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iPhone/iPod Touch recommend-it-up; tiny cheapy game fest
Topic Started: May 8 2009, 12:06 PM (15,929 Views)
The Rev Owen	Nov 2 2009, 05:13 PM Post #476
Posts: 393 Group: Subscribers Member #951 Joined: June 15, 2006	Virtual controls are fine in a lot of games, awful in others. Minigore uses virtual twin sticks and controls as well as anything I've ever played. Doom Classic isn't as good as the PC or 360 versions, but controls better than any of the other versions I've tried. For the first couple of weeks I had my iPhone I was convinced that virtual controls could never work, but the Resident Evil games (of all things) convinced me otherwise.



CraigGrannell	Nov 2 2009, 05:52 PM Post #477
Your thumping bass surrounds you Posts: 6,327 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: February 15, 2004	RevMarzikins Nov 2 2009, 04:33 PM 1) The fact it seems a chore to use one with Windows compared to, say, an iPod Classic. It's not formatted in the same way from what I hear, so you can't read it like a USB harddisk. That and there doesn't seem to be any programs like YamiPod or Floola et al that support transferring games to and back. You can't use the device as a USB disk, but there are a bunch of apps that enable you to use it as a wireless hard drive (such as Air Sharing). As for transfer, it's iTunes or nothing. Quote: 2) The controls. I still cannot see myself getting comfortable with all-touch "virtual controls" for gaming For ex-digital control games, iPod isn't great. But for certain game types, you interact directly with the content, and it works brilliantly, such as Eliss and Drop7. That said, when companies design specifically for the platform rather than trying to shoe-horn in IP from vastly different platforms, even touch-screen 'digital' controls work, such as with the rather spiffy Soosiz. Quote: I guess the platform really is suited only to the more traditional cheap iPhone games range which doesn't rely on "classic"-style controlling as such. In other words, simple "drag this item along, tap that item once" sorts. Bit harsh. I have a huge range of games with a huge range of control methods. Some are great and some suck. Not much different to any other platform, then. Quote: Additionally, Apple aren't helping themselves by proving to be cunty in regards to emulation programming (or "executing code" as they put it) on their platform (see the C64 emulator situation). Those guys fucked up. Apple said "don't leave this feature in and we'll all be happy". They left the feature in. Quote: It's no wonder a jailbreak community exists which happily plays away on their emulators of choice, with their games of choice, and without having to pay for those old games all over again, frankly. How many emulators are officially available for the DS and PSP that are free and enable you to add your own games? None. And although I appreciate the effort behind C64.app, I'd sooner pay for really great ports and conversions aimed specifically at iPod than use emulation. Mind you, most of the time I'm happier spending 59p on an entirely new gaming experience rather than relying on old games—something that certainly wasn't the case on DS.



romanista	Nov 2 2009, 09:20 PM Post #478
Rick Lindeman Posts: 5,759 Group: Subscribers Member #179 Joined: February 26, 2004 Football bias: AFC Ajax, AS Roma, Wallidan, Fluzaõ The best videogame ever is: Sensible World of Soccer A good name for a band would be: Door Edel Spel Tot Overwinning	To add to craig: i had all those emus on my iphone, but only in the first few months, when there were few good games they were played, since then for the games that played well there are native alternatives (advance wars) and others didn't play that well. After 3.0 i decided not to jailbreak again.



The Rev Owen	Nov 3 2009, 11:47 AM Post #479
Posts: 393 Group: Subscribers Member #951 Joined: June 15, 2006	Weekend games. Zombie Dash - Use virtual trackball to get through randomly-generated mazes avoiding zombies and traps. Takes a bit of getting used to, but actually works very well when you get used to it. Nice QTEs when you get hit by enemies, too. Worth 59p. Wheeler's Treasure - Bizarre side-scroller. Swipe to jump while protecting your wheel, collecting treasure and killing enemies. Bit of a learning curve. Launch price of 59p is very good, given the level of polish and amount of stuff to unlock. Rock Band - Surprisingly, had great fun with this, but glad I paid £3.99 and not £5.99. Tapping the screen instead of plastic instruments works well. Much simpler than the PSP version, but it fits the platform, I reckon. Doom Classic - Best portable version of Doom I've played, including homebrew attempts on other consoles. I spend an awful lot of time playing this over the weekend. If you love Doom, you need this. Ugly front end and terrible default controls, though. Dreadmill - Simple game, but fun once you learn the necessary timing. Tap top of screen to jump, tap bottom to duck, avoid saw blades that come at you. It's no Canabalt or Mr.AahH!!, but I like it and it was free at the weekend. Bloons Tower Defense - I like the Flash version, so picked this up for 59p. It's a decent conversion and it feels slightly different to other TD games, due to more imaginative towers.



Marc	Nov 3 2009, 02:09 PM Post #480
Waiting for the punchline Posts: 1,758 Group: Subscribers Member #769 Joined: January 26, 2006 Football bias: slowly loosing interest The best videogame ever is: Bubble Symphony	FUCKING CUNTING iBASTARDTUNES. Help me people, please. I installed ITunes on my D: drive and stupidly assumed that it would store any content there, rather than my nearly-full C: drive. Of course, it hasn't. 'No problem' thought I, copy everything over, resynch, job done. Except! iTunes decides it can't be synched to 2 libraries at once, despite the fact that I've deleted the original folder after copying it to C: drive. It either wants to transfer all the stuff from my iPod back to it's original location on C:, or deleted all apps from the iPod and resynch from D:. Now first time I allowed it to copy all the stuff back to C:, and copied that over to D: where I want the stuff to be. I don't know however, if my saves have been copied to the drive along with my apps, or do i loose all my progress if I now allow the iPod to resynch from D:? I was hoping, once we got the main PC back to run iTunes from that with all my content stored on a 8GB flash drive to make the whole thing nice and easy, but going through those processes now seems about as painful as gnawing off my own testicles.



The Rev Owen	Nov 3 2009, 03:22 PM Post #481
Posts: 393 Group: Subscribers Member #951 Joined: June 15, 2006	Can't you just change the location of the iTunes folder in Preferences/Advanced and let it sort itself out? I don't know how it is on Windows, though.



CraigGrannell	Nov 3 2009, 04:31 PM Post #482
Your thumping bass surrounds you Posts: 6,327 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: February 15, 2004	See attached for the best way to leave iTunes. Pick a location, and let it sort all your stuff out, and let it organise your files. Regarding data, that will be stored on your device, not iTunes, and so a back-up should sort that next time it happens. I also usually recommend Mac users manually back-up /Users/craiggrannell/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ on a regular basis, to keep 'good' back-ups safe. I strongly suggest Windows users do the same with the equivalent folder on their machines. Attached to this post: itunes.png (114.43 KB)



notkeith	Nov 3 2009, 05:21 PM Post #483
Posts: 19 Group: Subscribers Member #4,678 Joined: March 22, 2009 Football bias: Liverpool The best videogame ever is: Half Life 2 A good name for a band would be: Colin	Eurogamer have just launched their own app. Basically, it's a working mobile version of the website with no ads, for a slightly deal-breaking £2.39.



CraigGrannell	Nov 3 2009, 05:35 PM Post #484
Your thumping bass surrounds you Posts: 6,327 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: February 15, 2004	Bwahahahahaha! And indeed, hahahahahahaha! What's worse is how little interest they have in iPod gaming content anyway—the iPhone 59p 'special' a while back featured all of five (seemingly randomly selected) games. EDIT: Love their reasoning: "Everything, including the forum/comments/screenshots are formatted specifically for the iPhone" Yeah, well, half-decent websites use mobile style sheets for that. I get the non-ad thing, but formatting is something a site should be doing anyway if it wants to attract iPhone/iPod owners (and owners of similar mobile devices). Gah. Edited by CraigGrannell, Nov 3 2009, 05:38 PM.



sausageandbun	Nov 3 2009, 05:59 PM Post #485
Wanwa Posts: 391 Group: Subscribers Member #175 Joined: February 21, 2004 Football bias: Arsenal, Bradford City The best videogame ever is: Wario Ware	To be fair it's a small sum to ask for such stellar investigative, informative and reliable gaming journalism...



RevStu	Nov 3 2009, 06:44 PM Post #486
Laird/Beast Of Glencairn Posts: 18,579 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: May 6, 2003 Football bias: Aberdeen, Scotland, Man Utd The best videogame ever is: Super Mario Galaxy A good name for a band would be: Most Things Are Awesome If You Think About It	I saw the story, but didn't realise they were charging, since most newspapers' iPhone apps are free. I use AdBlock so I don't get any ads anyway, and why would iPhone users read EG, with its almost no iPhone coverage?



Marc	Nov 4 2009, 03:00 PM Post #487
Waiting for the punchline Posts: 1,758 Group: Subscribers Member #769 Joined: January 26, 2006 Football bias: slowly loosing interest The best videogame ever is: Bubble Symphony	The Rev Owen Nov 3 2009, 03:22 PM Can't you just change the location of the iTunes folder in Preferences/Advanced and let it sort itself out? I don't know how it is on Windows, though. For music, yes. Not with apps as far as i can tell.



GeeZa	Nov 4 2009, 04:42 PM Post #488
Posts: 527 Group: Members Member #576 Joined: July 29, 2005 Football bias: Ipswich Town The best videogame ever is: Advance Wars	I'm flying back to the UK for a bit later today and this thread has been very helpful (along with the official recommendations) in helping me choose some stuff to load up and play on the way. I think I spent a bit less than $9 which is frankly amazing. I drew the line at Championship Manager which was $4.99 but I was very tempted. Looking forward to Flight Control and Drop7.



Pallid Dan	Nov 4 2009, 05:57 PM Post #489
Lucifer Alpha Posts: 1,282 Group: Kings Of Excellence Member #310 Joined: August 24, 2004 Football bias: Coventry City FC The best videogame ever is: Zelda:OOT (sorry)	quick couple of questions: a) out of interest what was the feature the C64 emu guys left in that pissed of apple b) is there an app that does a sort of music quiz, basically the sort of thing that was found on the earlier ipods, which I thought was properly ace, but is missing off my new nano.....



RevMarzikins	Nov 4 2009, 06:19 PM Post #490
LOAD"*",8,1. READY. RUN. Posts: 2,738 Group: Subscribers Member #441 Joined: December 10, 2004 Football bias: Poncey Millionaires Utd The best videogame ever is: always changed at random A good name for a band would be: Asshole Full Of AIDS	Pallid Dan Nov 4 2009, 05:57 PM quick couple of questions: a) out of interest what was the feature the C64 emu guys left in that pissed of apple The ability to access C64's BASIC, which for some reason is being misinterpreted by Apple to be unlocking a way of executing troublesome code (read: trojans). Or at least that's the impression I got from reading the various stories about C64 vs Apple... Quote: b) is there an app that does a sort of music quiz, basically the sort of thing that was found on the earlier ipods, which I thought was properly ace, but is missing off my new nano..... There was a music quiz? Now that I didn't know. Not sure if my iPod Classic will have one... Edited by RevMarzikins, Nov 4 2009, 06:19 PM.



RevMarzikins	Nov 4 2009, 06:25 PM Post #491
LOAD"*",8,1. READY. RUN. Posts: 2,738 Group: Subscribers Member #441 Joined: December 10, 2004 Football bias: Poncey Millionaires Utd The best videogame ever is: always changed at random A good name for a band would be: Asshole Full Of AIDS	CraigGrannell Nov 2 2009, 05:52 PM RevMarzikins Nov 2 2009, 04:33 PM 1) The fact it seems a chore to use one with Windows compared to, say, an iPod Classic. It's not formatted in the same way from what I hear, so you can't read it like a USB harddisk. That and there doesn't seem to be any programs like YamiPod or Floola et al that support transferring games to and back. You can't use the device as a USB disk, but there are a bunch of apps that enable you to use it as a wireless hard drive (such as Air Sharing). As for transfer, it's iTunes or nothing. Hmmm, from research it seems you can use the likes of WinSCP and iPhoneBrowser to access the filesystem. No clue as to whether it would help with the transferring of your purchased apps however. Edited by RevMarzikins, Nov 4 2009, 06:25 PM.



CraigGrannell	Nov 4 2009, 06:36 PM Post #492
Your thumping bass surrounds you Posts: 6,327 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: February 15, 2004	The main C64 app feature that irked Apple was the BASIC prompt. And when Manomio resubmitted, saying they'll removed the feature, it was still accessible just be resetting a game. That isn't the way to endear yourself to Apple.



Burai	Nov 6 2009, 03:49 PM Post #493
Disappointment Posts: 1,125 Group: Subscribers Member #592 Joined: August 18, 2005 The best videogame ever is: Super Metroid	iTunes now officially supports Stu's extra-page hack: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/04/itunes-9-0-2-adds-extra-home-screens-to-app-management/



CraigGrannell	Nov 6 2009, 05:28 PM Post #494
Your thumping bass surrounds you Posts: 6,327 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: February 15, 2004	Bah @ TUAW. I would have had that scoop, but I've been so busy I'd not had time to write it up for CoM until yesterday evening. But, yeah, the 'extra' pages now happily show in iTunes, so: hurrah! (The TUAW article seems a bit confused about the ability to keep those extra pages. 14 still show on my iPhone after mucking about with app placement and doing a sync last night.



Marc	Nov 10 2009, 04:54 PM Post #495
Waiting for the punchline Posts: 1,758 Group: Subscribers Member #769 Joined: January 26, 2006 Football bias: slowly loosing interest The best videogame ever is: Bubble Symphony	Sigh 2 small questions if anyone can help? 1) I have one album that shows up five times on the iPod Album index. It's definiately only copied over once as the tracks only appear once in the track index. Any idea why? Isn't really a problem, but it's annoying. 2) I also have 2 abums I've imported, but the artists don't show up on My iPod, so I can't synch and add them?



Waddie	Nov 10 2009, 05:52 PM Post #496
Sugar-Rush Anarchist Posts: 1,587 Group: Subscribers Member #95 Joined: January 12, 2004 Football bias: Sheffield Wednesday The best videogame ever is: Tempest X	Marc Nov 10 2009, 04:54 PM 1) I have one album that shows up five times on the iPod Album index. It's definiately only copied over once as the tracks only appear once in the track index. Any idea why? It's case sensitive, so "Killed My Parents and Hit the Road" and "Killed My Parents And Hit The Road", for example, would show up separately. Although five variations is quite an achievement. Quickest fix is probably to select everything from the album and editing the properties, explicitly setting anything that should be the same for all tracks. Anything that's different for any tracks won't be populated in the bulk edit view, so it might be immediately obvious (e.g. if the album field is blank, not all tracks have the same album name).



Marc	Nov 10 2009, 06:39 PM Post #497
Waiting for the punchline Posts: 1,758 Group: Subscribers Member #769 Joined: January 26, 2006 Football bias: slowly loosing interest The best videogame ever is: Bubble Symphony	I checked it out, and it turned out some tracks had the 'Album Artist' field filled in, and some didn't. Ive cleared it for all tracks, ensured that they're all reading the same fields, and it's split the tracks and shows up as 2 LP's on iTunes now!? Colour me confused.



RevStu	Nov 10 2009, 07:28 PM Post #498
Laird/Beast Of Glencairn Posts: 18,579 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: May 6, 2003 Football bias: Aberdeen, Scotland, Man Utd The best videogame ever is: Super Mario Galaxy A good name for a band would be: Most Things Are Awesome If You Think About It	I get that quite often, and had already tried the suggested solution without success. It just seems to be an irritating thing iTunes does.



romanista	Nov 10 2009, 07:40 PM Post #499
Rick Lindeman Posts: 5,759 Group: Subscribers Member #179 Joined: February 26, 2004 Football bias: AFC Ajax, AS Roma, Wallidan, Fluzaõ The best videogame ever is: Sensible World of Soccer A good name for a band would be: Door Edel Spel Tot Overwinning	C64 emu back on. Cute regarding the music quiz. There is one on Cydia.... Edit: music+quiz gives lots of results in the app store Edited by romanista, Nov 10 2009, 07:45 PM.



RevStu	Nov 10 2009, 08:43 PM Post #500
Laird/Beast Of Glencairn Posts: 18,579 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: May 6, 2003 Football bias: Aberdeen, Scotland, Man Utd The best videogame ever is: Super Mario Galaxy A good name for a band would be: Most Things Are Awesome If You Think About It	Funnily enough, I was checking lots of music quiz progs yesterday. The best one I found was called, um, Music Quiz.



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