Monday, September 24, 2012

Addicted to emulator

Ever since I found out how to use my Wiimote as a control to place console emulator games on both my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7, I got so addicted to playing emulator games on them that I totally ignored all other gaming on other devices like my XBox, PS3, iPad, Nintendo 3DS and so on.  The instant save and load feature combine with the Wiimote configuration is just awesome.  I just wish, though, that I have more keys to play with because playing Super Mario World causing me problem because I don't have all the keys I need, and I can't have per game based key configuration.  I can of course buy a Classic controller and thus gives me all the keys I need.  But then I will have to deal with another dangling item, which, to me, sort of defeat the casual ease of use advantage of this Wiimote Android setup.  So I decided, at least for now, simply ignoring those games that requires more keys.  After all, just finishing all the games that utilize regular key configuration will probably already takes me the entire lifetime anyway.  Why bother creating more trouble to myself?


Connected Galaxy Nexus to PC, and found that files were missing on PC File Explorer

Here's the odd situation I encountered:  I used FolderSync to sync between my android device and a Dropbox folder, which as the result sort of allows me to sync emulator .sav files between 2 android.  But that was not the main point.

The main point is that after a FolderSync session, there were some folders created on my Galaxy Nexus file structure, and I can actually see them when I use File Manager to view the files.  The problem comes when I hook up my Galaxy Nexus to a PC, and then from the PC File Explorer exploring the file system on my Galaxy Nexus, I DID NOT see those newly created files (and of course neither the files in those folders).

At the end, I solved the problem by rebooting the Galaxy Nexus, and found that after then all the files show up properly when hooking to a PC.  But still this is annoying, and I still don't understand what was going on.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Finding speed adjustable video player for Nexus 7

I was trying to find a video player that allowed me to adjust playback speed.   And the end I found DicePlayer.  It allows me to slow down the playback all the way to 50%.  It also does not have the annoying advertisement when you pause the screen.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Wiimote and Nexus 7, yeah!

I successfully set up all 5 console emulator to work with my WiiMote.  The set up is pretty straight:

  • Download Wiimote Controller from Android Play Marketplace.
  • AlunchWiiMote Controller, press button 1 and 2 together on your Wiimote to activate searching, and then click [Search] button on the Wiimote Controller app.  And then set the Wiimote as the current "input method".
  • On the emulator:
    • Make sure you turn on "Use input method" under "Other Settings"
    • Go to "Input Setting" to make sure that all the keys are mapped properly.
And that's all.  Now you can have fun using WiiMote as the controller.

Also, don't forget to "quit" the "Wiimote Controller" application.  Otherwise it will continue keeping WiiMote alive, and thus killing batteries on the WiiMote.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Playing a playlist of video: BSPlayer > MoboPlayer

I tried playing a series of video from my Nexus 7.  While MoboPlayer keeps giving me error and kicks out in the middle, BSPlayer handled to playing of playlist gracefully.  It even, by default, started to play back in the loop, which was what I prefer.