(02-20-2018, 06:48 PM)mstreurman Wrote: 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.
You're greatly underestimating the amount of people who want a gaming phone, as well as the people who prefer gaming on their phone than sitting in front of a computer screen.
Look at those PS1 emulators on the playstore. PS1 has such outdated graphics that even with the best gameplay the only people who'd want to play its games are nostalgic ones, and look at just one of the paid emulators, ePSXe, it has more than half a million purchases.
Do you think a real working PS2 emulator will get anything short of millions of purchases if it is proven to work?
Btw DamonPS2 does steal lots of code from PCSX2, but bringing an emulator to Android is an entirely different powerlevel. What they have accomplished up till now has to have taken them years of work. PCSX2 themselves thought an android version was impossible.
Whether they'll continue the project or give up we'll have to see.