as I am on GB 2.3.3, is there any way to tweak the apk to work on GB?

Link:

http://d-h.st/cAX
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] devi59:
I was just talking about this in the the xpmb thread. Over awesome to have an all in one emulator and free. I placed a little. Works well for what I've done so far.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
WTF virtaul boy emulator? Does anyone know of a standalone version of just this? Great find ozzman :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] D.Spirit:
I installed it on my XPlay running ICS 2 days ago.

And I can say unfortunately it's not Xperia Play optimized. Input settings don't have option for Xperia Play gamepad.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Ah man...... David Tenant... best Doctor Who in my opinion..... that and Tom Baker. But David all the way.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Dont thank me poo-tang.....

thank arquillos

:laugh:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RottenFoxBreath:
I salute you, and your views...:D

On ther twitter, they said they will look into 2.3 at some point, as there are a couple of Play owners(myself included), have asked for it.

ICS for gaming on the Play is hit and miss, but on GB it seems far better.

EDIT: "Squarepusher" on their forums, said Android 2.3 support will probably be done soon., so hopefully not too long.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] biozkop:
If they can manage to include nds, n64, and psp emulator, with xperia play optimized, it would be totally ultimate..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awwilson21:
Gonna be a LONNNNGGG time before we see a PSP emulator...
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
5 seconds lol search market :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ppsspp.ppsspp
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
You should retry it again - install the update from the Play Store. The Xperia Play controls should work now - if they don't, let me know.

Xperias stuck on Gingerbread (2.3) will have to wait until I get around to adding Android 2.3 support - whic hopefully won't take too long.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
That would be awesome. Thank you
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RottenFoxBreath:
Cool, would really appreciate that happening..:good:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
I just installed it but the first GBA game I ran on it went veeeery slooooowwww... (Its was Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) :(

Well, let's look how it develops! :D it looks nice.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
The current GBA core uses an emulator that is more accurate than Gameboid (ie. a simple port of gpSP) but it is also much, much slower.

Anyway, you will get a much faster GBA core once I port gpSP and add that to the list. However, the VBA Next core will still remain as part of the package for people who want to choose between the two.

Also, GBA is only one core - there are about 13 other cores in this thing - I'm sure you can find something else in the meantime that is more to your liking.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
Hi there,

we worked today on Android 2.3 compatibility.

We were able to confirm it runs on a HTC HD2 (2010/2009 phone) - Gingerbread 2.3.3. I just need to know if this works on mainstream Android 2.3 devices now.

If I post an APK here, will you guys be able to test it for me? I want to make sure that there are no big lingering bugs remaining when I push this to the Google Play store.

As soon as you guys can confirm it's working, I can push it out to the App Store and you guys can ditch this test build.

So - any of you want to test?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiri87:
Count me in.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
Try this -

https://anonfiles.com/file/478271612a775800b3639fcf9bb77597
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiri87:
Good news. The app launches. I'll come back with some testing results as soon as I can.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
Will give this ago too. Love the fact it has a virtual boy emulator!!

EDIT- Emulator works fine on Gingerbread (tested Snes so far) great work!! Only issue is that the pre-setup for buttons works but Circle is seen as back (not Button B) but minor issue and am sure can work round it until a later update were there mite be a fix. Thanks for this :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] thehuttman:
yeah working great but as said above circle is back. GREAT work thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RottenFoxBreath:
Installing and testing now, excuse the lack of names/text, busy at the moment so sneaking this out.

Genesis, got Alien3, Bio Hazard, and a handful of games to work no problems.

Sega CD - nothing worked, don't know what I'm doing wrong, is it iso/mp3, iso/bin???

PC engine, kato&ken and Spatterhouse work, Cho Aniki cd doesnt

Snes - Castlevania, Super Mario World and a few others work fine.

PSX - Castlevania-symphony of the night works, as does Soukyogourentai.

Nes - got a few to work there.

Gameboy - couldnt get anything to load.

Thats it so far..great job BTW.

The one I want to work is Batman Returns Sega CD, so any info on how to get that running, would be appreciated, everything else I tried was full speed and fine(game wise, not Sega CD, that was a nono)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiri87:
I tried various games, with various cores:

VBA Next: Castlevania Aria of Sorrow

Snes9x-next: Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country

FCEUmm & Nestopia: Contra, Mega Man, Super Mario Bros

Genesis Plus GX: Comix Zone, Golden Axe 3

All games seem to work while quick testing.

The only serious issue I had is related to input.

I tried disabling Input autodetect and manually setting the custom binds. I can't bind Circle button. It acts as back and cancels the bind window. Binding the X button also has issues. Finally, when going ingame after setting the custom binds, no button seems to work, other that Start & Select.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] devi59:
If I remember right, hasn't that always been an issue with any custom ROM? I had a file around here I messed with. You had to have roto, go into /system/usr/keyboard (i think that was it) then change the gamepad.ko (again, I think, just look at them all and you will find the obvious one) and change in the gamepad section of the circle button, its set as a back button instead of a symbol button. If you look at the file (basic text editor) and make the circle one like the square, triangle, x etc. then copy it back to the same folder (backup obviously) then reboot and it will work. I did that as my first thing (i had it stored on my SD card) whenever i switched roms. (i'm on jellybean now, so I havent poked around to look and see if its the same still)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Ok i tested on my stock rom (2.3.4) and Doomkernel rel14. GBA, SNES, NES, GB roms works but- i don't hear any sounds, and pad doesn't work at all (circle is a back button). This emulator looks GREAT. If You can do anything with button mappings it will be fantastic !
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
It SOUNDS like a good idea, but in practice I really don't see this appealing to anyone but noobs(no offence noobs). Reason why is having so many different emulators crammed into a single apk means that at least one emulator is bound to fall behind the curve in development/optimization. You can't tell me this will emulate PSX better than FPSE, or Arcade better than Mame4Droid. How is this any better or quicker than using a launcher or shortcut app to categorize my emulators? It looks like someone just took a bunch of GPL arm emulators and dragged them kicking and screaming into their basement.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
You know Why ? Because we have all in one. I think this is a good oportunity to other. If You don't need it - don't use it. But I think there are many person that will be very pleased to use this emulator (like me). I love emulators, and I will install another one - and if it will be better then *oids emultors I will use this.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Guimac90:
Does the PS1 emulator recognizes the touchpads?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
I think you are misunderstanding me. I agree, there is good in this; people inexperienced with Android and emulators will have an easy and free go-to app. What I meant was, what benefit is this to power users like us when this is essentially an app launcher(actually thats exactly what it is)? I am just trying to see the utility in this, please understand.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Toad King:
Hi, other dev here

I can and I am. notaz put tons of work into PCSX reARMed and it shows; any ARMv7 device with NEON will get fullspeed no problem in nearly any game, even on a weak Cortex A8 chip. Also, FPse? Turns out they were "borrowing" the SPU from PCSX reARMed while conveniently never telling him about it, also breaking the license on notaz's code. So if we're not optimized, then I guess FPse isn't as optimized as you think either.

Also, unlike some other emulators, we are constantly keeping our cores synced with upstream development. In many cases, libretro has been accepted upstream as well, so we are almost always up to date. How many other Android emulators can say that?

Anyway, me and Squarepusher will look into the back button issue today. Hopefully we'll have an update ready tonight or tomorrow.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RottenFoxBreath:
Awesome work guys..very mych appreciated.! :good:

And I must comment on the PSX issue, all the titles I've tried so far, glitch on Fpse, and Epsx, but run flawlessly on this, it's just hardware controls that are lacking.

Even got my sega CD titles working, all due to me mis-typing the bios name..
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
@squarepusher Wow. Just wow. So I am suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and I support thieves taking my money? Taking things a little far don't you think? I had no idea I was talking to the dev's of the app so don't bite my head off. I was just trying to have a normal discussion about this app but now I see we are in flame war territory. As such, I expect this will go over your head so I will just go point by point and leave it at that. I will try my best not to be rude but I fear you will see me saying what I think as some sort of trolling.

Lets make this clear, I mean optimized for ANDROID, not the Xperia Play. It doesn't take much to support the play, just need to bind actions to keyboard inputs.

You do know what a frontend is right? A program with a nice gui for launching external code. In otherwords, a launcher. Nothing wrong with that but don't say its something it clearly isn't.

You freely admit other dev's have written the emulator code. Logically all that can remain is a menu and other superlative features.

Every single one of those features are gui related.

I have never used that persons emulators before, and if you think I just LOOOOVVEE paying for games then you don't know me at all! ;)

Yeah, no. Talk to me when pcsx rearmed has been out for several years and has consistently given me updates on a weekly basis with great performance specifically for my device for that whole time. The dev support for FPSE is astounding, you will not win on this point.

So you are telling me one open source app borrowed a portion of code from another open source app to improve its code. Where is the controversy? Are you mad that they didn't shout it from the rooftops? And most importantly, what does that have to do with FPSE being supposedly inferior?

So, in a needlessly articulated way, you are saying you update the app within your app when the developer of THAT app issues an update. That's exactly what I don't want from an app.

As a fellow dev myself, I can truly understand that you have put many hours into this, and I respect that. It is obvious at this point your app will be succesful and I wish you all the luck in the world. I also think you two should be more honest with yourselves, you both argue that other dev's simply cut and paste their code from the original dev's, but isn't that exactly what you are doing, albeit with permission?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
So much for you being a 'dev' - I doubt you've ever seen a C codebase up close or even have a clue what a shader is and how it isn't 'GUI-related' (seriously?).

Oh man - why do I even bother with these responses when it's obvious I'm in for a trainwreck...

Actually it has been out for years, Sherlock - on Pandora - and it plays most games just fine. Nobody on Pandora has any need for payware like FPSe and ePSXe and it's exactly because of authors like notaz (and they're getting a DS emu for Pandora soon BTW which every Android user can only dream of since it's not going to be open sourced for a few years - sorry authors have caught on to this money scam racket and are taking their own precautions - RetroArch is one route it can go down - another route is people just not opensourcing emus anymore - and it's exactly because of people with attitudes like you that feel this is just 'fine' to bite the hand that feeds it).

Want to hazard a guess as to why it didn't see a release on Android up to this day? Exactly because the author took one look at people like you and figured 'nah, let's not bother with that'. I'm sorry, but that is the deal here.

The issue is that they're violating licenses in doing so and going against authors' wishes not to sell it - even when they've been told OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN that they do not like what they're doing and want them to stop. That's the issue. You and your 'monetize apps' fetish can **** right off - and for that matter everybody in the Android community who feels this is 'just fine'.

I don't give a damn if you do.

The only thing you're probably a 'dev in' is programming within the strict limitations of some cookiecutter Android-based Java app.

You have no idea how much work went into RetroArch from a low-level coding perspective (note low-level means it is more difficult to write - just in case you have difficulty wrapping your managed programming brain around it - OKthnx) - you probably have never even seen RetroArch's codebase up close.

And for that matter - neither have you ever tried RetroArch out in the first place - so I'd really appreciate it if you don't force your ignorant opinion down the throats of others who have yet to even try it out.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Odp: RetroArch - seems like the ultimate Emulator

This emulator is f*** awesome!!! Timeshock pinball works FANTATIC! No lags, or screen bugs. Tekken 3 works far much better! Could tell me anyone how to set up buttons? I set input options, unhack all options and set buttons to player 1 but in games doesn't works at all:(

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
Are you on an Xperia Play or some other device?

You can either do manual button binding or you can follow this tutorial to report to me the 'name' of the pad and the keycodes.

http://forum.themaister.net/viewtopic.php?id=248

An official update is being released later today that will have the 'back button' issue fixed for Xperia Play.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] :
This is an open forum and I will give you my opinion if I damn well please. As I said before, I have no interest in participating in a flame war, so I will let my comments speak for themselves, and I don't have to prove my dev skills to you, most people on this forum know what my capabilities are. If your response to someone giving you legitimate criticism, even criticism you feel is incorrect, is getting wildly defensive and telling me to **** off, then you've said all I or anyone else needs to know about your character. Your comments make no sense, your app makes no sense, and participating in this idiotic discussion any further makes no sense.

Good day.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
Your comments speak for themselves indeed - it shows that you don't have a clue what in the hell you're talking about - on any level. Some 'dev' indeed that thinks multi-pass shader code paths are 'all GUI related'.

No app will make sense to you if you run your mouth and talk trash about them before even trying it out.

Now please indeed - do stick to your word there because I indeed don't care much to talk to people like you that want to judge things they have not even tested for themselves.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Toad King:
Just a heads up: We just launched 0.9.8.1 with Gingerbread support: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2116468

It should be up on the Play Store in an hour or so.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
RetroArch Android 0.9.8.1 released

Posted a new version - it will be up on Google Play soon - in the meantime you can get it from this download link (the kinda-official thread on xda-devs) -

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2116468

This should (hopefully) fix the back button issues with Xperia Play. It's also 2.3+ compatible

If your Xperia gamepad still doesn't work - go to this thread, read the instructions and help me out -

http://forum.themaister.net/viewtopic.php?id=248
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jpstar:
Awesome!!!

Thanks for your work, and it s free!!! Like on pc wworld!!!

Now time for help plrase. On xperia play, can t map buttons at all, and buttons mapped from beta not responding... Plus is it possible to move part of the app to sd card, especially for xplay? 65 meg when memory is 375 m large, wow good i already love your emu so i trash others app to keep retroarch

Bye

Sorry edit i restarted the emu and the auto assigned buttons worked... Please app2sd thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Seriously, thanks a bunch for adding GB support this quick!!! Love this app, and it has already replaced all of my emulators =)

Please keep the good work up, will follow this thread as well as update to every new version.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Toad King:
We can't put the emulator on an SD card. SD cards cannot hold native libraries, which make up 90% of the space on our app, so while we could technically add save to SD card support, it wouldn't really save any space since 90% will still be on phone memory anyway.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jpstar:
It s me again, on xplay

When the auto reckon function is enabled, it is still impossible to quit game with another option than home button and force close the app. When the function isn t enabled, i couldn t bind any button, seems like the keypad isn t ressponding in assigning , nor in game (buttons mapped in beta) thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Odp: RetroArch - seems like the ultimate Emulator

I have this app on sd (Im using setinstallocation 2) and It takes 48kb memory on internal strage. But unfortunately I still can't set controls to xperia pad? Could You write any instructions how to make it work? Input options is very strange for me. When I use automatic detection only start button works...

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] awwilson21:
Let me restate. Its gonna be a LONNNG time before we see a PSP emulator that is actually playable with any of the good games. (GOW for example)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
Have you tried the 'Detect' button for input mapping?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jpstar:
Yes, first i didn t figure it out, with this can map, but buttons still aren t responding in game
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
OK, following applies then -

If your Xperia gamepad still doesn't work - go to this thread, read the instructions and help me out -

http://forum.themaister.net/viewtopic.php?id=248

Follow exactly the steps there. I need the 'name' that is reported and I need the keycodes.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Toad King:
Also, because of our controller binding system, make sure the first button you press in-emulator is one on your controller. Especially before the touchscreen.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jpstar:
Ok will do tonight when come back from working
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
Mayby This Image will help ?

And check this LINK especially "Differentiating between the Circle button and Back key". Mayby this will help ?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Squarepusher2:
That code snippet is Java code. So it's of no use.

But really, the 'back button' issue should be taken care of with the latest version on Google Play unless I missed something (don't have an Xperia to test this on so relying on feedback here).
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jpstar:
hi

want to add for xperia play, for gamepad:

left pad 0 :21, ac=0, src =25? (257 i think canot see the last one seems the same every time)

right pad 0 : 22, ac=0 src=25?

up pad 0 :19,ac=0 src=25?

down pad 0 :20, ac=0 src =25?

L1 pad 0 :102, ac=0 src=25?

R1 pad 0 :103, ac=0 src=25?

triangle pad 0:100, ac=0 src=25?

square pad 0:99, ac=0 src=25?

cross pad 0:23, ac=0 src=25?

circle pad 0:4,ac=0 src=25?

start pad 1:108, ac=0 src=25?

select pad 1:109, ac=0 src=25?

menu pad 0:82,ac=0 src=25?

2 touchpads pad 0:x=... y=...

for other buttons

vol+ pad1:24 ac=0 src=25?

vol- pad1:25 ac=0 src=25?

back key pad 0:4,ac=0 src=25?

menu key pad 0:82,ac=0 src=25?

search key pad0:84,ac=0 src=25?

home key canot see, go to main menu android

for me controls working sometimes only, and cannot exit the app without kill it

thanks
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Toad King:
Xperia Play users: try out this build: https://anonfiles.com/file/cd386e79d4d4e5a146cc06eb661d8824

Please test it and make sure every button works as intended, including start and select.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TheVicious:
With this version NON of this buttons works... In debug mode we get info about buttons but nothing more.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] kiri87:
I just tested this build on my Gingerbread Xperia Play, and no input seems to work. That means that both hardware buttons and touch input have no effect. I tried all combinations of "Configuration autodetect" / "Touchscreen overlay". Also, one notable change is that the O button no longer quits the current running core. Now, only the back button has that effect.

I would love to test the performance of the PCSX-reARMed core, but I hate touch input. I'll wait for a version that works with Play's hardware controls.

I appreciate RetroArch's modular design a lot. I am aware that this has required a lot of development effort. Well done guys. Keep up the good work.:good: