Games :: Slow Emulation On G1
Nov 13, 2008
There has been discussion on other boards, but emulators and game ports may take a while and depend on if Android is opened for some native code access. The author of my favorite WM emulator, Smartgear (great multi system emu for NES, GBC and Turbografx and Sega) has told me that the "Java" layer is required, so not only do you have to emulate the game systems, you have to also interpret the "Java" layer and this results in slow emulation even on the G1. He wants to release a port of his emu to Android, but says it will not happen until Android has native code access. Coreplayer is another program that is having issues due to Java on Android. They want to port the their media app but state that there is currently too much cpu overhead because any codec not native to the OS ALSO has to go through the "Java" layer. If all things stay constant, this does not mean there will not be emulators, but it does likely mean that even a Gamboy emu will be slow on the G1 or any other Android device. I put quotes around Java, because the container in the OS is more a hybrid of Java, but the cpu overhead is still the same. We will probably not see Doom, Quake, MAME or any full speed emulator with sound until Google opens the OS up to some native code access. Google demoed Quake, but it apparently did not go through the Java layer restriction. I would like to know if they used the SDK or used code native to the cpu. I tend to believe others that the OS will be opened up more by Google, but how long will this take?
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Nov 12, 2010
So it's that wonderul time again for me to renew my tmobile service and get a new phone, and i've narrowed it down to the mytouch slide and the samsung vibrant. Now I just want to get some opinions on which you all think would be better for emulation. The issues I see are:
The vibrant doesn't have a physical keyboard which is much more preferrable than touch controls. On the other hand, it has a really large screen which might make touch controls more usable (i've only played emulators on an iphone 3g)
The mytouch DOES have a keyboard, but has a significantly slower processor (on paper), and therefore might not run emulators as well.
What do you guys think? Anyone with emulator experience on either phone? Is the vibrant touch screen good for controls? If not, is the mytouch powerful enough run emulators as well as the vibrant?
Just as a side note, in all other areas I like the vibrant better, so if the mytouch is overall better for emulation, but only by a small margin, i'll go with the vibrant.
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Aug 17, 2010
Anybody know if there is anyway of having multiplayer games on android emulators? i have seen that it is possible on the pc emulators... surely is do-able on android?
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May 26, 2010
Just found out that there's a working PSX emulator for the HTC HD2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raLRAP9KuPk
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Jun 2, 2010
There should hopefully be a working version out soon that will carry on working when my Desire gets the 2.2 update in the next couple of months. There's not loads of games out yet for ScummVM, but one in particular I'm really looking forward to is Full Throttle. A really cool game at the time and to be able to play on my Desire will be totally awesome. Any one else looking forward to ScummVM? or if you know of any other Android Emulation projects?
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Jun 4, 2010
I just finished what I hope is the ultimate guide to emulation on Android. I've basically fine-combed the Market and done my best to map out what the Android platform currently has to offer when it comes to retro video game console and home computer emulation. Various Nintendo consoles are covered, of course, as well as Sega, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, TurboGrafx-16 et cetera.
The only emulators I've ignored are those with an average rating below 3. Now to my question: did I miss any good emulators? There might be emulator projects for Android on the web that are not available on the Market? Such as ScummVM, for example, although technically it might not qualify as an emulator. Is there a PlayStation emulator for Android?
Here's the link to the guide if you want to check it out:
The Definitive Guide to Emulation on Android: Play Nintendo, Sega, C64, Amiga and More
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Dec 11, 2009
As I am new to the Droid world are these apps the way to go for good emulation on the Droid? is the developer coming out with regular updates for these as needed and such?
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Dec 22, 2009
Hello from Russia. We need help. Tell me how you do things with 3D games? We have a Samsung I5700 with the same processor. But the game slow down. We need a file from your device libhgl.
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Jun 28, 2010
With 160,000 activations per day, it seems like a lot of us are using android devices, but there aren't many great or addictive games like there are on the iphone. Anyone have any reasons why?
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Feb 7, 2010
Do you know how to make all this big games fast? i turned off sound but still the same. what to do?
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Jul 6, 2013
i have bought a s3 clone gt-i9300 and when i play games swipe touch is slow responding
like i play subway surfers it takes time in switching lanes
phone specifications are given below
name- S3 Clone
android- 4.1.1
model- gt-i9300
firmware- sp6820a
cpu- sp6820a
speadtrum phone- sc8810
i m uploading my boot imaGE for your reference
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Apr 28, 2009
I am currently trying to simulate GPS fixs with android emulator, but I encountered some problems. I can run the app, clic on the send button in the emulator control, but, only the first click provides a position. I am running an ubuntu jaunty, eclipse and SDK 1.5, on a french system with the locale EN_US
Here is my code :...........
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Jul 6, 2010
What's it like on the SGS? I have an iPhone 3g now and have had an iPhone for 29months, getting a bit old. I'm just playing around with GBA Emulation on it now and really like the idea. I guess the screen on the SGS would be an advantage, it's this or an iPhone 4. Advantage being I can get an iPhone 4 for a 12mo contract, and make a profit over that contract compared to what I'm paying now, even with the cost of the handset. But the SGS seems like a superb phone and I'm a bit bored of iOS. Is there anyway to revert the SGS to stock android? So you could just update to Froyo whenever? What are the really cool things about the phone?
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Aug 19, 2009
I'm developing a new game and have been having inconsistencies between the device and emulator. The biggest one for me right now is that the elements I draw with an orthographic projection work correctly on the device, but are 1/2 the size on the emulator. I've checked and rechecked the code 100 times and I'm positive I've done it right but am confused as to why I'm seeing that result. I suppose I could go forward doing ALL testing on a device - and I may have to, seeing that the emulator's frame rate is horribly slow - but I was hoping that I could do some of the work on it at least.
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Oct 9, 2012
Ive been learning to build roms and ive created a few of my own but im tired of taking up so much space on my phone and flashing multiple roms. I want to know if there is an Android ROM Emulator that i can run on windows 7 to test the rom before i flash it,
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Sep 11, 2010
For years now I've maintained a Tandy Color Computer Emulator applet on my home page. With the purchase of an Incredible I decided to do a port. Getting it going in Android didn't take long but I'm really surprised how slow it runs. You can literally see the pixels painting. I know there are other successful Android emulators so I must be doing something wrong.
My approach was to use a SurfaceView for rendering. There's a separate thread that runs a virtual 6809 CPU. Whenever that thread updates the emulated video memory, it calls SurfaceHolder.lockCanvas() with a Rect describing the part of the screen requiring a repaint. Then it calls the gfx routines with the resulting Canvas...this is where I did a repaint() in AWT/Swing. The gfx routines are smart enough to just render what's in the clipRect. Perhaps I'm still stuck in AWT but I can't think of any way to make this thing run at an acceptable speed. I tried to coalesce the gfx calls but that didn't work either. Any thoughts?
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May 2, 2013
My phone has alot of build in memory, so it emulates an SD card. But that runs out of space fast.
I have an SD card in it now, but it's mounted as sdcard2.
Can I disable the emulated SD card and make it goto the real sd card?
I can't move apps to the sd card because the sd card is emulated. Programs like link2sd don't give me the option to choose where I want to install to. It just chooses /mnt/sd card, which is the emulated card, not /mnt/sdcard2, which is the real one.
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Mar 14, 2013
I use a bluetooth keyboard to type papers on, and was wondering if it's possible to use it in say SNES9x+ES or Mupen64AE or emulators in general? I'm currently waiting on a replacement keyboard from Sony so I can't test my emulators with it, if they can be used for emulators.
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Feb 1, 2010
Please could anyone tell how to best set up an emulation of the Motorola Droid within Eclipse?
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Aug 26, 2010
I got my x on launch day no root no 2.2 all stock .well i've been noticing its getting slower don't have much installed only about 10 apps. The browser will start and then stop when u tell it to go somewere then after a dew sec it takes back off. Text message when u bring it up it takes about 10 sec to load then another lag to start typing and there wont be any old messages in box and when they do finally come up u can't scroll threw the old ones.
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Feb 22, 2010
I'm trying out the network speed emulation as described in the following link: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#net...
But is doesn't work, although "network status" command shows the correct values... I know it doesn't work by writing code to monitor the eth0 device in /proc/self/dev/dev, whatever speed I set, it seems always use maximum speed available to the host machine.
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Nov 13, 2009
Is there any games like Farm Frenzy, or any tycoon games like Lemonade Tycoon ?
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Jul 10, 2010
Seriously, emulation is not good for performance, but most roms running on gensoid look and play better that games developed for Android. Sonic 3 looks lovely, runs at 60fps and never stutters. It even seems to look higher rez than most Android apps.Android platformer games are nowhere near as good looking or smooth.So what the hell is going on? The hardware on top end Android phones (Desire, galaxy etc) is clearly capable.
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Jul 3, 2010
I came from the iphone and there are tons of great games now I'm having trouble finding a decent golf game or rot game. Are there any out there?
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Dec 17, 2009
I'm trying to get started with Android development.
I'm using eclipse on Linux and using a Pentium IV @3.2Gh with 1GB of ram.
I've just followed the "hello android" howto, with just one sad result: the virtualization is too slow.
It seems that launching the virtual machine has to be slow, and it will be slow even if I'll use a better computer.
With slow I mean it takes almost 10 minutes to see "hello android" and if I change it to "hello world" it takes an other 10 minutes...
How can I solve it? Is it possible to make eclipse load again my app in the current and running virtual machine without opening a new one?
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May 13, 2010
Apparently EA is bringing NFS to android! Engadget say it was demoed on the EVO yesterday. Are there any videos on the net of it? Also this might well mean we'll be seeing more high profile games coming to Android!
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Jun 10, 2010
I really like the PC flash game called castle clout "http://www.maxgames.com/game/castle-clout.html" and the iphone game "angry birds" http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/angry-birds/id343200656?mt=8" basically a game that u launch objects into structures and try to destroy them.. i was hoping android would have such a game when i bought my new EVO
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Jul 25, 2010
I'm very new to the android phone's (Just got my HTC hero three days ago.) and I was wondering, are there any good resident evil games for the htc Hero? I've seen some awesome one's on iphone and I used to have some fun Resi games on my old E71.
While I'm on the subject of gaming I have also downloaded the snesoid light and find the music and gaming a little sluggish. Is this just how it is or is there anything I can do to sort that? Would the full paid version work any better?
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Sep 27, 2010
I am looking for a game like Leisure Suit Larry or Broken Sword or Space Quest. My old WM6.5 Touch Pro2 ran these great, this phone could be much better! Would love to play these games again.
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Sep 21, 2010
It appears Camel Games is now giving these three games away. I'm also left wondering what happened to their other games such as Super Tumble, as only the Lite version is left. Maybe that's going free, too? Hyper Jump is also missing from my latest search (whereas the Lite version is there). I'm somewhat in shock as these are some quality games!? Hopefully we'll find out the full story soon.
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