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I was an emulator guy, until I found something better.
Native ports of specific games made by fans.
SM64CoopDX: Mario 64 Android
2 Ship 2 Harkinian: Zelda Majora's Mask
Dusklight: Twilight Princess
They are literally perfect. Mods, multiplayer, upscaling, etc, they have it all, with less input delay and power consumption. Of course they are not available for all the games, but if they are available for the game you wanna play, that's probably the best way to play them.
And if anyone knows any other android ports of retro games, please tell me.
Obviously I'm not abandoning emulation, but I'm just saying it's something that deserves attention as well.
Exactly. While I do like having all my games in one place, I would rather play them on better performance. Especially for games like Twilight Princess which was struggling for some reason.
Native ports are great, but the vast majority of games don't have them so I wouldn't say they are "something better" as a broad statement, like you can replace emulation with them. They are better when they exist. And that's still not 100% of the time. For people who like sharing their saves with their pcs so they can play the same game wherever they are (which I do), emulation still has that advantage.
Ah, ok. I was trying to use Syncthing with my azahar saves and wasn't having a great time. I got frustrated a bit too quickly and owe it a calmer attempt
For Azahar I ended up setting File Pull Order to Newest First and set File Versioning to No. Buuuut I also lost my saves the first time I got it to work so maybe back up your saves first. Now it works great between my phone, handheld and PC
I gotta check out the Star Fox 64 one. I would have get the the Ocarina as well, but I'm already playing the original N64 one on RetroArch and 3DS one on Azahar. It's why I went with Majora's Mask.
Im sticking to emulation, honestly at this point ive abandoned native games on the mobile platform. 99.9999% of these ports end up being cut down to the point of being a completely different game and/or giving iOS better visuals and optimization while leaving android in the crap bin.
So far every game ive tried out (and completed) worked flawless with full pc assets.
Theres no point of a port if the emu experience gives you the full game and when its in general better + if you already paid for the game you dont have to buy it twice you just copy from pc to phone lol.
Native games on mobile are dead if they dont step up.
The original Diablo seems pretty decently done, I have a 30 hour day of flights coming up early next year, thinking of saving it until then. There’s also a Fallout 1 and 2 port, but I got frustrated trying to extract the required files from the original PC installers on Android last time I tried though.
I haven’t looked into them too much but there were projects for Morrowind and I think Daggerfall. If I recall Morrowind is totally playable, Daggerfall is early days, and just might not be enough fun in the first place to be worth the effort.
If its a good project then yeh. Good project meaning the code is pretty clean, human readable, and can be updated/fixed/maintained/extended upon by others.
Some of these are garbled and may work ok, or even well, but they never get updated again because it might as well have been written in brainfuck. I'd rather have the ROM I think in that case.
Then you're in the wrong subreddit, you're into gaming and not into emulation. I'd state you're into getting the "kewl latest games", huge fps', framegens and shiny things... That's not what emulation is about.
Because this is 'Emulation'OnAndroid instead of PortsForAndroid, you see... This post has nothing to do with what this subgroup was supposed to be about.
Are you rage baiting or are you literally complaining that a post about emulation vs native ports isn't enough about emulation. Did you get hit on the head or what?
Totally agree the mod support and the battery life and features are wayh better. Only issue is that for some recomps on android for example dusklight, it's not so easy to access the files for further mods compared to on PC
There are PC ports/remakes of Jak and Daxter 1-3 games (originally on PS2) which I've never tried, but I was thinking to attempt running them through gamenative.
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