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Bannerlator

2.9.5  versionCode 67  app-side update

Bannerlator 2.9.5

Run Windows apps and games on Android — no PC and no root required.

2.9.5 is a feature release over 2.9.4, headlined by a brand-new Unpack Archive tool that installs games right in the File Manager, and a full landscape UI overhaul. Everything from 2.9.4 is included. As always it's entirely app-side — no ImageFS reinstall — your containers, themes, custom accent and per-game settings carry over untouched. Install straight over 2.9.4.

📦 Unpack Archive — install games right in the File Manager

A brand-new extractor built into the File Manager (⋮ → Unpack, or one-tap Fast Extract):

  • Archives & disc images — ISO/UDF, ZIP, RAR, 7z, and the TAR family (GZ/XZ/BZ2/ZST), all via a bundled 7-Zip engine. No external tools, and the kernel can't loop-mount these on Android anyway.
  • GOG installers — pull the game straight out of setup_*.exe with a bundled innoextract. No need to run the installer under Wine first.
  • Native FreeArc repack install — no PC! FitGirl / DODI-style FreeArc repacks (LZMA / tornado / rep) now decompress on-device via a bundled NDK unarc. (srep-based repacks still need a Windows PC — the app tells you and offers the container route.)
  • Fast Extract — one tap unpacks to a new folder straight into a minimizable progress pill with a foreground notification, so multi-hour extracts survive being backgrounded (yes, even on HONOR).
  • Content-aware ⋮ menu — offers Unpack on any real archive regardless of extension (including .wcp), with power / thread and read-buffer controls and battery-kill hardening.

🖥️ Landscape UI overhaul

Landscape stopped wasting the top and bottom of the screen:

  • Tabs → a collapsible left rail on the Container editors, File Manager, and Save Manager — reclaiming the vertical height the horizontal tab bar was eating.
  • The rail collapses to icons (with tiny labels in portrait), remembers its state per-screen, and reflows on rotation without losing your tab, edits, or scroll.
  • File Manager — a left Locations rail (Internal / SD / Downloads / Games / favourites), grid by default in landscape (and the grid/list toggle now works in portrait too), New Folder moved into the toolbar, and outlined selectors.
  • Save Manager — a left Steam / Custom / Settings rail, multi-column game cards, and a sync-count badge + banner.
  • Container editors — the collapsible rail, reclaimed bottom space, and the Wine-glass container glyph on the rail.
  • A slim top header on every screen.
  • A new App Orientation setting (Auto / Portrait / Landscape) locks the app UI to an orientation — games are unaffected.

🎞️ Frame Generation & Present Modes

  • Fixed frame-gen being strangled by FIFO backpressure — it now forces mailbox while FG multiplies, and bionic-fg is re-enabled (device-verified).
  • A live in-game Present Mode selector on the Graphics tab (FG gated to the Vulkan renderer).
  • Present-mode "?" help + a glossary across the container / game editors and the shortcut editor.

⚠️ Frame generation is still experimental and a work in progress. Please don't expect magic results — outcomes still vary from game to game, device to device, and with the components you're using. Both bionic-fg and lsfg-vk are offered; treat them as experimental and use whichever works best for your game.

🐛 Fixes

  • GL/Zink perf-HUD now reads real FPS (it was stuck at 0.0) — it counts on the child render surface the game actually presents to.
  • File Manager grid/list toggle works in portrait, plus assorted landscape UI polish.

📦 Where to get Proton 9

The APK does not bundle Proton 9 — Wine installs from the in-app catalog on first run.

⚠️ A fresh install ships with no Wine at all. On first run, open Containers → the download icon and install a Proton before creating a container. Updating from 2.9.4 changes nothing — your existing containers and Wine installs are untouched.

Proton 9.0 arm64ec — not bundled, download it if you want it:

https://github.com/The412Banner/Nightlies/releases/download/Proton/wine/proton-9.0-arm64ec.wcp

66.7 MB · sha256 f8a99fed387f1b097009129dc49368c8f500927640a9d4c7a192d850b1b2068c
Install it via Containers → download icon → install the .wcp. It also appears in the in-app catalog. (Compiled as a wcp by Xnick417x.)

Entirely app-side — no ImageFS reinstall. Install over 2.9.4; everything carries over.

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