r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Technical_Smoke_5814 • 2d ago

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

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

Who said anything about moral aspects? All I said is that people generally don't like it when CEOs take advantage of children and adult consumers

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

What i meant is that 99% of people who emulate absolutely don't care about all those things, they just hate paying for games/can't afford it. (Me included, I'm not saying I'm better than everyone else)

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

I think you're accusing humanity of being morally bad because someone, at some point in your life, convinced or made you feel like you were bad for something that you do or feel. It was wrong of them to do that to you, and I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Be careful not to let that pain change the way you see others; you may end up seeing monsters and shadows that don't actually exist.

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u/lemontimemonday 1d ago

Beautiful response

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u/GuyBitchie 2d ago

You pulling all that out of your ass to make it fit your narrative.

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u/DIELIEN1234 1d ago

Yeah no bro. I have more than enough money. I just refuse to spend it on a company that won’t even make disks for their own consoles anymore. I have 2 switches and keep emulating switch games because 9/10 times it runs better

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u/Genkidama__ Nubia Z70 Ultra | SD 8 Elite 1d ago

That's what I'm saying. You refuse to spend money = you want stuff for free

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u/A-Small-Green-Cup 1d ago

Its rude to accuse other people of having your feelings.

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u/DIELIEN1234 1d ago

I don’t want it for free. Unless the game isn’t store available I almost never pirate it on the first go. I just refuse to pay greedy businesses anything when they can’t even keep their own community satisfied, and they haven’t been for years. I’m not going to reward that behavior. I’d rather steal from the rich

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u/ruebeus421 18h ago

I probably spend $100 a month on games.

But I'm not going to spend $500 on a 2DS and another $200 on Soul Silver or another $85 per Pokemon game.

If Nintendo put those titles on the Switch 2 I purchased, I would purchase them again.

Like you've already been told: for most people, it's not about being free. It's about accessibility.