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[–]Mypopsecrets 1082 points1083 points

I used to have a Sony Experia Play. The phone was basically an awesome controller for roms since Sony basically stopped all development on it right off the bat.

[–]TaviRider 222 points223 points

I have one too. It was a disappointment that came along too early in the technology curve. Plus it was doomed to be too niche, so game developers never supported it.

[–]DanielEGVi 192 points193 points

so game developers never supported it.

This is wrong as hell. I'd say 90% of all games released through 2011 and 2012 had special support for Xperia Play. And even then, the Xperia Play's gamepad was recognised as a native gamepad by the OS, so that enables support for any game that supports any gamepad, including GTA: San Andreas which just recently came out!

I still keep my Xperia Play to date as a gaming device, even if it has an outdated single core CPU, it has the slickest built-in gamepad you'll ever see in a phone!

TL;DR: Xperia Play is still being supported by devs to date. And it's still worth getting one if you are into emulators.

[–]JC_Dentyne 0 points1 point

So how do you get one to not run like crap? Because by the time I got a new phone it was nigh unusable due to the severe lack of onboard storage

[–]DanielEGVi 1 point2 points

If you are no longer using it as a phone, make sure you are on Sony's stock gingerbread, root it, remove all bloatware and phone-related apps, install Greenify from the Play Store and greenify everything. Don't install more than 60 apps on it. Stay with the original launcher. You should be fine.

If you want extra space, you can create a partition on a fast sd card and use something like link2sd.

[–]JC_Dentyne 0 points1 point

Thanks, I'll give this a try!