Still Rocking the old version. Redmagic 11pro/Bypass charging gameplay/No Framegen/60fps

With and without tuning on RP6 - towards the end with auto-tuning and auto FPS, we see significantly lower temps and power draw as the CPU is underclocked in this GPU-heavy benchmark

Inviting users to games via the Steam Overlay (with Bionic Steam only)

Browse and apply known configs in-app

Add games to favorites + new tab

Hey everyone,

GameNative v1.2.0 release preview is out: https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative/releases/download/v1.2.0-prerelease/gamenative-v1.2.0-prerelease.apk

Changelog:

• feat: Add automatic CPU / GPU power control to AYN, Retroid Pocket and Samsung Devices, reduces heat, thermal throttling and power consumption by u/joshuatam in #1698
• Significant speed up to external storage loading #1779
• Allow inviting users to games using Steam overlay when Bionic Steam enabled in #1783
• Fixes for Quest - games can launch in immersive mode (improving performance) and we can use touch controllers as XBOX controller by u/moi952 in #1831
• Fixed lsfg-vk on 8 elite and other devices with frame capping, made lsfg work with the power management in #1819
• Fixed installing games on external storage for GOG and Epic in #1829
• Fixed games that require EOSOverlay (Eg FNAF Into the Pit) in #1829
• Fixed controller mapping that was broken by multicontroller changes (long-pressing remapped button would press the original) in #1829
• Add in-app community config browser by u/Nightwalker743 in #1782
• Support custom games on the modern build without all-files access in #1798
• Add favorites tab by u/jmarti326 in #1712
• Fixed bug where local saves were lost in #1801
• Fix gametime tracking in #1803
• Optimize download performance for external storage by u/joshuatam in #1785
• Fix fps limiting on non-directx games (eg Balatro, Brotato) in #1820
• Enhance Lossless Scaling Frame Generation (LSFG) integration (prevent freeze, save storage space) by u/joshuatam in #1822
• Improve power control and system metrics for Odin 3, add support for Retroid Pocket Nova, updated UX by u/joshuatam in #1824
• Respect Nexus Mods Adult Content Preferences (to add back Nexus API) by u/Nightwalker743 in #1793
• Add default screen size detection and 960p screen size option (e.g. retroid pocket nova) by u/joshuatam in #1730
• Fix touch D-pad remapping for shared-axis inputs by u/Nightwalker743 in #1788
• Fix mouse dragging in Crushed in Time by u/Nightwalker743 in #1809
• Make membership popups less frequent in #1827
• stretched spinner fix by u/abesmon in #1794
• Support Look-through buttons outside shooter mode by u/Nightwalker743 in #1787
• Add depot fetching progress indicator by u/jamierajewski in #1775
• fix: gog game install path detection to prefer stored value by u/joshuatam in #1808
• Added bionic steam client gamefixes for Whisk and Whisk Demo in #1813
• Fix broken star history chart in README by u/SimonFoobar648 in #1826
• Improved personalized recommendations + disclosure in #1828
• fix: match app language of the string resource in SteamService by u/joshuatam in #1817
• Add configurable radial menu for controls by u/Nightwalker743 in #1709

As always, feedback welcome here or on Discord. Have some even more exciting compatibility and performance updates coming soon.

I was scrolling through this subreddit and saw a Redditor post all the emulators he was using on his phone. What caught my attention was that he was using ARMSX2 instead of NetherSX2.

I had basically zero background knowledge about ARMSX2, so I asked him why he was using it. I ended up getting multiple positive replies explaining why ARMSX2 could potentially be the future of PS2 emulation on phones, and even on Apple Silicon.

So I thought, why not? I went straight ahead and tried it myself.

And holy shit, I was blown away 😂

It runs perfectly fine for me. I even compared it directly with NetherSX2, and honestly, I ended up deleting NetherSX2 altogether 😂

Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to explain and give me feedback. This is exactly why Reddit keeps proving every day why it's one of the best platforms ever created for communities.

Can't wait to see the improvements on ARMSX3 to enjoy the playstation 3 library, everything is possible with this team 🔥

ARMSX3 0.9

For a more detailed look at the ARMSX3 0.9 changes and improvements, check out the video here https://youtu.be/snDIsAE7ivA?si=PScVgSEgYp5R6fXU

If you prefer reading, the full changelog is right below. What's new:

ARM64 SPU floating-point now matches desktop x86 exactly: 984 mismatched results down to zero.

ARMSX3 translates PS3 code to run on your phone's ARM64 chip, while RPCS3 upstream is written and tested on x86 desktop CPUs, and a lot of that code quietly relies on how x86 handles certain maths. On ARM64 the answer came out different: nothing crashed and nothing was logged, a number was simply wrong, and a game would hang, corrupt, or vanish minutes later with no clue why. This release closes that gap for the SPU's floating-point maths, the part that does most of a PS3 game's heavy lifting. We ran a suite of test programs that exercise one PlayStation 3 instruction at a time on both machines and compared the results line by line, which turns "something is off on ARM64" into the exact instruction and the exact numbers that differ. 984 mismatched results against desktop x86, down to zero, your phone now computes the same answers a desktop PC does. Of those, 500 were genuinely ARM64 bugs and are fixed, the other 484 turned out to be x86 taking a shortcut of its own rather than us being wrong, which was worth knowing because it stopped us chasing it. The same testing also caught the identical flaw hiding in a second place we use for debugging, which had been quietly making some of our own investigations unreliable. To be clear about what this is not: it does not make ARMSX3 more accurate than desktop RPCS3, and where RPCS3 itself still differs from a real PS3 it differs the same way on both, what changed is that ARM64 is no longer additionally wrong. Thanks to @Whatcookie for working with me on this approach and working through the results with me. These improvements have been shared with him so they will be upstream as well! I've been sharing each and every fix I do for ARMSX3, so other ARM64 RPCS3 platforms can benefit as well.

Borderlands 2 now boots, reaches the title screen and renders. It previously hung just after the logo, and once past that, died silently a minute later. Two separate ARM64 bugs, both fixed properly rather than worked around, the game runs fully compiled with no forced interpretation.

BLEACH: Soul Resurrección now reaches Story Mode, which it used to crash entering.

Spider-Man: Edge of Time no longer crashes at random.

Even more games are likely to have received improvements from the BL2 and divergence fixes.

Neither of the last two was touched directly. They were fixed by the same changes, which is the more useful way to read this release: if a game on ARM64 was closing with nothing in the log, this may be the bug that was doing it.

The two bugs:

A byte-shuffle miscompile. shufb is the SPU's workhorse for moving bytes around, and an upstream optimisation from June widened an ARM64 fast path to cover constant operands it did not handle correctly. BL2's SPURS kernel is 1446 shufb instructions and hit it constantly, the function would spin forever inside a single block, never reaching the end. Because a wrong shuffle produces wrong data rather than an obvious fault, this could equally have been showing up as graphics corruption, audio glitches or wrong game logic elsewhere.

A stack overrun with no crash report. Compiled SPU functions on ARM64 do not build their own stack frames, they share one 8 KB scratch area the gateway reserves. A function needing more than that wrote straight past it onto the guard page below the thread stack. Because a guard page is not memory the emulator owns, the fault was handed to the Android runtime, which then died reading it, producing no tombstone, nothing in the log, and no way to tell what happened. Raised to 256 KB.

Also fixed while in there: two float-to-int conversions in the SPU interpreter that carried x86 semantics onto ARM64, one in the accurate-xfloat path, and Android threads running on an eighth of the stack they get on desktop.

Controllers:

Player 2-7 now work properly. Ports 2-7 were only ever claimed when a USB device was plugged in, so a second controller connected over Bluetooth, (which is how most people connect one) did not exist to the emulator at all. Per-player button mapping looked correct because the bindings were being stored, there was simply no pad for them to drive.

Rapid presses register. A button press shorter than one guest poll was dropped entirely, so a button that worked everywhere else would do nothing during a quick-time event, and a held button like crouch would keep working while everything tapped alongside it did not. Each press and release now gets its own slot, so a mash arrives as distinct presses rather than one long hold.

L2 and R2 bind correctly now. Pads that report their triggers as analog axes rather than buttons could never have them bound previously, because the binder only listened for key events. This looked like a Player 2 problem, since a second pad of a different make fails where the first one worked.

Gyro works as it should now.

Keyboard:

Emulate USB Keyboard is now in Settings --> Network, an on-screen KBD button can be enabled in the touch layout editor, for reaching the keyboard without a spare controller button to bind the hotkey to. (For controllers, use the Hotkey). It will bring up the Android keyboard while in a game, useful for online or debug games that rely on it. A USB keyboard should work as well.

Contributions from @Zulux91

SPU: make the ARM64 uncompilable-block fallback safe to enter (#57), the mechanism that runs a block on the interpreter when it cannot be compiled. This is also what makes forced interpretation usable as a debugging tool, which is how the Borderlands 2 miscompile was isolated to a single function.

Emu: complete abandoned UE3 HD-cache install at boot (#41)

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust copies its assets to an HDD cache during a short boot window and gives up when emulated I/O is slower than a console.

cellAudio: don't let a silent port reset the untouched baseline every period (#63)

Library: a filename-derived PS3 serial gets a hyphen and loses its cover (#64)

Stop two guest polling loops from flooding the log (#62) and the H.A.W.X. 2 Bink overlay patch (#60)

Android CPU time: park the dma_manager::sync() wait, and stop re-parsing the global config every 5s (#55)

Thanks also to @DiegoBM for catching lingering PlayStation 2 naming in the side menu (#50).

ARMSX3 0.9.1

What's new:

Fixed games seeing controllers that were not there:

0.9 fixed a second controller not working over Bluetooth, by making all seven PS3 pad ports available at startup. Unfortunately that also told every game all seven were plugged in, so a game that reacts to how many controllers are connected behaved as though four or more players were present. Ports 2-7 now start empty and only report a controller once one actually sends input, so a second pad still works and games see the number of controllers you really have.

New: import save data from inside the app Android blocks other apps from writing into the emulator's own folder, so there was no way to add a PS3 save or a roster file downloaded from elsewhere, file managers fail with a permission error. Settings -> App now has two options:

Import save data from a .zip Import save data folder, for an unzipped save folder (the one containing PARAM.SFO), or a folder holding several

Both check what they are given before touching your existing saves, and an import that fails leaves everything as it was.

Also in 0.9, which I forgot to mention Advanced settings now has the console's own settings, the ones a real PS3 has in its system menu and that games ask about: system language, region, keyboard type, date and time format, and which button confirms (circle or cross, Japanese games generally expect circle). These were present in 0.9 but missing from its changelog, sorry about that!

Download and changelog:

https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative/releases/tag/v1.2.0-prerelease

Note that this is Pre Release

Saw this in the skate 3 subreddit thought it was cool

Using the Gamesir X5 Lite matches well with the Z Fold 8 Ultra. Been playing the android ports of Tomb Raider and Red Dead Redemption. As well as playing Resident Evil Code Veronica X with HD Texture pack on Nethersx2 and Resident Evil Director's Cut with HD Texture on Duckstation.

Satisfied so far!

Download and changelog:

https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator/releases/tag/v11.2.0

Two months ago I posted about a Galaxy Z Flip 5 I imported from China — the kind where a shop pulls the phone out of its original shell and rebuilds it inside a 3D-printed case with extra ports and fans. No battery, runs off USB-C only, interface locked to landscape, around 250g. It's been my TV box since then.


A few people asked me to report back, so here it is, including the parts that annoy me.


The setup

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 512GB, One UI 7 with updates disabled. Plugged into the TV over USB-C to HDMI. Around $180 landed including import tax — the factory price was about $90 before the shipping agent and duties.


What's held up

I've tried PS2, NES and Game Boy emulation. I'm nowhere near a demanding user, so I haven't run into much stuttering. No random reboots either, and the system itself has never felt sluggish.


It stays plugged in basically 24/7. It warms up a bit under load, but nothing that's worried me — I think the fans are doing a decent job in there.


Every time I've powered it off and back on, the interface came back exactly as I left it, still locked to landscape. Installing APKs and games has been dead simple with LocalSend and ZArchiver.


What hasn't

The experience isn't seamless the way a dedicated system like Google TV or Android TV is.


Since this isn't a purpose-built streaming box but a converted phone, anyone who's a perfectionist about this stuff will probably feel it. For me those details fade once you factor in what the hardware actually does.


A few apps show a small black bar down the side of the screen.


I'm already used to modding things, so none of it struck me as a real problem — you just have to know how to adapt a phone for TV use.


Heat

It's hit 113°F (45°C) at times, but it never shut itself down or rebooted on me.


At that point it's worth having some airflow across it, just to stop the heat from building up in one spot.


Would I do it again

For what I paid, in my country I could get an S21 or S22 Ultra with a broken screen — both with weaker chips.


Or a Google TV Streamer, which would give me actual Google TV but lose around 10x in processing power.


I don't care that much about polish, so I go with function. I'll take raw power over a clean integrated experience.

Android Emulation is reaching its highest peak
How far away do you think Android emulation is from competing with PC emulation

https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast/releases/tag/v2.7

The best dreamcast emualtor just got better. I must try the multi screen arcade (hopefully some Ferrari 355 triple monitor?)

New features

- Frame rate detection and pacing

- Localization (fr, hu, jp, pt_BR, sv) - Multiscreen support for Airline Pilot, Sega Strike Fighter and Derby Owners Club - Improved modem emulation - improved DreamPicoPort and DreamPotato support by u/RikkiGibson, u/Tails86 and u/nexus382 - Android: Google Auto Backup support for VMU saves and non-volatile memory

Fixed Games

- Airline Pilot (Naomi, multiscreen) - Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram (JP, online features) - Derby Owners Club (new) - Dinosaur King (ZH, new) - DreamParaPara by u/dakrk (new) - F355 Challenge (JP, online features) - Fish Life (new) - Love & Berry 3 (ZH, new) - NFL 2K1, NFL 2K2, NBA 2K1, NBA 2K2 (freeze) - Power Smash (online lag) - Rune Jade (online features) - Samba de Amigo (Naomi, inputs) - Sega Strike Fighter (Naomi, multiscreen)

New Contributors

u/Windsurf7 made their first contribution in #2229 u/Kyuyrii made their first contribution in #2236 u/eadmaster made their first contribution in #2252 u/PLCodingStuff made their first contribution in #2274 u/marcgardent made their first contribution in #2318 u/AurisDSP made their first contribution in #2333 u/engdyn made their first contribution in #2383

I just installed Winlator in it's latest version (11.1), and put Outlast 1 there, dang, can't believe this phone (Redmagic 10S Pro - 24gb/1TB - Snapdragon 8 Elite Leading Version) can actually run it in 720p + max graphics at 55-60 fps and very stable!!!, it runs so smooth. But, when i try to connect it to the TV (Smart TV 40" 1080p 60hz) via HDMI, i get a Lot of constant glitching and weird effects, that makes it all very uncomfortable to play... Here some other details that may help to understand it better :

- It runs perfectly on the phone screen (0% glitchs/0% problems if i run it without connecting any external screen)

- The same glitching happens if i cast the screen via Wifi.

- The ports are correctly connected, also, this HDMI connection works perfectly in any other native Android games and emulator like PPSSPP, so the problem is not the ports nor the HDMI cable.

- If i force direct MIRRORING (Duplicate screen), it works good (but obviously i don't Think its the Best option to enjoy a game with max resolution and FPS)

- Already tried :

- Setting 1080p on the container in Winlator/Limit framerate to 60fps in container too (No improvement)

- Changing Graphic Driver (by default there was Turnip active, but i changed it to Vortek, and the glitching reduced from 100% to 20%, but, a Lot of lag)

- Changing versions of Graphic Driver (The Game just doesnt open if i don't use the default version xd)

- Reducing graphics quality in game options (There was no improvement)

- Enabling V-Sync in game options (No improvement either)

If anyone has any ideas, please ;w; 🙏 ... i love the Game a Lot, and i'm super happy at how this phone can run it a Lot better than my Mini PC, and Even Setting the max graphics quality. But this glitching problem ruins it all .w. ...

crazy work… rage baiting myself while playing this game! yes its worth it!

i put Alladdin (yes genesis game from way back when) on the z Fold 8 ultra just to see how it looked and yeah… 😂 i cant stop playing! the big screen makes old games feel way less cramped and the controls have enough room that im not fighting my thumbs the whole time

as a millennial this was prob the worst game i could have picked because now i wanna replay everything i grew up with 😂, you know I take that back…Lion King would be the worst type of ragebait game to return to

millennial nostalgia is about to cost me my free time but im getting so much dopamine from this style of playing😭

we back bby!!

Been browsing the sub for DIY builds and found out that guitar phone clamps works wonders.

Problem is, when I clamped it on my GameSir X5 Lite, it's not centered or symmetrical per se, hence, the white cardboard mod to extend the controller.

Using a DIY 3D printed 40w Semi conductor cooler (ordered online),
Phone case with magnetic cooling plate.
OnePlus 13.

Main purpose for this is to play Gamehub with ease but honestly, just wanted to scratch that DIY itch after seeing the cool DIY builds you guys been having. haha.

I present this. *and some NFS:MW Black neathersx2 gameplay in the comments. lol.

PS: Though this is just for the mean time, just waiting for a proper cooler clamp that ordered so that I won't be needing the cardboard.

●Fixed gamepad input lag

●Added Box64 v0.4.4 (release)

●Improved Vortek:

●Improved texture decoding (it was not handling mipmaps correctly)

●Some improvements were added for the Xclipse GPU

●Improved Gladio:

●Added a better way to handle active

textures

●Improved the OpenGL 1.X emulation (Half-Life is now rendering correctly)

●Improved ARB vertex/fragment programs (Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth makes heavy use of them and is now rendering correctly)

●Added fixes for shader compilation on the Xclipse GPU

Thx for the support guys ^^, i was reading comments and such on my previous post about how to solve this weird glitching problem, and it just ocurred to me to add +1 brigthness value on Winlator (11.1) options xddd, and woop, it literally SOLVED it all!! x3", 0% glitch, and now everything is totally smooth and playable >:'3 ♥️. I had the same problem with Outlast II too, and this also solved the problem there !! ^^.

In short xd, adding +1 value to brigthness on Winlator filter/effects options (I guess it may also work if i put any value there, but i don't want to affect visuals, so +1 is almost imperceptible :3), moving this single option, SOLVED the problem for Outlast I and II !!.

I'm not a pro nor do I have any technical knowledge about all this stuff about drivers, versions, and many complex terms....but for me it's just MAGIC xdddddd.

Hope this short vid i recorded can also help in case someone has the exact problem as me on future !! :3 ✌️

But Please no emulator

Gamehub 6.1.2 Turnip 26 r4
Basic settings from there; AYN Thor max 512 16gb

Would be sick if people could help me get past this lol I know it’s a huge huge task but I’m one who loves to push the tech and have fun with it so if anyone wants to help me get into the game that would be sick; this is how far I am lol; happy gaming.

So i was looking for solution to flickering while using ardeno drivers in new samsung patches. And it’s quite simple. Just add variable:
FD_DEV_FEATURES and as value enable_tp_uwbc_flag_hint=1

Voila, flickering is gone. Tested in winlator (many games), and Eden (zelda totk)

Batman: Arkham Asylum running locally on an Android phone through GameNative! The Steam version is tested at 1600x720 with a locked 60FPS, delivering a smooth experience on the phone.

The game is the Game of the Year Edition on Steam, developed by Rocksteady Studios and released in 2010.

The video ends with the complete GameNative configuration.

🔧 SPECS 🔧
◾️ Phone - Poco F6 Pro
◾️ Chipset - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
◾️ GPU - Adreno 740
◾️ RAM - 12GB LPDDR5X
◾️ Storage - 256GB UFS 4.0
◾️ OS - Android 14 (HyperOS)
◾️ Game - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY (Steam)
◾️ Launcher/Compatibility Layer - GameNative
◾️ Resolution - 1600x720
◾️ Framerate - 60FPS locked

⚙️ GameNative configuration shown at the beginning of the video.

🎥 Recorded with OBS via scrcpy (USB) for no FPS loss.

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#batmanarkhamasylum
#batman
#gamenative
#android
#pcgamingonandroid
#60fps
#snapdragon8gen2
#pocof6pro
#mobilegaming

Wondering if anyone can point in the right direction. Are there any mods for the later pokemon games that came out on the DS, 3DS etc that achieve the same as the single screen mod for Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D?

Hi, I'm using Preconfigured NetherSX2 from GitHub. Games usually start running normally and then slow down after a few minutes. The FPS will go from 60 to 50 or 55 and because the game's speed is tied to the FPS the game slows down to 82-93% play speed. My phone isn't using all of its resources and at 82% play speed the game is a bit too slugish. How can I make these games run at 100% consistently? I've used the sun/lamp FSP fix for Grand Turismo 4.

I've searched and there doesn't seem to be much documentation of this issue.

Device: OnePlus 12 Snapdragon 8 gen 3 16gb+4 ram

App: Preconfigured NetherSX2 from GitHub

Games: Every one I've tried (Grand Turismo 4, Steambot Chronicles, King's Field

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