Case study

FableDroid: statically recompiling Fable II for Android

FableDroid statically recompiles Fable II to arm64 Android and renders Xbox 360 GPU commands with Vulkan. Release 0.6.3 beta is FableDroid-0.6.3-beta.apk. The reference Game of the Year USA/Europe ISO has SHA-256 685a0d3bea9718812f17bcd155907a5359a548b6d3d8342dd2a6c944f45e35ff. On a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with Adreno 740 and Android 13, the measured median is 29.9 fps at native 720p under the game's 30 fps cap.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 37
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The launcher installs from an Xbox 360 ISO on the device and checks the SHA-256 of default.xex. A source build uses NDK 29.0.14206865, CMake 3.25 or newer, Ninja, JDK 21, and Python 3.
License: MIT for this project's own code. Mesa Turnip is MIT, libadrenotools is BSD-2-Clause, and SDL3 is zlib.

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BibTeX

@misc{fabledroid,
  title = {{FableDroid: statically recompiling Fable II for Android}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/hardsilinder/FableDroid}},
  url = {https://github.com/hardsilinder/FableDroid},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/fabledroid/}}
}

Plain text

FableDroid: statically recompiling Fable II for Android. https://github.com/hardsilinder/FableDroid (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/fabledroid/

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README.md GitHub · hardsilinder/FableDroid · Revision 313fc9f