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Port Android please? #1

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perdo-nober-rs opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 0 comments
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Port Android please? #1

perdo-nober-rs opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 0 comments

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Hello. I am writing you to please about porting n64 to the google Android os. i am big fan of hydra, have begane making some improvemnts to code in order to improve and give you (see fork of reposition).

I would realy love to see n64 (and hydra) on the google Android os, as it is new n64 emulator with big potential. it is unique as it runs even without vulkan, new n64 emulators dont, and doesnt have legacy code and hacks like old emulator like mupen and pj. in my country, many people have old laptop and gpu desktop like gtx 750 and the gpu cant run vulkan app. additionaly unlike mupen and pj theres no plugin and games work without need for manual plugin decisions. plus, android emulator options for n64 are very limited, i think with enough work you could have big hit n64 emulator, especially with some optimization like dynarec recompiler and gpu emu. aditionaly I think n64 could be much easier to port to android as is portable for usage with hydra, unlike emulators like pj which are terrifying to port and work not the best. i am also happy to see people using modern tooling for n64 emulation like c++ with modern c++, unlike other emulators which use old C which makes working slow and causes bugs easily. Additional I think porting n64 to android could lead to some very amazing possibles, such as support for vr with google cartboard (https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/) which would be amazing. imagine mario 64 on vr doing jumps and kiciking bob omb king. additional, many new pc hardware is now arm, like apple mac and new snapdragon chip, which i believe would make it easier to port n64 to android arm. there are many thing n64 can do that other emulators haven't quite achieved yet too, such as good support for quality life feature like action replay and gameshark cheat, built in screenshot, build in replay and video record, better music and music improvement of fidelity, upscaler and texture pack. Additional I think that compatibility is very cool for how new emulator is, and would love to see thing like nintendo 64 disk drive (commonly talked as DD) on n64 emulator. also i think maybe another cool thign to do will be somethng similar to ps1 pgxp, which adds graphical improvemnts to game by adjusting geometry operation instructions. Somethign similar in my opinion can be done on n64, but maybe would likely need some form of high emulation for the reality signal process programs. for example could take reality signal processor program and detect type, then reimplement program in C++ and insert various capabilities in C++ version like upscaler or texture replacement or geometry improvement or other. I think this would be very cool and revolutionize the n64 industry of emulators. Please tell me if I can do anything for help you with n64 emulator, i believe in you.

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