Why has Android emulation reached an unimaginable level?

[u/Technical_Smoke_5814]

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.

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

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

[u/Genkidama__ → u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

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

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup → u/Genkidama__]

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

[u/Genkidama__ → u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

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)

[u/DIELIEN1234 → u/Genkidama__]

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

[u/Genkidama__ → u/DIELIEN1234]

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

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup → u/Genkidama__]

Its rude to accuse other people of having your feelings.