Dolphin on android with openGL es 2.0 please!

Ngellus · 10-24-2022, 07:46 PM #1

Can someone help me
i am trying to run dolphin on android carmediabox

en it says my openGL isnt up to the specs

is there by any chance there is an android version that works with openGL es 2.0

much appreciated

**ExtremeDude2** · 10-25-2022, 06:38 AM #2

I believe old versions of dolphin used 2.0

**JosJuice** · (This post was last modified: 10-26-2022, 03:08 AM by JosJuice.)

(10-25-2022, 06:38 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: I believe old versions of dolphin used 2.0

Yes, but they're terrible. I don't think you can even get them running on modern Android.

You're not going to be able to play GameCube and Wii games on this device, period.

Ngellus · 10-25-2022, 07:39 AM #4

(10-25-2022, 06:38 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: I believe old versions of dolphin used 2.0

Can u tell me which one?
My kids are gonna be happy

Aprreciate it

Cherry44 · 10-25-2022, 07:58 AM #5

Don't forget that Dolphin on Android is terrible compared to PC in terms of performance.
Even on an high-end device.

**mbc07** · 10-25-2022, 09:44 AM #6

(10-25-2022, 07:58 AM)Cherry44 Wrote: Don't forget that Dolphin on Android is terrible compared to PC in terms of performance.
Even on an high-end device.

That's not the case anymore. Any recent flagship (2020 and newer) and various upper mid-range devices can play most of the GC/Wii library just fine nowadays.

Also, Ngellus, apart from the various Shield TV models NVIDIA released since 2015, I'm yet to find another Android/Google TV set-top-box in the market that meets Dolphin's minimum system requirements, since they're all running 32-bit Android and that's a big nope for Dolphin...

Ngellus · 10-25-2022, 05:37 PM #7

(10-25-2022, 09:44 AM)mbc07 Wrote: That's not the case anymore. Any recent flagship (2020 and newer) and various upper mid-range devices can play most of the GC/Wii library just fine nowadays.

Also, Ngellus, apart from the various Shield TV models NVIDIA released since 2015, I'm yet to find another Android/Google TV set-top-box in the market that meets Dolphin's minimum system requirements, since they're all running 32-bit Android and that's a big nope for Dolphin...

The android tv box is running on an 64bit android 10 system
With 4 cores and opengl 2,0
4gb ram

So of u could point me in the direction of an version that runs on these specs primarily opengl es 2.0
Ill gladly pay for it

Appreciate it

**mbc07** · 10-26-2022, 07:24 AM #8

Having a 64-bit SoC does not mean it is running a 64-bit edition of the OS. Like I mentioned, AFAICT the Shield TV is the only Android-based set-top-box running a 64-bit edition of the OS (not even Google's own Chromecast with Google TV runs a 64-bit OS).

Regarding old builds with OpenGL ES 2.0 support, they don't exist. Sonicadvance1 started working on the Android port back on his HTC Droid DNA and it only had the Software Renderer, running things at less than 1 FPS as result. He later started a donation campaign to buy a Galaxy S4, which was (at the time) the only Android device with OpenGL ES 3.0 support. The campaign succeeded, development continued and his work eventually got merged back to the main Dolphin repository. The very first public Android version of Dolphin already had OpenGL ES 3.0 as the minimum requirement.

So, TL;DR, no Android version of Dolphin with OpenGL ES 2.0 exists. None of them will work on your set-top-box...

**JosJuice** · 10-27-2022, 05:28 AM #9

(10-26-2022, 07:24 AM)mbc07 Wrote: Having a 64-bit SoC does not mean it is running a 64-bit edition of the OS. Like I mentioned, AFAICT the Shield TV is the only Android-based set-top-box running a 64-bit edition of the OS (not even Google's own Chromecast with Google TV runs a 64-bit OS).

There are other ones that have 64-bit userspace support, including the one that this person has. But none of them support OpenGL 3.0 ES as far as I know.