# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx/blob/264a0cc97c28e670efcb3294e3af2bfcd84d2bd8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/max-payne-mobile-switch-port-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/max_nx/blob/264a0cc97c28e670efcb3294e3af2bfcd84d2bd8/README.md>

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