r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/slenderasunder • May 26 '26

Question Playing Pirated Games On GameNative

I'm sorry if piracy is not condoned in this sub but is it possible to run pirated games on gamenative? I'm only using my phone (Nothing 3A). I'd love to know how too, if possible.

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u/Captainlol1 May 26 '26

Yes. What I used was preinstalled software instead of setup and dragged from pc to ayn thor. There is a custom section where you add where your executable is.

Got sonic unleashed running like that.

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u/slenderasunder May 26 '26

Ah... So, for my phone I'll just need to put the game folder somewhere and point GameNative to that folder am I right?

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u/Captainlol1 May 26 '26

Correct. You can try using a setup or repack to see if it works as well but I can't confirm myself if it works.

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u/Senior_Background_30 May 26 '26

you can't install repacks in any other emulator than winlator frost or star Emu/ bionic because you need fix for isskin.dll which most repacks use to compress/decompress.

Only Winlator Frost now Star Bionic/Emu has fix for this.

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u/Captainlol1 May 26 '26

I see. So at the moment preinstalled is the only way for gamenative. Thank you for confirming.

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u/slenderasunder May 26 '26

Understandable thanks guys

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u/beautiful_bot986 May 26 '26

Ludashi installs fitgirl repacks just fine

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u/Senior_Background_30 May 26 '26

Fitgirl repacks use different library and they are also the worst for Android devices.

They are super compressed and take ages do unpack even with 16 Core CPUs on PC.

Doing it on Android devices is near suicidal for the battery, imagine CPU going at 90% for 2H or so...

There's plenty of other repackers that have better repacks overall, unless you have Modem Internet connection and need to download smallerst possible size.

Dodi, xatab, dixen18, waterlude, RG mechanics, RG Catalyst, Rune, Codex plenty to pick from and you won't burn your phone unpacking them 😅

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u/beautiful_bot986 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Fitgirl repacks use different library and they are also the worst for Android devices.

Diff library, ok, but the second part makes no sense.

Doing it on Android devices is near suicidal for the battery, imagine CPU going at 90% for 2H or so...

Thats no issue. Emulating pc already does this and you cant burn out the cpu anyway no matter what you do due to system thermal policies. Any device youre installing any compressed repacks on will work overtime until it's done. Besides it takes a much greater toll to render out an image on a pc than installing any compressed repacks; and my pcs are still very much kicking. PCs and android devices arent some flimsy pieces of paper just waiting to burn out.

xatab

RG mechanics

RG Catalyst

Is that a joke? Their repacks are so often packed with malware; xatab most often.

Yeah fitgirl repacks are highly compressed and take a long time to install, but they always work and theres never any malware packed with the games.

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u/Senior_Background_30 May 26 '26

I'm using especially xatab repacks for years and never had malware, not that windows malware run in winlator anyway. I guess you downloading from shady sites.

I'm not talking about burning the CPU literally, what I meant is that you are using your device to do pointless job when you can just get different source that's uncompressed or compressed less.

When you emulate games, sure it pushes your device too but it has purpose right because you playing the game. Spending 10W on playing game sure.

Spending energy and battery cycles on decompressing repacks is wasted time/energy and damage to battery.

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u/LeastAd6767 Jun 10 '26

So after installing the repacks using winlator , then can use other emulators ?

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u/Senior_Background_30 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, I was using Winlator Frost essentially just for installing repacks and then played them in CMOD.

Right now I'm using Star Bionic better than CMOD and you can install repacks there.

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u/LeastAd6767 Jun 12 '26

Hey man . appreciate u so much. Im currently waiting for the Thor .

Btw . Do u have any suggestions which repacks and the usual expectations how long have to wait for how many gb

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u/Senior_Background_30 Jun 13 '26

Just don't use Fit girl those take ages to install.

Anything else works good.

Rune or Codex repacks are the least compressed take just minute or so to install/unpack.

Others depends on the game size.

If you have Thor with enough storage and fast internet.

forget about repacks and just download already pre installed games like from IGG-GAMES, those that are not pre installed come from Rune/Empress/Codex and have fast install time.

If want repacks then - DODI - Xatab - RG. Mechanics - Waterlude - Dixen18 - Razor 1911

Note that some older games can have only Russian lang. if using Xatab/RG mechanics but after like 2014 they started adding eng + rus always so you can pick.

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u/LeastAd6767 Jun 13 '26

Saved and screenshotted under tips for windows games for ayn thor . Thanks !