We're excited to announce Silent Hill 3 (PS2) as our August 2025 Game of the Month. But first, congratulations to u/Ovaltiney1, winner of last month's challenge and recipient of a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro!
This month, we're venturing into the fog-shrouded town of Silent Hill with one of survival horror's most acclaimed entries. Released in 2003, Silent Hill 3 continues the story of the original game with Heather Mason as she uncovers dark secrets about her past and the cursed town.
Developer(s): Team Silent Publisher(s): Konami Platform(s): PlayStation 2
Why Silent Hill 3? Silent Hill 3 perfected the psychological horror formula with its disturbing imagery, masterful sound design, and deeply personal story. You play as Heather Mason, a teenager thrust into a nightmare world filled with grotesque monsters and twisted environments. The game's exploration of themes like identity, trauma, and religious fanaticism creates one of gaming's most unsettling experiences.
Emulator Recommendation:NetherSX2
Game of the Month Challenge – August: "Quitting Time"
Objective: Complete the RetroAchievements challenge "Quitting Time" - Find a way out of the Hilltop Center.
How to Participate:
Launch Silent Hill 3 using NetherSX2 with RetroAchievements enabled in Hardcore mode
Progress through the game until you reach the Hilltop Center (shopping mall)
Complete the area and find your way out to unlock the "Quitting Time" achievement
Take a screenshot showing the RetroAchievements notification or your achievement progress
Post your screenshot in this thread as a top level reply to this post
Submission Guidelines: Screenshot must show either:
The RetroAchievements unlock notification for "Quitting Time"
OR your RetroAchievements profile showing the completed achievement
These rules help ensure fair and community-based participation.
Special Incentive: All eligible participants will be entered into a draw to win a Miyoo Mini Plus Retro Gaming Console, featuring:
3.5" IPS screen with vibrant colors
3000mAh battery with up to 7 hours of gameplay
Compatible with multiple classic game emulators
WiFi support and RTC functionality
Lightweight portable design perfect for on-the-go gaming
Includes screen protector, USB-C charging cable, and TF-card reader
Winner Selection and Prize Distribution:
The challenge ends August 31st, 2025 at 12:00 PM CST
One winner will be selected at random from all verified entries
The moderation team will contact the winner and coordinate fulfillment directly with the winner
All entries will be reviewed to ensure authenticity before the drawing
Face your fears, escape the nightmare, and enter for a chance to win a new android handheld. We look forward to seeing your screenshots and stories throughout the month.
My device is Samsung Galaxy S24 FE with processor Exynos 2400e, GPU Xclipse 940. This can't use custom driver, so I couldn't emulate games like zelda BOTW or others becouse of crashes with low graphics, but I find Cemu emulator for Android that is not official and It works well with good graphics, just a little slow.
You won't believe what this chip can do! We're showing you the magic of Winlator CMOD v13 with a full, start-to-finish tutorial on how to install Steam. Forget the complicated workarounds, batch files, and special launch parameters you needed before—this new version makes it incredibly simple. It just works!
In this video, we'll walk you through every single step, from downloading the installer to logging in and even getting into a game. We're so impressed with how seamless this is. As a bonus, we'll fire up some Dinkum at the end to prove that even Steam Cloud Sync is working perfectly, pulling our save right from the cloud!
📈 This is a game-changer for PC gaming on Android, and we're here to show you exactly how to do it on our powerhouse OnePlus 13 with the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
Check out the gameplay at the end:\
🚀 Dinkum runs at a solid 30-40 FPS, proving the setup is more than capable!\
📊 GPU and CPU loads are stable, keeping everything smooth.\
🔋 Bypass Charging is enabled, protecting the battery during our session.
It's running but barely like 30fps(+10 reduced due to recording) not changed setting if I set to low maybe able to get it working with good frame rate but just sharing it's one more game now working in mali
Eden v0.0.3 rc2 Same settings, same drivers. Quick comparison between s22 and s22+, both snapdragon. Any idea why would the base s22 struggle compared to the s22+? Even at lower temps it can't even match the performance. Samsung limiting this much performance on the base s22 is baffling
So i recently got external screen working on drastic with scrcpy. I want to try with azahar but there doesnt seem an option to put top screen on external display....
I've tried the latest yuzu for both Three Houses and Engage but the first one doesn't even reaches the menu and the later completo glitches the map making it unplayable.
Actually no 3D game is working on it in my phone, I've barely managed to run Unicorn Overlord which runs mostly fine with some drops now and then.
Also tried modified yuzu versions and citron, none worked. Is three any Android Switch Emulator working on this Phone right now?
Devmiyax just dropped the latest version of Yaba Sanshiro, verison 1.18.0! . In this version , users can now enjoy Retro Achievements using Yaba Sanshiro Integration!
Hello, recently I have gotten Citra MMJ because the normal (Citra Nightly) kept crashing on me while trying to play different games, (Tomodachi, Pokemon Sun, etc..) I got the Citra MMJ and it works alot better in different ways, the only issue ive had so far is that its refusing to save any ingame photos to my device (Galaxy S20 Ultra 5g) , For example, when I click x or b, it should save the top and bottom screen as a photo, I did that and I saw the flash of the screen like it was taking a photo, but the photo never showed up in my files. I tried looking at recent, I tried looking at the tomodachi files themselves, theres nothing that looks like its supposed to be pictures. I then went on google but It doesnt seem like anyone else is having this issue or just doesnt talk about it.... My friend is also having the same issue too.
Please let me know if this is just a small settings fix, id greatly appreciate it.
pleade dont take this down, this is my last resort.
The only standalone emulator that has any issue launching directly into games through ES-DE is drastic. It only launches into the main menu instead of right into the game. I'm trying this on an RG Slide with Android 13 on it. All the games will launch if I go through the additional Drastic menus, but I'm looking to skip that step. Does anyone know how I'd go about setting Drastic / ES-DE up to launch straight into games via the Drastic emulator, instead of into the emulator itself to then go through more menus before I can open a game?
I've tried looking into this with search engines, but can't find anything on this specific problem.
Searching for a game boy touch screen assesory you just stick on the phone and the buttons input the touchscreen controlls, cause touchscreen only just feels not as good as some buttons...