It’s not going to feel as good as an Xbox 360 controller but it gets close and it’s super convenient being able to clip the phone to it. The Ipega 9025 is also available on Amazon UK and Amazon US. It can be used when connected with the Bluetooth mobile phone. It then used the secure settings plugin to change the keyboard back to Swype and display a brief message saying, “Swype activated again”. How To Setup Your IPEGA Controller Without The Need Of The IPEGA Game Center APK. By using Llama Profiles I set up an action to catch when the controller disconnects.

I’m rather fond of Swype, and TBH, I don’t fully trust them that they won’t try to download everything I type. That means when you later use your phone to send tweets, emails or type anything it’ll be through this keyboard. It doesn’t require root which is great, but it does ask you to set the controller as the default keyboard. Here’s where the major downside to using the game lobby comes in. It didn’t pick up the controller until I defined the keys explicitly and told it which “keyboard device” or IME to use.

Ittle Dew worked perfectly and I also tried RetroArch, the multi-system emulator. Terraria now works fine and is very playable with the controller! Moving the analogue sticks around moves a green dot on the screen to verify it’s working. My Galaxy S4 wouldn’t always connect to the controller, but the game lobby would usually find it and launch the test app. Most of the app has been translated to English but Chinese characters still show up in a few places. It’s the file called “IPEGA Game Center_ENG.apk” and should be side loaded on your phone. I finally read the manual for the controller and found it mentioned something called the ipega game lobby. I tried Tincore Mapper but could not figure out how to map anything. Initial tests were not good and various forums said Terraria didn’t support the controller.

It’s a bluetooth controller designed to hold a smartphone in a cradle so I was interested to see if it would work with Terraria.

The local multiplayer over wifi is great!Īnyway, I had ordered a Ipega 9025 controller on dealextreme and it arrived a few days ago. Controls are reasonably good although I’ve sometimes found the movement swipes (left side of the screen) get confused and my character uses his weapon/tool instead. The Android version of Terraria is on sale right now on the Play Store and Amazon App Store so I bought it last week and it’s a pretty decent port of the PC original.

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