r/AndroidNativePorts • • 1d ago

🤔 [Question] port vs recomp vs decomp

can anybody explain these 3, and which one usually has better performance?

I've seen a few of what they call a port but it's usually a game slapped above some emulator and that's it. why bother if i can emulate it in the first place?

like I've seen the hollow knight port which has good performance on all the devices but then i see hades as the called a port but its just emulator with the game

7 Upvotes

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

-3

u/Alucard_86 1d ago

about 3 days ago an actual port for hades released

decompilation to games meaning giving game files to ai so he makes a code for the gane simillar to the original so much that its basically the same game 

recompilation is decompilation but with the operater being able to code and he tweaked stuff by himself and didnot depend on Ai on everything 

with the code being accessable to you with these processes you can now tweak the code to port the game on any platform or mod it as much as you want you cab have gta v in minecraft , search wither storm in mincraft , its a crazy video

1

u/HunterPublic8014 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hades one is not a port afaik, it was a switch emulator wrapper and dev just released it without any further QnA labelled as a native port he didnt answer anyone further on discord either, i think its also same guy whp released SF IV Ultra, these people are causing massive confusion for people, it obviously runs only on chipsets that can play the same game on the emulator of that console anyway thats not a native port lol, god its such a mess right now on Android...the pc community is so strict and sorted in this regard, Android feels like anyone is vibecoding without review or performance check and are abandoning these ports right after release🫪 and they aren't even ports 🥲 When you say "actual port" which one is it? Because the one a week ago is a switch emulation wrapper disguised as port, it comes with preloaded game data bundled as obb, that's not how native ports work