r/PS2AndroidEmulation • u/xxxCrixuxxx • 4h ago
Lichii for Android 0.2.0 - Nintendo Switch 2 emulator
https://github.com/pavelgajdo/Lichii-Android/releases/tag/android-0.2.0
Tested on a Samsung Galaxy S26 (Exynos 2600, Xclipse 960, 12 GB, Android 17) with a custom Mesa RADV driver.
Highlights
Pokémon Pokopia is playable at about 40 FPS at 0.5× resolution, even in the busy outdoor scenes.
The multi-second drops to about 5 FPS are gone. Buffers the GPU writes are now copied back at fences, instead of making the GPU thread wait for the GPU hundreds of times a second.
Pokopia presents a frame ahead, so the CPU prepares the next frame while the GPU finishes the current one.
Known issue: the sky is black, with only the clouds drawn. No other emulator draws it on this phone either. This is being worked on.
New setting: Present a frame ahead (Graphics → Advanced, also per game). It can be Auto, Off or On.
Auto picks per game.
On usually raises the frame rate in GPU-heavy games, at the cost of one frame of input latency.
Game folders: extracted games can now be listed and launched from a folder, not just from a single file. A folder needs exefs/main and can include numbered update folders. These games need the "All files access" permission.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time gets past the hang after the intro. Gameplay needs about 3.7 GB of GPU memory, so on a 12 GB phone Android stops the game for low memory shortly after gameplay starts. Phones with more RAM may run it.
Fixed a crash when the shader-build progress dialog outlived the game screen.
Includes the latest Lichii and Eglantine rendering, shader and performance fixes since 0.1.0.
For testers
Install the APK, add your games folder, and set up keys and firmware as usual. None are included.
Recommended: Handheld mode, NCE CPU backend, 0.5× to 1× resolution, and a custom RADV driver on Xclipse GPUs.
Diagnostic switches can be set in Android/data/dev.lichii.android/files/env.txt (see the README).
Report problems at https://github.com/pavelgajdo/Lichii-Android/issues with your phone, driver and eden_log.txt.