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As those on discord might be aware, I have been working on running SWGEmu on Android for about 6 months now (probably a year since I started looking into it but whatever), on and off cause I have no motivation.
Started looking at emulation on android. Here is what I've looked into over time.
Wine has an android derivative, but only works for programs made with an ARM version sadly.
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/
After finding that, I thought I hit a dead end, but after coming back to it recently, I found this...
https://github.com/limboemu/limbo/wiki
Limbo emu is a qemu based apk that lets you emulate entire OS's on a mobile phone. Few things though. It only lets you run on 1 CPU core, so you better have a flagship model for anywhere near a smooth experience.
Anyway I started with running windows 98, which takes a bit to boot, but runs perfectly smooth, runs all the default programs, but is fairly useless.
After that, installed windows xp, which took 2 days mind you, and, after all that, found there was no drivers to run, fun times. Still a great gimmick to show off, but it's slow af.
Now, that brings me to my current situation. I'm now attempting to get a very lightweight linux based operating system to run the game, then I can transfer that knowledge to doing so on my phone. Cause it's better to be wrong in 1 hour than 10 hours due to the lack of OS speed on a phone.
Now, my aim was to RUN SWGEmu on my phone. But it is very possible to PLAY the game on my phone.
Steam has a wonderful feature called Steam Remote Play, which lets you control your entire computer, but is focused on video game play. After adding SWGEmu.exe to Steam, with a keyboard and mouse Bluetoothed to my phone, I can play on it anywhere, as long as my desktop has internet connection and steam launched.
https://store.steampowered.com/streaming/#anywhere
I'm going to keep this thread updated, but I would LOVE help from people who actually know what they are doing, I'm stumbling my way though this with no idea what I'm doing, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Comment here or message me in discord.
Started looking at emulation on android. Here is what I've looked into over time.
Wine has an android derivative, but only works for programs made with an ARM version sadly.
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/
After finding that, I thought I hit a dead end, but after coming back to it recently, I found this...
https://github.com/limboemu/limbo/wiki
Limbo emu is a qemu based apk that lets you emulate entire OS's on a mobile phone. Few things though. It only lets you run on 1 CPU core, so you better have a flagship model for anywhere near a smooth experience.
Anyway I started with running windows 98, which takes a bit to boot, but runs perfectly smooth, runs all the default programs, but is fairly useless.
After that, installed windows xp, which took 2 days mind you, and, after all that, found there was no drivers to run, fun times. Still a great gimmick to show off, but it's slow af.
Now, that brings me to my current situation. I'm now attempting to get a very lightweight linux based operating system to run the game, then I can transfer that knowledge to doing so on my phone. Cause it's better to be wrong in 1 hour than 10 hours due to the lack of OS speed on a phone.
Now, my aim was to RUN SWGEmu on my phone. But it is very possible to PLAY the game on my phone.
Steam has a wonderful feature called Steam Remote Play, which lets you control your entire computer, but is focused on video game play. After adding SWGEmu.exe to Steam, with a keyboard and mouse Bluetoothed to my phone, I can play on it anywhere, as long as my desktop has internet connection and steam launched.
https://store.steampowered.com/streaming/#anywhere
I'm going to keep this thread updated, but I would LOVE help from people who actually know what they are doing, I'm stumbling my way though this with no idea what I'm doing, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Comment here or message me in discord.
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