- cross-posted to:
- retroachievements@retrolemmy.com
- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- retroachievements@retrolemmy.com
- games@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/66737678
RetroAchievements for Terraria require tModLoader, which you normally can’t run on Android. I tried getting it to work with GameNative, but had no success.
But recently, I discovered this Android app that lets you run desktop .NET apps: https://github.com/FireworkSky/RotatingartLauncher
The installation is pretty straightforward: you just specify the path to the GOG Linux version of Terraria and the path to a ZIP file containing tModLoader.
For mods, I downloaded them on my PC through Steam and simply copied the
.tmodfiles to:
<Internal storage>/RALauncher/Terraria/tModLoader/ModsFor save files, I set up Syncthing to sync
~/.local/share/Terraria/tModLoader/to:<Internal storage>/RALauncher/Terraria/tModLoaderBy default, the game opens stretched at a much lower resolution, but going to Settings -> Video -> Fullscreen automatically sets the correct resolution.
To log in to RetroAchievements, I had to connect a keyboard to enter my username and password. While doing so, I noticed a small bug: connecting a keyboard while the game is running crashes it.
I haven’t seen this app mentioned on Lemmy, so I hope someone finds this useful.
P.S. The handheld in the picture is an AYN Thor.
Nice… Nice device! Does it come in larger screen?
If you like to look further, that is the AYN Thor.
https://retrocatalog.com/retro-handhelds/thor
That site is pretty handy to look up these emulator handheld devices.
Do you mean, is there a bigger-screen version of this handheld? No, but it’s about the size of a 3DS.
There are plenty of larger single-screen handhelds, though.