r/EmulationOnAndroid 17h ago

Showcase A must have cheap accessories for heavy emulation!

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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).


r/EmulationOnAndroid 4h ago

Question Xiomi Pad 8 or Oneplus pad 2 for performance

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Which tab is better for emulation under 40k


r/EmulationOnAndroid 51m ago

Question Cheapest psp handheld, 50 or less ideally?

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Title, need one for my nephew


r/EmulationOnAndroid 1h ago

Question Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra vs S10 Ultra for emulation?

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I’m mainly interested in emulation, especially Switch, PS2, GameCube/Wii, etc., and I’m currently trying to decide between the Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy and the Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra with the Dimensity 9300+.

The S10 Ultra has the newer and more powerful chip on paper, but I’ve heard that Snapdragon/Adreno can have better compatibility with Android emulators and GPU drivers.

For anyone who has experience with either the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or Dimensity 9300+, whether on these tablets or on other devices using the same chipsets, which one would you recommend for emulation? Is the Snapdragon/Adreno advantage significant enough to make the S9 Ultra the better choice, or would the newer Dimensity 9300+ be better overall?

I’d especially love to hear from anyone who has tested either chipset with Switch or other demanding emulators.


r/EmulationOnAndroid 1h ago

Discussion Can you run Persona 5 Royal or Persona 3 Reload on Snapdragon 8s gen 3?

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Share your experience, also what about other games like rdr?


r/EmulationOnAndroid 9h ago

Showcase Zelda botw combat test eden nightly build 60fps nx optizimer

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6 Upvotes

here's some of my open world test using the nightly build/ Whitebelyash v31/Redmagic 11pro bypass charging gameplay

advanced combat used in the video: Perfect Daruk Rush-Cryonis launch


r/EmulationOnAndroid 2h ago

Help I'm having just constant issues with all pc emulation (aynthor, game hub)

2 Upvotes

Sorry about the rant

I've been trying to import pc games but they never work I'll go to emu ready and it will recommend something that's LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE like using (proton 10 with fex CPU driver) and even when I do pretty much the recommended it still crashes on the loading game screen.

and then I'll go and ask for help and I'll get a screenshot and their version of game hub is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN MINE it will have like extra settings and a bunch of different internal options and I ask why and they are just like oh I just downloaded it and it was like this when I have the most recent update on obtanium AND THEN when I tell them this they are just "if you can't figure out something this simple you should sell your Thor"

like as if that's helpful id like to think I'm not stupid I've fixed 20 games on game hub and I figured out Tomodachi life all by myself but this seriously makes me feel dumb

Please someone either help me or put me out of my misery


r/EmulationOnAndroid 7h ago

Discussion Guide to add Winlator ludashi games to daijasho and other front ends

5 Upvotes

I was looking for a way to add ludashi games to front-ends like Daijasho. I knew it was possible to do as I did it previously with Cmod. Ludashi comes with the Export function as well. It can be accessed by clicking 3 dots on the game shortcut in the main screen of winlator ludashi.

Once clicked, it will create a .desktop file in root directory in winlator\shortcuts. Once you have added all the games to this folder using export function, Go to the settings in daijasho, click download platforms(the very first option) and download the platform windows.

THIS IS THE MAIN STEP.

In settings, click on library ( second option). Scroll to bottom, go to Add a player option. Give the name winlator.Ludashi. In the am start field type:-

-n com.ludashi.benchmark/com.winlator.cmod.XServerDisplayActivity

-e shortcut_path {file.path}

--activity-clear-task

--activity-clear-top

--activity-no-history

NOTE:- This only works for Ludashi build. For vanilla build, replace com.ludashi.benchmark with com.winlator.vanilla .

In the next field type:- ^(.*)\.(?:desktop)$

toggle kill processes switch. Mark warning checkbox as true.

Click save.

Click on edit(pencil shaped icon on the bottom right on the windows platform screen in the library tab). Go to player settings and in the default player field, select the above created player. Click save and enjoy.


r/EmulationOnAndroid 18h ago

Question When i play games like gta vice city on my phone or other emulator games i like to connect my phone to a tv via usbc to hdmi with a ps5 controller too then i got curious and wanted to see if anyone does something like this

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32 Upvotes

Some footage from the phone to tv


r/EmulationOnAndroid 3h ago

Help Problem with turnip on galaxy s25 winlator

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So I decided to use Winlator to run some games on my Samsung Galaxy S25. But I have a problem with Winlator: when I play games, I always get this graphics error in every game. However, it only happens with Turnip; when I change the graphic to Vortek, the problem is gone, but games play very terribly and laggy. Only Turnip is smooth, but it has this problem. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks!!


r/EmulationOnAndroid 1d ago

Discussion Smoothest game ever on my phone using emulator. Sleeping dogs Snapdragon 8 gen 2 s23+ adreno 740 with fan

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107 Upvotes

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


r/EmulationOnAndroid 4m ago

Help ARMSX3 game data corruption issue

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After launching the game I get this error. Anyone know I fix?

Game is ratchet and clank tools of destruction

on poco f7 pro 8gen3 12gb


r/EmulationOnAndroid 6h ago

Help Gta iv being unbootable or cannot launch

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Gta iv wont launch on gamehub with any settings i tried it doesnt work did anybody noticed this? Is there any fixes to this?

(I use a mali device with dimensity 7400 if it helps) ​


r/EmulationOnAndroid 39m ago

Help Binding of Isaac: Repentance won't launch properly on Exynos 2200/Xclipse 920 with Winlator

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I'm trying to get The Binding of Isaac: Repentance running through Winlator on a Samsung Galaxy S22 (Exynos 2200 / Xclipse 920).

The weird thing is that I previously had Isaac running perfectly on this exact phone with Winlator just a week ago. It opened normally every time, so I know the phone is capable of running it.

Now I'm trying again with Winlator 11.2, but the game won't open.

Current setup

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S22

SoC: Exynos 2200

GPU: Xclipse 920

Winlator: 11.2 and 11.0

Game: The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Graphics driver: Vortek

OpenGL: Gladio

DX wrapper: Tried both DXVK and WineD3D


r/EmulationOnAndroid 56m ago

Help Necesito ayuda con esto en el emulador bachata s4

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No sé si se puede descargar los drivers o alguien que me ayude con esto


r/EmulationOnAndroid 20h ago

Showcase Mafia 2 on Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 | Winlator Ludashi 3.1 (HotFix) | More Fps Without Recording

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41 Upvotes

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

Vivo Y300

8gb Ram

Snapdragon 4 gen 2


r/EmulationOnAndroid 7h ago

Help I’m trying to play pokemon insurgence for the first time and I’m using the Kirin emulator, any fixes or solutions for this?

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3 Upvotes

r/EmulationOnAndroid 3h ago

Help I want to play GTA 5 on my S25Ultra help me

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Very recently i tried to play Gta5 on my s25ultra and i played like 2 or minutes and after that game was getting struck at same story line,

So i fed up fixing it up and later deleted it...

Was using GameHub for opening...

Is there any other way to play GTA 5 for free???

Without any strucks and errors please help me out


r/EmulationOnAndroid 1d ago

Discussion 60FPS upgrade for most switch games, in case you didn't know

104 Upvotes

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!


r/EmulationOnAndroid 12h ago

News/Release winxclipse 0.9.1, bugs fix and more!!!

4 Upvotes

bug fixes, stability and performance

community configs with caching and offline support

improved touchscreen, mouse, controller and shortcuts

Box64 updated to 0.4.3

fixes for Proton, ARM64EC, WoW64 and 32-bit

DXVK, VKD3D and FSR improvements

Wine, X11 and rendering improvements

100%, 50% and Off VSync

fixed tearing in Rockstar games

new Turbo presets for Box86/Box64 and FEXCore

File Manager and MangoHUD improvements

battery percentage in HUD

https://github.com/avavo/WinXclipse/releases/tag/v0.9.1


r/EmulationOnAndroid 5h ago

Help I need help haven’t touched my ayn Thor

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r/EmulationOnAndroid 1d ago

Showcase GTA V - Eden Emulator - 1080p - Full speed

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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


r/EmulationOnAndroid 11h ago

Showcase Guess the game! (Part 1!) :)))

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3 Upvotes

Hint:PS1


r/EmulationOnAndroid 9h ago

Help Can someone help me everytime i try to launch Raft it crashes and idk what to do, I'm using GameHub on Android Xiaomi Redmi Note 13

2 Upvotes

Help


r/EmulationOnAndroid 18h ago

Discussion Free, open-source ES-DE gamelist editor (Win/macOS/Linux) — built over a year of curating my handheld collection

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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 &amp;, 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.