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check_frame_stall() arms native-UI flipping when it reports a stall, so the guest has something on screen while it is hung. Those synthetic flips reach flip(), which finds nothing queued and calls on_frame_end(buffer, true), and on_frame_end refreshed g_last_frame_time unconditionally. So the first hang of a session switched on a flip source that then refreshed the timestamp forever, and no later hang in that session could be detected at all. Only a frame the guest actually produced counts as guest progress now. Found on Tales of Xillia 2 (BLUS31397), which reproduces the same white screen as Xillia 1: a stall was reported at 0:29:06, that game was closed, another was booted, and when it hung 90 seconds later nothing fired. Guest mutex traffic sat at exactly zero for over two minutes -- sys_event_queue_receive and sys_timer_usleep continuing at flat, identical rates every interval, which is idle service loops and nothing else -- while VKGSRender::flip kept running and the detector kept believing frames were landing. That is the one case this was written for: a hang where something still flips looks perfectly healthy to a detector that only watches frames.
ARMSX3
Uses the latest RPCS3 upstream code (the recent ARM64 improvements included).
Building
arm64-v8a and armv8.2 is supported. You need the Android SDK with NDK r27 or newer, CMake 3.30 or newer, and a JDK 17. Android Studio ships all of these.
Clone with submodules, then fetch the two third party checkouts that are not submodules:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX3.git
cd ARMSX3
git clone https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/librashader 3rdparty/librashader
git clone https://github.com/bylaws/libadrenotools android/armsx3-ui/app/src/main/cpp/libadrenotools
Build the core. This is the long part and produces an unstripped library of around 1.3 GB:
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
cmake -B build-android -G Ninja \
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$ANDROID_HOME/ndk/<version>/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake \
-DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-31 \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build build-android --target rpcsx-android -j8
Strip it and put it where the app expects it:
llvm-strip --strip-unneeded build-android/android/libarmsx3-core.so
cp build-android/android/libarmsx3-core.so \
android/armsx3-ui/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
Then build the app:
cd android/armsx3-ui
export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home"
./gradlew :app:assembleRelease
The apk lands in app/build/outputs/apk/release/.
Note that the core library has to be rebuilt and copied again whenever anything under rpcs3/ or android/src/ changes. Gradle does not build it for you.
The Discord Social SDK is proprietary and is not redistributed here. Get it from Discord's developer portal and drop it in app/libs/ and app/src/main/cpp/discord_sdk/ if you want that feature. The build skips it otherwise.
Running it needs PS3 firmware, which is not included. License
GPL-2.0-only, the same as RPCS3. See LICENSE. Some files may be licensed differently, check the file headers.
Based on RPCS3, https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3