jonnybryce
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Where are the game saves? When I sync does the save sync to the app or are they just stuck to the iPhone somewhere that can't get out?
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Stoney Mason
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jonnybryce said:
Be careful about deleting apps because you delete the save files and there is no default way to do backups. (Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong on this) An annoying oversight they still haven't fixed at least the last time I looked into it.
I think there may be a way to backup save files if you jailbreak although I haven't had my phone jail broken in a while so I'm out of the loop.
jonnybryce
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That is disappointing, but thanks for the info.
Stoney Mason
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Just a reminder bump. Mecho Wars is on sale for 99 cents this weekend.
Stoney Mason said:Oh Lord. Now we can officially call it "pulling a Peggle" :lol
Mecho Wars is 99 cents this weekend.
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Of All Trades
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Is it any good? It looks bleh (and I just bought Uniwars).Stoney Mason said:
Diablohead
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One thing apple need to do for either an OS3 update or prepare for OS4 is a way to back up save files, even if they are linked to one device to stop sharing, a legit way to back up saves. Is it too much to ask?
I already lost my saves once last month by clicking one wrong button when syncing my touch to my new pc (old machine is unavailable to do any kind of backup) so my 15+ hours of puzzle quest went right out the window
(had no wifi to back up my save, too, using the game's built in backup system)
So yeah, apple need to seriously do something about saves.
I already lost my saves once last month by clicking one wrong button when syncing my touch to my new pc (old machine is unavailable to do any kind of backup) so my 15+ hours of puzzle quest went right out the window
(had no wifi to back up my save, too, using the game's built in backup system)So yeah, apple need to seriously do something about saves.
Stoney Mason
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Of All Trades said:
I bought it because the impressions were good but I haven't played it yet as I still have a backlog I'm working through so I can't give a real recommendation.
Uniwar is a darn good game and there is certainly no reason you have to get another strategy game now when playing through that game but my iphone game philosophy is occasionally I buy things if it's a good deal just for when I eventually get around to catching up with my backlog.
As far as the looks a lot of people mention that but based on screens outside of personal preference I don't have a problem with the art look of the game. Yes its a derivative and overly colorful look but then it's not like uniwar is the prettiest game in the world either. They both look to have functional looks imo.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Are there any space exploration/trading games out for the iPhone? I could have swore I saw one in the works awhile back, but can't remember the name and I'm not finding anything. Now that I have a 3GS I'm interested in adding some good games to the phone.
Stoney Mason
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Kung Fu Jedi said:
Warp Gate looks incredibly interesting. Reminds me of the Escape Velocity games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhNOo8pxI1c
Kung Fu Jedi
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Stoney Mason said:
Thanks! I'll give the lite version a shot.
Tobor said:
This is the one I was thinking of. Looks interesting and yeah, definitely has an Escape Velocity vibe to it. Suppose to be out before the end of June it seems.
Picked up Mecho Wars, only put in a few minutes but I can say right off the bat I like the UI and how brisk the menus move. Looks nice, animates well, and has decent sounds/music from what I see, and it's very easy to play if you've ever played Advance Wars (since it's much more of a rip off than UniWar is).
Speaking of UniWar, I couldn't really get into it because of how ugly and clunky some of the menus and text were. The game itself had a nice level of depth but I couldn't get into it due to it all looking and sounding so yucko. We'll see if Mecho Wars stacks up in the actual gameplay department.
Speaking of UniWar, I couldn't really get into it because of how ugly and clunky some of the menus and text were. The game itself had a nice level of depth but I couldn't get into it due to it all looking and sounding so yucko. We'll see if Mecho Wars stacks up in the actual gameplay department.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Wow! Galaxy on Fire has some nice graphics and is pretty intense. Interesting stuff.
Diablohead
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The trading is far from brilliant but I am only at the early stages of the game, lost my save for it last month so I need to start againKung Fu Jedi said:
The combat is quite nice but I wish there was more dodging options then to play chicken with other ships and see who dies first.*edit* Apple rejects legalised C64 emulator!
toucharcade said:
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apple said:
It's a shame, because Sonic 1, Golden Axe, FLashback and some other "emulators" already load up other data, hell with Sega, Sonic 1 is just a rom in an emulator and people have already taken out the rom and placed another game in :lol , apple your review process is so boked.
Diablohead said:The trading is far from brilliant but I am only at the early stages of the game, lost my save for it last month so I need to start again
*edit* Apple rejects legalised C64 emulator!
It's a shame, because Sonic 1, Golden Axe, FLashback and some other "emulators" already load up other data, hell with Sega, Sonic 1 is just a rom in an emulator and people have already taken out the rom and placed another game in :lol , apple your review process is so boked.
Come on, anyone who thought Apple would release a straight up emulator is insane. They shouldn't have wasted the development time on it.
Diablohead
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They will probably bundle the roms into the package as default and remove any manual coding like you can do on a c64, then it should be valid for sale. As I said above a few games out on the store are emulators but the rom is included, and can even be removed / swaped if you jailbreak.Tobor said:
60_gig_PS3
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paper toss just shot up to #1 on free games
Pretty funny; just got an email from my sister, responding to my email asking about her iPhone. She said her favorite games are Oregon Trail & Shift.
It was a good reminder to me of how broad the appeal of iPhone gaming is. Makes me wonder what other classic IPs like Oregon Trail are out there that would do well on iPhone.
It was a good reminder to me of how broad the appeal of iPhone gaming is. Makes me wonder what other classic IPs like Oregon Trail are out there that would do well on iPhone.
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Dreamwriter
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Gemini Z said:
Yeah, for those complaining that you can't back up your saves, every time you sync the first thing that happens is your phone gets backed up...including any saves. Then doing a restore gets them back. Of course, if you deleted an app that would delete the save, and then it would back up that the app was deleted...
Unfortunately, Apple can't backup saves, because they don't know what file in an app might be the save data. Developers can save the data to any filename and file format that they want, and apps can write as many files as they want for any reason. So Apple just backs up the entire app.
Dreamwriter
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Diablohead said:
Most games should be fine, as the only real hardware difference is speed, and most games use a system timer to call their main loop (so it'll be called every 1/30th or 1/60th of a second or whatever, regardless of the speed of the processor/graphics chip). And any game that didn't do that would have already been having problems with the 2G iPod Touch.
The good news is, games that were getting slowdown before due to taking longer to do something than one timer call, will actually improve with the new hardware, unless the game was balanced for that slowdown. The game I worked on last that got shipped, Atari Football, will run a lot better on the 3GS, since we were really pushing the polygons (though it may not look it...)
Lord Error
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EDGE has just joined Pinball Dreams and Zen Bound as my all time favorite iPhone game. I couldn't recommend this enough. The controls are perfect and music and aesthetics are nothing short of brilliant. It looks and sounds like a game made with C64 aesthetic mindset, but with a very modern spin and fresh graphics rendering approach to retro look. I felt it was a steal for $5.
Just look at it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aB_ZkonGw
(make sure to enable HQ mode, the graphics crispness is part of appeal)
I bet the gamepacks he licensed wouldn't have much that would interest me, but still would be nice to have C64 on this handheld too.
*edit* Just saw the pictures and video, holy hell that looks amazing. Please release it somehow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUQH24c63g8
*edit #2* Oh crap, I see from his comments in that forum that the author of this is toying with the idea of Amiga emulator if C64 somehow goes through. Yes please!
As far as I can see, the problem must have been that this emulator was supposed to download game packs from somewhere - in essence it was to have a game store of its own, which I can see Apple being against. They should just merge games into the executable, and keep releasing updates of the main app with added new games (which they could charge for).
Just look at it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aB_ZkonGw
(make sure to enable HQ mode, the graphics crispness is part of appeal)
Funny as I was thinking how nice it would be to have C64 emulator on iPhone today when I was playing my favorite Amiga port of Pinball Dreams (in perfect 60FPS portrait mode on 3GS :-D )Diablohead said:The trading is far from brilliant but I am only at the early stages of the game, lost my save for it last month so I need to start again
*edit* Apple rejects legalised C64 emulator!
It's a shame, because Sonic 1, Golden Axe, FLashback and some other "emulators" already load up other data, hell with Sega, Sonic 1 is just a rom in an emulator and people have already taken out the rom and placed another game in :lol , apple your review process is so boked.
I bet the gamepacks he licensed wouldn't have much that would interest me, but still would be nice to have C64 on this handheld too.
*edit* Just saw the pictures and video, holy hell that looks amazing. Please release it somehow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUQH24c63g8
*edit #2* Oh crap, I see from his comments in that forum that the author of this is toying with the idea of Amiga emulator if C64 somehow goes through. Yes please!
As far as I can see, the problem must have been that this emulator was supposed to download game packs from somewhere - in essence it was to have a game store of its own, which I can see Apple being against. They should just merge games into the executable, and keep releasing updates of the main app with added new games (which they could charge for).
Stoney Mason
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dLMN8R said:
You might be better asking over at Toucharcade.
Keyser Soze
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its more of a straight advanced wars clone. its got a lot more personality than uniwar, though uniwar has more depth. its a definite buy at 99 cents and pretty worth it at 5 bucks. It's essentially a slightly rougher around the edges advanced wars with a third to half of the missions of the retail product for 1/30th of the price.billy.sea said:
jonnybryce
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I just beat Terminator. There were some control issues and only 5ish enemies but I don't regret my purchase. It was a lot of fun, straight up shooting action with some fun breaks like driving a tank or boss batles or the hacking minigame which blew at first but became more challenging and fun later on.
3.8/5 from me. I liked it a lot!
Hm...I guess Assassin's Creed is next.
P.S. Gameloft's "More Games" app within their games is so slick. Shows the games like Coverflow with links to videos...nice.
The dpad is the superior option, but I like using the touch/drag option because I feel like I have more control, for example when you have to mid-roll to hold on to moving blocks.
Anyhow, it's an amazing game. I want to play it more but I also don't want it to end so I'm playing it here and there.
3.8/5 from me. I liked it a lot!
Hm...I guess Assassin's Creed is next.
P.S. Gameloft's "More Games" app within their games is so slick. Shows the games like Coverflow with links to videos...nice.
rexor0717 said:
The dpad is the superior option, but I like using the touch/drag option because I feel like I have more control, for example when you have to mid-roll to hold on to moving blocks.
Anyhow, it's an amazing game. I want to play it more but I also don't want it to end so I'm playing it here and there.
Rummy Bunnz
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This game is awesome. The online play is really smooth (on 3GS at least) and the picture-in-picture showing your opponent's game is pretty exciting. Well worth the $3. The only drawback is grinding for unlockable stat boosting items. I knew this had to be a Korean game once I saw all the high priced goofy unlocks, including skin colors. I was simultaneously relieved and disappointed to see that pigmentation does not affect your stats. The items don't seem to make too much of a difference early on, though, so it's not too big a deal.Stoney Mason said:Baseball Slugger: Homerun Race 3D. Once again another game I don't actually own so I can't recommend but one that seems to be drawing favorable impressions from the early adopters who have it. Basically an online enabled home run derby contest game. Published by Com2uS Corp. who also put out the underrated 9 innings: Pro Baseball 2009.
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I also bought Go Go Rescue Squad and I haven't played it much but I really love the character sprites. They crack me up.
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Blablurn said:
Let's Golf is ok but the framerate ruins it for me.
Rummy Bunnz
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Let's Golf is a much more enjoyable game on the 3GS. On my old phone the slow launching and crummy framerate killed it for me. Why play this instead of Hot Shots Golf on my PSP? But the 3GS bumps up its rating a bit. It's no Hot Shots - shit, I'm not even sure it's a Pangya - but it's alright. Way too hard to read the greens but other than that it's playable and not a bad purchase at 99 cents.
At least that precise rejection is fair and 100% according to the clearly published rules of the AppStore.Diablohead said:The trading is far from brilliant but I am only at the early stages of the game, lost my save for it last month so I need to start again
*edit* Apple rejects legalised C64 emulator!
It's a shame, because Sonic 1, Golden Axe, FLashback and some other "emulators" already load up other data, hell with Sega, Sonic 1 is just a rom in an emulator and people have already taken out the rom and placed another game in :lol , apple your review process is so boked.
How about you actually read rule 3.3.2?Diablohead said:
Lord Error said:
Wow, that does look nice. Thanks for the video. I might pick this up.
Can't see that happening to be honest, unless they only let you download freeware stuff (which, granted, a lot of the C64 library is now). But as for those pictures you posted. That's International Karate by System 3. They still make games and still protect their copyrights. I wouldn't be surprised if they have that very game in development for the iPhone.
Diablohead
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if they are using 3.0 functions that ingame store could just be DLC, but it's still puzzling why other app's get away with either downloading a rom from elsewhere (flashback) or obviously include a rom already, oh well. I hope they can sort something out for the c64 emulator.Lord Error said:As far as I can see, the problem must have been that this emulator was supposed to download game packs from somewhere - in essence it was to have a game store of its own, which I can see Apple being against. They should just merge games into the executable, and keep releasing updates of the main app with added new games (which they could charge for).
Lord Error
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Their problem was the fact that C64 games are executables (even if not native iphone execs) which are being loaded and ran by an iphone executable emulator. They apparently don't allow this, or even interpreting of loaded files.Mar_ said:
Ironically, from the very same app store I've downloaded Frotz last night, which is not only allowing for external files to be loaded and interpreted from a non-apple commissioned URL, but it lets you set up f'n FTP server on the Iphone, so that you can copy any interactive fiction file from your computer to the iphone that you want. Oh Apple...
As for games, he only wanted to sell game pack with officially licensed games, so IK for example wouldn't be one of them.
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