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Bugs in Windows Phone 7 games

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27/11/2010

Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live

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Dynagen

I don’t own an Xbox (although that is something I am hoping to change) and wasn’t sure how I would find the Xbox Live integration on Windows Phone 7. Well I can safely say I love it. I have become quite addicted to playing Bejewelled Live when I want to pass the time and its through these bursts of gaming I have come to notice a few bugs.

Bejewelled Live

First up there is a weird scrolling bug in the achievements list. Scrolling down is fine but when scrolling up the momentum seems to have an issue seemingly stopping and starting multiple times.

I’ve found another bug and this one is a slightly bigger issue (some will deem it very beneficial). I have so far only noticed it on the Action game play mode but I imagine it could work on classic too. On Action the idea is to fill the bar at the bottom up which decreases over time, if the bar runs out then its “game over” and you have to work up the levels again. However I found out, by accident, that if you hit the windows key when “game over” pops up you don’t actually lose the game. When you next go to play an Action game you will find that you can resume a current game which will restart at the last level you were on in the Action mode.

This means you that as long as you hit the windows button every time the timer runs out you effectively have a checkpoint at the start of the level which I believe is not how Pop Cap want you to play the game. This bug does become useful if you want to get the 7th Heaven achievement in Bejewelled Live though.

Flight Control

This seems to have a similar scrolling bug as Bejewelled for the achievements where the momentum doesn’t stop, the list just keeps scrolling even if the list is hardly moved to begin with. This works on both scrolling up and down.

I also have Flowerz and Max and the Magic Marker on my phone but haven’t found bugs in them yet nor any in the trial version of Battle for Hoth.

Have you found any bugs in Windows Phone 7 games?

http://twitter.com/jshoq Jared S.

Hey Michael … Did you have your phone plugged into AC when you tried this? I have noted a similar issue in general with my phone when I had it on external AC power. Working with @withinrafael and @indotnetdev, we think it is worked down to non-Samsung AC->USB adapters and possibly installed software.

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Henry

I have the same problem with the scrolling in Flight Control. I also get (with many others from reading the reviews) a problem with Battle for Hoth once i get to level 7 it crashes, also it is not possible to select levels that you have completed.

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