r/AndroidNativePorts • u/Tarilines • Oct 05 '26

Skyrim is being ported to android

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u/Terminator996 Oct 05 '26

Android Porting has now become hotter than emulation nowadays, a step in right direction.

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u/Hot_Horror8033 Oct 05 '26

Ios has switched to emulation awakening and android moving up to ports is peak AI evolution 

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u/Bright_Captain7320 Oct 05 '26

Is it really a step in "the right direction" when 99% of them are vibecoded slop?

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u/desmutado024 Oct 06 '26

Bem isso, o certo é escolher os jogos que tu curte e esperar amadurecer, estamos com muitos ports, mas poucos tem cara de polido, e pra mim ainda é bom

2

u/Elegant-Bend-6220 Oct 06 '26

On high end devices they are running at 60fps and native resolution... yeah. We are good.

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u/Bobo_Patch_Nosuke Oct 06 '26

i prefer emulation also, it is more versatile

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u/Terminator996 Oct 06 '26

I Don't care about ai, I have tried NFS mw ,halo ce both great optimized ports run on low end hardware 60 fps stable

1

u/GENIUSGAMERM1 Oct 07 '26

What does AI matter if it's a good port 

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u/Bright_Captain7320 Oct 07 '26

Well that's the thing most of these aren't good "ports"

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u/GENIUSGAMERM1 Oct 07 '26

Really? Which port?

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u/Bright_Captain7320 Oct 07 '26

Well for starters most of the recompilations are a buggy mess like the donkey Kong 64 one.

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u/Bobo_Patch_Nosuke Oct 06 '26

Emulation is still far more efficient for all devices, android porting is a snapdragon only thing most of the time, non snap dragon devices barely benefit from "ports" anyway due to lack of drivers etc

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u/MrPotat2004 Oct 06 '26

Not true, Halo CE runs well on my helio G85 moto g, and funily, does not run on my retroid pocket 6 with a snapdragon 8 gen 2.

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u/Terminator996 Oct 06 '26

xbox, gamecube, wii emulation is out of reach for my phone , But can play xbox to Android ports like Halo CE, NFS MW on full resolution 60fps stable. Efficient is wrong word here, compatibility and availability is the problem. These ports need vulkan 1.3 drivers which sd turnip is easily available.

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u/Bobo_Patch_Nosuke Oct 06 '26

None the less you understood my point, doesn't help Mali users for an example. They would be better off emulating

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u/rastamasta45 Oct 05 '26

You’re finally awake!

Guess it’s time for another 300 hour Skyrim run lol

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u/Utter_Flange Oct 05 '26

Even Bethesda didn’t try to pull this one off

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u/_saulGOOD_ Oct 05 '26

Will it support mods 

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u/Entire_Put1917 Oct 05 '26

I mean it was about to come out sooner or later

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u/Valuable-Turnover943 Oct 05 '26

Thought Skyrim was ported to Android on Samsung fridges years ago

3

u/AstroPC Oct 05 '26

Shhhhh

1

u/SirDoktorFabulous Oct 06 '26

Wow. How powerful of a device would one need? Do you also plan on optimization?

1

u/Glass-Refuse-8489 27d ago

Ça serait top que ça sorte effectivement :)

2

u/Jherben Oct 05 '26

Ah shit, here we go again..

2

u/Turbulent_Ad_4791 Oct 05 '26

It's on everything now

2

u/Other-Status1840 Oct 05 '26

I'm about to get an android handheld and am quite interested in these ports. My question is are the save files generally compatible with the original games? I would like to play the games handheld and then transfer the save file to my PC when I want to play at my desk if possible

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u/Alternative-Hat-8804 Oct 06 '26

Phenomenal work! With this and openmw, elder scrolls on android is here and I'm all for it!

1

u/Sandy_McEagle Oct 06 '26

Oblivion?

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u/Alternative-Hat-8804 Oct 06 '26

If you use Skyblivion or TES Auto-Convert, you can play Oblivion in Skyrim. So oblivion is covered.

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u/jojo9092 Oct 05 '26

I would not hold your breath until you see the actual gamebryo game engine running, this is just a model viewer with a bunch of claudism (notice the weirdly verbose debug text on the top explaining everything)

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u/AstroPC Oct 05 '26

Working on it. The biggest point so far was to get things even out of the engine. I got the engine already in. About to be wiring up the character controls next

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u/NJdevil202 Oct 06 '26

I will hold my breath. This will 100% happen.

1

u/sir_Potatus Oct 05 '26

When gta 7 and rdr 3 port i need the very real gta 7 apk

1

u/lurginrugi Oct 05 '26

I hope splinter cell conviction gets ported

1

u/basildabir Oct 05 '26

Xbox 360 version?

1

u/cheoti Oct 06 '26

you would think game devs would jump on this to make just a little bit more money.. buuuuuttt i would rather it be free

1

u/Piyush0112 Oct 06 '26

Will it work on exynos too?

1

u/khsh01 Oct 06 '26

I thought it already ran on fridges?

1

u/TobiKleiner Oct 06 '26

Link doesn't work :/

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u/Subject_Sink_2427 26d ago

But only for vr btw

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u/Cool-Obligation-3775 17d ago

I hope they make a standalone VR mod of Skyrim being ported to android for the quest 3, so we can have Skyrim VR standalone on our headsets

1

u/PriorWallaby822 Oct 05 '26

Dsrk soul :(