Bannerlator

Windows applications and games on Android.

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📌 Project Notice

Bannerlator is a personal build — made by me (The412Banner), for my own device, my own needs, and my own use.

It's a personal continuation of the Winlator Star Bionic project (star-emu/star) after it was discontinued and archived. None of the original developers are involved except me; it stands on their work plus cherry-picked commits from across the community — all credited below.

This is NOT an official or general-purpose Winlator release. It is built and tuned for my hardware and my workflow, and published as-is purely in case it happens to be useful to someone else.

• No guarantee it works on any other device, GPU, or Android version.
• No support, and no commitment to fix anything that works for me but not for you. If a feature works on my device, it isn't broken — for me, which is what this build is for.
• Bug reports / feature requests for setups I don't run may simply be closed. That's not personal; this just isn't a community-support project.

You're free to use, modify, fork, or share it (GPL-3.0). If it doesn't work on your setup, that's expected — it wasn't built for it.

🤖 AI Disclaimer

All coding, features, and changes in this project are developed with the assistance of Claude AI by Anthropic. Claude is used to help with the heavy lifting — writing, reviewing, and modifying the emulator's code and the features added here: the Kotlin/Compose app shell and the native emulation glue (Wine/Proton, box64/FEX, DXVK/VKD3D → Vulkan), the storefront and cloud-save integrations, and the per-game/container features — as well as porting and re-deriving community changes into this build.

Before any stable release is published, all changes are manually debugged and tested by me across multiple devices — both rooted and unrooted. Debugging is done using logcat/getlog output and in-app debug log files to diagnose and verify behaviour, and no stable release is cut until the change is verified end-to-end on real hardware. Test devices:

• Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra — Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — not rooted
• AYANEO Konkr Pocket Fit — Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 — rooted
• Odin 2 Portal (base) — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 — rooted
• Retroid Pocket 5 — Snapdragon 865 — rooted

A note on root: using any root-only features is entirely your own choice and at your own risk. I don't encourage rooting your device in general — especially without the proper knowledge and tools to do it correctly. Bannerlator runs fine unrooted; root only unlocks a few optional performance extras.

ℹ️ Information

🐛 Report a Mali GPU Game Issue

Games misbehaving on a Mali GPU (Exynos / Dimensity / Kirin / Helio devices)? We run a dedicated public bug-report board for Mali devices — file a structured report with your logs, and get answers back from the developers in a public discussion thread on each report.

• 📝 File a Mali game report — a quick form; attach the log file(s) so we can actually help.
• 📋 Browse all reports & dev answers — see what's been reported, answered, and fixed.

Every report gets its own public discussion thread. You can reply as the original poster — no account or password needed — and the developers answer right there in the thread.

📖 Contents

• 📌 Project Notice
• 🤖 AI Disclaimer
• ℹ️ Information
• 🐛 Report a Mali GPU Issue
• ☁️ Xbox Cloud Gaming, v15 layers & Wine Mono (3.1.7)
• 🟩 Xbox / PC Game Pass store, Steam accounts & Wayland adapter by default (3.1.7)
• 🎮 BANNERIN controllers, in-game controller settings & DirectInput vibration (3.1.7)
• ⚙️ Every setting in Deck, full-screen XMB & Open with (3.1.7)
• 🎮 The full Deck style, Windows components & Remove (3.1.7)
• ⬇️ Small updates, Win Components offline & smarter game adding (3.1.6)
• ⚡ Force SSBS, v14 layers & Mali on Wayland (3.1.6)
• 🆕 SteamLite Steam Input & Wayland xdg-shell v3 (3.1.6)
• 🎮 Headless Steam & Server Browser (3.1.6)
• 🎬 Cutscenes & Codecs (3.1.5)
• ⚡ Fast OpenGL (3.1.4)
• 🐧 Linux Steam Client (3.1.3)
• 🆕 What's New in 3.1.2
• 🎞️ Frame Generation & Present Modes
• ✨ Full Features
• 🎨 Adding your own ReShade effects
• 🎮 Frontends Workaround
• 🛠️ Building
• 🤖 Ask Me Anything
• 🙏 Credits
• ⚖️ Disclaimer
• 📄 License

☁️ Xbox Cloud Gaming, v15 layers & Wine Mono (3.1.7)

3.1.7 is the stable release of everything below (the Xbox store, BANNERIN controllers, the full Deck style, removing Windows components), plus:

• Xbox Cloud Gaming — stream Game Pass games, console-only ones too, from the Xbox tab with the store's sign-in, in Bannerlator's own player (controller and rumble, resolution, region, bitrate, picture effects). An experimental native player (Android 10+) adds Win-FG or LSFG frame generation, low-latency switches and a zero-copy picture.
• v15 layers — Proton 10.0-4, GE-Proton 10.0-34, 11.0-1, 11.0-2, GE-Proton 11.0-9 and the new DroidDeck-Proton 11.0-11.1 (release notes); 144 Hz on GE-Proton 11.0-9 and DroidDeck-Proton, and containers on DroidDeck-Proton 11.0-9.1 are offered the 11.0-11.1 update.
• Wine Mono installs again from Windows components (mono-10.4.1 is now the real 10.4.1), and a new Mono clears the old one's leftover files.
• Xbox — the ARM64 Visual C++ runtime for arm64ec containers (by MGamer404).
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean text — Wine gets the language from the container's LC_ALL setting instead of falling back to English (not yet tested with a game).

🟩 Xbox / PC Game Pass store, Steam accounts & Wayland adapter by default (3.1.7)

First in 3.1.7-pre4: the Xbox store, MGamer404's Steam changes and the Wayland adapter as the default.

• Xbox / PC Game Pass store — sign in with Microsoft (the app shows your gamertag, never your email), browse owned games and PC Game Pass, download with resume, add to your games and play with a licensed launch through Xodus and Xodus Nexus. Cloud saves sync while you play and when you quit (