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Seven detectors over as many reproductions, none of which caught it. The final one settles why: with cia sampled once a second, the guest threads are found at a DIFFERENT address every time -- 0x011f63ac, 0x00278268, 0x008ac3a4, 0x0141512c -- so the best repeat count never exceeded 1. The thread is not parked anywhere. It executes a great deal of varied guest code at over 100% of a core while making no progress, consistent with sys_ppu_thread_yield at ~100 million. A busy-wait that does real work each iteration cannot be found by watching for something to stop, which is what every one of these tried, in a different place each time. What was learned and is worth keeping is recorded in the commits: frames keep flipping throughout (so no frame-based check can see it), lock traffic never ramps up because the hang precedes any workload, rsx::thread spins in NV406E_SEMAPHORE_ACQUIRE, and PPU[0x1000000] burns 4.36s of CPU per 4s of wall clock. The next attempt should start from a guest-side breakpoint or an instruction trace, not from another liveness heuristic. The structural fixes found along the way stay: on_frame_end no longer counts forced frames as guest progress, and check_frame_stall dumps guest threads rather than only reporting. Both are correct independently of this hunt.
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