[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Roguenova:
Dude, I'd love to record some gameplay of all games that question the XP performance for all potential owners, I have time right now but I don't have any camera exept for Nokia E90's, but it's quality is too low for modern youtube. Maybe I'll just record a 1-minute vid and upload it to some spooky place like rghost.net in the next hour, who knows...

About all other stuff that you can run on XP - if I would say such a thing - it's aging FABULOUSLY, and it's performance and lifespan are much better than many other 2011 phones. It can run absolutely EVERYTHING: Carmageddon I can run better on my particular device and I'll prove it, the Gameloft crap is ill-optimized in itself, and all other games I could think of - even the murky AVP: Evolution after the Swapper 2 treatment - are pretty much stable, decent-performing and enjoyable. I've seriously yet to see an Android game that would run terribly on my phone.

Did you know, that the long sought-after android port of Cave Story / Dōkutsu Monogatari (Android name: NXEngine AE, link - google "paulscode NXEngine AE) were available only for Xperia Play (due to author's temporal inability to implement touchscreen controls and XP at his immediate disposal)? And this game is GREAT - I never thought playing the old indy game could be so "elite" (other devices had problems with it) :D And did you know it can already run some PPSSPP games (like Castlevania: Dracula X) decently? And that it is much faster in emulating N64 (via N64-oid) than Samsung Galaxy Nexus? And that it's OC'd singlecore raw-power benchmark rating (I use and compare with BenchmarkPI) is ~640ms (you can compare it with any smartphone on gsmarena (just browse the review -> Benchmarks) to get the idea)? What if I told you that it runs GTA: Vice City just great with overclock and Swapper 2 and decently without any enhancements? And absolutely everything in terms of platform emulation from ancient times and including FPSE is ABSOLUTELY SHINES on this phone, on it's very stock settings (I'm telling ya, the FPSE developers are doing modern magic with update on its code) :)

Oh, and if you're deciding to go after - I would recommend you taking note of it's issues, like: low RAM amount (fixed with magical Swapper 2 though), low internal memory amount (fixed light-heartedly with Link2Sd), bootloader adventures (I just did what instructions implied - a few hours and you're all set, just like with any other new device you want to root/modify) and some 2 real issues (they are for me, but since I still side by this phone and not considering swapping it for anything else - you could say they are minor ones) - the screen technology is 350 years old, leaving some visual trails and is pretty dim overall (partly because of LED-lighting, and partly because Sony Ericsson's 2011 management were cheapskates, wanting to grab more money for low-cost device) and some weird bug that I heard is also present on quite a few devices: when you're charging the phone, the touchscreen is going nuts and you can feel your presses are just all over the screen without you wanting to. That is all, I think.

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rghost net/private/47088677/97e7269681a8a9bca1a48a1e9dc389e8 - well, to be honest, the Android port of Carmageddon - is the worst-performing game on XP that I have ever seen exept for Gameloft games. The rendering hardware is perfectly capable to do it (even without my 1.6 GHz overclock), but the feeble RAM optimization of this game is killing me. The snow levels perform worse than on video. But atleast there is a possibility that Stainless Games are gonna fix it. The dos game, even with Glide-acceleration, required just 32 megabytes of RAM, goddamnit! :)