Originally Posted by cedlmw (Post 859085)

thanks for this! seems a bit complicated though :P

Originally Posted by RenaldoTT (Post 859125)

The first part is simple enough and I don't mind doing it but creating files? I don't have SSH do I don't know how to do this

Originally Posted by f2thak (Post 859155)

sorry to hijack thread but what is the quality of Ashphalt game compared to NFSU? thanks cant be bothered doing all this if the games no good. cant really be bothered doing it either way.... nice tut though Maxx.

Originally Posted by viovoxer (Post 859423)

hi mate.
a simple but serious question.
this step need preenv installed in my n900 right?
can you advice me how to install preenv because it seem i have problem to install to pr1.3.
error said: E: Packages damage
tq

Originally Posted by mido.fayad (Post 859875)

thanks for ur work but i think that increasing home partition is better than this and is so easy and u won't do any complicated processes to make game run

see images from my phone

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4...9010118463.png

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/7...9010118462.png

Originally Posted by AgogData (Post 859189)

thats a great thread but i don't use ssh apps, can i do this through xterm or file box ?

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 860120)

Yes that method is also work. But there is a problem, the device must be wiped clean before you can resizing the ext3 partition, that is what I think.

Also people wouldn't want to do a clean installed.

But yes there is two options here :D
My way or Your way :) I preferred mine because I'm too lazy to reparitioning and I can keep my device 27.0GB like standard, I can reflashing eMMC anytime.

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 860122)

You can mate, just convert it to xterminal commands :)

The copy and replacing, extracting part can be done via xterminal easily if you follow the Wiki of pre-env. Then converting all the SSH part to Xterminal. Sorry you it takes longer to do from commandline on the N900 because of the keyboard :D

Originally Posted by werks (Post 860179)

hey sorry,
i followed the steps, but when i do desktopgen,
it says its not an executable.

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 859064)

hey guys i have finally achieved my little test with installing games to the n900 into emmc 27gb partition instead of 2gb opt partition. After a lot of trail and errors i've succeeded :) got my sim3 folder intalled on my fat32 partition instead of opt. Saving a hug chunk of space in opt.

The process may takes quite a bit of work but it worth the time and efforts. I've simplified the process to make it newbie compatible :d

here is the step:

1. first extract your xxx.ipk file with either zip utilities such 7zips or any others.
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6000/71701984.jpg


2. connect the n900 to your computer via ssh (you can do via commandline also but required more works). screenshots
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/1285/85238834.jpg


3. create a folder called games (anything you would like in this example i'll use "games") in /home/user/ directory. And right click on the games folder then set the permision to user 29999. (look at the screenshots)
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2770/16552814.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8621/89308166.jpg
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/541/25218070.jpg

4. now browse to your mydocs partition "/home/user/mydocs/" and create another folder called games or anything you'd like.
- right click on games and apply the permission like the picture below.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6087/93460942.jpg

- create a folder called sim3 (for game called sim3, for other games use the appropriate name for it. You'll need it later), and inside the sim3 folder create another folder in the following path like: /home/user/mydocs/games/sim3/usr/palm/com.ea.app.sims

copy the extracted files from .ipk file and copy it to your
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5. inside /home/user/mydocs/games/sim3/usr/palm/applications/com.ea.app.sims/
folder, you should now see a file called "sims" right click and properties and check the permission setting. Should look like below:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6596/sims.jpg

click ok to confirm.



6> now this is the final part. You can do this to all other games that listed as working for preenv by changing the xx.desktop file and pointing it to the right location of where the game data in mydocs.

Now back to ssh client on your computer and browse to /home/user/.local/share/application/hildon
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5703/23413972.jpg

copy the file called sim3-palm.desktop to that location.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to /home/user/.local/dbus-1/services/, copy the file called sim3-palm.service here.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to folder icons and copy your sim3-plam.png here.

7. go back to /home/user/games, and copy the file called: sims from your "ipk" extracted folder to here.
Right click and set the permission like below:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/5998/37943419.jpg

8. now this is the symlink part. On your n900, open xterminal and login as root.

Root
for file in /home/user/mydocs/games/sim3/usr/palm/applications/com.ea.app.sims/res_sims3/; do ln -s "$file" /home/user/games/sim3/; done



finally:

Now create these files for sim3 game:
You can create the icon file by using desktopgen command, make sure you put the appinfo.json into /home/user/games/sim3 then:

root
preenv
desktopgen /home/user/games/sim3/appinfo.json



for asphalt5 and monopoly and few other games you will have to create a folder inside /home/user/game/asphalt5/asphalt5

this can be done via ssh or commandline.
Xterminal: mkdir /home/user/games/asphalt5/aphalt5
ssh: Create new directory
copy the file called: asphalt5 to the folder you just created and then symlinks other files from the fat32 there.

for file in /home/user/mydocs/games/asphalt5/usr/palm/applications/com.gameloft.app.asphalt5/asphalt5/*; do ln -s "$file" /home/user/games/asphalt5/asphalt5/; done

following this step for monopoly as well and other games :)


done!
Enjoy! :)
i may have missed a few steps along the way but this should be good enough for now. This tutorial is based on sim3 game :) it works for nfs undercover and others as well.

Good luck :d

Originally Posted by villyjean (Post 862500)

Where can i find more ipk files different games and please dont send me the link for palm,because there i have to pay 9 us dollars for this :)

Originally Posted by SalmanAbbas (Post 863008)

copy the file called sim3-palm.desktop to that location.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to /home/user/.local/dbus-1/services/, copy the file called sim3-palm.service here.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to folder icons and copy your sim3-plam.png here.


hey max i dunno where to find these files sim3-palm.desktop sim3-palm.service sim3-plam.png

any help would be greatly appreciated

Originally Posted by funkmunk (Post 863130)

Even I am trying to install Need for Speed undercover and cannot find the palm.destop,palm.service and .png file mentioned.Where to I find them?

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 859064)

Finally:

Now create these files for Sim3 game:
You can create the icon file by using desktopgen command, make sure you put the Appinfo.json into /home/user/Games/Sim3 then:

root
preenv
desktopgen /home/user/Games/Sim3/appinfo.json

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 859064)

6> Now this is the final part. You can do this to all other games that listed as Working for Preenv by changing the xx.desktop file and pointing it to the right location of where the game data in MyDocs.

Now back to SSH client on your computer and browse to /home/user/.local/share/application/hildon
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5703/23413972.jpg

copy the file called sim3-palm.desktop to that location.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to /home/user/.local/dbus-1/services/, copy the file called sim3-palm.service here.

Go back to /home/user/.local/ and browse to folder icons and copy your sim3-plam.png here.

Originally Posted by kolos (Post 863176)

Just proceed with step 7.

If I understand right these 3 files are already stored where they should be after "desktopgen" is executed.

Originally Posted by funkmunk (Post 863489)

So I proceed with step 7 and it goes fine but when I reach step 8 and follow the instructions I get an error and cannot proceed further.

Where am I going wrong? Can someone help me out?

Screenshot attached below.

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 859064)

8. Now this is the SymLink part. On your N900, open Xterminal and login as ROOT.

root
for file in /home/user/MyDocs/Games/Sim3/usr/palm/applications/com.ea.app.sims/res_sims3/; do ln -s "$file" /home/user/Games/Sim3/; done

Originally Posted by villyjean (Post 863538)

I installed perfectly - nfsuc,but when i try any other game and when i write the command - chmod +rwx (file name of the game) and its says :

chmod:(file name of the game) : No such file or directory

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Please is there anybody who can help me?

Originally Posted by kolos (Post 863531)

Did you create symlinks before executing desktopgen?



(in command line just replace all "sims" and "sims3" with "nfsuc")

Check inside /home/user/Games/Nfsuc/ if you have shortcut to folder res_nfsuc.

Originally Posted by funkmunk (Post 863618)

Did as you said and went till the last step and now I can see the NFSUC icon in the app list but when I click it,it just shows me a black screen with the loading bar and then closes off in a few seconds.

Seems like I screwed up somewhere else now.Need help.

If these instructions are for noobs how come I am having so many problems?

Originally Posted by scyzor (Post 864090)

Guys, you could just enable executability for MyDocs, make an applications folder in MyDocs and symlink it to /home/user.
Making MyDocs executable is considered a 'security risk' but I don't see how. It's working fine here.

Just edit /usr/sbin/mmc-mount and /etc/default/mount-opts to remove noexec and set fmask=777.

Careful, if you do this wrong you'll need a reflash.