Case study

DK64: Recompiled — an Android port of Donkey Kong 64

This ports Donkey Kong 64: Recompiled to native Android with the NDK, N64ModernRuntime, RT64 on Vulkan, RmlUi, and SDL2. The USA NTSC-U 1.0 ROM has SHA-1 cf806ff2603640a748fca5026ded28802f1f4a50. The app accepts .z64, .n64, or .v64 and byteswaps as needed. It requires Android 8.0 or newer on arm64-v8a and Vulkan 1.1 or newer. GitHub Actions publishes app-debug.apk as dk64recomp-android-debug.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 26
Last commit: 2026-09-05
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Android 8.0 or newer, arm64-v8a, and a Vulkan 1.1 GPU. The first menu option loads the USA 1.0 ROM.
The README names no license.

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BibTeX

@misc{dk64-android,
  title = {{DK64: Recompiled — an Android port of Donkey Kong 64}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android}},
  url = {https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dk64-android/}}
}

Plain text

DK64: Recompiled — an Android port of Donkey Kong 64. https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dk64-android/

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README.md GitHub · deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android · Revision e3f76fe