# 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.

- 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/hardsilinder/FableDroid>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/hardsilinder/FableDroid/blob/313fc9f759e804ecd7d8bf2a5574cd65555765b8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fabledroid/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fabledroid/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/fabledroid/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/hardsilinder/FableDroid/blob/313fc9f759e804ecd7d8bf2a5574cd65555765b8/README.md>

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