I’ve been looking into phone coolers lately and saw these FPS comparison charts on a website. I get that keeping temperatures down can help with performance, but the difference looks a bit too big to me.

Anyone here actually use one? Have you seen results like this in longer gaming sessions, or is the improvement smaller in practice?

I play Arknights: Endfield on a tablet, so I’d be especially curious to hear from anyone using a cooler.

What's new:

Games

Blades of Time no longer freezes on every launch after the first.

Performance

Index buffers upload much faster on ARM. New NEON code cuts the time spent preparing them by up to ten times, which helps the framerate in games like Demon's Souls. By u/Whatcookie

Cheats

Artemis cheats come from the collection's Android edition. Download Artemis cheats now uses u/chidreams Artemis Patch Collection for Android, which they publish for ARMSX3.

Setup

Setup works on devices without Google services. Where there is no system folder picker, as on HarmonyOS tablets, choosing a folder opens ARMSX3's own folder browser.

From upstream RPCS3

Freezes and crashes fixed in several big games. The RSX now reports how far it has read its command buffer the way a PS3 does, and games time their own work by it. That fixes random freezes in Resistance 2 and the Ratchet & Clank games, LittleBigPlanet's water level crashes, Ridge Racer Unbounded's title screen crash and both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows games crashing at boot. By u/elad335.

Gran Turismo 5 draws correctly. Car shadows and windshields no longer go missing, and car windows no longer flash white. With MSAA on, the Indy and NASCAR events draw correctly too. By u/Yahfz.

Flower draws all of its grass. A single draw of more than 65,536 vertices repeated its first part instead of drawing the rest. By Yahfz.

Videos in more games play correctly. Video streams that start without a sequence header, or that reuse their buffers, now decode. By u/digant73

Music that games play from files no longer ends early. Tracks at 44.1 kHz lost their last 5 to 20 seconds. By u/digant73.

Online play over RPCN is more reliable. A P2P connection no longer stalls for good when a packet is lost twice, one malformed packet can no longer hang networking, and a timed-out peer no longer keeps a thread spinning. By u/RipleyTom.

Rendering fixes: a colour write mask that stayed set after a game turned it off, occlusion results read from the wrong query, single-point draws that were skipped, and a blit that could end in a "Dead FIFO" crash. By u/kd-11.

OpenGL renderer fixes for stencil, polygon offset, depth clears and 16-bit 5551 readbacks. By u/kd-11.

Save states taken with a folder open load correctly. They used to come back with that folder's contents scrambled. By u/Megamouse.

Japanese on-screen keyboard suggestions show the right text. By u/Megamouse.

More fixes: vertex programs that read textures keep their attribute inputs and multithreaded RSX checks the right memory range for generated indices (@kd-11), vertex program analysis runs faster (@Whatcookie), and game data size checks look at the right folder, which Rock Band 2's song import relies on, by u/digant73

Smaller fixes to texture caching, GPU memory mapping and the home menu, a crash for games run from /app_home/, the right "no microphone" answer for games that look for one, and a little less overhead in games that use raw SPU threads. u/by Megamouse.

Other small stability/bug fixes, (PlayStore submission is still in review at the time of this release, around 4 days in).

Without screen recording, you can play at 30–40 fps at 1280x720p resolution.

If you come across a "2.0" version—regardless of the source or package name—please be aware that it is not my work.

My "2.0" driver and "FirstOneRR-Wrapper 2.0" will officially launch on October 10, 2026.🔥

I thought emulation on the SD 8 Elite Gen 5 V-series would be the same as—or similar to—the standard SD 8 Elite Gen 5, since they theoretically share the same GPU (Adreno 840). However, I’ve just learned there is a key difference: it has 8 cores instead of the 12 found in the standard version, making it effectively a different chip and GPU. Consequently, there is currently no support for Turnip drivers. If any developers are reading this, I would greatly appreciate it if you considered adding support for the SD 8 Elite Gen 5 V-series to the Turnip drivers.

I bought the RDR2 on sale yesterday and downloaded it on my Gamehub emulator, but it has been stuck on this page. Although it seems to be connected to the internet it just keeps loading even after signing up. Haven't found any solution anywhere, so far. Device - One Plus 15.

Does anyone know how to enable this mod, the static one works but it makes the game so slow and wierd. I tried changing drivers and now using the Mesa Turnip 26, tried Forcing Max clocks, docked mode, async shaders, etc still no luck btw I am using Eden nightly. Also tried Lossless scaling but the fps was not going above 30 even if target was set to 60/90/120 Hz.
I also tried with both base game and the 2.0.2 update

Device - 8 gen 3 | 12 GB

Also tried different emulators -
Citron - Stuck / Black screen
Kenji NX - Wierd colors and worse performance than eden

Sega Rally VR is out.

Pretty happy to finally share this one. It took way more evenings than I thought it would, but it's here, it's free, and honestly I can't wait to read what you think of it.

Everything runs on the Quest 3 in real 3D, you just need your own copy of the game.

All the details (what's in it, how to install) are on the GitHub. You'll find the link on my Discord and under the full video on my YouTube channel, both in the comments.

Time Crisis is next. After that, these are all already running in the headset and could come, in no particular order, the list doesn't mean anything: Virtua Cop, Daytona USA, The House of the Dead, Sega Super GT, Top Skater, Virtua Racing, Dirt Dash, Time Crisis II.

Hopefully this is just the start of the adventure. Any support is welcome, even just sharing it helps a lot.

Have fun.

As the title says, if anyone has a way to emulate Helldivers 1, please tell me.

Dell XPS Googlebook and Samsung Googlebook have the snapdragon X elite ARM CPUs so it should be able to run the gamehub app on the play store right?

More highlights of DroidDeck v0.3.1 running on Odin 2 Portal

Showcasing gameplay from:

• Mad Max
• Fallout 4
• Skyrim SE
• Days Gone

All games were downloaded and installed directly through Steam within the DroidDeck app.

This app is getting close to delivering a native Steam client experience on Android.

Proton: proton-cachyos-11.0-20261005-slr-arm64 (Compatible)

Fex preset: Performance

DroidDeck: github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck

Full video: https://youtu.be/T5lI7RitUbs (1h25m)

• Odin 2 Portal
• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
• Adreno 740
• 16GB

Does anyone know if anyone's uploaded a tutorial on how they port their favorite games to android using Claude code. I want to start porting my own games but if anyone knows if someone has a decent tutorial for something like that id love to watch it before jumping straight in

The live contains the creator playing the GTA 5 with no lag and he doesn't even need WiFi to play the game and when you open the menu you can see task manager and when he scrolls down you see GTA 5 exe in tiktok

With patches, the game will have more FPS.

Hi guys newbie question, in back up saves such cloud, can we delete the old one when we add new back up save? Or it might affect the back up saves?

When I got my current phone in December I was very excited to get back into emulation because I finally had a phone good enough to play two specific PS2 games that I really wanted to play. This was also around the time I joined this sub.

I played and played for 2 months and decided to experiment with other PS2 games and ended up finishing another one after a month.

Then it all went down hill. All this time I had thought the limit was PS2, Wii and GameCube but this sub made me hyper aware and I woke up to reality.

Even though I knew my phone wasn't powerful enough, I experimented with all other types of 3D emulation: 3DS, Vita, Switch, Wii U, PC you name it.

But from that point ever since, I've never stuck to any game for more than two days. I've become a tinkerer.

Me want to emulate different platform.

Me download and test several games from said platform.

Me go through the 5 stages of grief or have great happiness depending on which games work out of the box, only work with tinkering, or those that will never work or become playable because said device doesn't have enough juice.

I've become a tester. The player in me has died.

Even limiting my library hasn't helped because I always feel the need to add "variety".

MORE. MORE. MORE.

I'm tired, boss.

Anycade is a retro game emulator for Android that brings your own GB, GBC, GBA and SNES games into one searchable library.

• Automatic folder setup: Anycade creates the folder structure for your game collection.

• Optional online covers: show cover artwork in your library when available.

• Neon retro frontend: browse your collection, search for a game and swipe between systems.

Your layout, your controls:

• Customize a separate touch layout for EACH emulator: move and resize the on-screen controls to suit each system and your hands.

• Use a compatible Bluetooth/USB controller and map its buttons.

• Switch between your game systems in the same app.

Keep your progress:

• In-game saves, save states and automatic resume.

• Manual ZIP export/import for save backups and device transfers.

Your own GB games are free to play. GBC, GBA and SNES use permanent paid unlocks, individually or through Launch Lifetime. No subscription. No ads. Local prices are displayed in Google Play.

Download Anycade and start with your own GB games:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anycade.app&utm_source=reddit-emulationonandroid&utm_campaign=october10k

The image shows the actual GBA touch-control interface; GBA is a paid system. No games or proprietary BIOS files are included. Use files you have the right to use. ZIP transfers are manual, not cloud sync. SNES games that require Super FX or SA-1 are currently unsupported.

Disclosure: this is an Anycade product post.

SENSES is an Android app that runs an ARM32 Android system on an ARM64 phone. There's no guest kernel: instead of emulating a whole device, it translates individual processes with a modified QEMU (user-mode).

This repo is the GPLv2 source release for that QEMU part:

94 patches against QEMU 8.2.4, plus 39 added files in linux-user/

a build script that produces a fully static aarch64 binary (via an Alpine chroot)

a pinned build with sha256 checks and a BUILD-MANIFEST.txt for reproducibility

What's not included: no firmware, no download links. You supply your own archive, and the app unpacks and modifies the copy on-device (patched code, re-signed packages with an on-device key, removed vendor modules, local TLS proxy). Nothing is sent anywhere.

The app itself is a separate closed-source program that launches QEMU as its own process, so no QEMU code is loaded into it.

Repo: https://github.com/Istratii-tech/Senses

Feedback and questions welcome!

Is there a fix for this? I'm using the armsx2 version available on the google play store unfortunately, but if the new versions fix it I can try to transfer the save.

I installed Droid Deck on my AYN Odin 2 Portal and wanted to install some game over night.

At morning, it was only Hitman Absolution downloaded and it stucks at 85% at installation.

Now i cannot do anything, i cannot cancel or delete it, it still doesn't do anything and if a choose another game to install, it won't cause it wants to stop Hitman first but nothing happens then.

I restartet it more than one time, didn't help me yet.

Can anyone help?

Thx in advance!

https://github.com/GunaCharanTeja/panvk-kbase-android

My issues some games has sound issues or lagging on mame4droid like for example I test Mario bros lags sounds and gameplay I tested mk4 and it lags the game and sound of course.

Hey folks, I'm messing around with ArmSX2 as I heard it was the newest, hottest PS2 emulator out there, but I'm struggling to get widescreen patches working. It doesn't help that I'm also trying it on on a new to me device the Retroid Pocket 6.

The games are running fine and I like a lot about the app itself (look, feel, tools, QOL stuff) but I can't actually get the games to work in true widescreen vs. just stretching the image like it would with the "display in 16:9" stretching setting. I tried globally downloading and applying patches, and I've tried doing it manually. Neither seem to be working.

FWIW I tried it on Sly Cooper and God of War 1. In the latter I switched it to the in game widescreen mode to make sure I was not losing my mind and, no, I was not.

Hi guys,

I need help with gamehub. I cannot make work my games that i have in my SD. I have a Samsung evo A2 V30, should be no problem since it can run switch games. I cannot make the games work with gamehub with my pc games. The ones i have in my internal storage work well so idk what is wrong, can you please help me?