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0.7 introduced corruption in several games that were fine on 0.6 -- flashing and flickering in Sonic Unleashed and Dragon Ball among others. Emu/RSX is returned to its 0.6 state in full; everything outside the renderer is kept. The main cause was vertex cache retention. On 0.6 the attribute ring was too small for retention to engage, so raising the ring to 192M did not add a code path, it switched an existing one on in every game at once, and reusing stale vertex data is what the flashing was. Bisecting also showed the render pass work was not responsible: reverting it alone changed nothing. It can come back, but on its own and with testing behind it rather than as part of a batch. Kept from 0.7: the ARM64 PPU float to integer fix, the PPU cache build identity, the SPU checksum and block state fixes, Oboe, ADPF, and the crash and stability ports. Sonic Unleashed does not render FMV cutscenes. That reproduces with the 0.6 renderer as well, so it is not from any of this and is still open.
ARMSX3
Uses the latest RPCS3 upstream code (the recent ARM64 improvements included).
Building
Only arm64-v8a 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