# Durak NX: running the Durak Android game on Nintendo Switch

> Durak NX runs the Android ARM64 Unity game Durak 25.0 on Nintendo Switch through a target-specific compatibility layer for graphics, audio, files and input. The project documents ELF and IL2CPP analysis of the game's libraries and loads locally extracted files from the user's own Android package; the author reports menus, gameplay and sound working on Switch hardware.

- 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/Oleksa126/durak_nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Oleksa126/durak_nx/blob/8eb766659499199fc83ffcb0e79f04f85c949717/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/durak-nx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/durak-nx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/durak-nx-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Nintendo Switch with Atmosphère and Homebrew Menu, launched in application mode.
- **Prerequisites:** The user's own exact Durak 25.0 Android package with ARM64 libraries is required.
- **Prerequisites:** The build environment described is Windows with WSL Ubuntu, Docker and Python.
- **Limits:** Version 0.1.0 is experimental; other game versions, full completion and suspend/resume are outside current testing.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Oleksa126/durak_nx/blob/8eb766659499199fc83ffcb0e79f04f85c949717/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Oleksa126/durak_nx/blob/8eb766659499199fc83ffcb0e79f04f85c949717/docs/analysis/durak_analysis_summary.md>

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