Emulating Saturn on android kinda sucks (my experience)

[Retronewb]

So from my experience, I have this android device with specification I would say affordable. My device is an android device with Helio G85 as a chipset and runs with 4GB of ram. I have ran PSX, Snes, Psp, N64 Emulators with pretty smooth experience, with a side note some N64 games kinda lags (Ocarina of time, Golden eye).
Now my problem is the saturn, I tried and I think it's kinda suck from my experience I don't know if there is someone out there who successfully run this saturn system smoothly with maybe similar specifications to my device. I tried retroarch with yabasanshiro and beetle it just choppy audios and lags.
I don't know if there is someone out there have any different experience with retroarch or any different emulator. But seeing online communities from reddit and youtube people only talks about the PC emulation, so at the end I just gave up for saturn.

 

[GundamJehutyKai]

Saturn emulation is fairly resource intensive so many cheaper devices will only be able to run certain, more lightweight games well, especially with the Beetle core on retroarch. You can try the standalone yabasanshiro emulator from the play store as it's a little more performant compared to retroarch and you can try using frame skip to make the experience more smooth but yeah, it's likely going to be a game by game basis.

As an example, I have tried running saturn games on my Anbernic RG rotate, which is a little weaker than your specs and if I use Yabasanshiro, I can play some of the simpler 2D or early 3D games well. Elevator action returns, sexy parodius and Mystaria: the realms of lore work pretty well on it but most other games I have tried chug really hard

 

[Netra]

SATURN emulation suck in every platform if you don't have the power enough to make magic, and with 4gb of ram I doubt you will play any game at more than 12 fps.