iPod Games Ain't Got Nothin' on This! - Updated for 3.0

Branhower · Last edited by Branhower on Oct Sat 04, 2008 1:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

This may seem like it's a Photoshop (and it is, I had to add the gradient! Wink

),but this is a portion of my Zune's main menu as of yesterday. And to prove it's no lie, I offer you this:

That is a game (Rock Rain SD) currently running on my Zune. I now have three; the other two are the Zuneboards official Clock (ZBClock), and XnaTetris. Both pretty cool casual games, and Rock Rain has some pretty stellar graphics.

How did I do it? Well, thanks to Jamezspot, I followed this link (which was actually from a Gizmodo link he posted), installed the required programs, and compiled some source code. Now, for me, the two examples provided did not work (Galactic Wars 3 had some invalid characters in a filepath, and Alien Aggressors was made using an earlier version, so it said). But, I went over to the Zuneboards game thread, and downloaded a few, and they all were neatly compiled and deployed to the Zune. It's actually really easy guys! You may have read in my blog that this process is not n00b-friendly, well; it really almost is. The only easier solution is game deploying right from the software, which is what we'll probably see in the next update.

Some Updates:

The link in the tutorial says you need XNA 3.0 CTP. For the new 3.0 firmware, you will actually need XNA 3.0 Beta, (here). I'm assuming you can still use Visual Express (here) to compile the games. I can't try it out because I no longer have a Zune.
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BobtheGreatII · Posted: May Mon 12, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:

Yeah....

http://www.zunemods.net/topic1432.html

Branhower · Posted: May Tue 13, 2008 2:04 am Post subject:

I just thought visitors to this site would benefit from a little front-page linkage.
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bald_gye · Posted: May Tue 13, 2008 7:21 am Post subject:

as much fun as those games look... the only games i play on my ipod is tetris and solitare.... and there the only games i would want to play on my zune
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pezboy · Posted: May Tue 13, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

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Branhower · Posted: May Tue 13, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject:

lol, the only game I played on the iPod is Brick, but that can be easily ported to the Zune.
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pezboy · Posted: May Wed 14, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

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pezboy · Posted: May Thu 15, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

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