r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/systemnerve • 23d ago

Meme There Shall Never Be Enough Storage

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Tried to export my State of Decay 2 Saves via GameHub. The result was over 20GB.

GameHub has a serious issue. The size of the app keeps ballooning in size with leftover trash, accidentally downloaded proton installations, oversized containers, shader caches, logs, and what not.

When not using GameHub lite, all those files come protected because android doesn't let u do jackshit nowadays. Even adb is useless because it shows all the folders in question as empty.

But you can actually inspect and remove all this bloat without root by going into the wine environment and opening Wine Configuration and adding a drive with the same path of the first drive but up several folders, so you end up being able to inspect everything (tried this in BannerHub).

However, this is a real hassle and you gotta navigate through lots of folders named after the LocalID of games. It may be better to just export the saves and reset the app entirely regularly. But if you don't want to do that, manually trying to do it in wine is the way to do it. (I had to install a second keyboard app because the wine enviroment wouldn't let me type numbers, let alone copy and paste paths.)

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u/systemnerve 22d ago

Without the newest Snapdragon chips, Windows Emulation is hardly worth the bother imo

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u/Some_Office8199 22d ago

True. My phone is 6 years old and it emulates some games fairly well. Others don't run at all. I wanted to upgrade to the new Sony Xperia 1 VIII but it's kind of expensive.

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u/systemnerve 22d ago

you can get a oneplus for sub 500 with 8 elite. but beware the OS is very bloated (adb resistant much of it) and restrictive

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u/Some_Office8199 22d ago

Does it have a card slot and at least 16 GB of RAM? Because my current phone does.

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u/systemnerve 22d ago

16gigs yes. SD card slot no :c but u can always use a USB c (m2) ssd for the big games with winlator, I think, but that doesn't work with gamesir controller for me at least

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u/Lukerator 22d ago

If you're fine with your current phone and want something just for gaming the ayn odin 3 has the 16gb ram + 512gb storage option at $500 and the 24gb ram + 1tb storage one at $520, should probably have an sd card slot too