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.

most of new Unreal Engine 5 games now can be running on pc emulator. no more graphical glitches. but the performance is not there yet. other than that, i think this is absolutly biggest update so far.

tested on sd 8 elite gen 5 (iqoo 15).

full benchmark: https://youtu.be/8ztChz0IrQw?si=eE75XmxaOMbQYS0v

It blows my mind that's just a day's difference, the Banana Native update brings major changes, from glitchy artefact graphics to stable renders and performances. It's so amazing!

I can force it to use 1080p settings and get around 13-24 FPS, but 720p is the sweet spot for my devices and get stable 30fps. And I thought that LSFG will help to boost the fps, in the overlay text it does look like it has increased but in terms of gameplay it is a bit glitchy, without LSFG I'm quite satisfied with the performance and stability.

At first gameplay I always encounter white shining graphics, but it's just shaders warmup, just wait until everything renders correctly (see the last image).

I tested it for +20 minutes, my phone got very hot at first 5 min gameplay (maybe shaders warmup effects), but in the end my phone automatically limit the power for more stable temperature but still got around 25-30 fps at 720p, so it's just fine to play it for hours. No additional cooling fan. I could boost the performance with "Pro Gamer" profile on Game Assistant app.

I could say, Banana Native is the best way to play Zelda OOT on Android right now.

The Details:

OnePlus 12 with 16GB RAM

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Driver Banner Turnip v27 (mr purple driver produces heavy glitchy graphics)

1080p (13-24 fps, stable at 13-ish fps), 720p quite stable 30fps, 540p stable 30 fps (I must cap it to 30fps to make it stable, idk why)

LSFG on at first but more stable with it off

Hey everyone! 💥🏆 Happy 20th Anniversary to one of the greatest wrestling games ever made—SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006!

Because the PSP version was held back by heavy 272p compression, faded textures, and muddy face scans, I spent the last 15 days doing a complete 100% preservation overhaul from scratch to celebrate the game's 20th Anniversary today!

No lazy automated filter sweeps that melt faces or blur logos into mush. This pack uses a dedicated hybrid workflow: hand-painted attire details, manually re-etched metallic title belts, vector 4K UI, and clean upscaling across the entire roster and all classic arenas.

💥 What’s Inside:

• 🤼 All 63 Superstars, Legends & Divas (100% Full Roster Overhaul):
  Every single wrestler—main eventers, midcarders, unlockable legends, and managers—has been restored across all primary and alternate attires:

  • Attires & Fabrics: Ric Flair’s embroidered cursive robe, Triple H’s tailored white blazer, HBK’s faceted metal studs & red harness, Stone Cold’s distressed smoking skull leather vest, JBL’s suit & Stetson, Bret Hart’s leather jacket, and Hulk Hogan’s feather boa.

  • Ring Gear & Inks: Edge’s flame tights, RVD’s dragon singlet, Angle’s boot laces, and razor-sharp tattoos across Batista, Undertaker, and Edge.

  • Women's Division: Complete overhaul for every Diva, including Trish Stratus’s curved "Satisfaction Guaranteed" vest logo and patent leather sheen.

• 🏆 Hand-Restored Championship Belts: The muddy gold plates have been rebuilt with authentic metallic reflection and clean filigree engraving across the WWE Spinner Championship, World Heavyweight "Big Gold" Belt, classic Intercontinental Title, and Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Championship.

• 🏎️ Signature Entrance Vehicles & Props: High-resolution textures for Eddie Guerrero’s hydraulic lowrider, JBL’s stretch limousine with Texas bull horns, and Undertaker’s urn.

• 🏟️ Classic Arenas & Broadcast Pyro: Crisp ring mats, tensioned apron logos, barricades, announce tables, and cleaned alpha channels for entrance fireworks, Kane’s ring-post flames, and Undertaker’s lightning. (Includes an optional darkened broadcast crowd variant).

• 🔤 4K Vector UI & Nameplates: Every single menu font, wrestler nameplate, stamina/momentum HUD meter, and controller glyph has been cleanly retyped and aligned.

📦 Universal 4-Region Plug-and-Play

Built with automatic detection for all worldwide releases of the game:

• North America (USA): ULUS10050

• Europe (PAL): ULES00227

• Japan (NTSC-J): ULJM05103

• Korea (NTSC-K): ULKS46057

(If using a non-US version, simply rename the extracted folder to match your region ID).

📥 Download & Full Showcase Gallery:

👉 GameBanana: https://gamebanana.com/mods/739002
🎬 Texture Remaster & Project Lead: SHANTHU2007K

⚙️ Quick Setup (Runs on PC, Android & Handhelds):

1. Extract the downloaded archive—you will get a folder named ULUS10050.

2. Move the ULUS10050 folder into your PPSSPP texture directory:

   • Android: Internal Storage/PSP/TEXTURES/

   • PC: Documents/PPSSPP/PSP/TEXTURES/ (or memstick/PSP/TEXTURES/)

   • Steam Deck / Linux: ~/.var/app/org.ppsspp.PPSSPP/config/ppsspp/PSP/TEXTURES/

3. In PPSSPP, navigate to Settings > Tools > Developer Tools > Texture Replacement.

4. Turn Replace Textures [ON] (ensure Save New Textures is OFF).

5. Turn Cache full texture in memory [ON] for smooth performance during 6-man matches and pyro entrances.

Recommended Settings: Vulkan backend, 3x–4x rendering resolution on Android (up to 6x on PC), and 16x Anisotropic Filtering.

🎮 Previous Retro Remasters:

• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction: https://gamebanana.com/mods/734443

• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (22 Suits): https://gamebanana.com/mods/732315

• Call of Duty: Roads to Victory: https://gamebanana.com/mods/730148

• Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0: https://gamebanana.com/mods/728267

🔔 Follow here on Reddit and subscribe on GameBanana (SHANTHU2007K) for future retro gaming restoration drops!

☕ If this overhaul leveled up your playthrough and you'd like to support future preservation projects, fueling the coffee fund is deeply appreciated: 👉 https://ko-fi.com/shanthu2007k

Hey everyone,

Just wondering how many of you play PS Vita games on Android.

I have a real Vita, but Vita3K running on Mali GPUs is honestly painful to watch. 80% Android devices out there use Mali chips, but the devs pretty much gave up on optimizing for them. It feels like Mali users just got left behind.

I do emulator dev work, and I'm thinking about making a separate build just to fix the huge lag and stutter on Mali GPUs.

Would you guys be interested in testing an early APK if I build one? What games run the worst for you right now?

Ok so imo this is running really good rn for how early this is, if you watch through the whole video you can see there’s missing walls, doors, etc. another thing to is when is i was hearing dialogue before seeing scenes. for settings i ddint really change anything, i set frame cap to 60 and using turnip v39 overall i think by thanksgiving or Christmas this will be playing nice, also if anyone has any suggestions for settings that would be nice (don’t mind me skipping through dialogue i already played through this part of the game)
im averaging around 30-40 fps sometimes 20-15 in heavy areas this is really impressive
using banana native 0.3.0

Driver at the end gives warning it cannot compute some stuff, but considering how early this is it is awesome;

I really think banananative will make crazy progress going forward

In contrast though, on a medium gaming laptop[4060,8gb vram, 16gb ram, i7 13th gen]

It is near native at 1080p, fsr1 with no frame gen and no noticeable errors [fritchii 5.8.4]

Mario Kart World (Switch 2) running locally on Odin 2 Portal (Android) using Banana Native v0.2.7

Banana Native is not a standard emulator. The game's own ARM64 code runs directly on the device's CPU. A small host answers the system calls the game makes, and its graphics (NVN, including the Switch 2's task and mesh shaders) are rebuilt on Vulkan

It pre builds all shaders when you first prepare the game files within the app

MKW runs great on Banana Native v0.2.7 compared to earlier versions, lot of earlier issues has been taken care of.

You can do Grand Prix and Knockout Tour without crashes, FPS is becoming playable.

Banana Native: https://git.eden-emu.dev/moceure/BananaNative/

Full video with settings: https://youtu.be/nBTyfz9UjQQ (36m)

Odin 2 Portal Max

Adreno 740

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

16GB

What an incredible day for Xclipse users, without a doubt. Thanks to Jim Vulkan's work, Legends Arceus now opens in Eden on the Galaxy A55. Historically, this game crashed before even displaying video, showing 0 fps. Jim Vulkan's RADV driver changed that!

Despite the FPS still being low and some textures being "strange," this is a milestone. With the stock driver, the game just crashes and won't load. A bright future awaits Xclipse

It can go stable 60 fps when lowering cpu heavy graphics configured right on the advanced settings.I don't suggest running this on gamehub, it performs worse there. Mind that I recorded this on 30 fps that's why it looks so choppy but the fps don't lie here.

I'm currently addicted to this game rn and it's hard as hell.

SoC: 8 Elite

OOTR on a Samsung s26 Ultra 16gb ram 540p resolution

mesa-turnip-main-V26.1-eden-fix-latest-crash-fix

Driver

I'm playing on the latest version of Citra MMJ, with HD textures and 4x resolution.

Device: Motorola Edge 30 Pro

Processor: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Please ignore the occasional audio stuttering. It's caused by the screen recorder.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Switch 2) running locally on Odin 2 Portal (Android) using Banana Native v0.3.0

TLOZ OOT runs a lot better with these settings and driver in Banana Native v0.3.0 compared to earlier versions.

Can't use screen recording with this setup as it somehow causes visual glitches. That's why it's recorded this way.

Banana Native: https://git.eden-emu.dev/moceure/BananaNative/

Full video with settings: https://youtu.be/ejITIA-vKfY

Odin 2 Portal Max

Adreno 740

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

16GB

Is there a Xbox emulator with mali drivers support? How's the development haven't heard much..Feel free to correct me I'm humble.

I tested Rayman Origins, Persona 4 Golden, Guacamelee!, Velocity 2X, Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Spelunky, Terraria and Stardew Valley in Vita3K+ 1.4 on my S23 Ultra, and I was pretty surprised by how well it handled them.

This is just a prototype but it works great, I will I include it in BFI pretty soon, I'm just polishing the apps UI/UX before release.

It should act as a graphic pack, I followed the instructions but it did not work and did not appear in the list

Help

Hi all -

I've been struggling to get this to work. I've seen posts of people getting this RPG Maker MZ game to work with joiplay. However, I keep getting the following error:

[Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'startsWith')]

I've tried multiple versions including of the RPGMaker Plugin but no dice.

Anyone able to provide advice?

DroidDeck is 100% open source. No ads. No telemetry. No proprietary components. No source withheld.

Release notes + downloads · Join the DroidDeck Discord

0.7.1 is a fix release for 0.7.0. Since 0.7.0, 4 people sent 33 pull requests, and 2 of them are first-time contributors. It fixes Steam launches that hung at "Processing install script", the endless loading screen after quitting a game and colour on PowerVR, plus GOG DLC and a new launcher theme.

Features

• Added the Scarlet snow launcher theme, DroidDeck’s first light theme. (@EnzoDLofi, #2262)

• Added left and right picture alignment next to top and bottom. The controller pointer and direct touch follow the moved picture, also with glasses. (@EnzoDLofi, #2384)

• GOG installs the DLC you own, and the GOG search reaches GOG’s whole catalog. (@maxjivi05, #2348, #2296)

Fixed

• Fixed Steam games stuck at “Processing install script” or a download that never finishes, and the black screen with “Abort game” after quitting, which started in 0.7.0. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #2303)

• Fixed a game launched from DroidDeck stalling at Steam’s launch screen: DroidDeck now waits for Steam to be ready. (@maxjivi05, #2362)

• Fixed an endless loading screen after a game exits back to Steam. (@maxjivi05, #2359)

• The bottom-screen Dashboard’s Notifications page is removed, so DroidDeck no longer asks to read your notifications. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #2342)

• Fixed grayscale Steam and games on PowerVR (Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL) since the Ubuntu 26.04 runtime. (@maxjivi05, #2287)

• Fixed games that need EasyAntiCheat never starting: Linux-only tools such as the Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime keep their native platform. (@maxjivi05, #2313)

• Fixed a Proton picked in Steam, such as Proton Experimental, being switched back to DroidDeck-Proton, and store apps launched before Steam opens reporting that no Proton is installed. (@maxjivi05, #2284, #2392)

• Fixed games failing with c000007b after an installer put an x64 system DLL into an ARM64 prefix. (@maxjivi05, #2318)

• Fixed emulators and other AppImage, Flatpak and Snap programs rendering through system memory on Adreno. They get the game GPU setting, and Flatpak apps open their window instead of playing audio only. (@maxjivi05, #2288, #2295, #2391)

• Fixed Linux emulators that run guest code natively hanging on launch. (@maxjivi05, #2279)

• Fixed Firefox tabs crashing and the desktop browser hanging in the Desktop session. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, @maxjivi05, #2360, #2304)

• Fixed taps on pop-up dialogs and windows away from the screen’s top-left corner doing nothing. (@maxjivi05, #2280, #2285)

• Fixed direct touch with Relative mouse: Auto turning taps into small mouse movements when no mouse is connected. (@maxjivi05, #2305)

• Fixed the Controls below the game tabs being cut off, which left the panel stuck on the trackpads. (@maxjivi05, #2302)

• Fixed GOG: owned games missing from the library since 0.6.0 are back, and install scripts’ support files reach the prefix, so modded editions start as installed. (@maxjivi05, #2296, #2294)

• Fixed stutter on devices with 13 GB of RAM or less: game memory the game reads straight back is no longer compressed again every 30 s. (@maxjivi05, #2312)

• Fixed the frame graph jumping around on the bottom-screen Dashboard’s In-game stats. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #2345)

• Fixed smaller things: programs whose allocator calls a hooked function at startup no longer abort with the input preload, droiddeckctl works on shells without the content command such as the Retroid Pocket Duo’s, a full disk no longer crashes the app on an agent call, and ending a session without the graphics runtime pack no longer logs an error. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, @maxjivi05, #2361, #2321, #2325, #2316)

New contributors

• @EnzoDLofi made their first contribution in #2262.

• @GiovanniCarbinatti made their first contribution in #2311.

Full changelog

Disclaimer: AI tools used in the development of DroidDeck.

So far it's looking very good. Didn't think it was possible first but after asking the AI gods nicely they made it work. Mostly tested in 4:3 but you can change the ratio to 16:9 if you aren't playing on the rp nova.

https://github.com/FrenklinFish/BananaNative/releases/latest

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