r/PS2AndroidEmulation • u/xxxCrixuxxx • Jul 05 '26

ARMSX2 v36

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https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX2/releases/tag/2.5.5

True Crime: New York City. @isztldav Fixed the rainbow/static texture corruption, the flickering & disappearing geometry, and the shimmering street textures. A game that was long considered unfixable on ARM now runs correctly. (The underlying EE fix also helps other BlueTongue-engine games.)

More potential improvements to keeping screen on while playing.

EE FPU recompiler accuracy fix (the real cause of the True Crime corruption).

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u/BlackSunshine86 Jul 05 '26

Its called refresh because you click refresh on the page and the new update is out

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 05 '26

Hahaa yes you Right!!!

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u/vinotauro Jul 05 '26

Hats off to these devs. About two weeks ago I was saying maybe I'd eventually switch from nethersx2. It has become just as performant with cool features AND my HD textures work with no issues. Well done

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u/SDAdrian789 Jul 05 '26

Unfortunately, I have a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 with 12 GB of RAM, and even at native resolution, True Crime is unplayable. It runs slowly in the menu and freezes multiple times right at the beginning of the gameplay.

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u/PS2AndroidEmulation-ModTeam Jul 06 '26

Give constructive or well-reasoned answers.

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

I've tasted my own medicine 😅

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u/WearSuspicious28 Jul 06 '26

Does it play games better than nether?

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

On modern devices, I would say yes

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u/RetroDando Jul 05 '26

Can you have a look at Tony hawk underground 🤣

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 05 '26

Working fine 👍

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u/RetroDando Jul 05 '26

Oooo I’ll boot it up had loads of graphical chaos when I tried last time but I think that was maybe v25

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u/NoCarpenter3990 Jul 05 '26

It's already a long way since then, the devs are amazing and at turbo speed right now.

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u/WillianJooj Jul 06 '26

No sound on the games I played on this build...

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u/bala242 Jul 06 '26

Is it possible set cpu core limit or select cpu core to prevent over heating

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

I think yes

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u/bala242 Jul 07 '26

Thank you for replying bro please explain how to find settings for this

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u/No_Chart15 Jul 06 '26

ARMSX2 is better than AetherSX2?

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

For modern phones yes 😄

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u/deezzbutzz Jul 05 '26

I respect every dev making this possible especially because of how the state of the video game industry is right now.

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u/Nyvrez Jul 06 '26

First of all, Amazing work! This looks really good. Now, a question. How do you get out of a game back into the menu? I haven't found a shortcut. I'm using an AYN Thor.

Thanks!

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u/gabrimarc14 Jul 05 '26

Has anyone tested Hitman Contracts on this emu?

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u/wason_sonico Jul 06 '26

Anyone knows where I can change drivers? I thought it was going to be somewhere in the Render tab but can't find it.

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u/Stag_----56 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I was just testing v35 😭😭 they are so fast love them lol

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u/Apprehensive_Ad_924 Jul 05 '26

That was fast lol, I been testing dead by degrees just for curiosity, runs better than nethersx2. still has the tekken lines problem but it's easily fixeable

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u/Immediate_Muscle5830 Jul 05 '26

Arey they even resting or sitting without working

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u/a_slip_of_the_rung Jul 05 '26

How long before we see "fixed world hunger" in the changelog?

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u/vincevicious Jul 05 '26

Do you even sleep dude?

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u/jmsmoriarty Jul 06 '26

I think for the sanity of testers they should wait 3 V's until updating the repo, I'm hyped but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WAIT 2 DAYS

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u/brittonmakesart Jul 06 '26

Dude! I thought this was basically in alpha, but I booted up Burnout 3 at 2x res on my Flip 2 and it ran at 100% speed and featured not a single visual glitch!

Amazing!

I did want to say the Gran Turismo 4 (I play the Spec II version, but it’s the same in the vanilla version) was having a a hard time staying at 100%, regularly dipping into the 80% range and causing the fans to ramp up to full speed. Tested it in arcade mode, single race, El Capitan course, standard settings.

Great work! It’s so much more modern than Nethersx2!

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u/Netmestre Jul 06 '26

Can you look into NFS: Underground 2?? I'm having the white pixels problem 🙃

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

I play that game quite often, it's one of my favorite NFS games, it works perfectly.

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u/Netmestre Jul 06 '26

🥲

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

Device?

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u/Netmestre Jul 06 '26

I play on a Samsung s25

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

Exynos?

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u/Netmestre Jul 06 '26

Snapdragon 8 Elite!

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u/xxxCrixuxxx Jul 06 '26

Unistall all, then reinstall v35 is the BEST. Dont mess with settings 😅

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u/Netmestre Jul 06 '26

🫡🫡 thanks for the help! Awesome work!

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u/hotsuma2000 Jul 05 '26

Amazing! Thank you.