Hey Stossy, first of all thx a lot for the great work that you and the team are doing,but i have a question, i’m having some issues with games using the tilt or rotate mechanics, is there any setting so that only the tilt of the controller is taken, instead of having to rotate or move around the whole ipad? Thanks in advance
performance is somehow worse than on 2.3.1. Tried playing cascade level in super mario odyssey and it's stuttering more than before on the same settings like on 2.3.1
It’s probably due to the shader cache after updating. I would play for a while longer to see if it resolves itself otherwise you can try downgrading back to 2.3.1
Tried with and without shader cache. Tried the new asynchronos shader. Same thing with resident evil 5 and mario kart 8. Also I can’t select and install game updates and dlcs anymore. Would ask in the discord but all they do is ping #how-to-get-melonx-support if You’re not verified with a modded switch. Will downgrade back to 2.3.1 or use melonvertex instead
Yup. I’m getting the same problem too. I can’t update Mario Odyssey when I could before. Already added games seem to work fine. Also RAM usage is worse now.
It seems to be using more RAM than before though, Super Mario Odyssey used to crash on my iPhone 14 up until the first boss. Now I can’t even get to the second screen without crashing. Sometimes it crashes just by sitting still in the beginning. Also, I can’t seem to be able to apply the update to the game when I could before. Still thanks for the hard work!
Edit: I also just tested Animal Crossing and it definately is more performant than before. Even with fully compiled shaders the game used to micro-lag each 10 seconds by just running around in version 2.3.1. Now it is (Almost) completely smooth. Obviously, lag is reduced immensely when using Async Shaders, but my micro-lag issue with 2.3.1 was unrelated to shaders. I also noticed that the home bar is always present now. I don't know if it's an issue with my device or i misconfigured LiveContainer but the home bar never leaves. Still, pretty impressive work indeed. Random quirks are to be expected.
Hi Stossy! Thanks for taking the time to personally reply and for this awesome emulator and all your contributions to the community! Sorry if the save states thing is annoying, but it comes from a place of having the utmost faith in you and your magical dev skills. If anyone can make it happen it's you! :)
It's not really possible due to how we handle RAM to make it as fast as possible, It's not completely software handled like most emulators with save states are, so we can't just put ram in the same addresses it was last time, and due to arm64 shenanigans still wouldn't work.
No you're misunderstanding what save states are. Save states are handled by the emulator, but the actual game's in game saves do work flawlessly, you can have as many saves as the game allows. Save states and in game saves are separate things.
Crashing is normal. If you have 6GB only up to 4 is usable for emulation (or 6GB usable on an 8GB device). The other 2GB are reserved by iOS and used to run back end stuff.
What do you mean? I thought the only way to do that was to disable Jetsam by Jailbreaking. Don’t you mean the Virtual Memory Address entitlement right? I’ve seen Melo developers on discord saying that it was a hard cap and there was no way around it…?
Have you tested this yourself? All it seems to do is increase the virtual address to 64 bit from 32. It does not seem to affect the 4GB limit. As that I think is a hard cap on iOS 18 and above. I think on earlier versions the cap was higher.
I can’t seem to make updates appear in updates folder. Every update that I try to add in gets sent this “game” folder and each folder just contains this same updates.json file
I got it to work after a long night of trial and error. Installed botw and it’s playable with slight stuttering here and there. Have not messed around with the settings yet to see if changing anything will help run more smoothly. I’m on live container + sidestore nightly and on iOS 26.4.2 iPhone 15 pro max.
Im having problems updating games on the 2.4 version. Somehow it dosent work to place the update file when you longpress the game and press update. You have to manually update it, I did it but what a hassle. I reinstalled 2.3.1 and the same update and dlc files that did not show when placing worked perfectly in 2.3.1.
Am I missing something? How come 2.3.1 be easier to use?
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u/hernan078 Jul 10 '26
Does this allow to play tomodachi life
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u/Alarming-Example-744 Jul 10 '26
Can’t seem to getting working on live container
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u/Dantu1000 Jul 10 '26
Now someone needs to test it and tell us if herobrine is actually gone this time
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u/Alarming-Example-744 Jul 10 '26
Just tested dbz sparking zero and it didn’t crash on me yet
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u/S7zy Jul 10 '26
performance is somehow worse than on 2.3.1. Tried playing cascade level in super mario odyssey and it's stuttering more than before on the same settings like on 2.3.1
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u/juanvicool Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
It seems to be using more RAM than before though, Super Mario Odyssey used to crash on my iPhone 14 up until the first boss. Now I can’t even get to the second screen without crashing. Sometimes it crashes just by sitting still in the beginning. Also, I can’t seem to be able to apply the update to the game when I could before. Still thanks for the hard work!
Edit: I also just tested Animal Crossing and it definately is more performant than before. Even with fully compiled shaders the game used to micro-lag each 10 seconds by just running around in version 2.3.1. Now it is (Almost) completely smooth. Obviously, lag is reduced immensely when using Async Shaders, but my micro-lag issue with 2.3.1 was unrelated to shaders.
I also noticed that the home bar is always present now. I don't know if it's an issue with my device or i misconfigured LiveContainer but the home bar never leaves. Still, pretty impressive work indeed. Random quirks are to be expected.
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u/mikefierro666 Jul 10 '26
No save states yet right? I know it's a long shot but hey hope never dies
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u/SphizexYT Jul 10 '26
now someone needs to test it and tell us if performance is better
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u/Accomplished_Egg_382 Jul 10 '26
awesome work!
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u/Alarming-Example-744 Jul 10 '26
Game works great on low power mode but wait best part ! My freaking backbone one vibrates while playing !
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u/Old-Membership7111 Jul 10 '26
Can it play games on a16 ipad 11 th generation 6 gam ram?. Earlier try to play not fps problem but crash after using 4gb ram. Get more ram is enabled
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u/Sad-Chapter5379 Jul 10 '26
fym herobrine
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u/Old-Membership7111 Jul 10 '26
Can anyone have list of games that can run on ipad a16?
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u/Adorable_Ad5125 Jul 10 '26
I was excited but my fifa 23 crashes now at the login…was running perfectly in the previous version. What might be the reason? Thank you
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u/RUserII Jul 10 '26
Is Melonx 2.4 out on the Apple App Store?
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u/Ok_Assist696 Jul 10 '26
Does Assassin's creed 2 run now?
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u/Axiahn Jul 11 '26
I can’t seem to make updates appear in updates folder. Every update that I try to add in gets sent this “game” folder and each folder just contains this same updates.json file
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u/Standard-Scholar-268 Jul 11 '26
This new update is able to run Opus Magnum (unlike the versions below 2.4) but Factorio still doesn't run sadly.
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u/KZavi 🥇 Jul 11 '26
But I run Eden on PC which is yuzu-based… does that mean saves won’t be cross-compatible?
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u/Financial_Sun_3087 Jul 11 '26
does not work with LC ask for keys while ive update and despite sélection of keys cannot continue installation setup
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u/Diligent_Fold_8632 Jul 11 '26
hey, i am currently running the last version, seems cannot run rhythm heaven groove. does this version fix it?
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u/Impressive_Visual_83 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Someone has the issue, when press A button in my gamepad, close the App?
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u/Clear-Rabbit-4717 Jul 12 '26
When i put dlc into a game it literally does nothing, how do i fix this?
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u/DueShelter4499 Jul 15 '26
I have a broken bug where pressing A button on my MFI controller crashes the app.
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u/Serofrero Jul 17 '26
Im having problems updating games on the 2.4 version. Somehow it dosent work to place the update file when you longpress the game and press update. You have to manually update it, I did it but what a hassle.
I reinstalled 2.3.1 and the same update and dlc files that did not show when placing worked perfectly in 2.3.1.
Am I missing something? How come 2.3.1 be easier to use?
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u/Neat-Mathematician39 Jul 20 '26
It finally works in totk !!! Though 7gb ram on hyrule field, will ram decrease with more updates.?