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This emulator is the worst thing on my phone
11-22-2017, 02:38 AM
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So, as a long time Dolphin user, I have certain expectation for this project.  My new phone, the exquisite One Plus 5 (or six, in layman's terms) runs all of my programs way better thanks to the super fast SnapDragon 835 which could probably run Crisis 2 at max settings if those cowards would port it to phones.

But, everyone knows older games are way better than new games, so, I was most excited to use Dolphin.

My experience was dreadful.  First of all, what the hell is that thing in the google play store.  It's almost like you don't care about Android users.  Sad.

After going through the hardship of having to install it manually, and tainting my phone by entering dev mode, I finally got my chance to use Dolphin.

What the hell is this?


My Pentium III in 2004 could run Dolphin better than this state of the art phone with flawless GLES drivers that have no bugs whatsoever.  What is your excuse, developers?  What the hell is your excuse for this travesty.  Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 barely runs and crashes a lot.  The Wind Waker, an old game that even a GameCube (a system released in 2001!) could run with ease lags at key moments on a device released in 2017.

Also, why do I have to use your "buttons?" while configuring my controls?  I have a touchscreen, just let me use that to click the options I want like in everything else on my phone.  You just need to think a little and you could make this so much better!

Meanwhile, I'm sure if RPSC3 were ported to Android devices it'd run full speed and have great features like this, because those developers don't hate their users, like you obviously do by purposefully making a shitty version of the emulator.  Why not just make it faster and accurate like the desktop version?  Despite you obviously not caring, I'm going to continue posting on this forum because I know I know more than the people actually developing the emulator even though I've never really coded anything in my life and have no idea how a GameCube emulator actually works.
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11-22-2017, 02:42 AM
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We just need to set ANDROID_DOLPHIN_AWESOME enum to 1 in magic.h as noted here:

https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-emulator-not-work?pid=456481#pid456481

Can you try setting that and seeing if that makes all of your games run at 1080pizza and 69 fps?
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11-22-2017, 02:44 AM
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(11-22-2017, 02:38 AM)JMC47 Wrote:  It's almost like you don't care about Android users.

I think you're right here. We actually don't care about Android users.
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11-22-2017, 02:58 AM
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Well, we care more than whoever manages Qualcomm's driver-writing department. Then again, it seems like Android GPU driver quality was of greater concern to the average caveman than the most passionate Qualcomm employee.
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11-22-2017, 04:38 AM
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Think about it - how are we going to sell the latest phone is people realize that the one they had 5 years ago worked perfectly well?

So SoC and GPU vendors pay a number of people to infiltrate projects such as this, intentionally writing slow, buggy code to make their perfectly good previous-generation phone start to feel slower and slower over time. Done correctly, this is gradual enough that you can never *quite* be sure if it was always this slow.

The whole industry is a scam! Wake up sheeple!
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11-22-2017, 05:25 AM
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Even if the emulator optimized, it wouldn't make so much difference because ARM architecture is absurdly inferior to conventional desktops CPUs.

(11-22-2017, 02:38 AM)JMC47 Wrote: Meanwhile, I'm sure if RPSC3 were ported to Android devices it'd run full speed and have great features like this, because those developers don't hate their users, like you obviously do by purposefully making a shitty version of the emulator.  Why not just make it faster and accurate like the desktop version?  Despite you obviously not caring, I'm going to continue posting on this forum because I know I know more than the people actually developing the emulator even though I've never really coded anything in my life and have no idea how a GameCube emulator actually works.

Is this serious? O-O
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11-22-2017, 05:27 AM
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Of course.
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11-22-2017, 05:48 AM (This post was last modified: 11-22-2017, 05:49 AM by DarkHacker.)
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(11-22-2017, 05:27 AM)Helios Wrote: Of course.

That's odd...

I thought JMC47 was a smart guy.

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11-22-2017, 06:02 AM
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I'm an android user now unfortunately.
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11-22-2017, 06:55 AM
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(11-22-2017, 04:38 AM)JonnyH Wrote: So SoC and GPU vendors pay a number of people to infiltrate projects such as this, intentionally writing slow, buggy code to make their perfectly good previous-generation phone start to feel slower and slower over time. Done correctly, this is gradual enough that you can never *quite* be sure if it was always this slow.

Please stop that. Else people will look how well dolphin run on older device and maybe they'll find some video of mario kart double dash running very fine on a very old chromebook from 2013. It shows the same 90% emulation speed as recent builds on recent devices. We are supposed to tell people that dolphin will run perfect on the "next gneration" all the time.
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