Lemon Switch Emulator v1.2.0 is now released.

Credits to our Developer: Ghael

Download Link:

https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases

Optional link(we have our own git):

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases

You can share your thoughts on our subreddit:

r/LemonEmulator

Join our Official Discord Community:

https://discord.gg/nHGPeFpwu

Lemon Switch Emulator Website:

https://lemon-emu.org/

FAQ Page:

https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html

Lemon Switch Emulator own git page:

https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/

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Lemon-Project v1.2.0

New:

Lemon FG, Lemon's own frame generation. Built in, nothing to install, and no Lossless Scaling code in it: turn it on in Settings → Graphics → Frame generation, for all games or one. A new Engine option picks Lemon FG (default) or Lossless Scaling, which only runs with your own copy of Lossless.dll. The FPS counter shows which one is working, and Lemon FG has its own lemon icon. The setup screen explains that Lemon FG is included instead of only offering to load the DLL.

Accurate is the default GPU mode again in Lemon: the optimizations in this version pay for most of its cost (measured: TOTK 48.1 → 47.9 fps on an AYN Odin 3, BOTW 16.6 → 17.0 fps on a Galaxy S24 Ultra). Lemon Lite and Lemon Lite & Spoofed keep Fast.

One lighter wait for the GPU.

Lemon still waits for the GPU before a game reuses what was drawn, so the flickering fixed in 1.1 stays fixed, but it no longer drains the GPU when the game waits for work that is already queued (Garfield: GPU thread stalls from ~156 to ~13 ms per second). The GPU Fence Behavior option is gone: there is nothing to set.

Mali GPUs: BC4 and BC5 textures are recompressed to EAC on the GPU, half the memory they took before. The option is now called Recompress BCn textures.

Lemon-Ade v0.0.7 bundled in Lemon: it fixes shaders that v0.0.5 and v0.0.6 compiled wrong. Users of the bundled v0.0.6 move to it automatically.

Fixed:

Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 on Mali (and any GPU without BCn textures): pink or black Inklings and missing button text. The games copy compressed textures as raw blocks; Lemon now keeps the original blocks for those copies and decodes them on the GPU.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 on Adreno: no more spikes over the characters or flickering lights. Adreno runs a geometry shader once per vertex it outputs, so its memory writes repeated; now only the first copy of each triangle writes. Thanks to the report in GitHub issue #7.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe connects to Nextendo Network again (error 2306-0502): 32-bit games that hash with the CPU's SHA-1 instructions got wrong results.

TOTK: the grass stays without any option. The Use reactive flushing setting is gone.

Splatoon 3 loads faster (about 100 s → 70 s on an AYN Odin 3 with Lemon-Ade): a huge shader is translated once per session instead of once per pipeline.

The in-game overlay keeps Lemon's yellow theme instead of turning purple, and its text stays readable with the new interface.

The game list no longer rescans all your folders every time you leave a game's page.

Tapping a game twice quickly no longer crashes the app.

The settings screen no longer writes thousands of "Could not find setting" lines to the log.

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Turnip-Lemon-Ade/releases/tag/Lemon-Ade-v0.0.7

I'm playing NieR:Automata on a Dimensity 8200, but all the 3D textures in the game are missing, I've tried adjusting the settings, but the issue persists

He tenido este problema justo después de actualizar la última actualización de la app. No sé a qué se deberá o que tendría que mover en las opciones para que esté bien. Antes de la actualización estaba bien visualmente Pero tenía muchas caídas de fps, de 60 a 40 y luego a 20, en esos intervalos. Tampoco sé cómo bloquear los fps a quizás 30 estables o algo así

Does anyone encounter this other games? During in game then it got appear a building shader but i can't exit emulator from Lemon lite v1.1.0 especially my game controller (gamesir g8+) when i turn off the Bluetooth then got appear a building shader again from Lemon v1.1.0, im not sure is bug or crash i guess both somehow???

Hi guys, I've seen this project that seems active and I tried to install it. Unfortunately I have a phone with Mediatek CPU, precisely a Dimensity 9500 (Oppo x9 pro). Now, i'm trying to start Unicorn Overlord but I receive a black screen but I can hear the audio and when I press B I hear the effect as the game received the command, but after some time in idle it crashes, do you have any solution or It's impossible to play switch on my phone? (Already tried Eden, Yudachi and Citron without success.)

Give Credits to Developer: Ghael Our Developer is a very skilled programmer who has more than 10 years of Programming Experience.

Lemon Switch Emulator v1.1.0 is now released. Feel free to test the emulator and make sure to leave your feedback, bugs/error on our discord server below. We'll continue in improving the emulator. Thank you.

Download Link: https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases

Optional link(we have our own git): https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases

You can share your thoughts on our subreddit:

r/LemonEmulator

Join our Official Discord Community:

https://discord.gg/nHGPeFpwu

Lemon Switch Emulator Website:

https://lemon-emu.org/

FAQ Page:

https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html

Lemon Switch Emulator own git page: https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/

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Three builds:

• Lemon: the full version, as before.

• Lemon Lite: lighter defaults for weaker GPUs (0.75x resolution, asynchronous shaders on), without the bundled Lemon-Ade driver, and experimental PanVK drivers for Mali-G720 and Mali-G52 in the driver downloader (each GPU only sees its own). It installs next to Lemon and can import your keys, firmware, games and saves from it.

• Lemon Lite & Spoofed: Lite under another package name, so phones that boost known benchmark apps may run it faster. Experimental: it depends on the phone.

New:

• Online play on Nextendo Network (Settings → Online). Sign in from the browser and play online; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe races work.

• Settings in ten categories (Lemon, Graphics, Performance, Controls, In-game display, Console, Online, Content and data, Help, Advanced and debugging), and a search on the settings home that finds any option, however deep it is, and takes you straight to it.

• No more flickering in Fast GPU mode (Garfield - Escape From Monday, Dragon Ball and others): the game now waits for the GPU before it reuses what was drawn. That makes Fast the default GPU mode again, so most people get more speed. If a game runs slower now and does not flicker, set Settings → Graphics → Advanced graphics → GPU Fence Behavior to Immediate. A lighter version of this wait is planned for a future update.

• Mali GPUs: compressed BCn textures they cannot read are converted to ASTC on the GPU, with far less memory (Funko Fusion: 958 MB → 179 MB).

• A simpler in-game menu: one On-screen controls entry (edit, layout presets and options), a separate Overlays entry, and the game's own settings first.

• The library title gets its own line on narrow screens.

Fixed:

• Crysis Remastered no longer crashes and its map is drawn in its own corner instead of over the whole screen.

• TOTK: the grass no longer disappears 20-30 seconds into play.

• Mario & Luigi: Brothership: fixed a crash when the game had made a very large number of memory mappings.

• The multiplayer nickname is remembered again (it was lost since the rename to Lemon).

• Network addresses returned to games have the right size (some online games).

• Asynchronous shaders look at the current draw.

• Input events without a device no longer crash the app.

• Less GPU overhead in games that rewrite small uniform buffers often.

• Logs: the GPU log is capped at 20 MB and rotates, the main log is capped too, only the last 10 GPU crash dumps are kept, and the log says why the system closed the previous session. "Lemon" instead of "Eden" in the logs and crash reports.

• Aspect ratio: the option explains how to fill the screen, and the stretch option has a clearer name.

Hey guys, it's great that we finally have driver development on Mali GPUs, similar to what Adreno GPUs on Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets have had. I have built some Proof of Concept (POC) drivers for ONLY THE DEVICES I OWN (Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, GameForce Ace and Anbernic RG556):

* Retroid Pocket 4 Pro (Mali-G77): https://github.com/faux123/panvk-faux123-driver-rp4pro/releases

* GameForce Ace (Mali-G610): https://github.com/faux123/panvk-faux123-driver-ace/releases

* Anbernic RG556 (Mali-G57): https://github.com/faux123/panvk-faux123-driver-rg556/releases

Here's an updated GameNative APK that can load them:

https://github.com/faux123/GameNative-Mali/releases

GameNative is licensed under GPLv3, so to be compliant with the GPL license, the full source code for that APK is here:

https://github.com/faux123/GameNative-Mali/tree/v1.2.1-mali.11

Just remember, these new drivers are NOT necessarily FASTER than the stock drivers. What they do is ENABLE more extensions, so more games can be emulated more correctly. Please support the ORIGINAL Panfrost/PanVK developers and the GameNative developers.

There will be NO SUPPORT from me on ANY OF THESE. I originally developed these for myself, but I decided to release them as a POC to drum up more support from the community. I will NOT accept any requests to develop drivers for devices I DO NOT own, and I DO NOT do remote debugging or beta testing. If I don't have the device, I won't develop for it, PERIOD.

Again, this is a pure POC with no support from me at all. I MAY update my drivers for myself from time to time, and I will post them at the same links above, but there are NO PROMISES of regularity or communication. I'm a busy person, so I really don't have a lot of free time for this. This is purely out of my love for these handheld devices and how cool the recent developments on these drivers and emulators are. This really is a boom period for them!

Enjoy and have fun!

S25 FE Exynos 2400

Is there a way to add back thenold feature where we can input codes and enable code as another option to lemon cheater?

I mostly use chears for qol stuff and less grind for a old gamer like m

This emulator has been the best for me only missing this feature.

Just a suggestion if its possible.

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Give Credits to Developer: Ghael

Lemon Switch Emulator v1.0.1 is now released. Feel free to test the emulator and make sure to leave your feedback, bugs/error on our discord server below. We'll continue in improving the emulator. Thank you.

Download Link:

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases

You can share your thoughts on our subreddit:

r/LemonEmulator

Join our Official Discord Community:

https://discord.gg/nHGPeFpwu

Lemon Switch Emulator Website:

https://lemon-emu.org/

FAQ Page:

https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html

Lemon Switch Emulator own git page:

https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/

Bonjour à tous, j’arrive à faire tourner des petits jeux 2D-3D avec mon Snapdragon 680.

Je ne m’y connais pas très bien, configuration sont mes paramètres à mettre en avant pour gagner un petit peu de perf?

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Estoy usando el lemon y ya le había cambiado el rendimiento pero no sale bien pipipipi :'v

"New UI Screenshots in the comments below"

Give Credits to Developer: Ghael

Hi everyone the Lemon Switch Emulator v1.0.0 is now released. Feel free to test the emulator and make sure to leave your feedback, bugs/error on our discord server below. We'll continue in improving the emulator. Thank you.

Download Link:

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases

You can share your thoughts on our subreddit:

r/LemonEmulator

Join our Official Discord Community:

https://discord.gg/nHGPeFpwu

Lemon Switch Emulator Website:

https://lemon-emu.org/

FAQ Page:

https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html

Lemon Switch Emulator own git page: https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/LemonEmulator/s/2kTKD8AeYl

v1.0.0

- Lemon has its own home now. The code, the releases and the updates live at

git.lemon-emu.org (GitHub is a mirror), and there is a website with a settings guide and an FAQ: lemon-emu.org .

New

- A new interface : launcher-style game library, a quick in-game panel with a performance card, redesigned Settings, About and Statistics, and full controller navigation. The new screens are translated to Spanish. You can switch back to the classic interface in Settings.

- First-run setup rebuilt : one card per item (keys, firmware, games folder...), progress at the top, a recap on the last step.

- Reset all settings (red card at the end of Settings), with the option to also remove the per-game settings.

- GPU Mode is Accurate by default. Fast made textures flicker in some games (confirmed on Garfield and Dragon Ball).

- Lemon Cheater now searches, edits and freezes floats as well as integers.

- Controller layout per game: choose "only this game" or "all games" after editing.

- Gamepad hotkeys for the in-game menu (R3 + Start, Guide).

- Updates come from Lemon's own server, with GitHub as a fallback. There is a "Check for updates" button in About and a "What's new" notice after updating.

- Two more sources in the driver downloader (StevenMXZ, Balemuni).

- About now links to the website, the source code, the guide, the FAQ and Discord.

Fixed:

FIFA: missing player indicators, ball-direction lines, button prompts and text. A texture handle that travels with the vertices could not be followed by the shader compiler, so those draws were silently dropped; draws are now split by texture.

FIFA 23 stuck at the splash screen (the network service lacked an Ioctl call).

Updates and DLC bundled in .nsz files showing the wrong version and no DLC.

Motion controls on every screen rotation, so they work on foldables and tablets held landscape.

Known issue:

FIFA 23: the faces of some players can show wrong colors.

For those wondering, the black squares are present in lemon too

Edit: im using lenovo y700 with sd gen 5

Firmware 22

Device: AYN Odin 3 Pro (Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-8750) - 12GB RAM

Android version: Android 15 - patch level 2025-06-05 (latest for this device)

Lemon version: V0.3.5

Game: Pokemon Legends Z-A

What happens: game plays fine (30 fps locked, with some dips here an there). Textures however pop in and out (boxes, walls, foliage like trees and grass) when cutscenes play, or you walk around and/or turn the camera.

Steps to reproduce: Boot up the game. Happens during the walk from the train to the exit of the station and the upcomming cutscenes and free roam mode.

Tried two drivers. The default lemon-ade turnip driver and the turnip adreno driver T30 (by mrPurple)

Tried keys and firmware of version 22.0.0 and 22.1.0 same results.

Logs / screenshots: link to video: https://vik1ngfile.site/f/ozJWhu7KvV

i tried lemon emulator on my retroid pocket 6 playing totk. the new update certainly fixed the black boxes bug. i tried it with different kinds of drivers and the black boxes doesn't appear where other emulator even eden nightly still has it. that is certainly an improvement over others but it still struggles to keep a consistent fps. it hovers from 15 - 30 ish fps making it hard to play and the grass dissapear s after some time playing, i even tried using the lemon driver. my go to setup for playong totk is still nyusu the older version not the v90. paired with belamuni apex. but this still has the black tiles bug. the grass and boxes are gone.

really looking forward with the lemon emu and props the the dev for giving us something new to look forward to.

Device: Motorola Edge 60 Fusion (Dimensity 7300 with Mali G615 mc2)

Android version: 16

Lemon version: 0.3.5

Game: Mario Odyssey

What happens: When I move the camera in certain worlds, like the sand world, this world, etc. This glitch happens.

Logs/screenshots:

Current Status & Roadmap

Current Latest version: v1.0.0

Coming next: Lemon Switch Emulator v1.0.2

Roadmap to Lemon 1.0.2:

Open requests and suggestions for v1.0.2

Roadmap to v1.0.2: ✔️ Fix rule <6 in index counters (improvement in shader build pulls). (Thnx @ehsan).

✔️ Fix error in how shaders are received and compiled that caused thousands of useless calls per second.

• Add Nextendo integration (Thnx <@zoot).

• Add full wide screen option..

Website:

https://lemon-emu.org/

Lemon Switch Emulator own Git page:

https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/

FAQ Page:

https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html

Download link Lemon Official App Github:

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases

Download link for Lemon Emulator's "Personal GPU Driver" works well alongside the app: (a6xx and a7xx compatible).

Lemon Ade Turnip:

https://github.com/Ghael-V/Turnip-Lemon-Ade/releases

Discord Community for Lemon: (Please join the developer and need more testers and feedback):

Lemon Emulator Discord:

https://discord.gg/nHGPeFpwu