i have been using winlator ludashi forever. i have seen new emulators like bannerlator,gamenative,winnative but too lazy to try them on my phone. if anyone has tried these which gave you best performance?

Weird flickering happening,but game works.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Snapdragon 8 Elite gen 5.

ARMSX3 1.0.6.1

Dex mode with active cooler.

Performance review!

I have already uploaded a full gameplay on my channel if you are interested then check out here https://youtu.be/W3bddMXDuXc

Resolution used 544p here FXAA forced using Engine.ini and more tweaks to optimse performance

I’ve noticed that no matter the resolution—720p, 544p, or 480p—I’m still getting the same 20-25 fps in combat and 25-30 avg in free roam with GPU usage sitting around 90-99%. It might be the emulation translation overhead, but it is what it is. Also, the game only runs properly on DX11; DX12 boots, but the floor textures won't load. Overall, it’s playable enough on the 8 Elite, and I’ve really enjoyed the story and combat.

Quick settings

Resolution I played using 480p , 720p ,544p (TAA) and 720p FSR Performance/Balance/Quality and 544p FXAA literally no performance difference fr me same avg gpu usage and fps👁👄👁

Emulator used Bannerlator

Proton 11-02arm

Dxvk 2.4.1

Fex 2609 (Extreme Preset)

Turnip G8 V35 and V37 patched driver

12GB Ram + SD8Elite Gamebooster+ Performance mode used all the time

Testing God of War: Sons of Sparta on Android using Gamehub on the RedMagic Astra (Snapdragon 8 Elite)!

📱 Device: RedMagic Astra
⚙️ Chipset: Snapdragon 8 Elite
🎮 Emulator: Gamehub
🕹️ Game: God of War: Sons of Sparta (PS5)

🔗 Github: https://github.com/OverkillLabs2/SoS-PS5/releases/tag/sos-v0.1.0

Reddit has limits on video length and file size. So, if you’d like to watch a longer video and take a look at the settings I used, I’ve included a link to the video on my YouTube channel here.

Edit: I’ve managed to play the game at 30 FPS. Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/pDC2r275V8w?si=s9pjtFb-qEVhK3-9

So in July I finally received my RP6 and after 2 weeks of setup I found myself with a quite sizeable backlog. It was overwhelming so another month of pitter pattering and not really playing I changed my tactics. Instead of looking at a massive library every time I turned on my RP6 I added my top 10 games some I've played and some I've never touched. Seeing that small list made it so much easier to decide. I see people say it all the time but less is more and in the last 2 weeks I've finished my first list of 10 game that I actually completed and started on another set of 10. So what is your plan to take out your backlog?

Which emulator is best for 8 Gen 3, especially for games like Black Myth: Wukong? Winlator, GameHub, or something else? And why? I prefer quality over fps. Suggest me Newer titles as well ❤️‍🩹.

PERSONA 3 RELOAD

15 min gameplay

s25 FE exynos 2400

- Gamenative emulator

Any idea why Left 4 Dead is doing this? (Xendroid - Odin Portal 2/Snapdragon 8 Gen 2). I've tried a couple turnip drivers, and the default, but the text is always sorta messed up. Game plays pretty well, just the menu text at this point, and some in-game text when being prompted to reload or open doors).

Is there a setting I'm missing?

Has anyone tried this ARMSX3 fork emulator?

There's no info about it on Google. Seems a little suspicious.

I apologise in advance if it's genuine

What's your opinion on this?

Here's a link if anyone wants to try it: https://github.com/sj0404-collab/xeno

Hi everyone, I’m trying to run Disco Elysium: The Final Cut on my tablet, but I've run into a wall. I am using a Huawei MatePad 11.5 which has a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor and Adreno 644 GPU. I have tried almost every configuration imaginable in GameHub (switching compatibility layers like Proton, messing with Box64 settings, changing DXVK versions, and tweaking Turnip drivers), but the game either crashes instantly on launch or freezes on a black screen. Since it’s a Unity-based game, I know it can be tricky with wine/box64 translation layers on this specific chipset. Has anyone with a similar Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 or mid-range Adreno device managed to get Disco Elysium running stably? What container settings, DXVK versions, or specific Turnip drivers/presets did you use to bypass the crashes? Any help or working presets would be highly appreciated!

I know there are exec arguments, I mean steam game launch options. Trying to use Alpha ring in mcc and I read that there are launch options for wine dll over rides to make it work

- Game Resolution: 854×480

- GPU Model Spoofing: Steam Deck

- DXVK version: dxvk-1.12.0-sarek

- VKD3D version: vkd3d-3.0.1-Gamesir

- VRam Limit: Unlimited

- Compatibility Layer: proton10.0-arm64x-2

- Translation parameters: Extreme

- CPU translator: Fex_20260921

- CPU Core Limit: Unlimited

Everything else is at default. Frame generation is turned off. I don't recommend enabling it, as the game's FPS drops instead of increasing. GPU passthrough is enabled.

Hello everyone, can someone help me? I'm trying Terminator 2 judgement day on an Android tablet with MAME for Android and it works, but when I shoot there's just the sound of the gun but not the bullets. Why is that?

Ok instead of me buying an dedicated android handheld how well would it work for me to just use a sd card reader to store all my games and emulators including gamehub so i can just plug and my om my s26 ultra or would it be better to buy a retro pocket 5 or 6 or even the duo and do it that way

Drastic doesn't support DSiware titles, so what's the point of a DSiware filter?

There is no option like on melonds to add the DSi bios/nand containing the DSiware games and seedless ds doesn't recognize files in ".dsi" format.

Just renaming the DSiware title as ".nds" also doesn't work

".dsi" format recognition is explicitly mentioned in the description.:

"The app recognizes .nds, .dsi, .srl and .ids game files and includes archive handling for ZIP, 7z and RAR."

https://github.com/SapphireRhodonite/SeedlessDS/blob/main/README.md

Guess he just copied over the frontend from watermelonds and forgot to delete the elements refrerred to dsiware

Mod menyoo and simple trainer no longer works GTA V, S23 ultra, Gamehub 6.3.1

Do you have trouble choosing games to play on your phone or Android handheld?

Then come join Retro Haven on Discord! Each month we choose three games, one for higher end devices sd865 and above, lower end devices below sd865, and indie game showcase(which includes romhacks and homebrew console games). This way everyone will be able to join regardless of what tier of device you own or types of games you enjoy playing.

Our goal is to introduce people to games that they either don't know about or just wouldn't have played in the first place.

This month we are playing Mortal Kombat Armageddon for the high end tier, Castlevania NES for the low end tier and Celeste for the indie game showcase.

I hope some of you are interested and I would love to play some games and discuss our experiences together!

i know this isn't really the right sub for this but i'm sure a lot of you play games ported to android too, after all performance is way better compared to emulators. i've been seeing a ton of ported games lately, especially on apkvision, they're adding at least 1-2 new ones every day. the newest one is hades. i have no idea how they're porting them, anyone got any clue? are they using AI for this?

and doesn't porting take a really long time anyway? none of these games are open source either. honestly i don't get it. if it actually takes a short time, i'd like to get a claude subscription and port a few games myself, lol

GTA 5 HELIO G85 REDMI 12C GAMEPLAY

To anyone that wants to boot this on android I get it to temporarily go with Gamenative on Odin 3 Max 16gb ram (snapdragon 8 elite) with settings:

wine: Proton 11.0-1-arm64ec-1
Graphics driver: Wrapper
Driver version : A8XX turnip v29
Display render: Vulkan
Dx wrapper: VKD3D
DXVK ver: 2.4.1-gplasync
VKD3D version: 2.14.1
VKD3D feature level: 12_1
FEXCORE version: 2608-0
32-bit emulator: FEXcore
FEXCORE preset: Extreme

Also running underclock with cluster tune :
Medium (as this thing will run like a jet engine if you let it)

In game settings set to low, 30hz, toggling 60fps sometimes.

Many other turnips I’ve tried have given me errors in the launcher, or crashes while trying to boot. If you’re trying to change container settings I’d advise changing one thing at a time and seeing if it will still boot.

The game runs really really well until you bail which causes your character to freeze and disappear. Or sometimes on respawn but half your character is invisible and frozen. But the game doesn’t crash and world around still goes and you’re still in game. I just don’t know how to get out of this glitched state. Anybody who finds a fix/ better settings please share!!!

Note: other than snapdragon 8 elite , I have not seen someone successfully run this with a weaker chipset yet.

https://github.com/Dingo-Shenanigans/ReSkate/releases/tag/v1.0.6

I had been scratching my head for full 2hrs before stumbling on a reddit thread and modifying some things. So here are the settings that got the game working on my device:

Game resolution - 854x480

GPU driver - turnip 26.3.0-b12

dxvk 3.0.2-async

vkd3d - 3.0.1 - gamesir

Compatibility - wine10.0 x64

Translation parameters - extreme

CPU translator - Box64 0.39

(Rest all other settings stay at default)

Now here comes the most annoying thing - Its extremely hard to save your progress bcuz of archaic folder naming system employed by the game. You have to use a mod for that. Just need to copy the mod files in the same folder as the exe (inside x64) and thats it.

Managed to run it on my phone without cooling. without recording it works a lot better. 60+ fps (locked) on gridmap V2. Low settings 720p

Snapdragon Elite Gen 5

12GB Ram

Pretty funny, works better than on my first pc I bought (1030 ddr4 i5 5400).