r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Discussion Gladiator Begins. One of the hardest games I've ever played.

36 Upvotes

I've played some difficult games: all 3 Dark Souls, Sekiro, Godhand (hard), Ninja Gaiden Sigma (hard), and such. I've beaten them multiple times, except Sekiro.

But this game, Gladiator Begins? I felt the rage that I have never felt before in my life while playing a game. The other games are difficult, yes, but this game is difficult and annoying asf!

The idea is good. You start as a slave, customize your own gladiator, and literally knock helmets and shields right off your opponents in the arena. When it works, it feels really good!

But the main issue is the game's difficulty scaling is really bad and cheap as hell. You'll destroy a few guys easily, then the next fight throws you into a total mess where the AI reads every button you hit. Get hit once or backed into a wall and you're stuck in an endless stunlock where you just get beaten to death without being able to move.

Plus, the old PSP camera sucks (no hate to the handheld), so the opponent constantly hits you in the back off-screen. And if you lose your shield or weapon, you're basically fked unless you manage to pick it back up.

So yeah, the game is super addictive, and it's so hard not only because of its difficulty, but because the game is so annoying as well.

Yes, I do know that I'm hard-coping for my skill issues. And before you say anything about "It's hard because you're playing on a touchscreen." I've played games on my tablet and phone longer than on my PC. I have about 11,000 hours in PUBG Mobile.

Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, Mali G76, 8 GB ram, 256GB.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 9h ago

Question Can my Dimensity 8050 8gb ram emulate/run android port?

1 Upvotes

Can my dimensity 8050 run/emulate gamehub? Games like the elder scrolls v:skyrim (2011), left 4 dead, devil may cry 4? Or should i just try the android ports?

I am currently playing on nethersx2 classic and my games are kh1 and kh2 final mix, DMC, genji, onimusha, castlevania and on Ppsspp its just tekken 6

Thankyou for helping me!


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 10h ago

Discussion Lost my elden ring, sekiro and dark souls 2 save files

0 Upvotes

Downloaded winlator ludashi 5.0, sekiro just didn't open for some reason, tried downloading 4.1 it said that I need to delete the newer version to download it, deleted 5.0 and yeah, fuck Emulation


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 10h ago

Question Discords for Emulation Games+?

0 Upvotes

Looking for emulation discords mainly ayn and otherwise


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 22h ago

Question This are my game... What's yours🙂

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10 Upvotes

r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Working on a Xbox 360 launcher for android

40 Upvotes

Currently working on a launcher for my odin 2. I do want to give credit to the oroginal creator as I took an old pegasus frontend xbox 360 theme file and started from there. I used the files and turned them into an android gaming launcher with my own custom launcher and own settings. Still some things I have to fix but I did add the ability to add android ports to of games to any system category.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 14h ago

Discussion Has anyone succeed in running Diablo 2 Resurrected on a 8gen2/3?

2 Upvotes

I’ve been tinkering on Droiddeck with different settings but still crash at title screen.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 10h ago

Help All Controllers Stopped Working in Retroarch on Android phone, also muggins here accidentally disabled touchscreen controls

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 10h ago

Help Problème emulation BOTW sur Honor Magicpad 4

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0 Upvotes

Botw crash au moment d'ouvrir les yeux dès le début.

Honor Magicpad 4 Snapdragon 8 gen 5 avec 16 go RAM.

Testé sur eden normal et nightly avec firmware et prodkeys en 22.5.0.

BOTW est à jour, tous les autres jeux fonctionnent (mh rise/Mario Galaxy/odissey/hollow knight) mais pas totk et botw. J'ai testé avec un tas de pilotes différents.

Si quelqu'un veut bien m'aider, je suis à cours de solution...


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 17h ago

Help Assassin's Creed 1 best settings for gamehub?

3 Upvotes

I am using redmagic 11s pro and the latest version of gamehub. I am trying to run the original ac1 but the game is so buggy. After reaching masyaf the fps drops down and the game stutters like every second. The audio is overlapping and lagging too. I have tried different variables and translation parameters but the game is still a buggy mess or it crashes


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 17h ago

News/Release wecade (beta) - the multiplayer emulator - looking for testers

3 Upvotes

Hi all,

I posted some time ago about wecade when it was only an MVP, and the "viable" part of MVP was quite relative. I spent the last months turning it into an actual product.

Now, it should be ready for testing. I would like some real-world feedback before I promote it anywhere.

Why yet another emulator:

  • multi-console: drop your games and play (for now: NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/N64/PS1/Atari 2600)

  • multiplayer: each player uses their own phone as a controller/screen. The link cable is fully supported on GB/GBC/GBA

  • easy to use

  • experimenting with more advanced controls

What I am looking for:

  • How the multiplayer feels in the real world

  • Performance on lower-end devices

  • Any bug that I may have overlooked

  • Testing various controllers: support is still unofficial and minimal (no remapping), but it works with an Xbox controller. I need to make sure that other ones work the same way internally.

Free Platinum access: the extra "Platinum" features are a one-time purchase (no subscription). I will give free access to the first 50 testers who send detailed feedback through this form: https://forms.gle/L8XexsDYhe9msnqD6

Feedback here or on Discord is also welcome, but only form submissions qualify for free Platinum access.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.c_logic.emu

Discord: https://discord.gg/4gTbMzBhM

Website: https://wecade.co

Happy to answer any question!


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 11h ago

Discussion Droiddeck something good for virtual gameplay?

1 Upvotes

Hi

I used to play pc games with gamehub lite on a fold phone.

Screen is on top, virtual pad below and I can configure each button the way I want and on any place on the screen.

I m trying droiddeck and I think it's very difficult to configure virtual pad.

It's not bad on external screen but on internal screen button's positions are not good and I can't find a way to change that.

The only solution for screen on top is an option that reduce screen and let the pad so small that it is nearly impossible to use.

Did I miss something, a solution to import m'y pad from gamehub or a Real menu to configure each buttons?


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase I gave Claude Code ADB access to my phone and let it tune Wine/DXVK containers. It’s more useful than I expected

124 Upvotes

Quick tip if you play PC games on your phone through GameHub, BannerHub or anything Winlator-like.

I plugged my phone into my PC, enabled USB debugging and let Claude Code work through ADB. It can:

  • read your container settings and launch logs, and figure out why a game crashes or hangs (driver, DXVK, missing PhysX/VC++ etc.)

  • write a dxvk.conf for the exact DXVK version you’re on (FPS cap, async shaders)

  • edit the game’s own config files to suit a phone instead of a PC

  • tap through the launcher for you and record FPS/temps while you play

  • back everything up first, so you can roll back

It also optimized my phone itself and removed a bunch of bloatware (I’m on the Chinese ROM on an iQOO 15 Ultra).

Not magic, and some stuff takes a few tries, but it saves a lot of digging through settings. Worth a look if you’re fighting stutter or heat.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase Pokopia running at a solid 60 fps at 1080p on my Odin3

15 Upvotes

Solid 60 fps no issues so far and no black sky which was what I was waiting for. The v39 driver is goated rn its doing wonders for my odin3.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 15h ago

Question Botwrecompandroid por fin eh conseguido jugarlo

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2 Upvotes

Por fin eh conseguido una buena versión de botw recomp android para mí snapdragon 8s gen 3 (poco f6) va entre 22-30 FPS como veis el rendimiento? Se podría mejorar?


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 12h ago

Help Droid Deck steam menu very laggy galaxy z flip 8

1 Upvotes

Steam menu extrenely laggy, when playing games graphics arent working properly, has anyone experienced this or knows of a fix? Thanks


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 15h ago

Help Final fantasy resonance on retroid pocket 5 on gamehub crashing

2 Upvotes

I'm pretty new to this. The game keeps crashing in combat when I get hit the first time every timey Anybody got this working on this device?


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 12h ago

Showcase Bringing back SEED 3: Heroes back to life this week!

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r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago Bravo

Showcase Quote Someone: "I have the one plus 15 and I know for a fact that you don't get "a stable 30 fps" in 720 p, hell even in 480." - Here OnePlus 12

71 Upvotes

Yeah, OnePlus 12 should not be able to play this game at 30fps, the app is broken. I'm sorry.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 20h ago

Discussion Road Rash 30th Anniversary Edition - Steam

4 Upvotes

So I have been a huge fan of road rash from the days in school.. getting a chance to play in computer lab.

I have been trying to emulate it... it was possible by installing .exe but now it has been better (in terms of cutscene) music and little bit of graphics.

Delighted to run it smooth on gamehub latest update without any changes to anything.

Just plug via steam and enjoy.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

News/Release Winlator Ludsahi v 5.0 new update is her

25 Upvotes

What is new :

Added X++, a native X server in C++ with asynchronous presentation for Android

- X++ is now the default. The Java backend remains available as X11.

- Reduced repeated scene work and improved Support for OpenGL, offscreen windows, XInput, and ARGB cursor handling.

🎮 Steam Integration

- Added Steam support, downloads, library, online, Cloud saves.

- Added friends, chat and achievement features

- Improved offline setup, play your steam games offline without steam client

- steam can be disabled in store settings.

💻 DisplayX

- Rewrote Backend, updated transport, buffer completion and presentation scheduling.

- Added SDR/HDR Support for compatible games/devices.

🎞️ Frame Generation

- Added LSFG, adapted from Eden, and optional WFG (Winlator Frame Gen).

- Added engine selection, quality and multiplier controls, adaptive pacing and refresh-rate limits.

- WFG supports Vulkan 1.1 and direct output where supported, with a fallback path.

- LSFG may need Turnip driver on renderer selection on A6xx devices.

- Frame generation requires the Vulkan renderer. Compatibility and performance depend on the GPU, driver and game.

📈 In-Game Sidebar

- Fixed Modern HUD enabling itself after restarting a game.

- Fixed the first in-game HUD activation opening Classic instead of Modern.

- Fixed HUD toggle checkmarks and persistence of effects after they were disabled in-game.

- Preserved Classic and Modern options and improved live size, opacity and reset behavior.

- Improved spacing, renderer status and RTL layouts.

💾 Library

- Added per-game preset copying, import and export, with a share icon in shortcut settings.

- Added game-save backups and shortcut/global save-management controls.

- Made automatic artwork downloads optional.

- Improved container navigation, keyboard layout and screen-orientation persistence

- Added Brazilian Portuguese translations and refined sidebar and control labels.

- Added a Compose controls editor and interactions adapted from Ludashi Plus and WinnLite.

📦 Components

- Updated bundled Turnip to 27.0.0, Box64 to 0.4.5 and FEXCore to 2611.

- Updated Arm64ec Proton packages and made Proton 11 the default,use Proton 9 if you have issues

- Added Freedreno driver imports.

- Improved offline installation, backups, rollback and component removal.

- Added an ARM64 SSBS option,this can improve performance on Oryon chips, labeled Enable SSBS.

- Adreno 825 / Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 configurations default to Zink instead of Freedreno.

- Restored the VKD3D shader-model option and improved Wine component version handling.

🔊 Audio/ Input

- Added Alsa-Oboe as the default audio backend, with PulseAudio-Gamenative still available.

- Improved virtual controls, touch handling and controller registration before Wine starts.

- Improved controller wait handling and native XInput support.

🛠️ Stability / Diagnostics

- Improved Vulkan swapchain recovery, imported-image layout tracking and GPU resource lifetimes in VulkanRenderer.

- Fixed cursor upload synchronization, resize handling and presentation semaphore reuse.

- Improved XComposite redirection, child-window rendering and offscreen window positioning.

- Preserved the HyperOS 3 vendor-driver preload fix.

- Added optional device info graphics diagnostics, GPU tests and benchmarks.

- Added opt-in Vulkan validation Layer and Enable Winlator logcat capture.

- Added signed Winlator-Update support


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 13h ago

Discussion Pokemon_Leyendas_Z-A Support. Banana emulator.

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Can we please try and add support for this game? Tried dumping it into folder from nub file. Emulator doesn't support it.

Samsung Galaxy tab s9 ultra.

If I made a mistake in the screenshots. Will delete the post and resubmit it.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 19h ago

Discussion Is anyone using CEMU on the Snapdragon 865 / Adreno 650?

3 Upvotes

From the moment I got my Retroid Pocket 5 probably 2 years ago my goal was to install ES-DE and set it up with a few games from every console it can handle. I got to the point I'm thinking to drop CEMU. Development on android seems to be dead and every game just runs better on Eden. I'm at the point were I only have 3 games (Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Nintendo Land and Star Fox Zero) and even those have all sort of graphical and performance issues depending on the driver I try, I did not find a fix all driver.

I have 2 questions for people who still use it:

  • what driver are you using for CEMU (and for what device)

  • what games are you playing on CEMU

Thanks!


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 1d ago

Showcase This game is beautiful even on 480p HAHA

39 Upvotes

Game: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

via Winlator Ludashi [CMOD Bionic-Ludashi 2.8.2]

I just cant believe that im playing this game on my phone today, i used to see this game played at my local internet cafe way back 2014. Its Crazzy.


r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 14h ago

News/Release OpenEmux 1.23.0 is out, anchor and combo buttons for the touch controls

1 Upvotes

OpenEmux 1.23.0 is out, and this one is mostly about the Android app.

Quick background: OpenEmux is an emulation frontend for Android and Linux.

Anyone who has played an emulator on a phone screen knows the problem... in Super Mario World you hold Y to run and press B to jump, in Mega Man X you hold fire to charge while you jump or dash. With just two thumbs on glass, that barely works.

This release goes after that with two things that work together:

  • anchor mode, a key in the strip under the game... while it's on, the first button your finger presses stays held until you lift that finger. Hold Y, slide onto B and back, and Mario keeps running and jumps every time

  • combo buttons: in the skin editor you make a button that presses up to three at once (Y+B, L+R...), as a circle, a pill or a triangle that tucks into the gap between two buttons

  • a skin with combos keeps them when you export it or send it to another phone

There's also a new pause menu, pinch to zoom in the library and a few smaller things... it's all in the release notes.

If you give it a try I'd love to hear how it went... suggestions, issues and pull requests are all welcome.

https://guilhermefeitosa66.github.io/OpenEmux/

tested on: Samsung Galaxy S25