Yall Into Emulation/Rom Hacks/Mods? The Thread

Another emulation adjacent post. I found a new app on Android that basically lets you search/download/play just about any flash game ever. It’s called Swiff!
Here’s the features:

• ⁠Over 100k of flash content available! Just click Download and Play! (Huge thanks to the Flashpoint Archive)
• ⁠On-Screen controls for keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Gamepad mapping to keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Offline proxy to trick games into thinking they are running on their official websites.
• ⁠Frontend and Android shortcuts support (including automatic frontend syncing)
• ⁠Export your savefiles to a custom folder (for syncing with apps like Syncthing)
• ⁠Custom SWF content importing (Custom games support every feature Swiff has to offer)


github.com

GitHub - NaviVani-dev/Swiff: Flash games and animations on Android

Flash games and animations on Android. Contribute to NaviVani-dev/Swiff development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

I had to download QWOP to restore the vibes one time.
 
Eyerone said:
Another emulation adjacent post. I found a new app on Android that basically lets you search/download/play just about any flash game ever. It’s called Swiff!
Here’s the features:

• ⁠Over 100k of flash content available! Just click Download and Play! (Huge thanks to the Flashpoint Archive)
• ⁠On-Screen controls for keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Gamepad mapping to keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Offline proxy to trick games into thinking they are running on their official websites.
• ⁠Frontend and Android shortcuts support (including automatic frontend syncing)
• ⁠Export your savefiles to a custom folder (for syncing with apps like Syncthing)
• ⁠Custom SWF content importing (Custom games support every feature Swiff has to offer)


github.com

GitHub - NaviVani-dev/Swiff: Flash games and animations on Android

Flash games and animations on Android. Contribute to NaviVani-dev/Swiff development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

I had to download QWOP to restore the vibes one time.
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See, this is some shit that's needed for the PC. So many games were lost because of Adobe's bullshit.
 
AP4.0 said:
@Eyerone

What does it mean to recomp?
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Per GPT..

Think of a video game like a cake.


  • The finished cake = the game ROM you play.
  • The recipe = the game’s original source code that the developers wrote.

ROM Hacks 🍰


A ROM hack is like taking an already baked cake and decorating it differently.


Someone starts with the finished game and changes parts of it.


Examples:


  • New levels
  • Different characters
  • Harder enemies
  • New translations
  • Bug fixes

The original cake is still underneath.


Examples:


  • Pokémon Radical Red
  • Super Mario World hacks
  • Castlevania hacks




Decomp (Decompilation) 📖


Imagine someone only has the finished cake.


They spend years tasting it and experimenting until they recreate what they think is the original recipe.


That’s a decomp.


A decompilation is programmers figuring out how the original game worked and writing C code that, when compiled, produces the exact same game.


The important part is:


  • It isn’t Nintendo’s leaked source code.
  • It’s code written by fans.
  • When compiled correctly, it creates an identical ROM.

Think of it as:


“We reverse engineered the recipe.”


Examples:


  • Super Mario 64
  • Ocarina of Time
  • Majora’s Mask
  • Pokémon Emerald decomp

Once there’s a decomp, making huge mods becomes much easier because developers are working with readable code instead of tiny hexadecimal numbers.





Recomp (Recompilation) 🔧


Now imagine someone has that recreated recipe.


Instead of baking the exact same cake, they change the recipe so it works with modern ovens.


That’s what a recomp is.


A recompilation takes the game’s code (or reverse-engineered machine code) and recompiles it into a native Windows, Linux, Android, or Switch program.


Instead of needing an emulator, your computer runs the game directly.


Advantages:


  • Better performance
  • Higher resolutions
  • 60+ FPS
  • Ultrawide support
  • Modern controller support
  • Mods are easier

The game logic is still the same—it just isn’t pretending to be an N64 or PS1 anymore.


Examples:


  • Zelda 64: Recompiled (Ship of Harkinian is a related native project based on decomp work)
  • N64 Recompiled projects
  • Perfect Dark PC




Why everyone gets excited about decomps


Without a decomp, modifying a game is like trying to repair a car while only looking through the exhaust pipe.


With a decomp, it’s like opening the hood.


Developers can finally understand everything.


That’s why Pokémon ROM hacks became so much more advanced after the Pokémon decomp projects.
 
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I got this bitch workin with the Thor using a Dolphin Bar, a Wii remote and the Dolphin emulator.

Can’t tell me shit right now
 
Eyerone said:
Another emulation adjacent post. I found a new app on Android that basically lets you search/download/play just about any flash game ever. It’s called Swiff!
Here’s the features:

• ⁠Over 100k of flash content available! Just click Download and Play! (Huge thanks to the Flashpoint Archive)
• ⁠On-Screen controls for keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Gamepad mapping to keyboard and mouse input.
• ⁠Offline proxy to trick games into thinking they are running on their official websites.
• ⁠Frontend and Android shortcuts support (including automatic frontend syncing)
• ⁠Export your savefiles to a custom folder (for syncing with apps like Syncthing)
• ⁠Custom SWF content importing (Custom games support every feature Swiff has to offer)


github.com

GitHub - NaviVani-dev/Swiff: Flash games and animations on Android

Flash games and animations on Android. Contribute to NaviVani-dev/Swiff development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

I had to download QWOP to restore the vibes one time.
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Shit keep getting better. Someone collected the OG J2ME mobile games into a single zip that can be played via Android or PC


📦 What's inside:

- 7,543 .jar / .jad files — individually accessible

- Games.zip (1.68 GB) — full collection in one download

- Total: ~3.4 GB

🏢 Publishers:

Gameloft, EA, Konami, Sega, Namco, Capcom, Ubisoft, THQ, id Software, SNK and hundreds more

💎 Notable titles:

- Silent Hill Mobile 1, 2 & 3

- Doom RPG + Doom II RPG (id Software)

- Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar & Stormhold

- Orcs & Elves 1 & 2 (Bethesda)

- Wolfenstein RPG

- Metal Slug complete series

- Sonic complete mobile series

- Worms complete series

- Hundreds of rare Chinese, Japanese & Russian exclusives

🔗 HuggingFace:

huggingface.co

M5-Dev/j2me-vault · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co

📱 To play: J2ME Loader on Android, FreeJ2ME on PC

Credit to the Kahvibreak/Flashpoint team for the original preservation work 🙏

— M5 Nostalgia Archive 🇪🇬
 
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Eyerone said:
Shit keep getting better. Someone collected the OG J2ME mobile games into a single zip that can be played via Android or PC


📦 What's inside:

- 7,543 .jar / .jad files — individually accessible

- Games.zip (1.68 GB) — full collection in one download

- Total: ~3.4 GB

🏢 Publishers:

Gameloft, EA, Konami, Sega, Namco, Capcom, Ubisoft, THQ, id Software, SNK and hundreds more

💎 Notable titles:

- Silent Hill Mobile 1, 2 & 3

- Doom RPG + Doom II RPG (id Software)

- Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar & Stormhold

- Orcs & Elves 1 & 2 (Bethesda)

- Wolfenstein RPG

- Metal Slug complete series

- Sonic complete mobile series

- Worms complete series

- Hundreds of rare Chinese, Japanese & Russian exclusives

🔗 HuggingFace:

huggingface.co

M5-Dev/j2me-vault · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co

📱 To play: J2ME Loader on Android, FreeJ2ME on PC

Credit to the Kahvibreak/Flashpoint team for the original preservation work 🙏

— M5 Nostalgia Archive 🇪🇬
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I always wondered what happened to all those J2ME joints. That was on damned near every phone back inna day and if it wasn't by default (i.e. Windows phones), you could add it and run all of that shit.
 
Posting this video so more people understand the times we livin in.



You can play a good bit of Steam games via Android on a lot devices via GameNative and/or Gamehub. You don’t “need” a Steam deck. Mind you, what’s “playable” to you may not be playable to me and not EVERY AAA will work like it would on a more capable device but the fact that shit like this is even possible is great for gamers.
 
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