How to add legacy support for android games to use in LB

[shadowfire36]

Well after a week of messing with trying to get Zenonia to play on my LB , i have finally come up with a solution to get the majority of Android games to work on you PC and Launchbox . Why is this solution being posted : I like the Zenonia Games and own all 6 , i had an older version of bluestacks and final added it to launch box after reading it could be done. The problem came in when i actually updated my bluestacks 0.8.0 to version 2.3 . After i updated I could no longer play the original three zenonia's on Bluestacks, but could play the latest three games 4,5 and S. I tried other solutions such as andy ,windroy ,ipadin ,and droid4x , but i ran into different problems with regard to launch box. So the solution is i came up with is adding a vim for bluetsacks and combine it with Launchbox through unity . why not use Virtualbox with seamless: Because i bought VMware back in school and own a legit license , I know everyone cant afford VMware but i figured if i tell everyone you can do it in VMware ,someone may figure a virtual box way. Im not goinna mess with it cause i already know how VMware works. what you need : VM workstation 10 or above Bluestacks version 0.8.0 and the latest build (http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BlueStacks_App_Player#Official) 20 gb of Hard Drive space at least 4gb of ram on host machine for 2gb on the guest machine (works best with 4gb for guest ) a copy of Windows Now 1st thing you need to do is setup VM I will not go into that detail ..here is a setup guide that should help if you aren't familiar with VMware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE12ZWIvFfk The next set up to go to the XDA link above (0.8.0 4.0.4 Pre-rooted, Google Apps, Original ICS launcher) Go to your VM and share Your download folder with guest system ( https://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html) now install the bluestacks in the guest machine once installed add any apk file to blue stacks go to the apps folder on your guest machine and copy the the shortcut to the guest start menu (user>username>appdata>roaming>Microsoft>start menu ) Setup unity (http://www.howtogeek.com/171145/use-virtualboxs-seamless-mode-or-vmwares-unity-mode-to-seamlessly-run-programs-from-a-virtual-machine/) disable Bluestacks update service: Step1: Go to 'Task Manager'. Step2: Open Services tab. Step3: Click on 'Services..' button. Step4: Now find 'BlueStacks Updater Service' from the list. Step5: Right click on it and open its properties. Step6: Select startup type as 'Disabled' and click apply. Now once you have entered unity mode (ctrl+shift+u) move your mouse to the topleft corener and you should get a box pop up from here right click you game and create a shortcut to your host desktop. then move that shortcut to the host start menu (user>username>appdata>roaming>Microsoft>start menu ) finally open launchbox add it as you would a windows game you can install the latest blue stacks version on you host machine and now have legacy and current support for android games your done !!! thanks to Zárate for making his guide to help me with this( https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/android-1#p15858) keep in mind i tried every version of bluestacks from .8 to 9.4 for the legacy run ,while i did want the joystick support ,, i could not get the shortcuts to launch in LB on any higher version that .8.0 .if I tried to launch the short cut , my VM would freeze on launch bluestacks but never load the game . as an alternative you can use the pinnacle profiler for joystick support(http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/) . it has a profile called Bluestacks that works for most games ,and you can add f11(for full screen ) and backspace(menu for some games like Zenonia) to the profile to get games to work .