📢 Version v0.1.1 (pre-release) — Mali unlocked

PriDroid ships no game files and distributes none — you bring your own copy: the GOG (DRM-free) Linux build. The Steam build isn't supported — it needs a Steam ownership-verification layer we haven't built yet; it's on the roadmap.

⚠️ Still a pre-release. Expectations from 0.1.0 apply: emulation is CPU-bound — big prisons want a flagship, small ones run on modest devices. Bug reports from the app menu are very welcome.

🆕 What's new

✅ New renderer: NG-GL4ES — runs the game through the phone's own GLES driver, no Vulkan involved - good for Mali users. Update and switch in Settings → Video → Renderer.

Technical

• Prison Architect probes the driver the 2005 way: it scans the GL extension string for legacy names and loads *EXT entry points. box64's translator path now advertises those aliases and maps them to the real core functions — without this, any GL-over-GLES renderer died in the first frame.
• The game's shaders are compatibility-profile GLSL (gl_Color, gl_FrontColor, display lists underneath). NG-GL4ES carries a full converter for that dialect, which is why it draws where more modern translators render black.

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⚠️ Reminder
Rimdroid is only a launcher.
To run the game, you still need the actual game files (Linux version), which you must obtain yourself - for example, by purchasing the game on GOG.