Explaining Android's video: Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Switch with Yuzu on Android Performance Test

We're going to be seeing how Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince performs when trying to emulate it on Android with Yuzu. ~~~~~ Hi! Don't forget to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and hit the "Thanks" button on this video, if you can, and join our channel community here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnowc_KHgjVNj3Y-E-oQ8aw/join Video Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to another Yuzu emulation test on Android. Today, we'll be seeing how Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince plays with the Yuzu emulator using three different devices. For our flagship level test, we have the Galaxy S23 with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. For our mid-range level test, we have the Redmi Note 13 Pro here with the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 chip. And lastly, as a little bonus, we have the Pixel 7 Pro and the Tensor G2 chip so we can see how it plays on stock ARM CPU and Mali GPU cores. We're going to start with the Galaxy S23 and I do want to point out that I'm using the stock settings here in Yuzu for Android. That means we aren't using any custom GPU drivers. . .which tends to be device specific to begin with. So if there's a custom driver that works well on your device, you are likely going to get better performance than what I show you here today. More recent versions of Yuzu for Android have a feature called Native Code Execution and it's enabled by default. So if you're using an outdated version you either need to enable it manually or update. I'll even include a link in the video description below for a guide that goes over what the NCE feature is, and how to install it. So let's go ahead and load up Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and see how it plays when being emulated on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device. While the game does look to be playing pretty well here, I do want to point out that during my initial test I noticed there were 4 copies of the game displayed on the screen at once. This ended up ruining the performance but when I closed out of the emulator and loaded it up again, the issue seems to have been fixed. So if you notice something like that you may want to swipe Yuzu out of memory and try loading it up again. Now we're going to be testing this game on a mid-range phone. I have the Redmi Note 13 Pro here and it has the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 chip that Qualcomm launched earlier this year. You can see performance isn't entirely the same as we saw with the Galaxy S23. In particular, the audio seems to be stuttering more often even though we seem to be hitting 30FPS in this staring area quite consistently. Last up we have the Pixel 7 Pro here and to be honest, I just don't have much confidence in how this phone emulates Switch games with the Yuzu emulator. This isn't the emulator's fault, though. It's difficult to emulate modern games with Google's Tensor chips in general. So I've been seeing a lot of chatter about this game lately and wanted to test it out to see if it could be emulated well on Android. You can see we got mixed results here, but it was definitely better than yesterday's Pikmin 4 testing. If you were able to test this game on phone or tablet with a different chip than what I was able to show you today, share your results down in the comments section below. I'm only able to show off so much in a video without it getting too boring. But many of you out there could help the community by sharing your performance results and having them collected all in one place. It doesn't matter if the game performed flawlessly or didn't boot at all. Every single data point is important and will help go a long way to furthering the progress of Yuzu for Android. Chapters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Intro [00:00] 2. As an Amazon associate, I may earn a commission on sales from the links below. The Gear I Use ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5W "Slow" Charger - https://amzn.to/2OaUMV8 Fast Charger - https://amzn.to/3rtBsC6 MicroUSB Cable - https://amzn.to/38dkpeM USB-C Cable - https://amzn.to/2OqlTvi TPU Cases - https://amzn.to/38g9b9w USB-C to 3.5mm Dongle - https://amzn.to/3rVt7c3 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC - https://amzn.to/3CyksSJ NVIDIA Shield TV - https://bit.ly/3KA17RV Telescopic Controller - https://amzn.to/3uDrvY9