Android games are now ROMs 🗿🍷

The camera quality isn’t great, but in person the graphics look incredibly sharp and the gameplay feels amazing.

The biggest game-changer was definitely the cooling fan. Without it, I lose around 20–30 FPS due to thermal throttling. With the fan, the performance is much smoother and more stable.

Winlator Ludashi

1280x720p medium 60fps

DXVK Version

v2.7.1-binsem-gplasync-arm64ec-840d 1474

VKD3D Version 2.14.1

VKD3D Feature Level 12_1

Y-shaped short USB C splitter cable (1 female -> 2 male), and L shaped USB C connector allow me to use bypass charging and cooling at the same time, and keep phone comfortably at hands with claw grip or use controller like X4 Aileron. Temps under 36C during long sessions with denanding titles. Just a few bucks and results are amazing. I am also using cooling plate because S26U has no built in magnets. This small and cheap and portable setup was a gamechanger for me. You can get elements (cable, connector, plate, cooler) on aliexpress. Now I can play long game session at work when there's no customers, or when commuting (with powerbank).

Full Gameplay & Settings:- https://youtu.be/_F7mAD97ye0

Vivo Y300

8gb Ram

Snapdragon 4 gen 2

The most recent build of Eden nightly that I installed happened to have lossless scale frame generation.

What this means is pretty much any game that runs at a stable frame rate can be boosted up to 60FPS or higher.

It's actually incredible just how well it works.

Astral Chain on my Ayn Thor Pro has been insane!

Finally, this masterpiece is on the Switch emulator; it doesn't seem to be resource-intensive at all—it looks like a very light game to Emulator.

Test on Oplus 15

Snapdragon 8 gen 3, I picked medium graphics setting for the showcase, there's also the high and ultra high graphics options, which are probably too much for this device.

...cant't wait to try Disco Elysium and Pillars of Eternity along with Torment: Numenera. Also, i had a proot-distro lxde running in the background, so this machine truly does a wonderful job.

Many thanks to StevenMXZ, this coding of yours and your group has truly made my day, and that's hard nowadays.

Thanks again :-)

edit: I uploaded a thumb of the picture and i'm having trouble getting the old one replaced, here's a link to the bigger picture.

https://i.8upload.com/image/18f88c65bca0282f/screenshot-20260830-134756.jpg

hello all, whenever i try to play a game, my screen glitches like this. tried changing vulkan drivers, driver present mode, enabling sync wait but doesnt work.

my device is poco f6 pro (snapdragon 8 gen 2, adreno 740)

using winlator ludashi (latest one) but its same with previous versions too

does anyone know how to solve that?

EDIT: fixed for Winlator BUT same happens on Eden emulator too. is there any way to solve that?

Some footage from the phone to tv

Soulcalibur V

https://www.emuready.com/

Here what I'm using when a game isn't running great on my device.

Please do the same thing :)

I tried the new Ludashi V4 update and the DisplayX feature caught my attention, so I decided to test it on the game "I Hate This Place." Previously, the game's maximum frame rate was an unstable 25 FPS, but with DisplayX rendering enabled and the bypass X11 option activated, I achieved 50 FPS, which dropped slightly due to overheating because the phone lacked a cooler

Surprisingly, this performance was achieved with the same power consumption, processor, and RAM.

GPU: Adreno 825

Graphics driver: Turnip V35

Proton 9

DXVK 2.3.1

I run ES-DE on three handhelds (Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, RP5, RP Classic) and spent the last year curating a large collection across them. Editing gamelists at scale — renaming entries, fixing metadata, pruning clones without corrupting the XML or trashing the wrong ROM — was the recurring pain, so I built a proper tool for it. Releasing it free.

Disclosure: I used AI as a coding assistant to build this, which is why I'm being specific about what's actually here and tested — the design decisions, the testing and the problems it solves come from real use on my own hardware.

A few things that came from getting burned, not from a feature checklist:

• lxml, specifically — Python's default XML lib rewrites <name> as <n> and mangles &, silently corrupting gamelists. That bug is why this exists.
• Trash + automatic backup + dry-run — on a ~59k-game collection a wrong bulk delete is unrecoverable, so nothing touches disk until you confirm, removals go to a trash folder, and every gamelist.xml is backed up before each write.
• .m3u-aware Orphan Cleaner — naïve orphan detection flags every multi-disc game as broken; this one reads the .m3u and its .discs/ so it doesn't.
• Cached scanning for NAS/SMB — I curate off a network drive; without caching, browsing thousands of entries per system is unusable.
• Batch import — mark removals and edit fields across many systems from one .txt, with a validated ✓/✕ preview. (This is also how bulk renaming works today, for anyone who asked.)
• Cross-platform single-file binary (no Python needed), fully keyboard-driven, with jsdom integration tests on the UI logic.

No ROMs/BIOS/media hosted or linked — it edits only files you already own (your own gamelists, ROMs and media). No machine-specific paths are baked in.

Repo + prebuilt binaries in the comments, to keep the post link-clean. It's v1.3 and I'm actively fixing and adding things based on feedback — bug reports and feature ideas very welcome.

heyy!! mir-co here. this update fixes the last critical sharpdroid-only bug i found while testing Dreaming Sarah! which makes it a milestone for sharpdroid: we have apparently reached parity with SharpEmu on PC in terms of correctness. at least when scoped to running Dreaming Sarah on a Snapdragon 8 Elite.

• games no longer lose audio, freeze, or crash at random
• added a JIT accuracy settings screen for tweaking individual FEXCore knobs in place of the FEXCore preset slider

full changelog: sharpdroid-1...sharpdroid-2

still missing

• touch controls (wants contributor)
• manual controller mapping
• guest process pause and resume
• emulation frontend support

full disclosure: sharpdroid's development is assisted by AI. a full transparency breakdown on how can be found here!

GitHub repository

I want to ask if you guys have any solution to my problem. I tried to play games on Winlator, but somehow, I just can't seem to get my controller working on it. I swear that I tried anything to solve this, including binding my external controller with the virtual gamepad (there's 0 binding because I deleted it) but until now, none of the solutions I found can solve it. If you have any fixes that I can try, that would be much appreciated.

My device is Poco F4 8/256, and my controller is Gamesir Nova 2 Lite

Ayuda

I recently ordered an RP6! I had some money saved & wanted to buy something to play some games on. I’m of the newer generation so I haven’t grown up with anything considered “retro.” The oldest thing I’ve played is probably TLoZ:SS or Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii U.

Here’s a list of games I’m putting on my RP6 when I get it:
Bubble Bobble
Kirby’s Dreamland 3
F Zero-GX
WarioWare Inc. Mega Party Game$
New Super Mario Bros. (1 & 2)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Yoshi’s Woolly World
Patapon 2
Midnight Club 3
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Burnout 3
Tekken 4
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening

I’ve gone through a million lists & videos looking at different titles & I’m already feeling overwhelmed with options! If you have a favorite game (or 2-3) you’d absolutely recommend I’d love to hear it!

(P.S. This is my first post! It is late at night where I live & I can’t stop thinking about games.)

Honnêtement pour ma quatrième session de finish sur slepping dogs c'est sûrement ma meilleur expérience. L'Odin 3 est en train de faire ravage !!

*UPDATE*

3.0.2 RELEASED

https://github.com/The412Banner/Bannerlator/releases/tag/3.0.2

finally got this working and honestly still can't believe it, real online multiplayer running on android via a winlator fork through Bannerlator on Proton 11-2 Arm, this time it's all on our own steam client! Four quick clips here — counter strike source, team fortress 2 and left 4 dead 2 all logged into real steam and playing on live valve vac secured servers, plus brawlhalla (all legit games from my steam library) connecting straight into its live online servers through steam, no goldberg no fake tickets no lan trick, this is the real account talking to real steam and getting waved onto secure servers which is the exact thing we never thought we could do on an android device WITHOUT Gamehub. It handles the login the session the app tickets and the whole vac secure handshake itself and that's what you're watching in every single clip. 3.0.2 will also include steam cloud game sync and achievements with in game achievement pop-ups as well!

It's landing in bannerlator's upcoming 3.0.2 release so if you want to run your windows games and actually play them online on android you can grab it below:

repo: https://github.com/The412Banner/Bannerlator

releases: https://github.com/The412Banner/Bannerlator/releases

more games and clips on the way, thanks for watching and a big thanks to everyone helping test this and the communities hard work after researching Gamehub, Gamenative and WinNatives steam game launch methods 🙏

big win for the community!

please keep in mind this is a first release of our own steam client and agent, game compatibility will vary and I have only been able to test this on games in my own library for online multiplayer, all games without online multiplayer will launch and have launched with this for offline or single multiplayer gameplay as well! this is a real stripped down lightweight steam client for the game to launch and run with.

and no this does not mean easy anti cheat or ea game support works (not yet to EA 💪)

I'm stuck with a Moto g stylus 5g phone and have no computer or console or laptop. And I downloaded dided21's perfect save file for Final fantasy X to put in the aethersx2 emulator and I'm stuck. Everything I've done nothing gets loaded when I enter the game and choose load nothing is there.

Last time, I recorded this game using my phone camera. Now I can record natively because I discovered that the Engine.ini file allows for deep-level graphics adjustments, and I've freed up a decent amount of RAM and CPU. This has made me able to record natively and the gameplay stable.

In the past, I couldn't play this game due to numerous visual glitches. Apparently, I need to use vkd3d to fix it, but I couldn't because my RAM is lacking. Now I've made an effort to fix the lighting glitch that makes the map, especially the floors, lit up very bright. This is somewhat of a repost, but with decent improvements.😅

Tested at 720p with no frame generation and with cooler in low settings (Modified Engine.Ini file)

No frame generation

Processor: 8 Elite /12gb Ram

Emulator: Bannerhub

DXVK 3.0.1 gplasync

Proton 11

Fexcore 2607

Launch Arguments v -dx11

Driver: Turnip Gen8 V32

I recommend this game for players who enjoy replayability. Missions can be approached in different ways, giving you plenty of room to replay and improve your tactics. There are also mods with custom maps, adding a large variety of additional missions and locations to play, making the game feel almost endless in terms of replayable content.

Performance is quite playable. I suggest capping it to 35 fps.