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08-17-2015, 09:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-17-2015, 09:47 PM by PCMRShadowWolf.)
Hey, you may be confused by the title, because Android is a seperate OS. Well, if you didn't know, Android is based of of Linux, and I was thinking "Hey, it might be easy to port from the Linux version to Android"
Well, it might be, if I learn C++ i'll try to port it to Android, gonna need help though.
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08-17-2015, 09:57 PM
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Android usually runs on relatively weak hardware(smartphones/tablets) that would have trouble running most PCSX2 games. So even if it was easy, this is not something worth your time right now.
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Also, it's not just a matter of learning a programming language. It's also about gaining intimate knowledge of the recompilers in order to properly reimplement them on android. I'm also not sure Android has support WxWidgets, so you might have to do a massive amount of re-writing and use a different framework like QT.
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08-17-2015, 10:15 PM
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it will be amazing playing ps2 portable ....
but i don't think it will happen :/
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This has been talked about quite a bit in the past. It just won't happen unless a completely different team forks it to Android. Which would be fine except many phones are quite weak with cpu and dealing with gpu drivers wouldn't be fun either.
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It probably wouldn't be too hard to port it to Android, the hard part is making it work on another architecture. Most Android devices have an arm processor, which would require quite a bit of new code for it to run.