Vibeusu/wollymonjac, on porting Gangstar Miami Vindication to a Miyoo... - Vibeus
u/wollymonjac, on porting Gangstar Miami Vindication to a Miyoo Mini v2 with Opus 5.5:
I remember playing a GTA VC clone called Gangstar Miami Vindication on early Androids, so I had Opus 5.5 port it to my Miyoo Mini v2.
The game's original code runs directly on the Miyoo, since it has an ARM processor like Android phones.
It faked the Android side the game needs, rewrote the Java parts and around 230 Java functions in C++, so the game thinks it's on a phone.
The Miyoo has no 3D chip, so it wrote its own version of Android's OpenGL ES that runs on the CPU and draws the whole open world.
One core runs the game and the other draws. The FPS is about 15-20 which is higher than it ran on old budget Android phones back in the day. Insane.