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<blockquote data-quote="cubemoss" data-source="post: 78434" data-attributes="member: 2344"><p>Well, I'm up and running and gradually learning more about both Android and pinball, so that's good. Got to play a little TOTAN as I waited in the airport in Chicago, so I enjoyed being so close to the source of so many great pinball games.</p><p></p><p>Here's my latest questions: I got the iCade, as I'm a retro arcade fanatic and I figured it might save me a bunch of money and basement space in the long run, if you catch my drift. We'll see how that goes. But back to the questions -- first, I gather that TPA for Android doesn't work with the iCade yet, but that's coming in the next update, is that correct? </p><p></p><p>Secondly, I was having a lot of trouble getting my tablet to connect to the iCade. Started looking around, and I gather that the most recent (4.2.x) version of Android has 'broken' the functionality of a lot of Bluetooth external game controllers. Since I was having so much trouble, I figured I must have 4.2.x on my tablet. But when I looked, I've actually got 4.1.1. Good thing I didn't just follow the update prompts without hesitation. After continuing to mess around with trying to connect it, based partly on a vague online post that proposed a possible workaround, and partly on completely illogical yet dogged persistence, I got it working, although occasionally I get error messages onscreen, but it continues working nonetheless. So I guess my question about that is, is it possible that it's not specifically my version of Android causing the problem, but the Bluetooth version itself? Can that be downgraded to a previous, better working version independently of the OS? And after reading up on what to expect with the next version of Android, I couldn't tell if they are going to address the problems that gamers have had with their external controllers or not -- anyone have a sense of that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cubemoss, post: 78434, member: 2344"] Well, I'm up and running and gradually learning more about both Android and pinball, so that's good. Got to play a little TOTAN as I waited in the airport in Chicago, so I enjoyed being so close to the source of so many great pinball games. Here's my latest questions: I got the iCade, as I'm a retro arcade fanatic and I figured it might save me a bunch of money and basement space in the long run, if you catch my drift. We'll see how that goes. But back to the questions -- first, I gather that TPA for Android doesn't work with the iCade yet, but that's coming in the next update, is that correct? Secondly, I was having a lot of trouble getting my tablet to connect to the iCade. Started looking around, and I gather that the most recent (4.2.x) version of Android has 'broken' the functionality of a lot of Bluetooth external game controllers. Since I was having so much trouble, I figured I must have 4.2.x on my tablet. But when I looked, I've actually got 4.1.1. Good thing I didn't just follow the update prompts without hesitation. After continuing to mess around with trying to connect it, based partly on a vague online post that proposed a possible workaround, and partly on completely illogical yet dogged persistence, I got it working, although occasionally I get error messages onscreen, but it continues working nonetheless. So I guess my question about that is, is it possible that it's not specifically my version of Android causing the problem, but the Bluetooth version itself? Can that be downgraded to a previous, better working version independently of the OS? And after reading up on what to expect with the next version of Android, I couldn't tell if they are going to address the problems that gamers have had with their external controllers or not -- anyone have a sense of that? [/QUOTE]
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