Wow, that is quite a saga. I sorry to hear of your woes :(. First - after reading your story, I'm a bit confused. What exactly is the problem. You mentioned a lot of things, different games, in different testing scenarios. Here are my questions and understanding of the issue: - everything was workin...

the help file inside the fpse app explains most of the settingsl For info on opengl, see my opengl post (it's stickied, and there's a link to it in my signature). The googledocs spreadsheet has the settings.

I've edited the post with the link to the dowlonad site. do not post links to game download sites.

The default version, but it lags in OpenGL mode too. In OpenGL mode however its mainly the sound that lags, the actual game fps is ok. Have you tried setting the audio latency? Turn it on in sound options. Configure it in the misc menu. Set it to 5000, then test lowering it by 1000 a couple times t...

yes. Some controllers are supported directly by fpse - bgp100 and icontrolpad. Most others you can use bluez ime (from play store). there are a couple wii controller apps from the playstore you can use also. there's another app you can use for ps3 controllers but I don['t remember what it is

Is this your phone? http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_pocket_s5300-4612.php If so, that's a broadcom chipset (formerly videocore). I've not heard much at all about them in talking to people about OpenGL issues. I'll add them to my OpenGL page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore). Maybe ther...

what type of performance did you get b4? I don't have this game either.do you know what version of fpse it was working?

Did you see the game specific forums? There's one for ff7, and months ago I poosted the settings for ff7. http://www.fpsece.net/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2139&start=146 I recommend you browse through there. A lot of the info is old, and some of the things people complained of have been fix...

no,it won't need to keep updating.

did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

what version of android do you have? I know achtrick just updated it for jelly bean...

he originally post to a games specific forum, and I told him to post here.

he said the game runs, but when he enters a portal it crashes.