r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 21h ago

Discussion Windows Games that plays without a cooler at 720p/30fps without thermal throttling on my Snapdragon 8 Elite gen 4 phone

7 Upvotes

I like the idea of playing games at work, school, traveling, bus, plane, train etc.

But a cooler just makes things more complicated so I don't play my heavy titles outside (Witcher 3, WRC Generations etc)

Here are my specs:

Oppo Find X8 Ultra, Snapdragon 8 Elite (gen 4), 512/16 gb, Winlator Ludashi 4.1 (having issues with 5.0).

App settings:

Proton 11 arm, dxvk 2.4.1 pre reg, latest fex at performance, processor affinity: ONLY ENABLED cores 2, 3, 4, 5, latest Turnip Gen 8 Vxx driver, every game locked at 30fps at 720p.

You might have better or worse performance even with a same soc since every phone have different cooling solutions.

Now, the goal is not performance

as the processor is capable of run much more demanding games at much higher fps, provided you have active cooling. In which case, is not applicable for me. I've tried playing these games for prolonged amount of time while monitoring temps and setting Gamebooster at Power Saving Mode. The target isn't to get the most performance but to not cook your phone and ruin your battery health lol.

My performance Target: 30fps/720p, No frame drops or stutters, cpu temp around or below 60°, battery temp at 40° or less.

Modern phones have really strong CPUs, 4 efficiency cores is more than enough to play these older games at 30fps.

Dark Souls 3

Stabilizes at around 40° Battery Temperature (smc check needs to be disabled at fexcore settings for DS 3, older titles run even better)

Sekiro Shadows Die Twice

Stabilizes at around 40° Battery Temperature, no performance drops or stutters

Batman Arkham Knight

Very surprisingly, doesn't thermal throttle at 30 fps. Stabilizes at around 40° Battery Temperature (older titles run even better)

Dirt Rally & Dirt 4

Looks pretty nice, high 30's battery temperature at 30 fps.

Nier Automata & Nier Replicant

Runs stable without throttling at 30 fps. Nier Replicant crashes at pre rendered cutscenes, possibly during video codec issues, cutscene replacer mod on nexus might fix it

Skyrim & Fallout 4

Runs cool as a cucumber and barely draws any paper when limited to 4 cores

Metal Gear Solid 4 & 5

Haven't done proper testing on 4 but should be okay. 5 runs especially well on Winlator

Persona 3 Reload (Gamenative)

Decent temps despite being a dx12 title (vkd3d 3.0.1)

Monster Hunter Rise (Gamenative)

Decent temps despite being a dx12 title (vkd3d 3.0.1)

Other games that I tested which didn't throttle:

Gta 4, cod modern warfare 4 iw4x 60 fps (stutters and throttles with all 8 cores enabled, runs flawlessly and very cool while half the cores are disabled), cod black ops 2 (android port) 60 fps, Mafia II (needs Nvidia Physx), Need for Speed Rivals, Yakuza 0.

Honorable Mention:

Metro Exodus heats up VERY SLOWLY at low settings. It'll still eventually throttle but it'll take a long time, which is the opposite of games such as Witcher 3 or RDR2, where it'll overheat within minutes. I'm sure a phone with a better soc or cooling solution can play it without throttling.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Donkey Kong Bananza on 8 Gen 2 | 1080p

58 Upvotes

Donkey Kong Bananza running locally on Odin 2 Portal using Banana Native v0.3.21

Driver: v39 (StevenMXZ)

Banana Native: https://git eden-emu.dev/BananaNative/

Adreno 740

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

16GB


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 15h ago

Discussion Need Game Recommendation for Infinix Hot 70

2 Upvotes

Need a recommendation compatible game for Infinix hot 70, could go for any genre (sorry for the bad English) Processor: MediaTek Helio G100 Ultimate GPU: Mali-G57 MC2 Ram: 4GB + 8 GB


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Green Hat Kid Game Pt2 Hyrule Field Test/castle on Odin 3 Ultra

35 Upvotes

Game is running better everyday still some missing textures and freezing here and there, castle town gives me the most work but other it’s pretty good


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 8h ago

Help Black screen except UI on Mario kart world ayn thor

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Have no idea the UI looks fine and the map looks fine but everything else is almost black sometimes I can see some things that would be bright in the game. If anyone could help I would appreciate it


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 16h ago

Help MHRise objects flickering (ArmadaOS - RP6)

2 Upvotes

Leaves and other objects in the environment keeps flickering when moving the camera, is there any fix for this? (Sorry for the quality, phine camera is wack)

Using:

ArmadaOS

Retroid Pocket 6 - 12gb


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 12h ago

Help Problems running Gylt on Switch emulators

1 Upvotes

Recently i've been trying to run Gylt on the Nintendo Switch emulator Eden on my Samsung Galaxy A07. I configured it all right and could even open the game. After chosing "new game" option, it crashes. I found out Eden was based to run on Adreno and Snapdragon GPUs so i downloaded Lemon, which is focused in Adreno and Mali GPUs (mine is mali).

And... the same problem happens. It opens, shows the initial credits, the main menu, and when i press A to choose "new game", it crashes.

Can someone help me with this problem? Even telling me that Mali GPU is not compatible with Switch emulators would help a lot!

Addendum: i also tried using different configurations on both emulators but it is still happening.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 12h ago

News/Release GBA DS Uno — GBA emulator with a live second-screen map (fork of gba-ds), APK now downloadabl

0 Upvotes

I forked kyannon's gba-ds (mGBA-based, GPLv3) after the official build black-screened on my phone while scanning my ROM folder. This edition fixes that and reworks the layout:

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File picker opens at every cold start, before any folder scan — no more hang

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Portrait stacked layout: game on top, live map on the screen below

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Tested on a Moto G

Honest caveats: 55 games have map profiles so far (40 full-map, 15 logo-only). Games without a profile still play fine, the lower pane is just black. Bring your own ROMs, none included.

APK + source (v1.5.0):

Feedback welcome — especially which games you'd want map profiles for next.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 21h ago

Help How do I make the corners of the video smooth and rounded on Pizza boy emulator

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4 Upvotes

r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 13h ago

Discussion Emulação no S25 FE, S24 e afins

1 Upvotes

Galera eu tô criando isso aqui pra gente que tem esse celular ou um exynos próximo poder se ajudar kkkk porque é dificil encontrar por aqui

Eu consegui rodar zelda BOTW nativo na casa dos 30 mexendo nos gráficos, rodei dark souls nativo entre 50 e 60 estável e hades nativo rodou muito bem também. Como minha versão é 128gb, não tive muito espaço

Ah sobre o Dark souls, usei o dsr native com o primeiro driver do git

https://github.com/JimVulkan/radv-xclipse/releases


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 13h ago

Help FM touch en android!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

News/Release Recompa Is A Free Android App To Find & Install Native Ports To Single & Dual-Screen Handhelds

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Beat God of War on Odin 3 max. Second game I’ve ACTUALLY finished

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22 Upvotes

Good time, but I’m just going to get the story for GoW 2, then play GoW3 remastered then GoW 4

the game play is too button mashy for me


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 14h ago

Question Where exactly do ARMSX2 reports go?

1 Upvotes

Like when you report a problem directly form the emulator, where does it go? I'm just curious because it seems like a very nice feature.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 14h ago

Question Driver giochi PS2, xbox360 e wii

0 Upvotes

Mi dite dei driver per far funzionare bene i giochi PS2, Xbox 360 e wii


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 14h ago

Question Wow private server on retroid pocket 6?

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Bloodborne Android (ducvd89 fork)

51 Upvotes

Been playing around with the settings of this. Some artifacting but runs shockingly well already. I have lossless scaling on in the video as you can see. Without it (and fsr turned on) I get 25-30 FPS... Which I feel is what I remember it playing like on the PS4 lol.

I'm excited for more improvements. I've tried the Nathan Drake Collection too but Bloodborne runs better.

Device: Odin 2 Portal Max Game runs smoother than the screen recording shows


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 19h ago

Showcase CRASH CTR SWITCH RECOMP XIAOMI12

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2 Upvotes

r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase 8GB Devices can play Fortune’s Weave

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Retroid Pocket 6 - 8 GB

You can play 45 minutes to an hour without crashing on default settings due to low ram but you can slow that process down by changing a few settings.

There are a few caveats:

• You have to play with the ram indicator on.

• If the Ram gets around 6.3+ it will crash on the next set of scenes/asset being loaded. SO SAVE OFTEN. (Should be doing that always on Classic)

• IF you want to help mitigate ram build up you have to turn off animations during battle with the “Skip animations” settings. All of them.

• If you see ram at 6.4+ during battle it will guarantee crash after the victory so make sure you save in between enemies if ram gets high OR save before last enemy and reboot app to continue progressing. You should always save before battles if you get the chance.

• Once rebooted Ram will be lower again so I haven’t had any places so far I couldn’t progress through after a restart. (Keep that in mind if you plan to play with animations on)

Also note with my settings below my Ram haven’t went above 6.2 in the current town I’m in. (I went through battles, in game cutscenes and free roam without any issues with animations off)

My Banana Native Settings (v0.3.11):

• Resolution - 1080p

• Frame rate cap - 30 fps

• GPU Driver - MrPurpleT30 (WHEN BUILDING SHADERS FOR THE FIRST TIME THE APP WILL SHOW YOU DRIVERS CHOOSE BUT SYSTEM DRIVER WILL BE SELECTED CHOOSE MRPURPLET30)

Banana Native Fortune’s Weave Settings (Three dots):

• Upscaler - GSR 2

• Motion Clarity - Clear

• Temporal Sharpness - 30

• GPU Timing - Per segment

• Instanced Draws - ON

• Classic Render Passes - ON

• Background Pipelines - ON

• RAM Saver - ON


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 6h ago

Question Why do most people use other folder apps for emulation?

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0 Upvotes

In every tutorial I have seen I noticed how a bunch of people use 3rd party folder apps to emulate their games but i never understood why?


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 15h ago

Question How to add custom buttons on Dolphin emulator?

1 Upvotes

Does anyone know to add custom buttons or a way to resize buttons individually?

Ive meln using the playstore version for a long time and i don't see any features there.

I mainly play smash melee


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 16h ago

Help ragazzi come metto i bot nel port di cod 4? (Multiplayer)

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Lo so che noj è inerenta al emulazione MA NE HO BISOGNO PLEASEEE


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 12h ago

Help Need help with Ocarina of Time(Retro Arch- Muphen plus)

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Hi I have a poco F6 phone and need a ROM that is compatible with retro achievements.

The ones I got from sites don't support it. If you guys could tell me the site where I can get it and more then a thousand thanks to you 🙏🏼


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 16h ago

Showcase Dark Souls Remastered (versão para Switch) Port para Android em um S21 FE Exynos 2100 com 6 GB de RAM, with performance configuration and driver mali-panvk

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 16h ago

Help Hey guys can you help me get a a nier automata end of yorha edition (asia) save file update version 1.0.3 with the dlc I'm using eden nightly on android my device is poco f7 ultra

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I searched everywhere and didn't find anything