# Developing games for emuELEC?

**URL:** <https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814 "2022-01-17T03:00:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ARGHouse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/emuelec.discourse.group/arghouse/32/230_2.png) [@ARGHouse](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/ARGHouse)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814/1 "2022-01-17T03:00:12Z")

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Hi, I am not sure if others have asked this question but I found out about emuELEC, the GameForce among other retro handheld devices this morning after doing a bit of research. I am a concept artist and game dev working on a space sim, among other projects using the the Pioneer Space Sim engine. I was thinking about creating a port of my game for handhelds such as the Gameforce so I went ahead to look for documentation though I found that it was primarily focused towards installing emuelec. Is there any documentation for developing for emuelec?

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**Author:** ![EmuELEC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/emuelec.discourse.group/emuelec/32/26_2.png) [@EmuELEC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/EmuELEC)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814/2 "2022-01-17T04:25:31Z")

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I am not a game dev in any way, so take this with a grain of salt.

Any port that works under Linux aarch64 and that supports SDL2 rendering should in theory work. I looked into the Pioneer Space Sim engine and in theory it should work. Just stay away from X11 or Wayland as these small OSs do not support any.

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**Author:** ![ARGHouse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/emuelec.discourse.group/arghouse/32/230_2.png) [@ARGHouse](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/ARGHouse)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814/3 "2022-01-17T05:02:11Z")

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Thanks for that info, so in that case I would just have to ensure my port versions work within the limitations of the hardware.

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**Author:** ![EmuELEC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/emuelec.discourse.group/emuelec/32/26_2.png) [@EmuELEC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/EmuELEC)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/developing-games-for-emuelec/814/4 "2022-01-17T05:10:26Z")

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Yes. Also consider doing the port for the SBC part of EmuELEC with more power, like the s905x3 and S922x Amlogic SOCs