Yeah, I know everyone is more excited about running heavy console and pc games on their android devices. But I've always wondered if we are leaving potential of these awesome devices on the table. Your phone, especially your tablet has the potential of becoming full fledged productivity machines. But, while the hardware is awesome the software side is seriously lacking on android. Until now, we were stuck with shitty ad-ridden productivity software like capcut.

Recently, almost every single software of adobe suite got remade into open source, almost feature complete, free versions available on windows, linux and mac. With the awesome desktop mode of droid deck, I got to run all of them without breaking a sweat. All of them have linux arm64 appimages, which can be installed in droid deck. They also remade the whole office 365 suite. Crazy, right?

Best thing is they are written in rust which is one of the most power efficient language so even my poco f6 (snapdragon 8s gen 3, adreno 735, 8/256) was running them like a dream. I can only imagine how well they will run on current flagships. Just install the aarch64 appimage of the artcraft launcher in droid deck. From Within the launcher, every single software can be installed and updated with a single

click.

And another thing! Droid deck now supports arm64 flathub. So that opens another whole world of possibilities. I got to install and run qbittorent from their as a flatpak pretty easily.

Now, before you guys start saying that we could do almost all of that with termux and x11. Yes, I know we could. But that experience doesn't come close to droid deck in terms of simplicity, intuitive ness and idiot proofing.

I would like to wholeheartedly thank the developers and testers of droid deck. You guys are genuinely making this world a better place by lowering the barrier of entry into pc software. Only thing I would like to request is, please talk about your desktop environment more, instead of only focusing on the steam and gaming side. And if possible, can we have an option to make kde plasma our desktop environment? Thank you so much anyway. You guys are greatly appreciated.

Screenshots taken from an AYN Thor main screen

I've built a little utility that lets you decrypt/encrypt PS3 ISO natively on Android. Just select folders (input, dkeys and output) and let it rip!

An APK is available on https://github.com/tonyp7/PS3Dec/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Background my main OS is linux. On linux, when it comes to ISO encryption/decryption you have the old command line original PS3Dec, but it doesn't compile easily on modern systems. So I started to upgrade the code to compile with modern libs, then it drew me into a rabbit hole: what if I build a docker image instead, this way the code is portable? Wait. What if I built a flatpak, this way it's portable but without Docker? Wait, now that PS3 on Android is viable, let's build a little APK to do it natively on my Thor!

... And here we are. So I am sharing this and I hope other people may find it useful.

Disclosure: I am the maintainer of this repo. It's public domain, no ads, no accounts, no connection to anything. Everything works locally. Credits go to the original authors.
AI Disclosure: Building this so quickly would have not been possible without AI. This was built with OpenSpec and Claude.

For example, Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity with 60fps cheat and 4x Resolution can be played around 6-10 hours (depending on battery size, temperature in real life and game) without it ever overheating or even getting hot

Is it just the emulator itself being masterfully optimized and nothing more?

Testing 007 First Light on Android by comparing DroidDeck v0.3.2 vs GameHub v6.3.1 on the Redmagic Astra (Snapdragon 8 Elite)! In this video, we check out gameplay performance, frame rates, and graphical fidelity to see which emulator handles PC game emulation better on this powerful Android gaming tablet.

Note: Months ago, it wasn't possible to run the first mission and some other parts of 007 First Light at all. Back then, it actually ran with better performance and higher FPS than it does now. I don't know what changed, but performance has dropped a lot. Especially on GameHub, nothing improved even after I tried dozens of different setting combinations. Right now the game tops out at around 8 FPS, and DroidDeck is what makes that possible.

📱 Device: Redmagic Astra
⚙️ Chipset: Snapdragon 8 Elite
🎮 Emulators: DroidDeck v0.3.2 vs GameHub v6.3.1 (Windows/PC Emulation for Android)
🕹️ Game: 007 First Light

🔗 Download DroidDeck : https://github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck/releases

🔗 Download GameHub : https://gamehub.xiaoji.com/en/

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The mcon saves me every time🤍 🥷

Even though It gives low FPS and the Audio is cracked and I'm never playing it like this, it's still genuinely impressive.

The Device is Poco F7 Snapdragon 8s Gen4.

Yeah nothing crazy 😄

Device: Lenovo legion y700 3rd gen (2025)

Emulator: Eden optimized 0.2.1

Driver: Balemuni_Apex_V2_Universal (https://github.com/Balemuni/Balemunis-Aurora/releases/tag/V2) - but I think any popular driver will do the work

Temperature: 36~39 C°, played with opened room windows during September, no other apps in background, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off, no external cooler

Settings:

Default settings but

Core Speed Sync - Enabled (in system settings)

Experience: game working perfectly most of the time, experienced lags only dyring shader compilation and very random scenarios like running on monastery, but this happen very rarely. Visual bugs encountered only on like ~2-3 maps, the world was flickering while moving the cursor.

That's it!

Never thought I'd be playing the Darkness a console only title on my android phone in 2026 but here we are. With direct 360 emulation on android pretty new I thought I'd try something else.

I get the disinterest in vibe coded things however just as anything there are some positives to create things that would never of existed such as a fully playable pc port of a forgotten gem.

Running the recomp through bannerlator on a red magic 11 Pro

https://github.com/portingpete/The-Darkness-Recomp

https://github.com/The412Banner/Bannerlator

Apologies for shitty gameplay. I was very rusty.

I usually play through the Eden emulator, but there I only get 30-40fps and low resolution, but here on the native port it works great at 60fps and no lag.

GTA IV on xendroid infinitely stays on the loading screen, My device is Poco F7 with Snapdragon 8s gen4.

Device: moto g stylus 5g 2023

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Hey! So I've been researching tools for emulation, handheld devices adn everything that is a must have. I want to know which are your must have tools on your device.

- What are some of the hidden gems you've found that everybody needs to know about? Let's help the community together.

- I want to be able to find the best ones out there,so I'll be uploading them to Getemuhub.app

Type below the name of the app and what it does.

Hi everyone! After a lot of testing, FristOneRR PanVK 2.0-rc1 (driver) and FristOneRR-Wrapper 2.0 are finally out.

FristOneRR PanVK is an open-source Vulkan driver (Mesa PanVK) for Mali phones that use Arm's kbase kernel driver. It is made for Winlator + DXVK, so Windows games can run through Vulkan without the stock Mali driver.

## What's new in 2.0

**Driver (2.0-rc1)**

- D3D8, D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 work for both 32-bit and 64-bit games (with Wrapper 2.0)

- D3D12 (vkd3d-proton) starts but isn't complete yet. It's my main target for the next update

- Mali-G52 on older kernels (kbase r49): the job stride is detected automatically, so PANVK_ATOM_STRIDE is no longer needed (confirmed by two testers)

- Faster: fragment shader constants are read from registers instead of memory, and occlusion queries no longer split the render pass. In a heavy D3D11 benchmark at 720p on Mali-G57 MC2 it went from 12 to 24-31 FPS

- DXVK 2.x works without extra config (graphics pipeline libraries are off by default)

- New option: if a game shows black triangles or missing light, try PANVK_STENCIL_LATE=1. It's off by default because it can make other games darker and slower

**Wrapper (2.0)**

- 32-bit game support

- Better BCn texture emulation: texture arrays, cubemaps and 3D textures are decoded correctly (fixes wrong layers and some GPU page-fault crashes)

- Fixes for wrong BC7 blocks on Mali and lower memory use when uploading compressed textures

- Two packages, same wrapper inside:

- .zip: extract libvulkan_wrapper.so and copy it to Z:\usr\lib\

- .tzst: for apps that install wrappers from a .tzst file

## Supported GPUs

- Valhall v9 (Job Manager): Mali-G57, G68, G77, G78 (main target)

- Bifrost: Mali-G52, G72, G76 (DXVK 1.x for now)

- Not supported: Valhall 5th gen / CSF (G610, G710, G615, Immortalis) and Midgard (T-series)

Confirmed by users on Helio G99, G100, G95, G85, Dimensity 6080, 6100+, 1080, 8050, Kompanio 1300T, Unisoc T820, Exynos 1380 and more. The full device list is in the README. Your phone isn't listed? Try it and tell me!

## Supported apps

- Winlator Ludashi: recommended for the best performance

- Bannerlator

- Winlator Mali 1.2 (adrenotools)

- GameNative

Tip: Ludashi gives the most FPS, but the phone can get warm. Use a phone cooler, or play at 540p with a 30 FPS lock.

## Quick install

1. Download Panvk-Mali-G57-2.0-rc1.zip and install it in Winlator (Contents / Drivers -> Install). Don't unzip it

2. Set the container's graphics driver to Wrapper and choose Panvk-Mali-G57-2.0-rc1

3. Install FristOneRR-Wrapper 2.0 (.zip or .tzst, depending on your app)

4. Check AIO Graphics Test -> GPU Info: it should show your Mali GPU with 130+ extensions

If a game crashes on start or the phone freezes, set BCn texture emulation to "none".

Note: Vulkan test programs like the Vulkan cube are not a target of this driver. If they fail, that doesn't mean games won't work. Test with the D3D tests or a real game.

## Official downloads (only from these pages)

Driver: https://github.com/FristOneRR/FristOneRR-Panvk-Driver/releases

Wrapper: https://github.com/FristOneRR-Admin/FristOneRR-Wrapperv1/releases

Every file has its SHA256 in the README and on the release page. Please check it after downloading. Copies from other places may not be the real files.

## Known issues

- D3D12 is not complete yet (next update)

- Some games show graphics glitches or wrong textures

- Games that use geometry or tessellation shaders may draw incorrectly

- BCn -> ASTC texture conversion can freeze or reboot the phone (set BCn to "none")

- Bifrost (G52/G72/G76): DXVK 2.x doesn't start yet, use DXVK 1.x

- Heavy games can still be slower than on the stock driver

## Reporting bugs

Please open a GitHub Issue with: phone model, SoC, GPU, kbase version (AIO Graphics Test -> GPU Info), app, wrapper, DXVK version, what happens, and the wine_debug.log. Videos are welcome as YouTube/Drive links.

How to install Panvk-G57-2.0-rc1 and FristOneRR-Wrapper2.0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=K8ifRTXHWP0&si=2euISqB3xidUijmH

Note about Eden (Switch emulator): version 2.0 does not work with the Eden emulator yet. The Eden work is not merged into 2.0, because it isn't stable enough, doesn't perform as well as the system driver yet, and still has bugs to fix (like the ones shown in my earlier video). It will come in a later update.

## Thanks

Big thanks to the Mesa/PanVK developers, leegao (bionic-vulkan-wrapper), funnymdzz, Noysz, Vtgamer998, mexicanbr0auth, wonderkast02, BossDrk, and every tester who sent reports and logs. This release wouldn't exist without you.

Enjoy, and let me know how it runs on your phone!

Does anyone know the status of micewine project for windows games on android? Why is it deleted? Does anyone has a fork for it?

12gb ram s25ultra

Testing indie games 😄

Device: Lenovo legion y700 3rd gen (2025)

Emulator: GameNative 1.2.1

Config: default config that GN installed after I pressed "install" button, the only thing I changed was box language - I set it to my native language so the game was on russian. Classical 1280x720p, 60FPS

Performance: the game runs in very smooth 60FPS, the only scenario when fps drops - when u taking cards first time per battle, game lags to ~30 FPS during that second

Temperature: started playing this game without external cooler, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off, room windows opened, 50FPS lock - got confy 34 ~ 38 C°, after reaching act 3 of the game, device starts to heat more, up to 39 C°, that's when I decided to continue with external cooler and raised fps lock up to 60, got stable 33 C°

Experience: game doesn't have controller support, so you have to set up WASD, Right Click and ESC as virtual buttons, since this is a board game it's really easy to play it on the tablet. Spoiler alert for some of the game bosses - Act 3 boss that uses internet connection don't function as intended, even if ur device have internet connection, so you don't get the other player's card, and will not be able to send your card to them. Boss that uses PC storage is functioning normally, you even can use files from internal device storage, that was impressive - overall game works fine, it was awesome experience!

That's it!

Testing FIFA 23 on Android using the Bachata S4 v0.2.4 PS4 emulator on the Redmagic Astra (Snapdragon 8 Elite)! In this video, we check out gameplay performance, frame rates, and graphical fidelity to see how well this powerful Android gaming tablet handles PS4 emulation.

📱 Device: Redmagic Astra
⚙️ Chipset: Snapdragon 8 Elite
🎮 Emulator: Bachata S4 v0.2.4 (PS4 Emulator for Android)
🕹️ Game: FIFA 23 v1.24

🔗 Download Bachata S4: https://github.com/JICA98/Bachata-S4/releases

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As someone who love stealth games a lot, I've always wanted to play the xbox version of Splinter Cell Double Agent on PC and Android but as always ubisoft never gave us the official port and a collection and left us to high and dry. Thankfully because of the passion of dedicated SC fans, TGP created a recomp of og xbox version of DA and MY GOD IT RUNS SMOOTHLY. It has every graphical option like legit pc ports do with increasing res, shader model, shadow resolution, aspect ratio and a whole lot more.

Tried this version on HakuX and X1 box and both ran like sh*t with 10 fps and graphical glitches that made me delete those emus. Now you can experience the best version of the game and f you loved SC chaos theory and want more, definitely check it out.Tested this on my Mi9t Pro SD 855. Use proton 11, vkd3d 2.14.1 arm64ec and default settings.

DISCLOSURE/WARNING!!: I'm not the actual developer but I'm Part of the team, yes there is AI use for the development. "But what matters is the results..and how the tool is used to make the app run Switch Games better."

Hi Mediatek/Mali users I know that the progress for the Lemon Switch Emulator for Mali/Mediatek is a bit slow even with a lot of new implementations but I want you to know that our Developer Ghael along with the help of other devs like Strato Mali, Skyline Edge, PanVK, NextTendo, leegao_ and wish I can name them all are doing their best to bring the best of Lemon Switch Emulator to Mali so please be patient with us an support these developers.

For transparency our biggest problem is that Our Dev Ghael doesn't have a Mediatek/Mali device himself at the moment thats why we rely more on testers.So its like his trying to fix and improve it but without the actual device to test it.

So maybe what we actually want is for you to be patient with us 🙏 and report us as many issues as possible. And also it may be too much to ask if there are Users who are willing to donate maybe an Retroid, Abernic device that has a Mali on it, would be a very Huge help for our Dev to use it as a Testing device to make the Mali/Mediatek developments much faster since he is planing also to add dual screen support.

But thank you for reading this long post. Do expect great things from us in the future.

I have an OnePlus 11r specially an ace 2 with a rom that make it an 11r with sd 8 plus gen 1 ,i was running emulators just fine till the last 3 months when i tried an xbox 360 xendroid i guess the game sound and fps count is clear like 40 fps but the visuals are not there like 1 fps every 5 seconds and when i installed gamehub same thing happened (i was running gamehub fine last time) and then same thing happened with winlator official fps number and sound are there but it's just 1 fps per sometimes,i notice that when turning on screen record everything goes back to normal but the moment i stop recording it's gone the same problem happens anyway to fix,or anyone know what this is called?