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Every vkCreate*Pipelines call passed VK_NULL_HANDLE for the pipeline cache, so the driver re-did the whole of its own compilation work for every pipeline, in every run. On mobile that work is a visible stall the first time each pipeline is seen -- and it was being thrown away at every shutdown. Give render_device a VkPipelineCache seeded from <cache>/vk_pipeline_cache.bin and written back at teardown, and hand it to both pipeline creation calls. The file is keyed on vendorID, deviceID and pipelineCacheUUID, so a driver update or an adrenotools driver swap rejects the old blob and rebuilds rather than feeding a driver a cache it cannot read. Oversized blobs are dropped instead of being allowed to grow without bound -- the cache is shared by every title, so one cold run is the cheaper failure. This is orthogonal to the RSX shader cache: that one remembers WHICH pipelines a title needs, this one makes each one cheap to create. The shader interpreter was opening a private cache and destroying it on the way out, which discarded exactly the expensive ubershader compiles. It now borrows the device's. Teardown order already guarantees the pipe compiler threads are joined before the device is destroyed, so the readback needs no extra locking. vkGetPipelineCacheData was missing from the generated Android dispatch table; regenerated with it, no other entry point changed.
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