# Midnight Club: Los Angeles Recomp: an experimental Android ARM64 port

> Midnight Club: Los Angeles Recomp adapts ReXGlue's static translation of the Xbox 360 game's PowerPC code into C++ for Android ARM64. The fork adds Android packaging, private game-data import, C++ integration and ReXGlue patches. The README reports that a user test reached car selection; development and testing centered on a Galaxy S23.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Source status: Unavailable · HTTP 404 on 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/gabrielbskk/mcla-recomp-android-g>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/gabrielbskk/mcla-recomp-android-g/blob/90d2f8fe53b1d5492f61249cf1c6060f5b57cfca/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/midnight-club-la-android-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/midnight-club-la-android-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/midnight-club-la-android-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A legally obtained copy of Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition for Xbox 360.
- **Prerequisites:** Android ARM64, with Termux and Android SDK/NDK tools for the documented build.
- **Limits:** The author reports severe stutter, unrecognized gamepad input and unresolved graphics-setting effects in the Open Beta.
- **License:** Original project code is GPL-3.0-only; third-party components retain their own licenses.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/gabrielbskk/mcla-recomp-android-g/blob/90d2f8fe53b1d5492f61249cf1c6060f5b57cfca/README.md>

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