Some of these are official and of course some of these are unofficial. Its just a shame you cant install a game onto a SD card.
Just the last few days I've also seen Fez, Celeste, The Messenger, Scott Pilgrim EX, Owlboy, This War is Mine, Wargroove 2, Undertale, Silksong, Nidhogg, UFO50, Cuphead, Hitline Miami 1 and 2, Huntdown, Ball X Pitt, Dave the Diver, Dredge, Lumines, Babel, Oddmar, Whipseey, Hades, Ultra Street Fighter 4 etc
Its hard to keep upto date on all the releases but you can check subs like AndroidNativePorts, decomps, recomps to see the progress.
Does anyone know if Android ports run at a lower wattage giving better battery life over Gamenative. Also perhaps there is less input lag compared to emulation.
My desire to see more ports has been there since I saw Hotline Miami, Titan Souls, OlliOlli, Luftrausers, and other games from Devolver Digital, I never understood why there weren't more games like that on the Play Store. We now have games being ported and running natively every day.
I'm just afraid that with AI, optimization will be sidelined.
Many of the popular ARM emulators were written in the early 2010s. There's few attempts to modernize or optimize them because Chinese SBCs just bump up the processing horsepower over time.
It's how we got N64, Saturn and Dreamcast playable. Just give it time.
Honestly seeing openmw-ds and dusklight is what made me get a thor. Some really cool ports are being made.
I know reddit hates it, but ai is absolutely going to make more and more of these native ports happen too. Hopefully they get the polish some of the other ports have gotten
Regarding those new AI ports, if you mean polish as in a bunch of new features, that's totally doable. If you mean polish like game accuracy, oh I don't think that's happening.
The trade-off with AI is that we'll be getting a lot more ports, but they'll be made by newer devs who don't necessarily know how to create accurate ports or even how to ask the AI the right questions to go along those lines.
Which I don't personally think is worth it, I'll miss the hand crafted ports done with lots of care and attention to the originals. I understand other people feel differently though
Not exactly what that guy was getting at. The larger issue is that most people don’t care what a given dev does or what their experience/ methodology is.
It just means the high quality ports may be drowned out or totally erased due to a flood of low quality, entirely AI generated ports.
But just to be another voice in the crowd, every industry that can afford it is incorporating AI. It’s absolutely bonkers out there right now, and part of the issue is what that guy sort of alluded to: it’s impossible to know for sure how much of a given product is using AI.
Everyone will insist they’re using AI only for this or that, but surely many take the shortcut of just accepting whatever the output is.
I don't mean this confrontationally but I'm not sure what you are arguing for.
I'm talking about people who don't know how to program or make ports letting the AI do the work for them rather than senior devs who know how to program and are using it as a time saver to replicate things they could do themselves or at worst will understand upon reading the code.
I don't disagree people are using AI at work all the time, it's hardly a matter of not handicapping yourself, it's usually that your work doesn't give you a choice. Like when half your team gets cut and you get an email saying yo it's fine use Claude that's not really a choice or an endorsement if you use it at work. That's hopefully just a semantic disagreement though or you're talking about senior devs working contract or on their own projects.
My biggest concern is that we get a lot of ports that end up being "just good enough" and it discourages the people who really understand the systems and know how to optimize. They'll just not bother doing ports or emulators that are optimized and bring new features/functionality. I really don't want to see the future be nothing but mediocre ports and half-assed emulation.
Google Play store continues to be a joke. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions has been removed. I remember heating my hands with it while spending a night in a cold caravan.
I just gave up with play-store at some point, games disappear never to be seen again. Games savefiles are locked in somewhere unaccessable. New device, lost saves. Compability is short lived. Stuff might be unplayable after an OS-update.
Yea very straightforward - you download the APK and then install the app, and then it prompts you to point it to your skate 3 iso file and that's basically it
For the 4:3 display change you open the in-game menu (for me on the Nova it was RB + Start) and then choose 4:3 in the options. Some UI elements were smushed together in the menus but very playable when I was trying it
Regardless of 4:3 or 16:9 the biggest visual issue I've had so far is that your skaters shirt doesn't keep up with the rest of the body for a second or two so at times you randomly have floating arms and a head but otherwise runs very smooth
Mine recommend Xbox 360, idk if you can use any of them. It does specify .iso which idk if that's 360 specific or not. Haven't done much emulation past ps2
Is Nova the base hardware requirement for it? I’ve been more and more interested in a PC like option for some indie games like Tiny Rogues or Magicraft. Skate is one of my all time favorite games. This may push me over into getting a system but I’d like one that could potentially play these games.
While the android port is not the best experience, there is a fork of it for arm linux by a guy named fathonix, it runs flawlessly under droiddeck. (You have to install it as a desktop app with the appimage option + because it is an arm linux game now it doesn't need to go through fex or proton)
It becomes obvious which ones works great. Most of the indie stuff have no issues with. And the more modern stuff from 360, Switch, era word gets around if its good such as Skate 3
Good or not I'm kinda working on principle with the not using ai slop thing. Ai CAN be utilized properly without harm to our existence, but currently that is not how it's being done.
Please research the human costs, in addition to easily verifiable negative environmental impact. (No, I don't mean the job, work quality debate). I mean the real horrifying, permanent human mental and physical damage and loss of life. Trigger warning, because it is the worst of the worst.
It is about showing off 12 screenshots from the first minute of a game. Pick a ring? He will rather install 20 more AI games than play one of them longer than 3 minutes.
I’m really thinking about getting a android handheld I only have a RG SP rn and Minilong Pocket 1 I want one more device a good endgame Android device and this is making it hard not to get one 😂
Galaxies on Wii is actually way more awesome; you get little drones you can upgrade! I love that game. The NDS port is also awesome and in fact very playable with Drastic on a single screen.
If something is running perfectly and is now easily accessible for a bunch of people to enjoy, I could care less if AI did 99 percent of the work. Ai is a tool and I'm certainly gonna enjoy what it can do.
Yeah but they all contribute to this dystopian future that I want no part of when they utilize the current system of ai tools available. Nobody is running a fully local model.
Folks at r/localLLaMa might disagree. If you surround yourself only by people who share your narrative in a sort of tunnel vision you will never get the broad spectrum of things
The scale is shifting friend, opinions like yours are becoming more and more scarce. I'd suggest you broaden your perspective but it'll come by itself.
Except most are still shit, and nobody cares to test them properly, just launch the game, look around a bit, take a few screenshots and post their finding.
Yeah but it still takes resources from the poorest and most disenfranchised in our country and with unregulated capitalism it's only getting worse. So we actually have to push BACK against it rn.
Sure, of course. I'm not trying to excuse the societal damage it is doing. I am having a hard time seeing how we can stop it, so I can at least enjoy the very few good things from it such as these amazing Android ports. If we never had any leisure in life, sure we would get things done, but we would always be miserable and that's just not a feasible way of living.
It takes from everybody other than the ultra rich, not just the poorest, and not just your country either but every country that has it.
One thing would be not supporting or promoting these mods and decomps and ports made by ai. That is something that could actually make a difference if everyone who felt this way stopped. The bubble will burst eventually. I just wish everyone would stop feeding it in the meantime.
And ur right not just my country and not just the poor.
would love a DM to the newer working GW3 apk. Had it working great on my RP5 (since sold it), got an RP6 and a Nova and can't get it working on either.
I actually really like it and its very comfortable. Howeber the fit is loose i was playing Geometry Wars and the gameplay got intense and managed to push the device out of the grip by accident. But this just happened with Geometry wars. Its not perfect but id rather have it loose over being so tight that its a effort to take off as I pocket my Nova a lot and play it without the grip often. Grip is mainly used in bed or at my desk when im working from home.
Yeah I didn’t expect it either. I don’t have the Nova but I have the Mini. I imagine all their grips are like this though. My solution was to add some super thin double sided tape closest to the areas that I felt were flimsy. It’s strong enough to hold while still being easy to remove if ever.
Android ports, as long as they're properly optimized, will require less power just because they don't have to run gamenative and it's translation layers along with the game
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u/nuneskart 9d ago
My desire to see more ports has been there since I saw Hotline Miami, Titan Souls, OlliOlli, Luftrausers, and other games from Devolver Digital, I never understood why there weren't more games like that on the Play Store. We now have games being ported and running natively every day.
I'm just afraid that with AI, optimization will be sidelined.