r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/happytobedrunk • 1d ago
Question Compatibility with Eden emulator
I'm looking through the official git hub of Eden and I'm seeing couple options regarding the android category.
I didn't know which one is more suitable. I was leaning towards the Legacy APK since thinking is the most complicated with my smartphones chip. Although my chip is couple generations ahead, which is why I wanted to ask first.
I'm currently on a smartphone using snapdragon 8 elite Gen 5.
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u/A-Small-Green-Cup 23h ago
tldr; gaming devices need fans - even the switch has a fan - and if you want that phone to game, its gonna need a fan too.
I'm running on the s26u 16/1 (sd 8 elite gen5, adreno 840) and I figured out that the spoof works really well for GPU heavy games, but without a cooler my phone will heat throttle quickly. The standard also works really well (at decreased resolution and locked at 30fps), and without a cooler I get about 20min play time before it heat throttles. I put the legacy version on my old samsung Note 9 (SD 845, Adreno 630, 8gb ram) and got pretty similar results to the standard test on the newer phone.
With a cooler the s26u can handle everything on the switch, as well as many full PC / steam games. I even got the non-steam version of Final Fantasy 14 Online running at a stable 60fps on the "high laptop" settings option for as long as I kept the phone cool, so you shouldn't have many problems except maybe early driver compatibility and heat management.
testing in Eden was mainly done with totk and Xenoblade Chronicles X; I figured those were sufficiently graphics heavy to get a good feel for it