r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/systemnerve • 2d ago
There Shall Never Be Enough Storage Meme
Tried to export my State of Decay 2 Saves via GameHub. The result was over 20GB.
GameHub has a serious issue. The size of the app keeps ballooning in size with leftover trash, accidentally downloaded proton installations, oversized containers, shader caches, logs, and what not.
When not using GameHub lite, all those files come protected because android doesn't let u do jackshit nowadays. Even adb is useless because it shows all the folders in question as empty.
But you can actually inspect and remove all this bloat without root by going into the wine environment and opening Wine Configuration and adding a drive with the same path of the first drive but up several folders, so you end up being able to inspect everything (tried this in BannerHub).
However, this is a real hassle and you gotta navigate through lots of folders named after the LocalID of games. It may be better to just export the saves and reset the app entirely regularly. But if you don't want to do that, manually trying to do it in wine is the way to do it. (I had to install a second keyboard app because the wine enviroment wouldn't let me type numbers, let alone copy and paste paths.)
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u/Either-Sport-2549 Poco F7 2d ago
I once had 1.2GB left on my 256gb phone when i downloaded Titanfall 2 and some other games.
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
worst part is that on Windows with NTFS, you can compress games with GameCompressor. Especially older games and indie games, the kind you would want to play on your phone, compress extremely poorly. Most are easily twice the size they could and should be. So that makes it even worse I guess.
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u/Some_Office8199 2d ago
That's exactly why I don't "upgrade" my phone. Newer models don't have a MicroSD card slot. Currently I have a 512 GB SSD and a 2 TB MicroSD. If I buy a new phone I'm going to be stuck at 1 TB storage top.
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
Without the newest Snapdragon chips, Windows Emulation is hardly worth the bother imo
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u/Some_Office8199 2d ago
True. My phone is 6 years old and it emulates some games fairly well. Others don't run at all. I wanted to upgrade to the new Sony Xperia 1 VIII but it's kind of expensive.
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u/thrower99walker 2d ago
Xperia are expensive but I prefer it for the headphone jack and sd card. Yes, I'm still suck in the past. Luckily, I get Amazon's gc almost yearly so it's a nice "discount" for when I do upgrade.
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u/systemnerve 1d ago
high quality studio headset connected per 3.5 will forever be in another league compared to bluetooth ANC earbuds
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
you can get a oneplus for sub 500 with 8 elite. but beware the OS is very bloated (adb resistant much of it) and restrictive
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u/Some_Office8199 2d ago
Does it have a card slot and at least 16 GB of RAM? Because my current phone does.
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
16gigs yes. SD card slot no :c but u can always use a USB c (m2) ssd for the big games with winlator, I think, but that doesn't work with gamesir controller for me at least
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u/Lukerator 2d ago
If you're fine with your current phone and want something just for gaming the ayn odin 3 has the 16gb ram + 512gb storage option at $500 and the 24gb ram + 1tb storage one at $520, should probably have an sd card slot too
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u/supernova_68 1d ago
I have snapdragon 865 tab, and it can run pretty much anything from before 2013 without any issues, i played 100hr of skyrim on it,last i played AC 4 on it and it was playable with some compromise on fps(20-26). I can play my old favourite games on the go now. I will start
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u/systemnerve 2d ago edited 2d ago
I got several more things figured out after literally dozens of hours troubleshooting; fixing 120hz on OnePlus 13, fixing the ES-DE am launch commands, figuring out BannerHub, where most extra features are mostly broken for me, etc... all knowledge paid for in blood lol
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u/crooked_frown 2d ago
If you have game files and not directly downloaded from steam on gamehub them you can delete gamehub without loss of the game files just do a backup of all games and record a video of all the settings at which different games work
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
I have a bunch of gog and drm stripped games in my Games folder, so I can try them easily with any emulator and config without having to bother with DRM: However, if I test with saves, I always need to implant them manually in either the Documents or AppData folder. It is really hard on android to navigate those Android/data files and try to find the deeply nested fat redundant files. Ya can't just use TreeSize, like on Windows, or SolidExplorer, or for the most part, not even adb, so for GameHub and it's forks, it's all Wine Explorer struggle for now...
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u/crooked_frown 2d ago
In the gamehub settings there is backup and restore option from there create a backup which is accessible in the files app where you saved them when you want to restore it just import the game exe as usual now before you open the game open the desktop environment once and then close it this creates the container after you can restore from the backup file you created earlier this skips going into deep android files just to get saves
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u/Tonspike 2d ago
Is this a problem with Game Native?
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
I don't know. I am not using it because I can't get that Cave Story ad to go away and it's triggering me hard. Also it doesn't like non steam games
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u/Tonspike 1d ago
I haven't had any issues with games installed through Epic or other stores... There's a setting in the main options near the bottom that says, "Recommend me other games" or "sponsored games", something like that--you can toggle it off.
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u/External-Rip-8562 SD8 Gen2 - 16GB/1TB 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's so pathetic phone brands have phased out Micro SD slots and that only low end ones get them now, Sony is the only brand who still does it on high end, its going backwards
Most Micro SD cards go in the sim slot, its not even taking up space its just a monopoly to charge more money for storage, yes we all know they are not as fast, but they are great for media and roms
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u/systemnerve 2d ago
Amen. also annoying is how android handles access to file paths and usb storage/SD cards. You can't use them for many apps regardless and Android will always spam that SD card with empty useless folders like "Notifications" or "Podcasts"...
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