Hadlee Simons / Android Authority
TL;DR
- A developer claimed that the team behind GameHub copied his code without attribution.
- GameHub developer GameSir denied the initial claim, but other developers also accused the studio of copying.
- This comes years after GameSir’s Nintendo Switch emulator was embroiled in controversy over stolen code.
GameSir was recently released GameHub v6.0 brings several major improvements to the PC gaming emulator on Android. However, this news was overshadowed by new allegations that the company copied code from other Android developers as part of its GameHub development.
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This latest round of copying accusations was initiated by the developer StevenMXCreator of the Winlator Ludashi fork. He claimed that the GameHub studio ported his work to a Vulkan-based renderer and framed it as their own. Game Mr He defended himself on Discord (see below) claiming that his work was independent. He also urged people to decompile the program.
Obviously, the developer he challengedclaiming that GameHub’s decompiled software contains code borrowed from other developers and projects. These projects include the aforementioned Vulkan renderer, Termux X11, and the Vulkan graphics package, which improves support for non-Snapdragon devices. Especially developer leagoo he says he’s “95.7% sure” that GameSir copied the graphics wrap job. One of the few clues shown by Leagoo is that it used a “custom 6-element push_constants table” but did not use two of those elements. GameHub also has this special table including two unused items.
It is not uncommon for developers to borrow code from open source projects to use in their own applications. However, the open source licenses associated with many of these projects often require anyone using that code to release modified code. Indeed, StevenMX urged GameSir to open source the emulator and publish all the code or credit the developers accordingly.
This isn’t the first time GameSir has been embroiled in controversy over stolen or unattributed code. The company’s EggNS emulator allowed you to play Switch games on Android, but it seems the company stole code from other Nintendo Switch emulators.
The news also comes after the company confirmed solved a big problem affecting Samsung the owners. More specifically, some Galaxy owners reported that they were unable to play games via GameHub after the v6.0 update. It looks like this issue may be related to Samsung’s One UI 8.5 software.
Anyway, we’ve reached out to GameSir’s representatives for comment on these plagiarism accusations. We will update the article as soon as the company responds to us. But in between GameNativeThere is no hassle to play PC games on your Android device like GameHub Lite and Winlator.
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