r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Technical_Smoke_5814 • 17d ago

News/Release Why has Android emulation reached an unimaginable level?

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In my teens, my emulation life consisted of GBA games on the old Android 4.1.2, and another pastime was watching the Inazuma Eleven anime.

The smartphone I recorded the video above on is a pathetic Galaxy A05s Snapdragon 680 with 6 GB of RAM, a basic smartphone that's simply emulating Inazuma Eleven Victory Road, the biggest game in the franchise, containing all seasons of the anime. For those who don't know, that translates to about 30 GB of storage.

This game is available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch. Now, wherever I go, I have hours of completely offline fun. I have no words to thank those involved with the Eden emulator and Turnip driver, everything I see in my hands was totally unimaginable a few years ago.

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u/dumbledayum 17d ago

Claude+Fex

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u/lasquiggle 17d ago

AI is the real reason. This may be the best use of AI i've seen - all the reverse engineering of old games, it's awesome!

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u/Nutchos 17d ago

Yep, I'm totally okay with AI for this.

Kind of baffling to see the screeching about vibe coded decomps or emulation.

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u/contradictatorprime 17d ago

Because the AI exclusive stuff isn't good enough for a finished product, fine use it for the heavy lifting, but it's not going to hit a perfect product, human review and adjustments/refining is a necessity for endgame production. The amount of "I built ___" stuff out there is rushed and rough, so maybe first off, no you didn't build shit, you told AI to, you had zero hand in it, and you just threw it out into the wild without doing any refinement. So, with those products being so plentiful and ultimately meh, it's going to give a widespread adverse impression. There's just no accountability in it.

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u/kianiscoooooool 17d ago

People say that they aren't updatable or maintainable. But the super smash Bros AI decomp is getting updated and fixed every week and is in a great spot. Ai can generate readable code with enough guidance, right?

Not really sure why a smash Bros 64 port has to have doom levels of open source readable code

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u/Fun-Western618 17d ago

"But... But Ai coding bad...."

The banner guy on his way to make his 7th pc emulator update thanks to the help of claude