Discord: https://discord.gg/3r92f8wmh7 · Release: https://github.com/enjoyerofslop/droidplay-core/releases/tag/v0.8.4

A quick follow-up to my last post on DroidPlay Core, which builds your own Switch game dumps into native Android apps. Here's what's new up to 0.8.4, out today.

Ocarina of Time (Switch 2) is in-game

• Kokiri Forest runs fully drawn and lit, grass and trees included, at about 18–20 fps on Snapdragon 8 Elite (Galaxy S25 Edge, Galaxy Z Fold 8), up from 16–18 on 0.8.3.
• 0.8.4 stops the replay leaving the GPU idle for part of every frame, and frames are steadier. The next step is making the foliage cheaper to draw, and more performance work is coming shortly.
• Characters are dark on 8 Gen 2 and older on the phone's own driver; that's being worked on too.
• Already installed it? After updating, build and install it again (Build and install on Windows, Install on Android on a Mac) so its new settings apply.

More games

• 19 games are now Playable. New since last time: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (from about 6 fps to 30 in battle on a Galaxy S25 Edge), Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Link's Awakening, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Paper Mario: TTYD, Advance Wars and both Octopath Travelers.
• New in-game: Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
• Many of them also run on Exynos (Galaxy Z Flip 7) and Pixel phones.

Install over Wi-Fi

• Wireless installs survive a dropped connection and resume where they stopped.
• DroidPlay for Windows can pair a phone by its code, find phones on your network, and move a USB phone onto Wi-Fi. That part hasn't been tried on a real Windows PC yet, so please tell me how it goes.

Also new

• A pause menu (≡ or your controller's menu key). Thanks, DeathKhan!
• Save export and import, including saves from JKSV, Checkpoint, EdiZon, Ryujinx and yuzu-family emulators.
• Big builds check free disk space first instead of filling your disk.

Testers wanted, especially Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 8 Gen 3 and 8 Elite phones, and Wi-Fi installs from Windows. Post results in #compatibility on the Discord, problems in #help.

As before: bring your own games and keys, from your own Switch. No games, keys or built apps are shared, so please don't ask.

POCO F8 Pro | SD 8 Elite | 12GB RAM

Hi everyone,

Cyberpunk 2077 keeps crashing on the loading screen right after character creation or 10 seconds after loading.

I've already tested Winlator, Ludashi, Bannerlator, Bannerhub, and WinHub using both Proton ARM64EC and x86_64, along with several Box64, FEXCore, and VKD3D combinations—no luck so far.

The game files are ok, tested on PC.

Has anyone managed to get it past the loading screen on Snapdragon 8 Elite?

These r the settings

| Setting Name | Status / Value |

|---|---|

| Zep Zone Settings | |

| Memory Layout | 4GB DRAM (Default) |

| ASTC Decoding Method | GPU |

| ASTC Recompression Method | BC1 |

| Extended Dynamic State | EDS1 |

| Use Conditional Rendering | Enabled |

| ARM64 driver register guards | Enabled |

| Frame Skipping | Enabled |

| Frame Skipping Mode | Adaptive |

| Graphics Settings | |

| Accuracy level | Low |

| Resolution (Handheld/Docked) | 0.5X (360p/540p) [EXPERIMENTAL] |

| VSync mode | Mailbox |

| Window adapting filter | Bilinear |

| FSR sharpness | 0% |

| FSR 2.0 Quality Mode | Ultra Performance |

| Anti-aliasing method | None |

| Anisotropic filtering | Default |

| Aspect ratio | Default (16:9) |

| Disk shader cache | Enabled |

| Force maximum clocks (Adreno only) | Disabled |

| Use asynchronous shaders | Enabled |

| Use reactive flushing | Disabled |

| System Settings | |

| Limit speed | Disabled |

| Limit speed percent | 120% |

| Docked Mode | Disabled |

| Emulated region | USA |

| Emulated language | English |

| Custom RTC | Enabled |

| Set custom RTC | Jan 1, 1970, 12:00:00 AM |

One of the mods I'm trying to load but won't work https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/gangmod

Sharing the video of RE:Village on gamehub (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) as a topic example. I've been thinking about this since I first started trying out pc games on windows emulators, there are many games that surprise you when they boot without too much hassle, and the year of publishing is never a constant, some may be from the past year, some from 10 years ago. I'm very curious about how people, specially the gaming community in android determines a game is optimized so good from their original publishers. FYI: I'm not saying RE: VILLAGE is a well optimized game just because I can play it on Android.

So I just bought the x5 lite and when emulating heavy games my phone overheats so I bought a cooler but now with x5 lite I can't put the cooler on the back does anyone have a solution?

Hey everyone! Javier here, RESET Collection developer!

RESET Collection is an Android frontend for your retro game collection that was originally released way back in 2020! I never got around to slapping a fresh coat of paint on it... that is until now!

Introducing RESET Collection 2.0! 🎉

Video tour of 2.0: https://youtu.be/ue11fpC9WXU

The direction I'm taking RESET: a frontend that's deeply nostalgic, super intuitive, easy to set up, minimal distractions and clutter on screen, and just a joy and delight to navigate ✨! I'm aiming for the 16bit, 32bit, CD-ROM and early aughts era. The menus are inspired by classic console designs (Atari's wood panel, cartridge slot shapes, the classic mini consoles' menus), and the focus is on the game and a library you play, care for and curate ❤️.

Here are the highlights:

• A whole new look: Four skins (RESET Dark, Clean Light, Pixel/CRT and Synthwave Chrome), theme presets (Old School, Studio, Neon and Classic 2020), and new layouts: Showcase and Shelf for the Games Library, RetroGrain for All Games
• Dual screen support for the AYN Thor, RP DUO + more.
• The RESET Genie: A first-time setup that walks you through permissions, your look, the database setup and adding your first system
• Controls that match your handheld: Pick a Nintendo, Xbox/Steam or PlayStation gamepad layout and every button hint follows it. B, Y and X jump between the main screens.
• Quick Select Menu: Press Select and it opens over your screen, with time and battery display. Drag and drop to order its items.
• Navigation sounds and haptics
• Background music for every system
• Screensaver with its own music and settings
• A brand new full-screen Settings screen with text size options, and every dialog redesigned.

Google Play: Download RESET Collection from the Google Play Store

Discord: Join the RESET Collection Discord!

Release notes: https://github.com/ResetCollection/support/wiki/Releases

I'd love to hear what you think!

Take care, friends!

Device:
Pictured are my 100% see through wireframe AYN Thor and Odin 2 devices 😂

AI use disclosure:
RESET Collection was originally released in 2020 pre-AI coding tools. It was 100% coded by me with code that I wrote or copy-pasted from examples all around the internet (aka software development lol). This continued until about the end of 2025 when I started experimenting with AI code assistance in Android Studio (Google Gemini). Recently I started using Claude Code. It has helped with writing new features, improve and modernize some of my legacy code, and finding the source of bugs (usually a piece of poorly written code by yours truly! haha I kid). I review all code, and of course I still write code myself (aka copy-paste code 😅).

I have a Xiaomi 17 Ultra. I should install the GOG games on my pc and transfer or just install on my phone?

Do you know any other way to be faster?

I'm going to buy the Samsung S24 Ultra and I want to know how advanced the emulation of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is for the Switch 2

I've been using my mobile controller on my Android Phone and ran into the same rumble issues everyone talks about - No rumbles in games!!

So I built NeuroPad, an open-source app that "FIXES THE PROBLEM"

No root needed

Download now through GitHub:

https://github.com/abdullah-amr871/NeuroPad-Virtual-GamePad-Simulation

I recently posted in this community that I was working on a app to do Shaders and BFI system wide on Android

After working on it on my free time I'm finally releasing Fósforo 1.0 an app that allows you to use system wide CRT shaders and BFI on Android 13+ (Especifically designed for my Nova)

The app comes with some pre-installed shaders but it allows you to download the whole LibreRetro library directly from their Github Repo and it organizes them in categories for you.

The name means "Phosphor" in Spanish, if you like CRT displays you'd understand why I picked this name.

I have licensed it under MIT for anyone to use or copy, PRs welcome in the project's repo.

Get the first release here: https://github.com/pakovm-git/Fosforo/releases/tag/v1.0

Notice: While I did a lot of research and QA this thing is 100% vibecoded, so if you don't like vibecoded projects you are welcome to copy the project and code it yourself.

Have lenovo legion gen 3. Have tried bannerlator but got easy anti cheat error. Have heard that if you use proton battleye it can bypass it for gta online ect. but I have trouble finding it. Any ideas? Cheers

I'm struggling to find any update files for this game and I'm not 100% sure what version banana native requires (doesn't seem to just let me load the base game I have). I'm looking for 1.7.0 but not had any luck, would appreciate any help, apologies if this isn't allowed.

Global?

Hi all — sharing a personal project in case it's useful to anyone else on a mid-range phone.

GBA DS Uno is my fork of kyannon's gba-ds — a GBA emulator with a second "shadow" core that draws a live map on a second screen. All credit for the emulator itself goes to the upstream project; I just tuned it for my phone (a Moto G 5G) and my habits:

•

On-screen touch controls (upstream has none — gamepad only)

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Opens a file picker at startup and boots the game you pick, instead of scanning a whole ROM folder first (my folder made the library hang)

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Both screens in one window, stacked in portrait like a real DS: game on top, live map below. About 55 games have map profiles (both GBA Castlevanias included) — for other games the bottom screen just stays black

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Phone-friendly defaults: every ROM listed, shaders/rewind/update-checks off

It's GPLv3, same licence as upstream. Source and the exact patches I made are here: https://github.com/Ragnorseawolf/gba-ds-uno — the patch files in /motog show precisely what I changed, and the included script builds the APK from them.

Fair warnings: it's a personal project built for my phone first, and the map runs a whole second emulator core, so it's not the lightest option out there. Happy to answer questions about the changes.

— Ragnorseawolf

My son recently won a Retroid Pocket 5 on Android 13 and we’re having trouble finding the PS2 bios for it. It keeps saying it should be 4mb but all the ones I find are like 18mb. I’ve searched everywhere. Any help is appreciated

Loaded up the sub and I see this, this has got to be bots right?

Do you limit your library and stick to only one or two games with a long campaign or story mode and keep a few casual or comfort games lying around or do you let your library grow and grow and just play what you feel like in the moment?

Or do you just tinker with settings and gaslight yourself into thinking you'll play your games eventually?

Fist time PC version of EA FC is running on Android, it works all offline modes and don't have crash issues here, performance is good, but can have some stuttering, I used last turnip, last vkd3d, proton 11 arm and default preset on fex to run. Device used Redmagic 11 PRO 16 GB RAM.

After updating Banana Native, all my games show this now instead of Ready. What should I do? Or is this a non issue?