Case study

Max Payne Mobile: Android binary rehosting on Switch

Rehosts the Android release of Max Payne Mobile on Nintendo Switch by loading and patching its original AArch64 shared library. The wrapper supplies a minimal Android-like environment and Switch-specific hooks for game, audio and graphics behavior. It adapts an earlier Vita port and uses files supplied by the player.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 59
Last commit: 2025-11-27
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

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

Prerequisites: Provide a Max Payne Mobile 1.7 APK containing arm64-v8a libraries and a version 1.6 or 1.7 OBB.
Prerequisites: Requires Switch custom firmware with the listed memory-mapping system calls; applet mode is unsupported.
Limits: The author describes the port as potentially unstable.
License: MIT.

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BibTeX

@misc{max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case,
  title = {{Max Payne Mobile: Android binary rehosting on Switch}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx}},
  url = {https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case/}}
}

Plain text

Max Payne Mobile: Android binary rehosting on Switch. https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case/

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README.md GitHub · fgsfdsfgs/max_nx · Revision 264a0cc