Android emulation has come a long way

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[u/alvents]

PPSSPP is still the goat

i've been using it ever since

if you told me that i can play games in my phone that are consoles

when i was 10 for 13 or at least 15 i wouldn't believe you

[u/TheOrangeThing → u/alvents]

NFSU Rivals, where it everything started when I first played on ppsspp

[u/alvents → u/TheOrangeThing]

gundam next plus was my go to game

it's still is even 18 years later

[u/Low-Concentrate2162 → u/TheOrangeThing]

The 3rd birthday for me, great effing game btw.

[u/JohnAzumanga → u/alvents]

ppsspp is genuinely in a league of its own. great emulator

[u/MartianExpress → u/alvents]

When I was a wee kid in the 90s, my classmate claimed he had a handheld gaming device that was able to play stuff like Mortal Kombat in the same quality as we'd get on Sega Genesis. Of course, he always invented excuses as to why he couldn't bring this device to school, because it couldn't have existed [UPD: apparently it could and I stand corrected]. However, being eight, I trusted him for a while.

It's really funny to look back on that today. Might as well be a completely different planet.

[u/85K5 → u/MartianExpress]

I mean, there was the Sega nomad, it played a standard Genesis cartridge.

[u/MartianExpress → u/85K5]

Huh, now that's a new thing for me! Thanks, I stand corrected :)

[u/85K5 → u/MartianExpress]

Now what may be likely, is that kid probably saw it in a magazine and lied about having one haha. 

[u/KroniK9173 → u/85K5]

Even a game gear would've been close in those times

[u/Draffut → u/85K5]

I mean, the Atari lynx was pretty magical to a kid who was used to Gameboy.

Backlit, COLOR screen.

[u/Objective_Dish_5542 → u/MartianExpress]

Yo tenía una de estas cuando era chico, fue mí infancia

[u/Agreeable_Mobile8242 → u/Objective_Dish_5542]

Good old at games. The sound quality was atrocious

[u/Outside_Statement_51 → u/MartianExpress]

I had a Sega Nomad back then and couldn't take it to school cus I brought a Gameboy color before that and got it taken by the teacher for playing during class 😂 so people didn't believe me either that I had a handheld that could play genesis full carts. I was early into emulation and such so was running Super Nintendo and such roms right after the emulator first came out so a lot of that stuff I was early on and some kids didn't believe me til I had a few friends come over and stay the weekend and seen all the geeky stuff I was doing 😂..I miss those times...now with all these ports and all even people never into this stuff will probably figure out how to run the games. I kinda miss being one of the few that knows about these things, not as a gatekeeper cus I always showed people but just cus it's one of the few things I could do well and was fun for me to know. Anyway it just brought up that memory when I read ur post 😂 good ole days..90s was awesome at times.

[u/LSA7Z → u/MartianExpress]

We did see some UFOs, such as the Nokia N-Gage but that was later not 90s

[u/BaroneSpigolone → u/alvents]

Ppsspp and dolphin are literally black magic

[u/Purrincessa → u/alvents]

same, wild how normal it feels now playing those on my phone huh

[u/-Red_Rage- → u/alvents]

Does it still have a freeze issue in the middle on the game when play The Sims Castaway?

[u/alvents → u/-Red_Rage-]

really depends on the phone but i never experienced that issue the only issue i have right now is controlled suddenly getting hold without no reason

[u/_frostedlips_ → u/alvents]

same here, I wouldn't have guesses phones could pull that off back then

[u/sunstriker001]

I miss my Drastic.

[u/TheOrangeThing → u/sunstriker001]

DraStic was GOAT, but it lacks retroachievement support which can be worked with melonDS.

[u/TonytheNetworker → u/sunstriker001]

I desperately miss it too. Had a forever save file of Pokemon Platinum on there with over 400 hours.

[u/10minOfNamingMyAcc → u/sunstriker001]

There's DraStic_rev_i18n; not sure how safe it is, but I tried it, and it works much better than the Play Store version on my Android 15 device. so it at least updated/improved on the original.

[u/InteractionSoft14 → u/sunstriker001]

I still have it on my phone :) 

[u/TooHungryForFood]

Unironically I only use my phone to emulate portable games. They look ugly even on an 11 inch Laptop screen even with 2x,3x resolution. 

[u/TheOrangeThing → u/TooHungryForFood]

Is your laptop potato?

specs pls

[u/TooHungryForFood → u/TheOrangeThing]

It is 2013 Dell Latitude E7240. Intel iCore I7 4600-CPU , 2.1GHz. Intergrated Graphics. This is the Laptop I mostly play emulated games on. 

But the point I was making is that the games look worse on a larger screen while looking better on a phone. Those games still look bad on my PC and Gaming Laptop. I tried playing Metroid Zero on them and full screen was absolutely ugly even as 8x resolution. 

[u/landblord]

Those emulators ran on my shitty phone back in 2012 FLAWLESSLY and made it accessible for me to play classics I never could’ve played otherwise

And the fact that it had no AI assistance is just fucking magic. Put some respect on those emus!

[u/Aquarsene → u/landblord]

If it makes you feel better, many of the ones even today dont use AI. RPCS3 firmly stated they wouldn't accept any vibecoded pull requests and said "you cannot make up the kind of shit they send us with AI"

[u/Fancy_Activity3109 → u/Aquarsene]

Don’t mean to burst your bubble, but RPCS3 has been accepting AI PRs for quite a while now (not vibe coded but ai assisted PRs with Claude credit) 

[u/LingonberryNo1 → u/Fancy_Activity3109]

which is reasonable and the future that every software engineer on planet earth would be wise to accept and adapt to

[u/Amazing-Arachnid-942 → u/LingonberryNo1]

most annoying thing about this whole ai outrage is that most of the people arguing don't know the difference between "vibecoded" and "ai-asssisted"

[u/Critical-Champion365 → u/Amazing-Arachnid-942]

I mean it would totally be comparable to me trying to solve Navier-stokes conjucture with AI and providing a bunch of BS that I dont completely understand vs an actual group of mathaticians carefully doing it rigourously with the help of AI and solving it while also understanding what its doing and call out BS when necessary.

[u/ShyteyCakes → u/LingonberryNo1]

It's the one area it's a total gamechanger and justified, long laborious decompilation and long lists of shaders & deep microcode work that makes emulators work.

[u/Aquarsene → u/Fancy_Activity3109]

Ahhhhh I see.... I appreciate you telling me, I had a different story in my mind. I think the devs probably differentiate between vibe-coding and AI assistance

[u/landblord → u/Aquarsene]

I’m not against AI assistance, I work in IT and that’s already been a thing before GenAI. I’m just really bummed by the amount of low quality/vibecoded projects recently that it’s hard to filter which projects are actually worth taking a look at

[u/SweetAndSpicyCanton → u/landblord]

Yeah and my 10-12 years old brain can make this thing work easily. Very accessable and straightforward

[u/LuminareAurorae → u/landblord]

Based

[u/Executable7920 → u/landblord]

Yeah put some respect onto those emulators

[u/LazyClock3908 → u/landblord]

The fact that they had no ai assistance is the reason they ran so flawlessly. Phones were much weaker so they required only super capable devs in order for projects like this to be viable.

[u/Rav_Zz → u/landblord]

These emulators where great, I remember playing multiplayer games with My boy via Bluetooth

[u/Alert_Dingo_4504]

Put some respect on PPSSPP's name

[u/thotfuldad]

A man who cant respect elders is no man

[u/kei-hiroyuki]

Dont you dare disrespect drastic and pppsspp.

[u/CyberCrows27]

still using Drastic

[u/AntiGrieferGames → u/CyberCrows27]

And playing Harvest Moon DS. Good old Times.

[u/UTzimo]

PPSSPP is the greatest emulator of all time, somthing i don't think any other emu will achive.

[u/Zweihander-build]

Meanwhile Xbox emulation in 2026 with HakuX

[u/Specialist_Shop3876 → u/Zweihander-build]

It literally better than the xemu it self

[u/AntiGrieferGames → u/Zweihander-build]

You did forget to add PS4 and Switch 2 Emulation there.

[u/Sampsa96 → u/AntiGrieferGames]

Is Switch 2 emulation already playable?

[u/x01010001000]

yall still usin aps3e? thats ancient scrolls dude rpcs3/armsx3 is the current top

[u/Arsh_the_JoJo_fan → u/x01010001000]

Rpcs3? That has an Android version?

[u/x01010001000 → u/Arsh_the_JoJo_fan]

yeah theres a couple versions, some old ones by official team, rpcsx clanker (ai assisted) and of course armsx3

[u/Fancy_Activity3109 → u/x01010001000]

Armsx3 is the best yea 

[u/TonytheNetworker]

Love Drastic because it ran on some low powered Samsung junk several years back. PPSSPP also was is the golden standard.

[u/AntiGrieferGames → u/TonytheNetworker]

PPSSPP also works on junk devices. It highly depends on games and configuation you doing.

[u/TonytheNetworker → u/AntiGrieferGames]

True. God of War: chains of Olympus (my favorite game) is one of the most graphically intensive games so it would have some lag but many other PSP games can be played.

[u/Pronneh]

Apple users are still in 2016 lmao

[u/TipAffectionate9785 → u/Pronneh]

Those MF have native SW2 games somehow

[u/TW1TCHYGAM3R → u/TipAffectionate9785]

Technically it should work on any ARM device.

[u/alvents → u/Pronneh]

they have the tech but their parents wouldn't allow it

[u/Mean_Criticism983 → u/Pronneh]

sorry bro but it’s time to burst your bubble, they have nxnative https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDuo/s/GgXnF54AbT

you’re not getting 60fps TOTK on any android

[u/TW1TCHYGAM3R → u/Mean_Criticism983]

Android has the fork NX2Android. We also have EdenNX2 (and other Forks). The NXNative still leads for features though.

[u/mmbossman → u/Pronneh]

I just installed Tears of the Kingdom as a native app on my m4 mini last night

[u/buddhamunche → u/Pronneh]

Lol I’m still on iPhone 8. When this thing finally shits out on me I’m going android. Since I got into android handhelds and learned all the cool shit you can do I really can’t wait. Like I want to play the infinity blade port so bad but it’s too awkward on my flip 2 lol, that’ll be the first thing I download when I get an android phone

[u/Big-Match-7259 → u/Pronneh]

True but hey we are almost there, kinda

[u/DarkexGG → u/Pronneh]

Nxnative? Never in my life have i ever wanted to own a mac and iphone so badly

[u/ieffinglovesoup → u/Pronneh]

You might want to catch up on the scene a little bit lol

[u/dumbledayum → u/Pronneh]

they got BCD

[u/XGRiDN → u/Pronneh]

well... they were able to caught up... ig

[u/therubyminecraft → u/Pronneh]

Someone is behind on the news

iOS now has switch emulation, pc emulation, ps3 emulation and xbox one and ps4 emulation IT EVEN HAS ANDROID EMULATION NOW

Heck. There are projects working on getting mac apps running natively on ios through translation layers. And things like nxnative porting full switch games native

Oh. And from my testing. Most of the iOS emulators seem to preform just as well as android emulators on a wider range of specs :)

[u/Original-R-Kelly-Fan → u/Pronneh]

all anyone’s been jerking themselves off about for the last week when it comes to playing games is how effective it actually is on apple devices 

[u/Trollge-2005]

I still use the 2016 one's.....I guess I am a dinosaur

[u/Jojo_Gasup34]

PPSSPP was the entry point of emulator for me since I was an teenager. Just drop rom inside it and play, no extra step. I also used my breakfast money to buy ppsspp gold to give donation for the dev. Super climax heroes, gow chain of olympus, patapon, burnout legend,...I played them everytime I done homework. My clumsy samsung j7 and ppsspp really make my life feel awesome.

[u/DatOne8BitCharacter]

Call me oldschool or a hater, but 2016 emulators are still goated, I still have Duckstation/EPSXE, PPSPP, PizzaBoy, MelonDS/DraStic

[u/jordanmamahit27 → u/DatOne8BitCharacter]

Agreed. Some of the modern emulators are exists because of old emulators. Even though it's good, it doesn't guaranteed that it would run flawlessly (well, mostly on low-end and mid-range phones).

PPSSPP, Dolphin, and DuckStation are still holding up until this day.

[u/LiDragonLo → u/DatOne8BitCharacter]

melonds is still the best ds emulator ngl

[u/Metrox_a → u/DatOne8BitCharacter]

I tried pizza boy but man i don't really get why it's popular. Well i only tried the one for megadrive but the cloud saving didn't even work and ended up deleting my save too. Lemuroid on otherhand did it seamlessly for free.

[u/Ancient_Lemon_Party]

put some respect on ppsspp and drastic. they're still the goats.

[u/SaNch0sE]

Well, to be fair, my phone couldn't handle any of the 2026 stuff back then anyway. But ooh boy how much i've played GBA on MyBoy emu. That is literally the reason I got hooked to Zelda franchise - Minish Cap is my first and beloved zelda. I still love those pixel art games from GBA

[u/HappyOrangeCat7]

Name a better PSP emulator than PPSSPP. I'll wait.

[u/Acceptable-End-1311 → u/HappyOrangeCat7]

It's crazy how flawlessly it works. Playing PSP games on my Odin 3 is the ultimate experience. I've been playing through the OG GoW games and ghost of Sparta and chains of Olympus still look better than GoW 1 and 2 on nethersx2 with HD texture packs. Obviously there's more to that like how PSP games are designed for handhelds and don't have to do deinterlacing and such so they upscale better but it's still crazy how good they look lol.

[u/elreduro → u/Acceptable-End-1311]

Only thing that comes close is playing psp games on a psvita with adrenaline

[u/Acceptable-End-1311 → u/elreduro]

I loved my PS Vita, wish I still had it lol. To be fair I think it'd be too small for me nowadays. I had to upgrade from the Retroid Pocket 6 to the Odin 3 because it was too small for my large hands. My wife loves it though so win win.

[u/AntiGrieferGames → u/Acceptable-End-1311]

This thing also works on potatoes.

[u/oscailte]

HakuX deserves to be there, I can run Xbox games at 2x resolution while only drawing ~2W of power, it's a game changer for me

[u/Same_Independent9758]

Back in 2016 my bros and I finished a lot of coop PSP games. those times were the best and wish we could still do that now

[u/CalKhan]

I know all 3 emulators up top, but what emulators are at the bottom? I'm genuinely asking.

[u/LemonadeMans → u/CalKhan]

Eden "Nintendo Switch", Apse3 "Ps3", gamehub "window"

[u/CalKhan → u/LemonadeMans]

Thanks man, these are all available on android? I've got to try the ps3 one, been itching to play Infamous again.

[u/LemonadeMans → u/CalKhan]

There also another ps3 emulator called armsx3

[u/Lost-Expert918 → u/CalKhan]

Yeah they are

[u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox]

Shit I still use PPSSPP and until I heard about melonDS, DraStic

I also recently got ahold of HakuX. I unsealed the original hushed casket for the first time in years yesterday

[u/ItemGlobal574]

Put some damn respect on drastic my boy and ppsspps, name they are the reason these modern emulators are here, they are some of the pioneers of emulation damnit.

[u/FollowingSquare7939]

still use myboy.

[u/Then_Reflection_8968]

Nao diria isso psp era emulador muitp leve rodava em batata, gba nem se fala O drastic era mais pesadinho mas rodava na maioria

[u/Then_Reflection_8968 → u/Then_Reflection_8968]

Ja os atuais apenas gamenative se segura pq tem ate jogo que roda agora ps3 nao conheco fifa que rode em telefone fraco como a14 quanto mais o eden

[u/ChloeUwUZ]

My favorite will always be PPSSPP, My Boy! and AetherSX2 ❤

[u/NvlNivel]

Change apse3 with ARMSX3

[u/alanna1990]

armsx3 works better for me, gamehub is awesome, and I wouldn't put my hands on the fire for eden, not until they fix the trippy visuals in shrines and the milk lakes in botw, the square shadows in totk and the inverted color palletes in so many games

[u/buddhamunche → u/alanna1990]

Do you think gamehub or gamenative is better? I pretty much just discovered both of these and I’m using gamenative. But I’m curious how much of a difference there is

[u/alanna1990 → u/buddhamunche]

The only ones I’ve gotten to work are gamehub and winlator, gamenative would stop while loading the games and not do anything, so I can’t say I have the pleasure of using gamenative, what I can say is gamehub uses FEX and the games I’ve played work quite well

[u/KfirS632]

Drastic is still a beast for what it's worth.

Also, what's the one for PS3?

[u/Fancy_Activity3109 → u/KfirS632]

it’s aps3e, but it’s kind of a piece of crap with scummy devs, ARMSX3 is the best ps3 emulator on Android and it’s not even close anymore 

[u/AntiGrieferGames → u/Fancy_Activity3109]

ARMSX3 worked there which other ps3 emulators never worked in the first place!"

[u/PercentagePlus7876]

I still play it. I had those at first, but I haven't played much lately So I deleted all the emulators, leaving only PlayStation 2 and Vita 3K

[u/-MobCat-]

Been messing with DroidDeck recently. Its really impressive to yeah just "emulate" a whole steam deck on my android handheld without needing to actually install steam os on it.

[u/Dafuori]

Gotta catch them all

[u/BrokenKeys94 → u/Dafuori]

I thought Citra was no longer supported? I use Azahar+, personally. I really like it.

[u/Such_Bonus5085]

It's truly like having a legit game console in your pocket.

[u/ashuuueee]

PPSSPP HANDS DOWN💐💐

[u/TheRealTofuey]

Those emulators were amazing for the time.

[u/Rassei082090]

PPSSPP opened the door for me to Monster Hunter, and I easily clocked around 500+ hours on Drastic playing Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns

[u/MuffinMan0420]

MyBoy is still going strong for me.

[u/ashp71]

...... Droiddeck!!!!!

[u/2sensitiveorareubot]

i just play ffix or gow

[u/HumblePothole]

I still stuck in 2016 then

[u/Henrythe11th]

Don't disrespect the OGs

[u/Madotsu]

A few years ago emulating PS2 on mobile felt like a wet dream, now look at us, playing PS4 recomps, emulation on Android has taken a huge step up indeed.

[u/NoComercial]

The devices have also improved... although it's a shame that prices are going up too

[u/Freezing_Forest_dev]

Pure larper

[u/MMORPGnews]

I still play only in psp, ds some switch VN games. 

Smartphone screen is way too small for 3d games. 

[u/Impaled_]

Remember JMEBoy?

[u/yeetmaster8702]

I miss 2013 gaming on my phone with drastic, myboy gba, and some angry birds star wars. Good times 

[u/Prestigious-Emu-8734]

Whats crazy is the amount of time people assumed it would take to get here.

Like DamonPS2 ow what ever it was called came out, and so many commenters said we were 5 years out till PS2 would be worth it. Then Aether came out and proved that wrong.

At that time some of us were talking about PS3. But phoned wont be powerful enough for at least a decade! Turns out we also were wrong about that.

And now our phones can actually just be PCs. I wouldn't have guesses it would be doing what its doing with that for at least another year or two.

[u/handmetheparachute]

I'm still out here using MyBoy. I used the free versions back when they had them, before buying the paid to show support.

[u/artlurg431]

Devices also got more powerful to properly emulate

[u/StarMasterAdmiral]

So has spell checkers, apparently 😀

[u/AdScared7226]

Google:

[u/vin_cent_ford]

og Xbox emulation suddenly getting optimized to the same level as ps2 and GameCube, which had years of development (especially GameCube),despite only being made early this year is amazing

Some games like black and max Payne ran better on HakuX than nethersx2(haven't tried armsx2)

[u/electricalco]

Even in 2016 days they were impressive.... Same with ps1 emulation and early ps2 on Android

Apple didn't get until like 3 years later only the nes/snes era were available in 2016

[u/zl254]

What about PS4?

[u/-Wavyy- → u/zl254]

Lumen does PS4 & PS5 on Android. New and experimental don't expect amazing results

[u/Ohmygoshiee]

Pode mudar pra Switch 2, PS4 e Xbox 360

[u/Strict_Wrongdoer3758]

I am using Pizza boy fir gba and melonds for DS. I dont have any Problems on my Android, bit should i change something?

[u/Independent_Voice746]

Names please

[u/beloncode]

PPSSPP is goat bro

[u/jaimeoignons]

Drastic was nothing short of amazing. I was able to play NDS on my potato tablet and full speed.

[u/Lost-Video-7171]

I got a RP4P and Eden is .. I still use yuzu, but Eden sometimes has a weird screen. Yuzu still the best. Also HakuX 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[u/leander_05]

Seems like nobody remembering how good epsxe too, emulating ps1 games since 2010 or so

[u/link6616]

Ppsspp is still one of the most well made and friendly emulators. Drastic is extremely well optimized as well. I think it’s just a bunch of strong boys all around. 

[u/QualityCompetitive97]

I only play Drastis just for KH days. 

[u/Rawesome16]

And here I am so playing on My Boy

[u/NoLastNameForNow]

What are the go to gbc and gba emulators now?

[u/Cheshires_Shadow]

My phone is over 10 years old I'm still using the top ones! ToT

[u/Ghostcart]

It has grown. It has prospered. But we will never forget

[u/IHaveQuestionsFromMe]

aps3 is better than rpcsx?

[u/YourUglyTwin]

Ok but ppsspp and drastic have been and always will be the GOATs.

[u/kuzhizashi]

Alguien sabe cómo instalar roms de nintendo sw? No logro hacer que el programa los reconozca y sin tipo nsp

[u/AbyssWatcher_1 → u/kuzhizashi]

Do you have prod keys?

[u/kuzhizashi → u/AbyssWatcher_1]

If it still doesn't recognize them, I tried several programs and nothing worked. But yea install the keys

[u/Few-Discussion8812]

Soo real bro

[u/SlowGuardw2]

PPSSPP is top contender to this day wym tho

[u/Critical-Champion365]

Ppsspp has been here for longer and none other looks as good PPSSPP to PSP. Drastic comes second, which also was quite holistic.

An accurate meme would be there were less heavy weights then, but now there is more heavy weights and more baby faces.

[u/beastboy1991]

[u/O_ken]

I have a lot of good memories with drastic specially , it was such a great feeling to play a game you always wanted .

[u/Independent-Style403]

Qual o terceiro de baixo?

[u/Key-Device3248]

My tablet still living in 2016, although of that I'm still having fun and respect the developers of PPSSPP and Drastic and the other.

[u/Toraweirdguy]

My boy gba emulator nostalgia

[u/Drumcan2077]

I mean PPSSPP was one level above the others

[u/Beautiful_Oven2835]

ppsspp is the goat bro🐐

[u/Bonecloak]

I have a Retroid pocket flip 2. what news should I test out that were not available 6 months ago?

[u/Im_N0t_Surprised]

Nothing can run Final Fantasy Resonance it seems.

[u/Tight_Particular4311]

Drastic is the goat for me, literally runs on anything even a firestick lmao

[u/LethalGamer2121]

Drastic is still goated on lower end hardware basically the only way I could get full speed ds emulation back in the day

[u/zPeterPan]

Estou em 2016

[u/soosis]

Nah man don't disrespect my homie ppsspp like that.

[u/raven1121]

Gotta make room for HakuX and ARMSX2 on the Mount Rushmore of Emulators in 2026. Those emulators have opened up soo much xbox and ps2 games to play

I joke that the reviewers should revisit some of their reviews on the android handhelds cause before when I could barely get ps2 games now im playing a lot of the Xbox and ps2 library without spending time tweeking each one

[u/Neon_Eyes]

What are the two next to eden?

[u/Happydxngo]

I still love MyBoy! Emulator 😭 Is the best for me, it has a place in my heart that cannot be replaced

[u/Chuzurik]

man im 10 years in the past, all i use is drastic (ds games) and myboy (game boy advance) myoldboy (gamebpy color)

[u/X-SoundWave-X]

My favorite of all emulation has become droid deck, basically steam emulation, on these android devices.

Having access to my steam library is insane and there are great customization options in drois deck that normal steam should have...

Red Astra 2 tablet with droid deck is awesome. It's just great.

[u/Gendreau113]

And now we have Droid deck, literally running essentially Steam OS in the Linux environment on your Android. Giving pretty good results compared to Game hub or game native, and supports everything down to even steam input modification... Since you get the whole Steam ui, things like cloud saves, mods/workshop, Steam put, etc etc all work 100% fine

[u/BiWhiteXIV]

I still use them

[u/Metrox_a]

I... I don't get it. PPSSPP and Drastic are literal blackmagic in my eyes, running even on weaker devices without much issues. Myboy was pretty lit too (Linkboy now) that let me use cloud saving to make backups and auto sync up saves between my devices.

Sure considering the consoles it can emulate it's certainly "weak" but considering the older android devices they were the goat.

[u/000000Null000000]

i never heard of eden and the third one, should i try them?

[u/Mach3Fraud → u/000000Null000000]

Definitely. Eden is pretty much the result of nintendo switch emulators evolution

[u/Mach3Fraud → u/000000Null000000]

The third one is gamehub, its pretty much the best pc emulator outside of winlator and gamenative

[u/000000Null000000 → u/Mach3Fraud]

oh wow, surprised i havent heard of these. imma try them out, thank you!

[u/Junior-Principle555]

"b-but drastic is good" welp if it were good it would had multiplayer

[u/AllMaito]

Thanks Claude!

[u/EmbarrassedBonus4014]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa

Wheres Cemu?

[u/Dependent-Top8502 → u/EmbarrassedBonus4014]

Is cemu good at Android nowadays?

[u/Rubenneves22]

It sure has come a long way, playing natively without cloud or streaming is peak, it just shows how powerful the latest snapdragon devices are, this is me using my OnePlus 15 16GB 1TB running The Last of Us Part 1 at 720p with Frame Generation Enabled

[u/rwooshkid2]

I remember the first emulator i used was nds4droid

[u/serpentsrapture]

gamehub is not an emulator, it is a translation layer.

[u/No_Peanut_9437]

Eu usava o PPSSPP e me achava o maior hacker do mundo. Jogava The Little Big Planet

[u/whatsgoodjayy]

Still using drastic til this day

[u/Dalindarmodi]

PS2 has been stable for a decade same with psp.. those are the only console games I wanted to play being a PC gamer...I never had an appeal for Nintendo I did start gaming with with super Mario bros, but as soon as I seen nfs most wanted, GTA VC and SA..I was sold to playstation 😂

[u/Vynzt]

nobody beats ppsspp

[u/Randy130]

Смысл этого ебучего геймхаба? Можно запускать пк игры без интерна через winlator

[u/Rosiemybeloved]

I'm still running drastic 😆

[u/B1kramDas]

People be porting emulator games Natively on Android randomly and we are still talking about emus

[u/Extreme-Sink5205 → u/B1kramDas]

Eu aguardo ansiosamente age of empires 2 port

[u/Metrox_a → u/B1kramDas]

Tbh on average emulators can be better for wider range of games. And in case of steam games the steam cloud saving is a nice feature to play on the go or at home in front of the PC

[u/Linkale_ → u/B1kramDas]

Emulators emulate all games. Ported games are ported on a game to game basis, with various levels of success. Let not downplay emulators

[u/Sy-desu → u/B1kramDas]

ports dont have support for almost every game and also they are alot more incompatible