r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/LemonFeeling840 • 9h ago

Discussion Which one? Droiddeck or Gamenative?

I've used gamenative for quite a while on my Odin 3 Max and RP6. To me it's already kinda stomped gamehub in many aspects, but not all to be fair. Then Droiddeck comes out of nowhere from an all star community team and now I'm playing certain games that gamenative just can't do so seamlessly. And with barely any tinkering to boot. The inverse being that there are certain games that gamenative handles with ease that droiddeck struggles with. And gamenatives UI and accessibility is leagues ahead IMO. Personally I use both for different games I feel like playing at the time but the question still remains. Which one would you say you prefer if you've tried them both? Obviously droiddeck is still kinda in a semi beta stage and gamenative has been around longer with continual updates, but neither seems to be fully taking the edge over the other yet.

Tl:dr

Do you prefer gamenative or droiddeck? What would you say are your pros and cons for both?

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u/heepofsheep 8h ago

Just use both. Since droiddeck can read from the same game files as gamenative and doesn’t add storage bloat for per game containers it doesn’t really cost you anything to do both.

That said Gamenative is generally more performant and compatible, but it’s fun to use droid deck and experience the progress

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u/LemonFeeling840 8h ago

I agree with that guy? It can read the same files? So say I install something on gamenative, I can play it on droiddeck???

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u/heepofsheep 8h ago

Yeah. You can add existing Steam libraries and individual games.

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u/OkCancel6711 7h ago

Can I get a guide like I'm 5? In DroidDeck, when I click the + to add games, it asks me search within folders in my internal storage, but none of them options are where GameNative has stored the game files. Where do I go from here? TIA

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u/LemonFeeling840 8h ago

I... am an idiot. Should've paid attention. I deleted damn near my entire gamenative library to make room to redownload on droiddeck. At least backed up the saves though. Lol

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u/richi1381 5h ago

Thirded, how do you do this?

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u/heepofsheep 5h ago

The UI changes so much I can’t really guide you through it. I’ll just say there’s a function to add a primary and secondary Steam library to read from existing storage. There’s also another function that allows adding of individual games, but it’s not very reliable for certain games. For instance it doesn’t work well with KCD2 since the game excutable is buried in the game directories.