Case study

MGS2 for Android: statically recompiling Sons of Liberty HD

This project statically recompiles Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty HD from the NVIDIA SHIELD TV, a 32-bit ARM game, into ARM64 for Android phones. It translates the ARM32 functions to C and supplies a runtime for memory, libc, OpenGL, audio, and JNI. The README says about 22,000 game functions and about 3,000 C++ library functions are recompiled.

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

Stars: 52
Last commit: 2026-10-24
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

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

Android 8 or newer, arm64-v8a. The player supplies base.apk and the two OBB files from their own SHIELD TV, version 21.21.1219.GM. The README asks for about 12 GB free. Separate APKs target Adreno and Mali.
License: GPL-3.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{mgs2-android-case,
  title = {{MGS2 for Android: statically recompiling Sons of Liberty HD}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luisxl15/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2-Sons-of-Liberty-for-Android}},
  url = {https://github.com/luisxl15/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2-Sons-of-Liberty-for-Android},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mgs2-android-case/}}
}

Plain text

MGS2 for Android: statically recompiling Sons of Liberty HD. https://github.com/luisxl15/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2-Sons-of-Liberty-for-Android (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mgs2-android-case/

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README.md GitHub · luisxl15/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2-Sons-of-Liberty-for-Android · Revision de02d72