Ipod Games

[ilovemyipod23]

Can i listen to my music and play the new ipod games that you download from the ipod store at the same time?

[Nader172]

It depends on which one you play. PacMan doesn't allow you to do so. I know that Texas Hold'em will.

[paranoidxe]

Zuma will too as long as you don't pause the game

[killer1177]

It depends on which one you play. PacMan doesn't allow you to do so. I know that Texas Hold'em will.


No, Pacman does allow you to listen to music while playing (that is wy there is a volume control.) but then it is pretty annoying because you move only by tapping and sometimes I mistakenly press down the fast forward button instead of tapping which results to switching my songs back in forth by accident.

[bigjohnny7]

I've bought Tetris and Sudoku and they both allow you to listen to your own music while playing.

Both games also allow you to play with the game music if you want (with Tetris it's a horible trance remix of the original music from the Game Boy version, and some quite calm and relaxing Japanese water garden music - with tweeting birds - on Sudoku).

Both games also have an automatic setting in the audio settings, so if you're already listening to your own music it will keep playing it. If not, the game music kicks in.

Hope this helps.

[woomera]

Hi everyone

Just a quick question I'm hoping someone can answer regarding iPod Sudoku. Let's say you've completed a puzzle on a particular level, then exited. When you come back to Sudoku say later the same day or whenever, it appears to go back to the same puzzle you completed previously. In other words it returns to puzzle 'number one' each time and doesn't remember that you've already done that puzzle. It should load the next puzzle (a different puzzle) on that level each time. Am I doing something wrong?

I hope that makes sense.

woomera

[natoosh21]

is there any way of getting games for free off the net?

[jhollington]

Most games have three settings for music playback: OFF, ON, and AUTO. AUTO will play the in-game music if nothing else is playing when you enter the game, or continue playing whatever audio is otherwise already playing. OFF will stop playing any music that is current playing, and not play the in-game music either, and ON will stop whatever is current playing in favour of the in-game music.

As for getting the games from "other" sources, the only games that are presently supported on the iPod are the ones purchased from the iTunes Store, and these are protected with DRM in much the same way that music and video content is. Several people put the games up on P2P sites without realizing this last year, but if you find these games they will not be usable by anybody without access to the iTunes Store account that they were originally purchased with.

No other third-party games are available for the iPod with the standard firmware, although older models of iPod can have their firmware replaced with Rockbox or iPod+Linux, for which there are free games available.