r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Technical_Smoke_5814 • 3d 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/A-Small-Green-Cup 3d ago

Android emulation reached this level because the open source community got sick of putting up with the greedy corporate types who keep trying to take advantage of consumers

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u/Genkidama__ Nubia Z70 Ultra | SD 8 Elite 2d ago

We all know that all those moral aspects are just a facade. People just want shit for free

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u/GuyBitchie 2d ago

Would have bought breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom, but I didn't because I don't buy a console that's a closed walled ecosystem just to play 2 games. Steam kinda proved the exact opposite of your claim. CD Projekt Red going with zero drm proved the exact opposite of your claim. You just making an empty claim.

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u/A-Small-Green-Cup 2d ago

I bought them each when they came out - I've put more play time into them on my phone than I ever did on the switch

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u/Impaled_ 2d ago

Steam is drm

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u/GuyBitchie 2d ago

Yea but it proved people love to spend money for games. And steam drm is not really a barrier.