[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] dlads:
I've made one of these tutorials for the HTC 10 and Oneplus 5 and both went down well, have struggled to match the power of the 835 and it's Adreno GPU on the P20 Pro, the Kirin is fast but the Mali has been this phones achilles heel , it isn't awful but it simply does not have the most optimized drivers and no one will ever get the most out of it.

Until now... :D

A chap over on the Dolphin-emu forums called Zhang Wei has went and done some amazing wizardry specifically for Kirin based devices.

Moving onto the emulator itself, it's brilliant compared to the original, the results which I've seen for myself are nothing short of spectacular, not every game is perfect (but then no emulator is perfect)

All the games I tried ran at a solid 60fps without anomalies and without any crashes, below i'll post specifically how to replicate this on your devices and any files you'll need, it's not hard but one thing i have found that i needed was GPU Boost, anyone who has EMUI 8.1 past 130 will already have this, if you like me are running a non EMUI ROM then you can install the Magisk module for the same effect.

Although I believe that this version of Dolphin is made for Honor / Huawei devices, some Samsung devices run Mali so should see the same benefits, albeit without GPU turbo.

Hope you enjoy, any questions, plz let me know

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Pre-requisites

Root Access - if you wish to use advanced kernel features or if you haven't already got GPU Boost / turbo as part of your ROM / stock ROM.

Android with a Mali based GPU, this specific version is for Mali / Kirin

A legitimate ROM file of the game you want to play

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Files

1. The emulator - [url]https://github.com/weihuoya/dolphin/releases [/url] (This is the main GitHub page for Wei Zhang's builds)

2. A GameCube ISO / ROM file - unfortunately I cannot provide links for these as it would infringe on XDA rules and by not owning the original you cannot have a copy, I will leave this to your googling abilities, please DO NOT link to any ROM sites here they will be removed.

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Installation

NOTE**** For the purposes of this tutorial i will assume that you have never installed Dolphin on your phone, should you need a clean install you'll need to remove everything first

1. Grab the emulator and copy it to your phone, if it's already there then open it with a file manager, click install

2. Open Magisk, click downloads, search or find GPU Boost, click install and reboot.

3. (optional but recommended) Open Magisk, click downloads, search or find Swap Torpedo, click install and reboot.

4. Open settings and stop the android system from optimizing the Dolphin app, this will help with performance.

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Setup

Below are the settings for each section, I've found can max out most games

Zelda - The Windwaker, MarioKart, Smash Bros, Mario Strikers, Tiger Woods 06, Burn out 2, Ikaruga.

Resident Evil 4 is a different animal altogether but the settings here should be enough to make it totally playable.

My personal favourite is the WindWaker which is just a superb game, this has been causing me some problems using Vulkan, so Open GL is preferred, I'm trying to find the perfect settings for it still, will update here once i have.

1. Open the app up and click the settings bar up the top (3 dots) you'll be given a list of options, below is each section and their respective choices, there is a floppy disc icon at the top of each section, everytime you make a change click the disc to save.

2. General:

CPU Core - JIT ARM64

Dual core - on

Override emulated CPU Clock Speed - off

Emulated clock speed - unchanged

Speed limit - 100%

Sync on skip idle - on

JIT Follow branch - on

Enable cheats - off (only noobs cheat ;) )

Change discs - on

Audio stretching - on

Audio back end - Cubeb

3. Graphics settings:

Video Backend - Vulkan

Show FPS - on (unless you're happy with performance and don't want to test or tweak for more performance)

Shader compilation mode - Synchronous

Compile shaders before starting - off

Back end multithreading - on

Aspect ratio - Force 16:9 (for me this is the best ratio for the p20 pro, it's up to you here)

Display scale - 100%

4. Enhancements:

Internal resolution - depending on the game I toggle between 1x and 2x

Full screen anti aliasing - off

Anisotropic Filtering - off

Post processing effect - off

Scaled EFB Copy - on

Per-Pixel lighting - on

Force Texture filtering - on

Force 24 bit colour - on

Disable fog - off

Disable copy filter - on

Arbitrary mipmap detection - on

Widescreen hack - personal choice ( prefer this to be on, more screen to see although a little zoomed out)

5. Hacks:

Skip EFB Access from CPU - on

Ignore format changes - on

Store EFB copies to Texture only - on

Defer EFB Copies to RAM - on

Texture cache accuracy - Low

GPU Texture decoding - off

Store XFB copies to texture only - on

Immediately present XFB - on

Fast calculation depth - on

Framebuffer format - RGBA8

6. Interface:

Use Panic handlers - off (personal choice, i don't need it, shows errors when they happen)

Show on screen display messages - off (again personal choice)

Use Built-in Database of game names - on

7. Gamecube / Wii and Debug:

Leave all of them at stock, none need to be altered.

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And Finally

Thats pretty much it chaps, get yourself a ROM which you own (we have to say that) and load it up, I personally have a folder called ROM's which i've pointed to within the app.

All games can be played with touchscreen but I would definitely recommend a bluetooth pad, the one i use is the iPega extendible, which has proven to be brilliant, the below link is not the cheapest I've found it for, mine cost £16 so shop around.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-C...d=1550867350&sr=8-6&keywords=ipega+extendable

The touchscreen controls can be turned off "Whilst" you are within a game, just swipe down and then click options, you can toggle the controls from there, move them around, make them different sizes etc.

You do have the option to make some changes from this same menu but I would advise against this as it can get confusing.

One thing i would say to do if you have a few people around is to get a USB-C - HDMI converter and get a few pads, you can use up to 4 on this emulator.

This is my hub

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-Prem...=1550868584&sr=8-13&keywords=anker+hdmi+usb+c

A bit pricey but a great unit.

The install path on android is /sdcard/dolphi-mmj/

The GC folder holds your save games so make a back up if you need to complete a full uninstall if you are testing or changing versions.

;)

Screenshots in 2nd post, taken from my phone, note at the top left, a solid 60fps, it does drop to mid 50's now and again, but then again so did the Gamecube, I would say that there is headroom for up-scaling for textures and or resolution.

Enjoy, hopefully this tutorial helped you and you're enjoying games on your P20 Pro the way games should be played, if you liked this tut then please hit thanks..

Cheers, any questions let me know and I'll do what I can to help.

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