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reply to Wolfie00

Re: [BB PB Apps]For Kims Playbook + discussion

No, you need SNES ROM's. For N64, you can get an emulator for the PC, but I don't think it's been ported to anything else.

For the SNES ROM's, all you need to do is put them in the /misc/snes9x-pb/rom folder on the Playbook as .smc files, unzipped from the .zip or .7z archive that they usually come in. You can just copy them there the same way you might copy music or video files. I do it by mapping a network drive over wireless. Once they are there, the ROM cycler (the little arrow on the bottom right) cycles through the names of all the ROM's and you can select the one you want to play.

Don't forget to go back in to the "Security" settings and disable the device password, or it will time out on you if left idle for 30 minutes.
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damn, must be doing something wrong, only tic tac toe works....getting bad checksum on others...
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

Tic tac toe is a test game and for some reason always has a bad checksum but works, but the others should be normal. Perhaps you are getting the ROMs from a bad source.

Great! If you or any of the kids (or anyone else here!) make good progress on Super Mario World and manage to complete a major level or two, maybe you can do a "save game state" and post the snapshot here for me -- I'm having a hard time without cheat codes! (The snapshots are in the saved games folder with the same name as the game and the extension .frz)!!

BTW, aside from the normal saves done from within the game, the emulator save-state feature only allows one snapshot at any given time. However, since the snapshot is just a file, you can rename or copy the file with something like Air Browser and keep as many different states as you want manually.

Good to know, I'll be doing this on my kids PlayBook soon, sure he'll have a lot of fun with these classic games.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

The new save-state feature is VERY useful!! Many of those games assume that you are a young squirt with fast reflexes and only let you save at major completion points. Whereas if one is an old fart with slow reflexes and occasional alcohol impairment it's very handy to be able to save the game state at will, anywhere! And now, Game Genie type cheat codes are the next thing on my wish list! It's already been done, they just have to port it.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- a corollary of Murphy's Law
"A dog is like a child who never grows old ... always there to love and be loved" -- Aaron Katcher

reply to J E F F
OK, never mind about posting a saved game... I regressed back to my hacker youth and figured out a manual patch for some key cheat functions! I'll post it here as a public service -- your kids might thank me, unless they are gaming purists!

This works on the Super Mario World ROM that I have, which I'm pretty sure is just the standard one. Open up a hex editor like Hex Workshop or anything else. Then patch the following:

Byte location 000052D8 -- from CE to AD, to get infinite lives!

Byte location 000059A6 -- from 03 to 01, to get Super Mario to have super-high jumps, so that he's practically flying!

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instead of a super-high jump, just have Mario swim everywhere:

Byte location 000074C3 -- from 06 to A9

If those locations don't contain those values you might have a different ROM version. Best to try to get the standard one, or alternatively you can search for the relevant hex strings. The infinite lives patch is a string that consists of CEBE0D10. The super-jump patch is a string that consists of 030410F401. Or the swim-everywhere patch instead, is a string that consists of 06B003048A.

The first byte is the one you change.

Other things are possible, like invulnerability, etc, but you have to leave some challenge in the game!

Note that the patched game will now report a checksum error on startup, as you would expect, since it's been altered. But it works better than ever, now that Mario has super powers!
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- a corollary of Murphy's Law
"A dog is like a child who never grows old ... always there to love and be loved" -- Aaron Katcher

Found this today, it's a newer site...lots of bars for the 2.0 users.

»www.playbookdaily.com/blackberry···of-them/

Registration required. Most apps ad supported...(Android, eh)
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reply to andyb
OMG it actually worked ... I am seriously impressed!!!!! ScummVM actually runs The 7th Guest, with just one tweak to the sound setup, complete with Ogg-Vorbis soundtrack and great dialogue ... I wonder if anyone else has ever run the venerable "7th Guest" on the Playbook -- the first really great multimedia PC game and possibly still the greatest ever!!! Having this one game alone is worth the entire price of the Playbook!

I wonder what you're doing all night...

reply to andyb
Kind of an interesting aside -- The 7th Guest was ported to Apple iOS about a year ago for iPhone and iPad and Trilobytes was resurrected for that express purpose:
»www.trilobytegames.com/7thGuest.html

But they chose to do a native port for some reason, even though the scummVM engine is (unofficially) available for iOS, and certainly works perfectly on the Playbook -- gameplay is smooth as butter and the interactive UI seems natural for a touchscreen. Seems typical Apple, where the decision was driven by arbitrary policy and not technical reasons. In fact, recently people were playing a number of old DOS games on the iPad using a plain DOS VM which was briefly available from the iTunes store. And what did Apple do? They pulled the app from the store!
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- a corollary of Murphy's Law
"A dog is like a child who never grows old ... always there to love and be loved" -- Aaron Katcher

reply to andyb
I know we had a long old thread on this a while ago, but just a quick update about some recent price changes. I'll throw it in here which is a more active thread. They are some wildly inconsistent prices right now and just like the $299 for all models deal that ShopBlackBerry had, it can't last long like this.

First of all ShopBlackBerry dropped that deal and is now listing the 16 GB at $299, and $399 and $499 respectively for the 32 and 64 GB.

But BB and FS have dropped their earlier prices and now have the 16 GB for $199 and the 32 GB for $249. This is the real news here for anyone still looking for one.

»ca.shopblackberry.com/Product/Bl···8548-001
»www.futureshop.ca/Search/SearchR···ure=True
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- a corollary of Murphy's Law
"A dog is like a child who never grows old ... always there to love and be loved" -- Aaron Katcher

Since everyone has be sleeping, thought I'd mention that plants vs zombies is now available for BlackBerry PlayBook. $4.99.... It's the same version as for the iphone.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

On a Dev video a RIM employee let it be known that Playbook OS 2.0 will be released Feb 21/2012

Nice! Rumours were for Feb. 17th, but close enough. Thanks for the update!

reply to J E F F
I love how this app was $6.99 when it was released at 10am, and now it's $4.99. I feel like I was ripped off for $2. lol
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Must have been a typo. I saw $6.99 until about 2:30 then it went to $4.99. Not sure if I'll get it, I never had it for the iPad or iPhone. I did buy that golf game today...it sure shows you what your playbook can do.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein