# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android/blob/e3f76fea34d035f26f8e79e085d733ceb08122f6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dk64-android/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dk64-android/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dk64-android/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/deivid22srk/dk64-recomp-android/blob/e3f76fea34d035f26f8e79e085d733ceb08122f6/README.md>

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