u/PocketHLE

SENSES is an Android app that runs an ARM32 Android system on an ARM64 phone. There's no guest kernel: instead of emulating a whole device, it translates individual processes with a modified QEMU (user-mode).

This repo is the GPLv2 source release for that QEMU part:

94 patches against QEMU 8.2.4, plus 39 added files in linux-user/

a build script that produces a fully static aarch64 binary (via an Alpine chroot)

a pinned build with sha256 checks and a BUILD-MANIFEST.txt for reproducibility

What's not included: no firmware, no download links. You supply your own archive, and the app unpacks and modifies the copy on-device (patched code, re-signed packages with an on-device key, removed vendor modules, local TLS proxy). Nothing is sent anywhere.

The app itself is a separate closed-source program that launches QEMU as its own process, so no QEMU code is loaded into it.

Repo: https://github.com/Istratii-tech/Senses

Feedback and questions welcome!

Here is the project itself on GitHub https://github.com/Istratii-tech/Sense-5.5-HTC-One-M7

I’d like to clarify that this emulator was originally designed as a Pocket PC emulator. However, a user told me about the Gizmondo and pointed out that there was no working emulator for it at the time.

Since Gizmondo uses the same Windows CE-based platform as Pocket PC, adding support for it wasn’t too difficult and didn’t require completely redesigning the emulator.

The old Gizmondo emulator is no longer available on GitHub, so this project is currently one of the few ways to play Gizmondo games on modern systems. As far as I know, there still hasn’t been a Gizmondo emulator released for Android, which is another reason I decided to add support for it

Github:https://github.com/j92580498-max/PocketHLE

Video:https://youtu.be/lXzknD9qmTI?si=wx2EPqbEm5qbrapt

An enthusiast known as eqozqq created a full-fledged mod that adds a lot of new features, including an infinite world, new blocks, and a completely new rendering system

The emulator is still in an experimental stage, but it can already run the Pocket PC exclusive Call of Duty 2.

Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/2KQMx9jIIeQ⁠

GitHub repository: https://github.com/j92580498-max/PocketHLE⁠