When I saw that there was a new Bloons Tower Defense game on the Apple App Store I thought it deserved immediate purchasing, but then I remembered that I had done the same thing with other apps and discovered that I had paid for something that my phone cannot run. I looked through the description of the app and found nothing about device requirements, only operating system ones and that the comments only yielded that it crashes a lot on every device, which is something that is apparently being worked on. Does anyone know if this will work on an iPhone 3GS before I waste my money on it?
Will Bloons Tower Defence 5 run on an iPhone 3GS
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For a game to run on the iPhone 2G, it needs to support iOS 3. This can usually be found in the description somewhere. The App Store will not allow you to install it if it requires iOS 4, however, so this is unlikely the cause of your black screen crashes (unless a bad developer forget to set their app iOS 4 only).
A less common problem (that will become more common soon) is that you don't have enough RAM. This happens because some apps try and use the higher RAM amounts of the 3GS and iPhone 4. While this is somewhat rare at the moment as the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G, with the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 2G are still current devices, they will be phased out soon. This can be rectified for some apps by restarting (if unjailbroken) or closing apps like Safari/Music/Mail with processes in sbsettings (if jailbroken), but it won't help for apps that need more RAM than is physically on the device.
Sadly, I can't find an authoritative list of games that run on the older devices. In general however, games like Angry Birds and other similar simple casual games should run, and games like Call of Duty: Zombies and other similarly graphically complex games will not (even if you did manage to run them, you would probably find them unacceptably slow).
The best source I've found is a forum post. Here's the content:
Dart monkey
0/0: 1 / 11
3/0: 18 / 28
3/1: 19 / 29
3/2: 21 / 31
4/0: 100 / 110
4/1: 101 / 111
4/2: 103 / 113
0/1: 2 / 12
0/2: 4 / 14
0/3: 4 x 3 = 12 / 14 x 3 = 42
Splodey Darts: +10 after dart pops.Tack Shooter/Tack Awesomizer
0/0: 1 x 8 / 2 x 8 = 16
3/0: 1 x 16 / 2 x 16 = 32
4/0: 60 / 120 (A bug makes that 61 now)
0/3: 2 x 8 = 16 / 4 x 8 = 32
0/4: Infinity
Specialty/Tack Awesomizer
0/0: 2 x 8 = 16 / 3 x 8 = 24
3/0: 2 x 16 = 32 / 3 x 16 = 48
4/0: 61 / 122 (A bug makes that 62)
0/3: 3 x 8 = 24 / 6 x 8 = 48Sniper Monkey/Rifle Range
0/0: 2 layers / 3 layers
1/0: 4 layers / 5 layers
2/0: 7 layers / 8 layers
3/0: 18 layers / 19 layersBoomerang Thrower/Double Ranga
0/0: 3 / 3 x 2 = 6
1/0: 7 / 7 x 2 = 14
2/0: 12 / 12 x 2 = 24
3/0: 101 / 101 x 2 = 202
4/0: 10000 to orbiting glaivesNinja Monkey
0/0: 2
2/0: 4
3/0: 4 x 2 = 8
4/0: 4 x 5 = 20
x/3: 30Bomb Tower
0/0: 40
0/1: 50
2/0: 40 + 8 = 48
2/1: 50 + 8 = 58
3/0: 40 x 9 = 360
3/1: 50 x 9 = 450
0/3: 10 damage to blimps
0/4: 700 damage to blimpsIce tower
0/0: 10000
0/3: 1 per shard
x/4: infiniteGlue Gunner
0/0: 1
x/2: 6
x/3: 12
x/4: infiniteMonkey Buccaneer
0/0: 5
0/1: 5 + 1 x 4 = 9
4/0: 5 x 8 + 5 x 2 for a plane = 50
0/3: 5 + 1 x 4 + 30 = 39Monkey Ace
0/0: 15 x 8 = 120
2/0: 18 x 8 = 144
4/0: 18 + 40 = 58 for one
0/1: 40
0/3: 15 x 16 = 240
2/3: 18 x 16 = 288
0/4: infinite, 500 damage to blimpsSuper Monkey
0/0: 1
1/0: 1 x 2
2/0: 3
3/0: 15 x 3 per frame
4/0: so big it's hard to find out
0/3: 3
1/3: 4
2/3: 5
0/4: 5
1/4: 6
2/4: 7
Ability: +250000Monkey Apprentice
0/0: 2
1/0: 7
2/0: 7, 25
3/0: 7, 25, 20
4/0: 7, 25, 70
0/1: 40
0/3: 4 per frame
0/4: 2 per frame
Homing: 7
Tiny tornadoes: don't know, don't have this premium.Village
4/0: 1 per frame, 2 layers per frame
0/1: grants +1 to all towers except sniper
0/4: doubles popping power for all towers except sniperMortar
0/0: 40
4/0: 100
ability: infiniteDartling
0/0: 1
3/0: 13
4/0: 100
0/1: 3
3/1: 15
0/3: 40
0/4: 40 x 3 = 120
Ability: 500 x 40 = 2000Spike Factory/Tack Awesomizer
0/0: 5 / 10
1/0: 10 / 20
3/0: 16 / 32
4/0: 16 + 20 / 32 + 40
0/3: 15 damage to MOABs
1/3: 30 damage to MOABs
0/4: 1000 / 2000
1/4: 2000 / 4000Monkey Engineer
0/0: 3
Sentry: 2
3/0: need further tests
4/0: 250
0/1: 8Bloonchipper
0/0: 250 RBE
4/0: 600 damage to blimps
0/3: 750 RBE
Levels are shown as left path/right path. In a number / number, the first number is the base number and the second number is with the appropriate premium or specialty building. For example, Tack Awesomizer doubles the pierce for Tack Shooters and doubles the spiking of Spike Factories.
Best Answer
I ended up purchasing the game and it works about as well as I could hope. The game worked perfectly for me until about round 76 when the game slowed down considerably, but this happened in bloons TD 4 as well, so I expected this. The game slowed down to the point of about 1 frame per second, but it never crashed. As a side note, the slowing of the game has been partially addressed with the monkey temple which combines various towers together and nearly restored the game to the normal speed.