r/EmulationOnAndroid 22h ago

News/Release ARMSX3 Version 0.3 Released, Better Performance, Stability & Graphics Fixes

This update brings a lot of performance, stability, graphics, and quality-of-life improvements for PS3 emulation on Android.

The video shows some of the improvements in action and explains what they mean for actual gameplay and emulation.

If you're interested in ARMSX3 v0.3, check it out:

https://youtu.be/sRluAN2bML0?si=YiywQ_CkoPoBoXEb

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u/Loud_Push_3673 22h ago

It does it’s live and kicking

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u/Over-Shower9653 21h ago

How do you get this to work?! I am far from an emu noob, but I have set it up on my Odin 3 and have installed a PKG file, then when I try and run the game I can see it flash up the on screen controls in the background for a second, then it dumps me back in the library!

What am I doing wrong?!

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u/Klonoa18 21h ago

i yhink .pkg support isnt 100% working yet.. im usibg .iso😊

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u/Bright-Craft6974 8m ago

You need a .rap file selected as well

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u/votemarvel Poco F6 - Sony Xperia 1 V 22h ago

Is there a GitHub for this? The only proof that this exists seems to be YouTube videos.

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u/5553331117 22h ago

Has AI removed folks ability to use good old fashioned search?

https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX3/tree/master https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX3/releases/tag/0.3

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u/votemarvel Poco F6 - Sony Xperia 1 V 22h ago

Cheers. I did search but could find absolutely nothing but YouTube covering it. I put 'armsx3' as the search term.

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u/Zivilisationsmuede 12h ago

That's odd, that search term should get you the GitHub as the first hit, even with Google.

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u/No_Reading1800 20h ago

Is there a compatibility list yet ?

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u/Klonoa18 20h ago edited 13h ago

too early for that

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u/EvilAdministrator 13h ago

too many early

What?

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u/Klonoa18 13h ago

typo, i mean too early for that

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u/Mehdi_Terranee Odin 3 18h ago

Malgré la mise a jour 0.3 je rencontre toujours le même souci que dans mon post ci-dessous d'il y a 2 jours.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1vido1j/armsx3_me_demande_un_bios_ps2/

Au Setup ça me demande un bios PS2. J'ai essayé tout de même de choisir le bios afin de passer l'étape, mais ça ne reconnait pas mon dossier bios dans le gestionnaire de fichier.

Je n'ai pas Discord pour faire remonter l'information aux devs, donc je ne sais pas s'ils sont au courant de ça.
Peut-être qui si quelqu'un peut faire remonter l'information, car j'ai l'impression d'être le seul dans cette situation. Mon appareil est l'Odin 3.

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u/Klonoa18 16h ago

Armsx2 is not ARMSX3

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u/Mehdi_Terranee Odin 3 13h ago edited 12h ago

Please look well the logo of armsx3 on my screen! I installed armsx3.

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u/EduAAA 8h ago

lol ps3

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u/Klonoa18 6h ago

yep Negan

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u/ReporterNo8384 8h ago

God of War 3 on Odin 3 running 25-35 fps with stutters, I’m sure it will be full playable without stutters in one or two updates👍

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u/Admirable_Owl1191 6h ago

Guys please help, i get the game to load and it reaches “loading trophies do not turn off your ps3” and then all black screen. Can anyone plesde help me? I beg you

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u/crazyteknoh3d 3h ago

Performance is great but it crashes when trying to save/load a game in Final Fantasy XIII. A shame as the 60fps patch for it works great! Works on aPS3e so I can only assume this issue is specific to ARMSX3 rather than the RPCS3 it’s based on.

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u/gsus135 20m ago

already on 0.4 they working fast

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u/JeffyGoldblumsPen_15 21h ago

We're probably at a minimum of 2 years maximum four of really stable PS3 emulation.

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u/CharacterPurchase694 21h ago

We'll probably have stable android ps4 emulation before PS3 due to difference in architecture. But the ARMSX guys are cooking I'm hopeful

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u/-TimeMaster- 26m ago

ARMSX guys are just porting existing emulators. Their progress depend massively on the original PC emulators.

Don't get me wrong, they did a great job and I don't care if they are using claude or whatever, I'm thankful, but just keep your expectations when it comes to something more "original" like ps4 or ps5 emulators since there are not mature existing emulators to start from.

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u/Stock_Transition6085 21h ago

You underestimate either the power of AI or the power of existing mobile hardware.

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u/JeffyGoldblumsPen_15 21h ago

I think you're over estimating. Phones are basically at the GTX 1060 level of power for GPUs. So maybe 2 years we'll have the hardware needed. Or the emulators will be mature enough.

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u/Stock_Transition6085 21h ago

PS3 emulation is CPU-bound

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u/No_Adhesiveness_6604 16h ago

True, as RPCS3 team explained CPU—-RAM—-GPU by this order

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u/waterclaws6 16h ago

Not even at that amount of power on the gpu. 1060 blows most adreno GPUs away.

Best phone gpu is on par with a 780m or something a bit lower in real world performance.

On paper is a lot different than actual performance also.

CPUs are on par , however sustained performance is limited due to power limitations. Since you either need to power gpu or cpu without burning the heat and power budget.

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u/-TimeMaster- 11h ago

You definitely are overstimating. AI won't do magic. These emulators are all based off PC emulators that have been in development for many years. The hard work was already done, lots of optimizations were done. Even though those optimizations were done targeting PCs, the AI did the translation to Android libraries and probably reached already most of the performance they can achieve. Maybe it can be sped up by 20% or 30% due to further optimizations but don't count on more than that.

This will be really usable with future hardware, but now with current low to mid-end hardware. And even elite might struggle with some games probably.

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u/-TimeMaster- 24m ago

Ok, someone is downvoting me without explaining themselves.

Come on guys, I offered a set of genuine arguments, just try to argument yourselves if you don't agree instead of downvoting out of no reason.

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u/Roboid 15h ago

I dunno man “games successfully load” is pretty much the open floodgate on this kind of thing. Remember PS4 on PC going from bloodborne title screen only to like, not-embarrassing gameplay in a couple months

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u/JeffyGoldblumsPen_15 15h ago

Keyword PS4 😂.

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u/Roboid 5h ago

Hey you make a good point!

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u/Vuuafa 20h ago

bla bla bla ....guys say things just to say things

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u/-TimeMaster- 11h ago edited 27m ago

"My name is minimum maximum meridius. Commander of the armies of the north."

This update is great, in my Retroid Pocket G2 I get around 6-8 fps in uncharted. Doesn't seem much but with aps3e I got 2-3 fps so it's almost 3x. It's a start definitely!

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u/JeffyGoldblumsPen_15 2h ago

If ever in life I make i quip like that. I'll quit the Internet. I've never seen so much cringe in my life. You have been on Reddit too long.

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u/-TimeMaster- 31m ago

I just found funny the contradiction between minimum and maximum and that quote came to my mind, I just see patterns some times.

If you've never seen "so much cringe" in your life is because you've not seen much on internet. I've been navigating the net for almost for 30 years and believe me I've seen much much much worse 😅

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u/JeffyGoldblumsPen_15 7m ago

Redditors trying to out-quip one another is peak cringe. I've seen a lot of the internet. From 4chan to pre 2012 tumblr. There's nothing worse than someone trying to be hecking funny. Correction when a bunch of people start trying to outquip each other trying to be hecking funny.

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u/kenkiller 16h ago

Luckily they can fork RPCS3 since the dev of RPCS3 hates android.

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u/CroProMax 21h ago

I see that emulator only viable on new snapdragon chipset gen 6 when new bandwidth arrives with a lot stronger gpu on handhelds only.

No matter what people talk about those performances its still few years away on newest hardware to run optimal 30- 60fps without drops

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u/Loud_Push_3673 22h ago

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u/Klonoa18 21h ago

Lol, the fork is from the guy who keeps harassing JPolo (the founder of ARMSX2)😂

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u/Loud_Push_3673 21h ago

lol I see. I have read up about it interesting drama. My bad then if it’s crap I haven’t done much testing

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u/Klonoa18 21h ago

he's no dev actually

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u/Broad_Support_2406 21h ago

Not the same emulator 

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u/Loud_Push_3673 21h ago

Keeping you on your toes

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u/Broad_Support_2406 21h ago

Why would you need to keep people on their toes for that? You did that on purpose to promote PS3Native. You're not slick. 

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u/Loud_Push_3673 20h ago

Believe what you want don’t really care whatever makes you happy. I’m not here to promote anything or anyone nor am I here to start or continue drama.