How to play Mobius on Emulator
Mobius is one of those games that are graphically intensive, even on the lowest of settings (Yes you can change graphic settings, on a mobile game, amazing yes?), so here is a short guide on how to play on an emulator, should you want to play on an emulator.
- Download Bluestacks, or MEmu. Do not use Nox as it is tested on all PC OS versions and it's not working. Ensure your program is always the latest edition to keep up with the bug fixes.
http://www.bluestacks.com/download.html
- Download GLTools. This can be downloaded by simply googling GLTools and downloading it from the Xda Forums, or simply click on the link below to head directly to the forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-gltools-1-29-t2828630
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Install the emulator that you downloaded, be it bluestacks or MEmu.
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Run the emulator, and setup anything necessary (signing in to google, etc)
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install the GLTools APK by finding the "install APK" button on the sidebars of the emulator.
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Once you install GLTools, open it up.
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The app will open, and at the bottom, it has 3 checkboxes, check all of them (tick all of them). After that, click install (not install in recovery mode).
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Your app will "crash", sometimes even your emulator, but don't worry, that's only natural.
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Open GLTools again, this time it will open up the actual app, giving you access to modify the graphical quality of just about any app in your emulator.
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First thing's first, click on system wide (Default).
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Tick the box next to: Optimize GLSL Shaders, Use Fake GPU Info, and Use fake CPU/RAM info.
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Right below it, choose a template. Now depending on your emulator, you might wanna choose different templates. The safest template to run, is either Tegra 4 (SHIELD) or Adreno 320/430 or Mali-T604/T760 (choose the one you want, but my safe bet is Tegra 4, because my graphics card is Nvidia).
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back out of the app and install qooapp by heading into "Browser", then googling qooapp, then installing it (google "install qooapp" if you don't know how to do it, it's the same procedure as mobile devices)
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install Mobius from qooapp (honestly this can be done before or after installing GLTools, I just chose to install it after GLTools)
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Once downloaded, head back into GLTools. You'll see mobius at the very bottom of the app list (or the M section for Mobius), and click on it.
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Now you'll want to tick (check) the following boxes: Enable Custom Settings for this app, Optimize GLSL shaders, Use fake GPU info, and Use fake CPU/RAM info.
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now you'll also want to DISABLE Anti-Aliasing. Now I know you want the best graphics but unfortunately, mobius on emulator does not accept Anti-Aliasing from GLTools, so that's a pity.
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Now go to: Use a template. In here, depending on which emulator you're using, and also which OS your windows is (or even mac), you'll want to mess around the following options to see which gets your mobius to work: Tegra 4 (SHIELD), Adreno 320/430, Mali-T604/T760.
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Now working means you see the white Square Enix logo show up, and it fades away, and after that you see a BLUE background (not black) and an option to start a new game or continue from a save file.
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Just for some side info, Adreno 430 and Mali-T760 are Tablet interfaces, so if you want HD texture option in Mobius, you have to use these as your template. (Phones have the HD option removed because of "resolution" options).
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If all of that fails, just try other template to see if they work, there are quite a few templates after all.
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if it STILL doesn't work, do check if you have Intel Hardware Virtualization enabled in your BiOS. This allows emulators to "emulate" fake hardware on your PC. Some report that they have this option turned off and still able to work, but if you can't, enable this option in your BiOS.
And that's it, you should be able to start playing Mobius on emulator once those steps are done. Now a bit of notice, bluestacks can let you play Mobius on landscape / widescreen mode, giving you that sweet 1080p if you so desire, MEmu can't, but there's still HD textures, just not landscape mode.
If you have any questions, or errors, do feel free to go to the discord chat and ask, and not flood this thread's comment section with full of helps.
Thanks for reading!
Posted Jul 28, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC
Why doesn't Nox work? (as-in what are the symptoms)
I just tested, the app installs but when you launch it says "Device is Unsupported". Couldn't get GLtools installed either. If anyone can get it working on Nox I'd appreciate hearing how, since that's what I use for my other mobile games.
Spent all morning trying every trick I could think of. :/ Best bet is everyone who wants to use Nox complains on their facebook page to get mobius working.
I would not recommend that. No emulator is supported officially, so it's highly unlikely something will come of it.
The problem is GLtools free version simply does not work with Nox.
Why I can play on NOX? Haha
'their' refers to nox, in the previous comment. They'll figure something out if it's popular enough.
I am playing in Nox right now and it seems to work fine for me ._.
Did you do anything special? Any specific version?
Nope - I assume whichever the most updated version is.
i just got it working on nox to. all i did was download the latest nox (since i don't it install), download qoapp, install mobius, change the settings in nox to Mali-T760. Also, when i first launch nox, it recommends to use my nvidia graphics card etc.