(02-20-2018, 11:31 AM)Haze89 Wrote: I personally think the dolphin team should consider charging for the app and making more efficient build changes. Part of the reason many people bought snapdragon 835 phones or what contributed to the Galaxy s8s huge success was the ability to bring GameCube and Wii to their mobile phones. Part of the reason why people choose Android over iOS is mainly for the emulators and gaming. There are other benefits as well like the camera and hardware. It's a little disheartening to hear that most dolphin developers push Android to the side like it's not worth looking over. The dolphin dev team can always keep their full time gigs and keep the Android as a part time gigs that is paid! The new emulator damonps2 is crap and yet gets so many sales because they understand Android is exponentially growing in fan base with emulation as part of the reason for that. It is also getting increasingly harder to pirate apps on the Google play store because of improved license security. Side loaders and apps like parallel space or lucky patcher would not work with a lot of paid apps on the play store.
Huge misconceptions here, people do not buy any phone for emulation, there are people that do research for the fastest phone for emulation but that is like 0.01% of the phone's userbase.
The "new" emulator "DamonPS2" is a paid fork of PCSX2 that was stolen from them and suddenly asked money for, they do not distribute the sourcecode (As is needed by the license used by them) nor do they acknowledge the original creators. Also the "creator" of DamonPS2 doesn't give a crap about his users, the only thing he gives a crap about is money. Just read up on PCSX2.net page where they wrote a nice blog about it. He made 5 "updates" and the only thing he did was make some of the configuration options available in the desktop version of PCSX2 visible in the Android UI, and updated that all of a sudden the amount of perfectly playable games went from 15% to 25% of the library... (close to impossible)
Oh btw: According to the Play Store DamonPS2 has a WHOPPING 5000 to 5999 downloads.... and that is with 20 Million Samsung Galaxy S8 (plus/edge) sales and then we are not even talking about different brands and phones. (source: https://wccftech.com/galaxy-s8-20-million-units-second-quarter/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.damonplay.damonps2.pro.ppsspp)
The reason why people "flock" to emulators is just the state of games on any mobile device: either you get paid2win microtransaction crap, tap and wait games, games that are riddled with ads that make it completely unplayable, plain shovelware or developers that think people are willing to pay $20 for a crappy shitty match 3 game.
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