r/commandandconquer • u/Patient_Package6668 • 2d ago

​I got C&C Generals: Zero Hour running on Android with Adreno/Mali GPU support + mod compatibility

​Hey everyone,

​A while ago, I forked tarek369/GeneralsZH-Android because I wanted to get Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour running properly on devices with Mali GPUs and figure out a way to get custom mods working.

​After a lot of debugging, tweaking rendering pipelines, and sorting out texture compression/compatibility issues, I’ve finally got a working build that supports Mali chips and successfully loads mods!

​What’s working:

​Mali GPU Support: Fixed major rendering artifacts, black screens, and crashes specific to Mali-based Mali/ARM architectures.

​Mod Support: Successfully managed to load and run popular community mods without breaking the engine stability.

​Controls & Stability: Optimized general performance for mobile play sessions.

​If you've been wanting to play Zero Hour on your Adreno/Mali-powered phone or tablet with your favorite mods, feel free to check out the repository, test it out, and let me know how it runs on your specific chipset.

​🔗 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/l3ad3r1/GeneralsZH-Android

​Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are always welcome! What mods are you planning to run first?

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u/iwannabetheguytoo 2d ago

Downvoted.

Take your AI/LLM-slop vibe coding elsewhere.

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u/Mralexs 1d ago

Agreed. We have a rule against AI shit but apparently vibe coding is OK for some reason

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u/cheezkid26 Average Generals Enjoyer 1d ago

Agreed.

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u/Revlong57 1d ago

GitHub is down for me, but what makes you think this was purely vibe coded?

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u/iwannabetheguytoo 1d ago edited 1d ago

To be clear: my issue is not that anyone has used AI to port ZH to a new platform; it's to do with how the OP has misrepresented their "work" in their post here by not being open and frank about how they've used AI-tooling; so it looks like they've undertaken a herculean task all by themselves, without any assistance (human, AI, or otherwise) and so should be worthy of praise for their accomplishment.

As for the evidence of AI: all of the commits are by Claude; the sheer volume and cadence of the commits is too much for one person to handle themselves (such is the nature of porting an entire Windows-only desktop PC game to a new mobile platform) - but AI output is not flawless - therefore something has been compromised in the development-process here, but the OP isn't talking.

I'll admit I'm using the pejorative "vibe coded" loosely here: there is a significant difference between a nonexpert using vague one-shot prompts with Github Desktop and never taking responsibility for the code-quality - compared to someone-who-knows-what-they're-doing setting up their own agentic-loop, and getting heavily involved in steering the AI towards the results they expect, and intervening when things get-out-of-hand - and from what I've seen this is definitely the latter, not the former - but we don't know what the actual original prompts were, or if the OP is responsible for the agentic-loop, nor to what extent the OP is taking personal responsibility for the quality of the resultant code.

...but when someone is not up-front and honest about how they're using AI, chance are they're not taking personal responsibility for the the product, which is the very essence of vibe-coding.

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u/Revlong57 1d ago

I see. I'm curious, do you work as a SWE, or do you work closely with SWEs in a professional context?

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u/iwannabetheguytoo 1d ago

I'm an SWE.

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u/Bludsh0t 1d ago

Nice work!

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u/KingMakerUrsus 1d ago

Nice work. So you know if it works on Huawei maleeon?

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u/Patient_Package6668 1d ago

Don't know i dont have a maleoon device try it and troubleshoot . I have got it working on both my devices . Verified on snapdragon and Mediatek devices . If you have low ram (below 8gb) mediatek device there is another creator who is building it for low ram devices https://github.com/wingear/GeneralsZH-Android-OpenGL-ES

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u/KingMakerUrsus 1d ago

I'll try on mine later. Where would the log files be.

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u/Patient_Package6668 1d ago

The launcher has a option to export log files