Just got this running on my Nexus 10!
Posted Feb 10, 2013, 10:31 PM UTC
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Got it running in my Nexus 7. Its nice to have and cool to play, but I'm beginning to feel really spoiled by modern gaming interfaces and such. Maybe I'm in a minority, but I actually like the modern version quite a bit more. Sure there are advantages to the old system, but I'm not sure they win out in the end. Don't mean to turn this into an Old vs. New thread, though.
I wonder, though. Firaxis did a reimagining of Civilization for consoles and handhelds, is it impossible to do the same for Xcom? Is there a market for it?
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my experience with emulating dos games on mobile devices in general has been that touchscreen devices result in a clunky experience, trying to play games designed for keyboard/mouse.
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I'm a sucker for the old XCOM (played the new one too) and I recently got a Nexus 7. As a broad outline, what do I have to do to get this running? I've got a DOS version of the game, what emulator do I use? I'd be really happy to use my tablet to play this.
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You can dish out for DosBox Tubro (not very expensive). Very minimal set up, just copy the files into the DosBox directory (there are a ton of how-to's floating around the interwebz for you). As I understand it, DosBox turbo makes mounting drives and all that much easier. Or you can use the free DosBox. I'm old, so I remember using DOS and the commands are all identical (though you'll have to mount the game directory as a drive). The free DosBos floating around the play store is called "aDosBox". It's functional, but I find the interface for playing the game to be a little clunky. I've heard the mouse emulation is better on DosBox Turbo.
Do a Google search for running XCom on android and see what you turn up. Do yourself and set the cycles to 25,000 like the OP mentioned, the game will work much better. Additionally, don't get too frustrated, it took me a bit of fiddling to get it working and understand the way the mouse was emulated.
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This is fantastic! I always imagined this game would work well for smart phones.
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Me too! It's almost perfect. The only part that gets a little frustrating is the battles, because edge scrolling and right clicking aren't the most intuitive operations to accomplish on a tablet. But you get used to it and it's definitely not a show stopper
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What kind of fps do you get? Even at 30 000 cycles it feels like its around 10-15 fps, playable but kind of annoying. I'm using an S3 though, might be a lot slower.
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My fps is fine. You might try changing the CPU Core option to auto instead of dynamic. I'm not sure how much of an impact it makes though
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Yeah, I did. Also changed ram to 32MB. Oh well, it's playable can't really complain.
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This must be fate...
Im sitting with a nexus in my hands right now considering if i should buy it or not (friend wants to sell it).
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Dang man. You are so lucky. I mean, I can still play my old DOS copy today but..XCOM anywhere? I want to be there.
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I did it using Dosbox Turbo. It's incredibly responsive once you set the clock cycle setting to around 25,000 (default is an agonizingly sluggish 1000).
Where did you get that beautiful ROM?
Directly copy from your old DOS install directory, or the version you bought from steam.
What if you own both? o_o
Yeah, a step by step guide would be great.
Then you just copy one or the other, copying both is redundant. Rookie indeed if you didn't know that.
I wish people would stop calling games "ROM"s.
You may think it a minute thing, but it isn't. When I install Crysis it isn't a "ROM". In case you may not have known, ROM means Read Only Memory, and while it does apply to game data stored in cartridges, it most certainly does not apply in this situation.
The file is called an ISO image or a ROM image, depending on the medium used, I believe (disk vs. cartridge). These terms are specific to files copied from the original cartridge/disk, often used for emulation. This is why people say "Where'd you get the ROM?" rather than "Where'd you get the game?" In this context, for example, The former question makes it more obvious that the person is asking for a ROM image of XCOM, while the latter question makes it seem as though the person is ignorant that the game can be played on the Nexus 10 through any means.
DOS does not work that way. if someone asks for a DOS game in that context, then i would get angry at him too.
DOSBox just loads the executable out of its own directory, just like you would do when playing any other DOS game normally.
DOS never used ROM cartridges (other than the BIOS on the mobo that it stole from cp/m)
The former makes it seem to be the ignorant, as I can take the XCOM installation from my backup hard drive from 1996, copy it to my Kindle Fire and play it. It isn't a one file download, it isn't a .iso you download.
Could you please do a step by step of the install?
I got my game of Steam, but I just copied the xcom folder to my phone, booted up dosbox, changed folder to the xcom folder (you can use dir to list all folders/files and cd to change folders) and then typed xcomcd.bat.
Edit: Like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIwwIb2gDU