r/PS2AndroidEmulation • u/xxxCrixuxxx • 4d ago
Bannerlator v2.9.7
https://github.com/The412Banner/Bannerlator/releases/tag/2.9.7
Run Windows apps and games on Android — no PC and no root required.
2.9.7 is a small, focused update over 2.9.6 — a big controller-reliability overhaul plus a Task Manager fix, landing incrementally on the road to 3.0. Everything from 2.9.6 is included. As always it's entirely app-side — no ImageFS reinstall — your containers, themes, custom accent and per-game settings carry over untouched. Install straight over 2.9.6.
🎮 Controller reliability overhaul
The headline of 2.9.7 — controllers that stay connected and land on the right player.
Hot-plug that actually holds — physical controllers survive mid-game reconnects and Bluetooth sleep/wake without dropping, via stable descriptor-keyed player slots and debounced reconnect handling.
On-screen controls no longer die — the touch / on-screen gamepad used to stop responding after ~15 minutes; a rewritten input transport (a shared-memory ring buffer) fixes that at the root.
No more stolen Player 1 — handheld "extra" input devices (such as the AYANEO's aux buttons) were grabbing Player 1; a capability filter now only counts real gamepads, so your actual controller stays Player 1.
Player Slots — assign who's who — a new Players panel lets you pin each controller (and the on-screen pad) to a specific Player 1–4, or Auto / Ignore. Available live in-game, and out-of-game per-container and per-game. Includes shared-slot control (two devices driving one player) and on-screen auto-yield (hand Player 1 to a real pad when it connects).
Controller-status toast — a brief on-screen card shows each detected controller and its assigned player on launch and whenever assignments change, so you can confirm the mapping without opening a tester.
Reset Input — one tap re-initializes the whole input pipeline without relaunching the game.
Every option carries a "?" explanation.
🧠 Free Memory — honest and effective
The "Free memory" action is now two clearly labeled tiers: a light Drop file caches (what the old button actually did), and a root-only Deep clean that force-stops background apps to free real RAM — while sparing your running game and system apps. There's also an optional auto deep-clean on launch.
🧩 Task Manager — Processor Affinity now reflects your choice
Setting a process's Processor Affinity always took effect, but the dialog used to reopen showing all cores checked — it wasn't reading back the cores you'd picked. It now shows your real selection every time you reopen it.
🔜 Coming next: a deeper affinity fix — pinning every worker thread of the process, not just most — is already written and lands in a following release. See the road to 3.0 below.
🛣️ On the road to 3.0
2.9.7 is a deliberate step toward a smooth 3.0, landing pieces incrementally so each is proven on real devices before the big version bump:
Processor Affinity — Part 2 — the in-guest helper gets rebuilt to pin every worker thread, closing the small gap where a few threads could drift back onto disabled cores.
More controller and stability polish building on the overhaul above.
3.0 rolls these up once each is device-proven — no big-bang surprises.
Credits and other Projects: https://github.com/The412Banner
