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I used to use iOS, and there was a great emulator called "Delta". It was open source and free, and it was so easy to add games to it's library. Is there such an app for Android? I would very much like it if the app was open source and free.

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[–] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I tedted both, my brief summary:

  • iOS sucks for retro gaming. Possible but tedious (In general, i am an iOS person, but gaming made me consider android.)

  • android emulation is more versatile snd allows for tweaking, which is required for many hardware/game/emulation mixtures --Retroarch works best up to 16 bit systems --N64 and up works best with dedicated emulators (mupen64 plus FZ, Dolphin, duckstation, aethersx2)

Maybe this helps you.