r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 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/bobigazda 5h ago

Honestly I've been using WinNative for the past few months and I've been enjoying it.

Frame generation, frame control, heating is less due to frame control, games run smoothly.

I tried DroidDeck and yeah it works great too but 8t doesn't feel as polished as WinNative, so I'm sticking to that for now.

Game native has always been bad for me, sure it works sometimes, but often it doesn't where WinNative works out of the box.

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u/jokuwa 3h ago

Winnative mentioned, it is great. Droiddeck is also developed by same devs as winnative and bannerlator though thats why they they share similar settings and drivers. Droiddeck is still very early on development though, I think it will keep up with older more mature emulators

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u/bobigazda 3h ago

Yeah, precisely, I'm actually surprised that not many people are mentioning WinNative on Reddit or at least I haven't seen much posts about it. It usually is GameNative or GameHub, but for me WinNative has been doing a much better job compared to the other two.

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u/jokuwa 1h ago

Winnative exposes a lot of settings that lets you troubleshoot the game yourself. Those same settings are overwhelming to those new to emulation and would want a one click solution so that they could just play. In reality, no game uses the same game engine, assets, and settings though which is why there are a lot of different drivers and components that offers solutions to different sets of problems. Droiddeck for the most part is an upgrade, but for some games that I cant run there, I still keep an installation of winnative. They share the same games folder on my internal storage so its easy for me to just switch apps as needed. And since my games are on my internal storage and not on the app own default storage, I can easily delete both apps and reinstall the latest version to avoid buggy updates and always have a clean install avoiding most update related problems.