Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPod Family, iPhone, App Store
Ask the Readers: iPhone games you can play with your own music?
I have a confession: I like playing games on my iPhone. But I also like listening to my own music. Like chocolate and peanut butter these are two things that should go together. The only problem is that many iPhone games have their own (generally lame) music that stops the iPod app from playing.So for the sake of myself, and others like me, I thought it would be good to get a list of iPhone / iPod touch games which allow you to play while listening to your own music. Unfortunately, I don't have the budget to buy all of the hundreds of games on the iTunes Store for research purposes, so I thought I'd throw it out to the readers. I'll get us started with a couple of my favorites: Enigmo and Moonlight Mahjong Lite (both iTunes links).
What games allow you to play while listening to your own music?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Isaac said 1:11PM on 8-03-2008
The more cowbell app.
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Robert Schumacher said 4:36PM on 8-03-2008
Yes...I've even tested it out to the tune of "Don't Fear The Reaper"...got some strange looks at work, but I had a fever and the only cure was more cowbell!
brian said 1:14PM on 8-03-2008
I've found that while playing a lot of the games I can still squeeze my mic button and my iPod's last played playlist/album starts up. Even for those games that state in their FAQ that personal music can't be played while the game is active.
But it would be nice if that were a default instead of an undocumented feature.
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Stuart Jones said 1:17PM on 8-03-2008
In any iPhone game which has background music, you can override it an play your own song by clicking the button on your iPhone headset once. Because of this, every game can be played with your own music.
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LuminousNerd said 3:56PM on 8-03-2008
Which button? I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Pressing the home button once takes you home, and pressing the sleep/power button once puts it to sleep. Since those are the only two buttons aside from volume, I call BS.
J.T. Mill said 4:53PM on 8-03-2008
The button on the iPhone's headset, you know, the little microphone one?
LuminousNerd said 4:58PM on 8-03-2008
OH. My bad.
Yeah I didn't know anybody actually used those piece of crap earphones.
umijin said 7:38PM on 8-03-2008
Headset? iPhone? Not happening on an iPod touch.
This tip isn't applicable for perhaps half of us.
Big John said 8:42PM on 8-03-2008
Thanks for the tip!
Maxwell said 10:41PM on 8-04-2008
On the iPod Touch, you double click the Home button to bring up the little Now Playing dealie.
Galley said 1:24PM on 8-03-2008
AcidSolitaire Collection
http://bit.ly/4F59f
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Joe Henry said 1:25PM on 8-03-2008
You can also try this hint from MacOSXHints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080717110151829
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Jacob said 1:27PM on 8-03-2008
Pretty sure that in any iPhone game, you can just do the double home button trick to bring up the music applet (if it's set to do that) and start to play your music.
I just start up a game, turn off its sound effects, and then tape twice on my home button to get back to playing my music.....
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mr. anyonmous said 1:27PM on 8-03-2008
In most games I've found that if you turn down the sound effects and the ingame music. You can then start your own music using the double tap home button thingy that brings up play/pause controls.
Works in Crash Kart and Super Monkey Ball
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Adam said 1:29PM on 8-03-2008
I think you can do this with most any app by double-clicking the home button and then pressing play.
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Cyrillus said 1:31PM on 8-03-2008
ACTSudoku permits that.
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:p atrick said 1:47PM on 8-03-2008
Galcon doesn't have music because the dev believes listening to your own music is better than listening to his. It's perfect!
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LuminousNerd said 3:49PM on 8-03-2008
GALCON! w000t!
That right there's probably one of the best games there is.
mr. Obsession said 1:47PM on 8-03-2008
MotionX Poker Dice lets you listen to music as it sucks an entire day away with it's addictive play!
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umijin said 7:40PM on 8-03-2008
Eh? Not the last time I checked. Did this change in the recent version?