3 Ways to Play Old, Discontinued, Broken, and Abandoned Android Games

A discussion on why old Android games don't work anymore (the Dalvik compiler mostly), and how to overcome that obstacle today. I play Samurai Vs Zombies Defense, Chaos Rings, NOVA 3, Zombie Smash, etc to demonstrate how this works. There are some compromises, but these games can be played one way or another today.

How to play Chaos Rings
How to play Samurai Vs Zombies Defense
How to play NOVA 3
How to play Mass Effect Infiltrator

I know I said the emulator link was "Softpedia", I was mistaken.

[travisdinham]

I actually thought it was impossible until I watched this video.
I always wanted to play Surviving High School, and now I can, thanks to you,
and it was an emulator I used based on android 4.4.2

[Unknown-duvl]

Blood and Glory Legend by glu games
Please help me play this on Android 10

[KingOfAnime]

Years ago I played and love the series called Zenonia on my iPod. The first one was released on phones, but also PSP and even the DSiWare so I can emulate it through those platforms. 4 and 5 are still in the store, but 6 was taken down. 6 from what I know was completely online so I doubt I can actually play that one. I just want to play 2 and 3 again. They were so much fun and I never actually got to beat them. Thank you a lot for this.
PS. Stuff like this is the reason why I am not the biggest fan of mobile games. There are many that are great fun, but there is always the chance they can be taken down or through an update and you'll never be able to play them again. Even if you paid for them. That just sucks to me.

[abhinavhaldar]

I miss frontline games and old gameloft games

[WKMasterGamer]

I have this old game called "Empire Defense" and I am looking through playing it again because it was my most favorite game when I was a kid. Now there is no phones compatible and whenever I open the app, it force stops for some reason. This method still didn't work, looking forward to update to this.

[LogicProphet]

Honestly its really cumbersome to get this working. I've been on the look out to run deadspace, mass effect: infiltration, choas Rings (3 games), asphalt 6, monopoly, need for speed most wanted, pursuit, and shift, Nova 1, 2, and 3, modern combat 3 and 4 and 5, Batman, amazing spiderman 1 and 2.And it seems that between kitkat 4.4 and Marshmallow there were some drastic changes that there's simply no way to run them all on one device. Bluestacks never works as it should and comes with some bloatware. I've bought a bunch of devices and installed different OS along the way and it never works the way I wanted. The best one I have is the samsung s3 but the screen is tiny. I'ved looked into converting into a tablet or a tablet with the same specs and have come up short. Your best bet is to see who's selling old hardware and buy it cheap and run whatever games work on them like a libary. So far I have the iconia hd, shield tablet, Memo pad, asus tf 101, s3, note 4, 5 and just have them with the apk installed. There's no way to get an all in one device to preserve these games.

[محمدعلیناصری-ذج]

but i have a different problem.old dragon mania is payable with my android 12 phone but the problem is the screen as the phone is too long for it and when you touch the screen, it affect like 1cm to the left so i can play properly(there is a button to the corner that i can't touch so i can't play at all) is there any way to play it normally??

[notyousef]

Oh you showed a picture of nova3! My favorite game

[FandomChronicle]

Blood and Glory
Roblade

These 2 were so good

[Clownican]

Loved my Nokia Windows Phone. Still to this day the smoothest UI of any mobile OS.

[Hesam-moradyin]

Thank you big man
You made me experience my childhood again.

[Call_Me_Troy]

I'm sort of like a retro gamer and what I want to do is play like really old mobile games from 2002-2008 but I guess that's not possible anymore

[aayan.official]

I miss frozen free fall icy shot. I've downloaded it from apk file bcuz it is removed from play store. I've got to level 30 but it won't let me play level 31.

[ChampagneDaddy-eh]

I Really want to play My Childhood Game Blood and Glory.

[Raiden-oine]

By the way, when you install the installer it actually is bluestacks 4. I think they changed the file. When you load up the installer it shows a 4 on the blue stacks; I just now noticed this.

[rylex]

It does not find me the game in the microsoft Store (I'm talking about the Samoan game against zombies)

[ghostmane]

I have question
I wanna play a game called
Tentacles enter the mind on my phone but it's it need an old android version and I don't how to run it bro , please help me find a solution

[yarukiruuyagari]

I wanna play Samurai vs Zombies Defense but it didnt show up in the Microsoft store. Any idea why?

[music-channel]

Can this work for apps that require an Online Connection and are discontinued such as Pokemon Duel and Dash Tag? I played a bit of Duel in 2017 and was planning on returning in 2021 when the app was shutdown in either 2019 or 2020. And i wanted to return to Dash Tag, but the app is offline and replaced with a different App.

[itzjoemama_]

There was a game I played back then in 2013 called Blastron. Absolutely fun and one of my childhood favorites. However, the game got shut down in 2014 because of cheaters and didn't feel like maintaining the game anymore. However, I have a valid apk file and an obb file that downloaded and installed correctly but when i go to launch it, it begins to load and then crashes. I am on android 9. What can I do?