ARMSX3 icon
ARMSX3 icon

ARMSX3

Proof of concept port of RPCS3 for Android.

Cost / License

Application type

Platforms

  • Android
1like
0comments
0articles

Features

ARMSX3 News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent activities

ARMSX3 information

  • Developed by

    FR flagARMSX2
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    3 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Gaming Software

GitHub repository

  •  335 Stars
  •  13 Forks
  •  27 Open Issues
  •   Updated  
View on GitHub
ARMSX3 was added to AlternativeTo by Darlene Sonalder on and this page was last updated .
No comments or reviews, maybe you want to be first?

What is ARMSX3?

Proof of concept Android port of RPCS3.

Uses the latest RPCS3 upstream code (the recent ARM64 improvements included). Status

From my testing, I only tried Skate 3. It boots, loads and reaches gameplay at roughly 20 to 30 fps on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Rendering, audio, touch controls and physical controllers work. Almost nothing else has been tested. So the main stop gap at the moment is performance/speed. Differences from upstream RPCS3

Some of the fixes here are not in upstream and affect any ARM64 build, not only Android:

Shaders declared runtime sized arrays inside uniform blocks, which requires VK_EXT_shader_uniform_buffer_unsized_array. Adreno does not support that extension, so every game pipeline failed to compile and nothing rendered. Concrete array bounds are emitted when the extension is missing.

The ARM64 SPU block verification checksum folded two thirds of every block through an absolute difference. That collides on the near identical job binaries an SPU job manager streams through the same local store address, so a cached block could end up running against another job's code. It sums now.

Thread affinity was compiled out on Android, and the core had no ARM big.LITTLE topology, so SPU and RSX threads were never placed on the fast cores.

The LLVM JIT target was pinned to cortex-a34, an in order core from 2016. It detects the host now.