r/AndroidEmulation

so i have been told this is a good android emulator and i wanted to play the new ratchet and clank mobile game cause it just dropped in the UK! i downloaded bluestacks cause it would keep crashing on my ipad and the game doesnt even show up on the store on this app. but thats not my main issue.

this app may not be "malware" but the AI use is insane. it even downloaded some AI app i DID NOT KNOW IT WOULD INSTALL.

so i expected to install one app and go on my way and instead it downloads the actual thing i wanted, a manager and a AI app. it also has constant background use on your PC.

Immediately uninstalled everything and never touching this again. maybe it used to be good back in the day but now it just seems like borderline malware.

this post got deleted by r/BlueStacks cause i guess they dont want negative reviews so posting it here lol

Hi guys. I bought AYN thor. And many people are getting android handhelds for gaming special old games with emulation

Now, many of those games have splitscreen which isnt ideal for a handheld so I was wonder if its possible to have sunshine(or app like it) on my handheld and stream it to another handheld so we can play split screen games?

It would be cool to have it

has anyone been able to get any of the fable games actually working on the thor? i feel like ive been trying for months ever since i bought it.

I am not so advanced when it comes to making games achievable to run on the thor, but i feel like there must be a way.

Alguien sabe si existe alguna web o app para saber qué juegos de Steam puede correr la Ayn Thor Pro desde Game Native?

I've been building an Android emulator for Windows on ARM that runs

**native ARM64 Android** — your CPU executes the same instructions a phone

would, with no translation layer in between.

Under the hood it's QEMU with a display backend I wrote for it, a Linux

guest kernel, and a Mesa build (gallium d3d12) that turns the guest's

OpenGL into Direct3D 12 on the Adreno.

What works, measured on a Snapdragon X Elite:

- touch, multi-touch, rotation

- audio both ways

- shared clipboard with Windows

- drag and drop of files and APKs onto the window

- keyboard mapping for games (WASD as a virtual stick)

- two Android variants, with and without Google apps, side by side

What you should know before downloading:

- **it has only ever been installed on one machine — mine.** That's the

single biggest limitation and the reason I'm posting.

- the binaries aren't signed, so SmartScreen will warn you

- no Vulkan inside the guest yet

- first run downloads ~770 MB of Android images from Waydroid's official

sources, verified against their published sha256

Full list of what's broken: KNOWN-ISSUES.md in the repo. I'd rather you

read it before installing than discover it after.

GPLv2, source and the QEMU/Mesa patches are all in the repo.

https://github.com/Goribesh/Habumi

https://preview.redd.it/gfk16y0qhejh1.png?width=1284&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe7c8e70163e6ba31f50e0634b0275aeda75221a

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**What would help most:** if you have a Windows on ARM machine, run it and

tell me what happened — which SoC, which Windows build. If it fails, attach

guest\logs\registro-guscio.log. Right now "it works" means "it works on one

laptop", and I can't fix that alone.

For years I had wondered when that threshold would have been broken and when would we get a stable experience emulating this fantastic generation on Android.

Like most, I’ve been hearing the buzz about the Armsx2 team cooking some heat in the space lately, and was pleasantly surprised when they announced that they were taking on a RPCS3 fork for Android. If there was a team to crack it, it would be them.

And I’m happy to report that Armsx3 works incredibly well especially when considering how early in its development they are.

Loaded up Deadly Premonition Directors Cut on my Retroid Pocket 5, and instantly was blown away at how well it ran. I’ve never been able to get PS3 dialed in on Android, was always a slideshow with the FPS all over the place, constant crashes and broken textures.

Now? It powers through heavy titles such as DPDC and Max Payne 3, and they are releasing updates constantly.

If you’re a part of this incredible dev team, I owe you a beer. Amazing work, guys. Can’t wait to see the impact that your work has on the scene, it’s prolific and deserves its flowers.

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> I'm trying to play BioShock Remastered through GameNative on my OnePlus Pad (Mali-G710 MC10, 12GB RAM).

The game actually runs really well initially, around 45–50 FPS, but after some time it crashes.

The weird part is the RAM usage:

6.4 GB → 8 → 8.5 → 9 → 10 → 11.2 GB

Sometimes RAM goes back down when moving around, so I'm not sure if it's actually a memory leak.

When it gets around 11.2 GB, FPS suddenly drops from ~45 FPS to 7–15 FPS, frame times shoot up to 800–2200 ms, and then the game crashes.

I've had it crash both during loading and during normal gameplay, so it doesn't seem to be one particular checkpoint/area.

I've tried:

DXVK async-1.10.3

DXVK 1.10.3

Box64 Performance

FEXCore Performance

Shader cache enabled

Plain DXVK 1.10.3 changed the RAM behavior somewhat, but it still eventually crashes.

What should I try next?

Would DXVK 1.10.3-sarek be better for Mali-G710? Should I change the BCn emulation settings, DXVK version, Proton version, or something else?

I'm only trying to get a stable 30 FPS. Any GameNative/Mali users who have actually gotten BioShock Remastered working reliably, please share your config.

This is better because Redditors can immediately see your device + symptom + what you've already tried + exactly what you want from them. There are recent Mali/GameNative reports suggesting Sarek builds can improve compatibility, so specifically asking about Sarek is reasonable. 

I've tried a lot recently, and have been pretty disheartened. Mumu player was nice, until it started giving ai one piece ads both when loading and when the actual emu fully loads up. Switched to LD player, yes that was nice, until they started installing random apps. Removing them only worked temporarily, as they'd come back after restart. While I didn't give Bluestacks a long time, the ads built into the side and that game center thing was just too much.

As of now, I'm trying that MSI Bluestacks thing. It's not too bad so far. The overall feeling is cheap. The settings are nonexistant (not even a dark mode), it's locked to 60 fps, and it still suffers from the same thing all other emus have where they have those games showing at the bottom of the home screen.

Is there any decent emulator out there? Possibly one thats FOSS? I've tried trinity, but it leaves quite a lot to be desired.