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Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Fri, 09 May 2008 10:42:18 EDT

@chiablo: "people looking at them in awe at Best Buy"

...thinking, "are they still selling this shit"?

"And the new gapless playback is awesome"

Welcome to 2006!

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

chiablo — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:48:32 EDT

@altus: I have one, my wife has one, and I've seen three or four others in the wild. All of the wal-marts in the area are sold out and I almost always see people looking at them in awe at Best Buy.

And the new gapless playback is awesome. :D

chiablo

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

RobotVampire — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:06:26 EDT

@altus: Yes no one has a zune, iphone pwns all, blah blah mac, Steve Jobs rulez. Feel better?

RobotVampire

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

altus — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:18:35 EDT

C'mon guys watch what will come out on the iPhone/iPod next month.... Does anyone really have a Zune....? It's like you go out there and watch people jogging etc... I haven't seen one yet.

altus

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Josh — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:44:48 EDT

@lpxxfaintxx:

Thanks for the tip, works great.

Josh

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

RobotVampire — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:14:30 EDT

Those games are pretty craptastic, but I have a feeling the quality of the free games will improve dramatically as more basement/garage devs realize this is available. Now get to coding you monkeys!

RobotVampire

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Wilson Rotman — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:53:17 EDT

between XBox and Zune - there is so much the ZuneBOX might be...

Wilson Rotman

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

AnONeamus — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:19:02 EDT

This is (kinda) cool. Gonna have a look at what's possible with this devkit. My feeling is that this is not going to allow much more than Java on a Mobile Phone does (and probably less), but we'll see...

AnONeamus

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

lilkeith7 — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:16:38 EDT

:( I kept getting an error when trying to add a zune to Microsoft XNA Game Studio. But looks pretty cool I'll have to keep trying.

lilkeith7

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

kitron — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:08:01 EDT

first game i want to see is the clock game, so everyone that was asking for one would shut up

kitron

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

wetworker — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:00:55 EDT

was easy as pie to deploy to the zune, sweet.
bring on the games zune community!!!!!!!

wetworker

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

postnocomments — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:57:20 EDT

Finally Zune owners have redemption from iPod owners making fun of them all the time.

postnocomments

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

lpxxfaintxx — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:36:58 EDT

From Jurai @ ZuneBoards Forum

You can fix Galaxy Wars 3 to support first generation zunes, simply open the following file, Player.cs, found in:

GW3
+-Entities
+-Player.cs

do a find and replace on the following

find:
Buttons.LeftThumbstickRight
replace with:
Buttons.DPadRight

find:
Buttons.LeftThumbstickLeft
replace with:
Buttons.DPadLeft

find:
Buttons.LeftShoulder
replace with:
Buttons.A

(you could also add OR's to the thumbstick if's in order to make the code zune30 & zune80 compat at same time)

save the file, deploy, enjoy

lpxxfaintxx

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Shmoo — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:02:14 EDT

Just tried it out, directions are pretty clear. You've gotta install Visual Studio C# Express Edition 2008 as well as the CTP (I conveniently downloaded the Visual Studio stuff earlier this week)

Can now run Alien Aggressor on my Zune 30! (Even though it's a bit simplistic) It adds "games" to your main menu, and from there you choose the game. The Zune restarts when you quit the game though.

I can't get Galactic Wars 3 to load in Visual Studio, but apparently the controls only work with the touchpad (v2 Zunes). Still, if people keep developing and providing content like this for the system, the Zune could turn into quite the little gaming device!

Shmoo

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

maven2k — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:55:51 EDT

I can't wait to try this. There goes my battery, heh.

maven2k

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

diabolusunknown — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:29:09 EDT

This has been zune week!

diabolusunknown

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

VakeroRokero — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:01:01 EDT

hope it doesn't include that copyright cop!

VakeroRokero

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Sam_Zebian — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:49:31 EDT

I'm doing this right now!

Sam_Zebian

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

macnewb — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:43:53 EDT

Ya know... I hate Zunes and love my iPods... but if achs go mobile... I'm in

macnewb

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

AndersonBMX — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:30:16 EDT

Zune FTW!

AndersonBMX

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

kratos76 — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:21:39 EDT

Zune 360! ...we all saw it coming.

kratos76

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Seiko — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:02:58 EDT

WHERES YOUR IGOD NOW??????

Zune revolution has begun :)

Seiko

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

swarmster — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:58:22 EDT

@YoMommaIsMyMomma: You'd think with all the iPhone news that gets posted you'd know that Apple is doing the same thing. They have an SDK out and games (including Monkeyball and Spore) will be out around when the store launches next month. Individual devs set their own prices, including free.

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) has "real" graphics hardware inside, too, judging from the looks of the game demos that have been shown off.

swarmster

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YoMommaIsMyMomma — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:57:56 EDT

@YoMommaIsMyMomma:
damn typos

YoMommaIsMyMomma

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

YoMommaIsMyMomma — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:54:40 EDT

Apple should do the same. infortunately Apple will charge you $20 for a gaming app plus $5 for each game.

YoMommaIsMyMomma

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Evangelion — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:43:49 EDT

SWEET!!!

Evangelion

Put Games On Your Zune Now: XNA 3.0 Preview Arrives

Mio — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:37:24 EDT

Nifty.

Now just put some 'real' hardware in the Zune and let it shine as a games platform....

Mio

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pellier — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:32:46 EDT

Sweet

pellier