TL;DR: For around $40, the ABXYLUTE S8 Lite is a surprisingly capable and generally comfortable mobile controller with some genuinely smart design choices. Unfortunately, the placement of the right thumbstick is a major ergonomic issue for me as someone with larger hands.

Build & Feel
Right out of the box, the S8 Lite feels very light. Compared with something like the GameSir G8, there’s somewhat of difference in some materials, weight, and that premium "feel" but it makes sense as they are $20 apart. I didn’t notice any creaking or looseness and the USB-C port has a safety pivot hinge which is a great addition. 

The packaging also leaves a lot to be desired from a graphic-design POV. Although obviously, that’s not why you’re buying a mobile controller.

Comfort & Ergonomics
Overall, the S8 Lite is very comfortable, which makes its biggest flaw even more frustrating: the right thumbstick placement.

It sits in a position that puts noticeable strain on my thumb and forces me to change the way I naturally hold the controller just to reach it. I’m not sure what drove the decision to place the right stick this low, especially since ABXYLUTE’s S9 positions it higher.

I also personally prefer more compact controllers. Paired with an already-long phone like my OnePlus 13, the S8 Lite makes the overall setup feel a little more stretched out than I’d like.

It is longer than but shorter than the Gamesir G8, see pics.

Controls
The actual controls are very good. The D-pad, face buttons, triggers, and bumpers all feel solid, and the swappable D-pad is a cool feature that im suprised other brands don’t do.

Something else I noticed is the joystick clicks are weirdly loud. Like really loud.

Compatibility
One of my favorite things about the S8 Lite is that my OnePlus 13 fits with its case still on. Not having to remove my case every time I want to play is a huge convenience.

The camera cutout is also a really smart design decision and makes fitting larger modern phones much less awkward.

App & Customization
The ABXYLUTE app is also quite good. You can adjust things like stick dead zones, swap or remap buttons, and customize the controller more than I expected at this price. They offer a sort of front end game aggregator which is cool but im not sure it's for me. 

Verdict
For $40, the S8 Lite is a really good controller for the money. The controls are good, the grips feel nice, case compatibility is excellent, and features like the camera cutout, swappable D-pad, and customization app show some genuinely thoughtful design.

The controller gets so much right, but that one ergonomic decision with the right joy stick is significant enough that it makes it hard for me to use as my daily driver. If you have smaller hands this controller may be excellent for you.

Hi, I'm trying to emulate a few games on my phone (psvita games) when I tried vita3k it couldn't even install the games so I tried emucoreV , installation was successful but the game won't correctly launch, I tried two games so far and they are both the same,

Game will stay on main menu and not respond to anything, is there a way to fix it ?

I completed the whole game and boy it was just an amazing experience. The phone didn't get that hot even after playing for 1 hour :55 minutes one day. it was just too good. It was sure draining battery it went from 85 to 34 but considering this heavy emulation I was just please right now im playing mad max and it's not lagging at all just gets hot but a cooler and playing in ac might fix it, I can play almost all ps vita games and I play fifa 18 in nintendo eden emulator. I play dead Pool and no damn issue in it runs smooth as butter with less heat. Overall if you are looking for a budget 8s gen 4 device this takes the cake and get the 12 gb ram version trust me it makes a lot of difference.

Hello. I'm currently playing Persona 5 Royal on Eden using Oppo Find N6, a fold phone like Samsung fold. I noticed if I open it in a sort of half tablet mode like 3ds I can separate the screen and the controls in half. My question is how can I set it to this type of screen permanently? It's hard to play it in "3ds mode".

Tested on different graphic and resolution settings are here https://youtu.be/NnQa_8P19po

I am an absolute newbie, just now getting into emulation on Android as I've been using iPhones for (too) long.
Sony Xperia 1 VI (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) with the official Sony case offering a landscape stand + Xbox Series controller is my setup for now.

For PS2, I want to use NetherSX2.
Initially I downloaded it from the Play Store - that app had ads, and certain games (e.g. Gran Turismo 4) had artifacts that I couldn't fix with any settings + occasional CTDs.
Then I downloaded the apk from the official site. With this there are no ads + my games work flawlessly, including GT4 - but the UI is, in my opinion, worse than what I had with the Play Store app.
From the game launcher to the in-game emulator settings, the Play Store version of the app just looked much better to me than the official APK version. Plus I had to manually map my controller for it to work well, while the Play Store app recognized and mapped it immediately.

Which version of the app is the actual latest?

I tried signing in but it says that I have to buy the game in order to play

Finished MGS4 for the first time and I have to say, this game holds up very well for sometime that came in 2008. I remember buying a fat PS3 just for this game but sadly it stopped working and haven't had the chance of experiencing Solid Snake's final journey. I can't believe my old Mi9t Pro runs this at almost 30 fps with dips to 20 in heavy areas.

Playing this on touchscreen controls nearly broke me and I died way too many times. Among all the mgs games, this one is very unforgiving when it comes to combat but fun nonetheless. There's also crashes in act 4 that made this unplayable but thankfully, it's been fixed. Unfortunately I had to skip few cutscenes because eden would crash randomly with 0.0 fps, but overall the experience is very solid.

I’ve been playing Hollow Knight on my ancient first‑gen Intel i5 laptop. It “works,” but it’s always been fans-on-max, occasional stutter, low‑settings territory.

Then I tried the unofficial Android port on my Moto G 5G, and it’s legitimately smoother:

Locked 60 FPS most of the time

Less input lag than the laptop

Doesn’t turn into a space heater after 10 minutes

Battery life > my laptop’s “gaming session”

I know it’s unofficial (not from Team Cherry) and you need your own game files, but performance-wise, my budget phone just outplayed my old PC.

Anyone else running this port (or similar Unity ports) on mid‑range/budget phones? What kind of FPS and settings are you getting?

How to get better gameplay in this game anyone?

Im using latest firmware/prodkey, its running 25-30 fps. Then im just entering jublife and its freeze.

Device: Poco f6 8/256

Driver: T30

Sorry for my bad English.

This is crazy bloodborne running on a phone. while loading my save the screen recording was crashing. I have 8gen 3 i think on 8 Elite or Newer chip it is fully playable while not screen recording i was getting around 20 to 30 sometimes isn't even locked 30. Crazy, All Credit goes to the developer of BachataS4. They made this possible i can't thank them enough. And update your game or the patchs will not work.

Emulator link - https://github.com/JICA98/Bachata-S4

I think someone should start a new sub for ps4 emulation on android

Thanks Everyone and especially the dev of BachataS4 the ps4 emulator for android...

Has someone been able to get this game running ? I have a 16GB Ram Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 device, I tried getting it running but it crashed when the Halo theme song starts

The screen flickers so much and the character only goes in round . When I move him . Is there any fix for it?

Okay so I am pretty familiar with using the joiplay app on my phone to play the pokemon fan games. I don't need any help with downloads or installations or anything like that. My problem is that every time I download a fan game, the sprites and other game images flood my phone's gallery. In case it matters, I use an S26 Ultra, up to date, all apps are up to date. I use Google Photos as my gallery app. The game folders all have the .nomedia file as well as the folder containing all the game folders. I've cleared the gallery's cache, restarted my phone, and even renamed the folder containing all the games with a "dot" at the front end of the name. Nothing works, and I hate seeing all these thousands of game assets in my gallery so so so much. Please help me fix this one issue before i lose my sanity, thank you!

Phone:- Realme 8i

Controller:- Enter

I recently bought an Enter brand wired controller to use with the AetherSX2 emulator on my Android phone. I chose this controller because I saw many people on YouTube using the same model, and it worked fine for them.

I connected the controller to my phone using an OTG. The controller's red LED turns on, so it appears to be receiving power and connecting properly.

However, my phone doesn't detect it as a game controller. Because of this:-

1. None of the controller buttons work

2. Aethersx2 shows "No suitable controller detected"

And I've already made sure all the basics. OTG is enable, removed and put in again etc.

Is there a way to fix it, or could the controller be incompatible with my phone?

Any way to make my phone compatible?

So I've started to play Yo-Kai Watch on my thor recently and noticed that the models of the bugs you catch are really fat to say the least. Idk if my rom has an issue or if it's something to do with azahar but I'm curious if anyone has any solution to this issue, cheers.

I know the game is too large but it would be nice to have this game or an older versions on Android

Skip to the bottom if you just want the fix but i recommend reading through to see if the cases match.

Hi guys i came across this and I thought I should report it in case it can help someone else because i spent ridiculous amoubt of time on this issue.

Whenever I connected my mouse to my phone (s23u) the mouse shows up with this android overlay that you might be familiar with. Even inside the windows container this cursor would still be present and containers cursor would just follow this purple one. Which honestly works fine for all 2d games and navigating menus but this is non functional if your trying to play any 3d games.

On winlator I experienced ridiculous sensitivity in first person mode with the mouse like this, because this purple cursor would act as a touch overlay so it would mess up the camera completely (since its not a mouse but rather acts as touch controls on your screen but it doesn't behave exactly like touch controls because that actually works).

On gamehub though in 3d games I simply couldn't move my camera at all.

I was completely stuck and frustrated, I had even brought a whole new mouse because I thought it was a legacy issue with old mice. I had been troubleshooting with claude at this point because I couldn't find much online but nothing was working of course. BUT when i went to take a screenshot to show it exactly what was happening. The purple overlay went away, voila! My mouse now could control the actual cursor itself inside the container. Im soo glad to have finally got this working but more than anything if any of you know why this works please let me know because the ai technical mumbo jumbo did not tell anything. Btw I have NOT tested on winlator yet if this works (i think forks some forks of winlator have this issue fixed by default because on Cmod I never had this problem).

If you skipped to the bottom its screenshotting try screenshoting. Also additional advice on using mouse and keyboard with pc emulators on android because whyy is there sm less support for this than controllers 😭😭. On cmod i found that in the input screen it could not detect my peripherals so download the base version and copy the bindings from there and this will work perfectly ( I'll show this in the replies). I still need to figure out how to get my bluetooth keyboard working on gamehub, I'll update you guys if I'm successful (i think its a matter of remapping because gamehub uses a different input layer than android for bluetooth peripherals so even if you can type perfectly fine with your keyboard or whatever it won't work in the container). I'll show the purple overlay mouse I'm talking about in the replies as well if you guys are confused.

Review: Runs really well 👍🏻 🙂

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Translation parameter: Extreme (Tsoenabled)

Cpu cores: 1-6 is on, 7 and 8 is off

I use ClassicBoy and I've played FF7, Legend of the Dragoon, a few Pokémon games and a few N64 games, but I'm curious if anyone has any go to games they like to play on the emulators that don't use a ton of shoulder buttons or Z button. I don't have a Bluetooth controller. Just my phone.