First and foremost, if you haven’t read this already, please do. It describes the “fix” put in place in the latest version to re-enable trophy count support in Spark Trophies. With that said, a new version (1.80) of Spark Trophies is now out on Marketplace, which adds better Android integration, and specifically:
- The trophy count issue affecting US accounts is fixed
- Friends list can now be searched from inside and outside Spark Trophies. To enable friend searching from your home screen, check “Spark Trophies″ in “Search settings”
- You can now place direct shortcut to specific accounts and friends on your home screen – to create one, longpress on your home screen, and select Shortcuts, then PSN friend, or PSN account
- Various bugs are fixed
- Price for new purchases is now $1.25 (please note that if you’ve already purchased yours, you do not have to pay more for additional installs)
Please note that this release makes various core changes to the app which may (but hopefully won’t, if my tests are any indication) break the upgrade. If this happens, please uninstall, then reinstall the app – if you’ve purchased the app already, you will not be charged again. I apologize for any upgrade issues in advance.
Finally, this release removes the Italian localization, graciously provided by Gabriele Ravanetti (Spark 360 will follow in the next release). He’s been doing an exemplary job translating both Trophies and 360 at almost a moment’s notice, and I’m very thankful to him for his hard work, which was without any form of payment. Unfortunately, due to the recent demographic data released by Google, and the amount of work needed to continue localizing the application, I’m unable to continue supporting the translations. My apologies to the good Italian folk affected by this.
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- Friend list searching
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- Home screen shortcuts
This doesnt have anything to do with trophies, but I wanted to let you know of a potential bug in the message area on Spark. Whenever I send a message, it tells me that i have exceeded the maximum allowed number of messages to people not in my friends list. However, every person I send a message to is in my friends lisr. The messages I send are not delivered to the recepient.
That’s actually Xbox Live talking, not Spark 360. Spark doesn’t throttle your messages, but it does return any Live error messages verbatim.
[...] release of Spark 360 is now out. Like the earlier Trophies release, the app is no longer localized in Italian; however, it will continue to retrieve profile data in [...]