Switch Emulation on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Handheld: Why a Bigger Memory Layout Is Less Stable

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000

My AYN Thor handheld runs a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and I mostly use it to play Switch games through Eden. For a stretch, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom kept “dropping to the background” or crashing outright, on both the stable build and the nightly. My first guess was a memory shortage — the device has 15GB, so I pushed Eden’s memory layout all the way up to 8GB. The problem got worse.

Snapdragon on Time Friend

Switch Emulation on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Handheld: Why a Bigger Memory Layout Is Less Stable