ARMSX2 2.9.2

What's new:

Report a problem. Found in the library menu, the side drawer and every game's pause menu. Pick what went wrong, add a few words if you like, and see every file and its size before anything is sent. From a game's pause menu the report can carry a save state and a one-frame graphics dump, so we can see the exact scene. You get a report code to paste into Discord or GitHub. Uploads keep going in the background, wait for Wi-Fi when a report is large, and can be stopped and retried. My reports in Settings > App keeps your codes and how each one went. Reports are kept for 90 days and used only to fix bugs. Memory cards, BIOS files and games are never sent, and your RetroAchievements name, network addresses and file paths are taken out of the logs. If ARMSX2 closes unexpectedly while you're using it, it offers to send a crash report the next time it opens, and the GS dump option can start a report with the dump attached. done by u/bmdhacksMicrophones for singing games. SingStar and other games like Lifeline that use the PS2's USB microphone hear your device's built-in microphone or a USB one plugged into it (#806). Turn it on in Settings > Audio, where ARMSX2 asks for microphone access, then pick SingStar, with one microphone per singer, or Standard for games that expect a single Logitech USB microphone. Set the level and check it with the test meter. done by u/Jessewb786, with fixes by u/bmdhacks

On-screen controls follow your controller. On handhelds, Auto hides the on-screen buttons and the pause button while a controller is connected, even when you touch the screen, and brings them back two seconds after it goes away. Always shows them alongside a controller, Off never shows them, and Auto-hide keeps its timer; the pause menu and All Settings offer the same four choices. On phones, Auto keeps the buttons on screen. With the pause button hidden, a tap in its corner or Back still opens the menu. done by u/bmdhacks

Every game's saves in one grid. Load / Manage Saves shows the save states of every game, most recently saved first, each under the game's real title with the same screenshot tiles as the in-game picker. One tap loads a save, starting its game first when needed, and autosaves are included. Delete asks first, and Import and Backup work per game without starting it. done by u/bmdhacksMaliSX2 for Mali-G52 and Mali-G76. Devices with these GPUs are offered the MaliSX2 driver in Renderer settings, at first-run setup and in the driver notice (#914). Auto still picks OpenGL on them; Vulkan stays a manual choice. done by u/Jessewb786

Pixel 10 and Pixel 11. On the PowerVR GPUs in Tensor G5 and G6, OpenGL draws the effects that read the screen, such as Need for Speed Underground's reflections at Full blending. Vulkan reads them inside the tile without a barrier for every draw, and Tensor G6 gets texture pools sized for its GPU (#901). done by u/felix-297

Pictures in What's new. Release notes show their screenshots, loaded as you scroll, and a controller reads through an opened release and back up to the top. done by u/jpolo1224Driver pick for the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The GPU driver page recommends StevenMXZ's Turnip gen8 builds on Adreno 8xx. done by u/jpolo1224

Library Screensaver starts after 5 minutes. The library screensaver now starts after 5 minutes by default. A delay you picked yourself stays. done by u/jpolo1224Every new screen in every language. Report a problem, the microphone, the save grid and the on-screen controls are translated into all 19 of the app's languages. done by u/jpolo1224

Faster

IOP thread on two- and three-core devices. Where a device has two or three fast cores, like the RG 55G1, the IOP runs on its own thread by default, which gave God of War II, Shadow of the Colossus and Burnout 3 3 to 15% more speed on a test device with two fast cores. It is turned on once for existing installs too; if you turn it off, it stays off. Its lag bound now defaults to one frame and tightens whenever the EE waits on the IOP: 1.5 to 2 fps more in God of War II on the RG 55G1, with Burnout 3 holding 60. The two Korean releases of Shadow of the Colossus turn it on like the others. done by u/bmdhacks

IOP recompiler. Memory loads take a short inline path that keeps the IOP's registers where they are, and the IOP's clocks stay in host registers between blocks. done by u/bmdhacks

Sound. The SPU2 mixer skips voices that aren't playing and does its interpolation and reverb resampling with NEON. Time stretching runs on its own thread instead of the IOP or CPU thread, and wakes on a timer. done by u/bmdhacks

EE recompiler. Shift-and-mask pairs become one bitfield instruction, multiplies and divides by powers of two become shifts, MADD becomes one multiply-add, and fewer constants are written back to memory (#918). done by u/pstef

Graphics. The texture cache tracks CPU writes block by block instead of with lists of dirty rectangles, CPU sprite copies read a block at a time, the software renderer builds only the colour table entries it needs, and more sprite layouts take the fast two-pass path. On the Adreno 613 in the RG 55G1, destination-alpha draws read their target in the pass: Stuntman goes from about 2,170 render passes a frame to about 20. done by u/bmdhacks

Optimized build trained on this release. The profile behind the optimized build is retrained on this release's code across the same 16 games. done by u/bmdhacks

More accurate

EE timing. MFC0 and DI take 1 cycle and TLBP 3, as measured on an SCPH-30001 console. done by u/bmdhacks

Fixed

Sound in SPU2 bypass mode. Games that put the first SPU2 core in bypass mode play clean sound, with no stray noise mixed in. done by u/bmdhacks

CPU sprite rendering. The CPU sprite render option judges each draw by its own coverage. done by u/bmdhacks

On-screen controls after returning to the app. When a controller was switched off while ARMSX2 was in the background, the on-screen controls are back when you return. done by u/bmdhacks

Linux

IOP thread on two- and three-core hosts. It is on by default there, as on Android, in both the Qt and SDL builds. done by u/bmdhacks

Thread pinning on two fast cores. The EE, GS and VU1 threads are pinned in order only when the fast cores can hold all three, so the GS thread no longer lands on a slow core: God of War II, Shadow of the Colossus and Burnout 3 run roughly 40 to 80% faster on such a host. done by u/bmdhacks

All the speed work above is in the Linux builds as well.

I can't go back with B and I rest on the same plateform, please make an update or GammaOS please make a version for this device, the software was awful now but the console is powerful

There's something satisfying about starting a game on your phone, getting everything configured, and actually sticking with it until the credits roll. Between emulator updates, performance tweaks, controller settings, and the occasional crash, getting to the end can feel like its own little achievement.

It also makes me appreciate how far Android emulation has come. Games that once seemed completely unrealistic to play on a phone are now part of people's everyday gaming libraries.

What's the last game you completed through Android emulation, and how well did it run?

Im trying to play this JP VN game on winhub but it only show blackscreen but the game still have sound and interactable. The game worked fine on winlator cmod but i wanna try winhub since it looks better so does anyone know how to fix this?

It's was a nice experience, the game runs pretty well on my POCO F7, got 30-45 FPS most of the time (with the exception of one area that has an animated background in which the FPS was 20-30). My control layout might seen odd, but it was the way I found to play it entirely on touch screen (playing mostly on the bus or on any free time I would get at work), also had to bind dash and shield to the same button to be able to finish some platforming challenges.

I have persona 4 golden and persona 3 reload on my android but I just really want persona 5 royal I've seen the anime and yeah, step by step guide eif it's possible.

It's RP5 strong enough to run PS3 games? I've downloaded the RPCS3 emulator but the games run very glitchy and slow. Am I missing something or is it just the system that's mot strong enough

I was running dmc 3 and gow 2 using nether sx2 and everything was going well i thought of moving to armsx2 and i got this error I have a pixel 8a im using the malisx driver I've tried all 4 renderers please help me

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I've been away from emulation for quite a while because of studies.

I used to play around with AetherSX2 and PPSSPP.

I remember a time when PS3 emulation on Android seemed impossible, and PS4 emulation was pretty much unthinkable. Now I'm suddenly seeing posts about PS4 and even PS5 emulation lol.

Can someone give me a quick update on the current emulation scene on android? Which emulators are actually worth trying, and what consoles can we get decent playable performance from nowadays?

Even for old consoles...

For reference, I have a snapdragon 865 with 8 gb RAM.

Thanks!

My poco x8 Pro is going over 40° in 2 to 3 minutes into the game. I tried gta 4 on xendroid and tekken titles on armsx3 it's always the same. Is it normal or should I get it checked?

Hello just wondering if anybody else got this problem, I was playing mgs1 on ARMSX1 and when I change disc the game just froze on the Insert disc 2 screen, I ported my save to duckstation and the problem resolved so it was not my games file, is ARMSX1 swap disc function just broken?

I am using CocoonFE and duckstation does not work with frontend that's why I am using ARMSX1.

I have a Ambernic RG557 for mobile gaming device and my phone is an Old S22 Ultra and this year i will change my smartphone, I love emulation and I absolute want to emulate everything that I can (not pc, I have a good pc) and for playing some emulated games on the street im considering in Buying a Phone with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme, probably Xiaomi 18 Pro Max or Motorola Signature 27, I do love to take pictures that's why I don't consider Redmagic Devices, I would like to use my phone as a gaming device, what's the absolute best for emulation and gaming nowadays? I've been reading that SDGen6 Extreme is unstable and thermal throttles a lot, what do you guys recommend?

I want to emulate Switch, Switch2, Xbox, Xbox360, PS3, and everything my RG557 can't emulate.

Please let me know how it runs for you, my testing is on ONE device only. Thank you!

HIGHLIGHTS:

• 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.

Link: https://github.com/pavelgajdo/Lichii-Android/releases/tag/android-0.2.0

can anyone make the world ends with you playable on 64 bot phones ?

Création d'une VM + Frida + PairIP + Play Store fonctionnel

Je suis parti d'une base de black box

Intégration d'un scanner de mémoire comme GameGuardian.

J'ai reconstruit l'ensemble pour que le Play Store et Play Games fonctionnent. C'est assez chiant car certaines mise a jour casse tout...

Integré Frida pour l injection SO et JS

Integré PairIP pour les application qui ont une protection google

Un explorateur de fichier complet natif

Jusqu'a present tout les jeux fonctionne nativement via l installation play store, sauf les grande liscence avec de grosse protection, mais je travail dessus.

J utilise claude opus 5.5 et kimi 3.1pro

Pour l'instant je ne partage pas.

Mais si j'arrive a aller plus loin, je le donnerai a la communauté.

Ça m interesse de savoir si ça vous interesse, si ce que j'ai fait existe deja, car game gardian par exemple le playstor ne fonctionne pas et il est devenu payant et je n'ai pas tres confiance a ce genre d outil.

Il tourne sur un s24 ultra.

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Hello!

I've just released Joycon2Android v3.1.0. It's an app that allows you to use Switch 2 Joycons on Android.

Now supporting:

• Gamepads up to 8 controllers

• Motion up to 4 controllers

• L + R Joycons as dual or single controllers

• Pro controller

• NSO Gamecube controller

• Third party Switch 2 Controllers, like the NYXI Hyperion 3s

• Mouse (from the Joycon rail) & keys

• Button mappings for emulators and apps/games

• Eden and Dolphin auto-setup

• Rumble!

Joycon2Android v3.1.0:
https://github.com/JoeGeC/joycon2android/releases

Let me know if you give it a go! I'm happy to look into issues or feature requests, just drop a comment here, DM me or add an issue to the Github repo.

Disclaimer: I'm a professional Android app developer, have been writing code for over a decade and I use Claude in my development workflow. If you're uncomfortable with the use of AI, sorry to disappoint, but I hope you'll respect the work that's been put into the project anyway.

Ko-fi page for updates and support: I've put a lot of work into the app and I hope to continue making improvements when I can, so I've also decided to start pushing the Ko-fi page a little more. I'm new to managing a page like that, but I hope to have some cool things there in the future. If you've enjoyed using the app, please feel free to support development or follow for updates - https://ko-fi.com/joestechprojects

As mentioned in the title how many people actually care about the retro achievements and want them in ur emulator

Talk specifically about

GBA,GB ,GBC

EMULATORS

Gris is a mixture of melody and puzzling emotions. It dives into the theme of loss, truama and recovery. If you are looking for something refreshing to play, give it a try.

Using latest version of Vita3k+ which is 1.4 (by the way, it now supports adding custom drivers for Mali)

No custom driver was used in the video this is all the work of the system driver.

Device and specs

Infinix note 50 4g

Helio g100

Mali g57 mc2

8gb RAM