Ravi Menon tests emulators the slow way: one phone, one game, one setting changed at a time, with the log file open. Lichii is his favourite kind of assignment, a project moving so fast that last month verdicts expire, and he has been running its Android builds since the first release that only showed a title screen.
What he does here
Ravi installs every build we publish on the full test bench, runs the same flagship games each time, and plays the way players do: on the train, in handheld mode, at the resolution the phone can actually hold. His pages come from those hours, including the settings baselines and the memory fixes that keep heavy games open.
His reviewing standard
An emulator earns its verdict in the third hour, not the first boot: when shader caches are built, thermals have settled and the memory behaviour of a long session has shown itself. Anything that only impresses at the title screen gets written up as exactly that.
Elsewhere
Ravi testing notes and per build findings feed the pages on this site, where new posts appear as the emulator grows.