Case study

Naruto: The Broken Bond — an Android ARM64 port of the Xbox 360 recompilation

An experimental Android ARM64 port adapts the existing static recompilation of the Xbox 360 game Naruto: The Broken Bond, compiling translated PowerPC code with ReXGlue and bringing its runtime, Vulkan renderer and touch input to Android. The author reports that the original intro, menus and a training fight render on an OPPO A58 at about 1 FPS.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires a legally obtained supported Xbox 360 game copy; the supported default.xex is title 55530825, media 09FFE047, version 0.0.0.3.
Testing evidence: Android checkpoint was tested on an OPPO A58 with ARM64 and Android 15; the author reports about 1 FPS.
Limits: The consumer game importer is unfinished, and campaign completion, save/load, networking and other devices remain unvalidated.
License: GPL-3.0; dependency licences also apply.

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BibTeX

@misc{naruto-the-broken-bond-android-port-case,
  title = {{Naruto: The Broken Bond — an Android ARM64 port of the Xbox 360 recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/elliethethirdwilliamsJr/Naruto-The-Broken-Bond---Android-port}},
  url = {https://github.com/elliethethirdwilliamsJr/Naruto-The-Broken-Bond---Android-port},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-the-broken-bond-android-port-case/}}
}

Plain text

Naruto: The Broken Bond — an Android ARM64 port of the Xbox 360 recompilation. https://github.com/elliethethirdwilliamsJr/Naruto-The-Broken-Bond---Android-port (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/naruto-the-broken-bond-android-port-case/

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README.md GitHub · elliethethirdwilliamsJr/Naruto-The-Broken-Bond---Android-port · Revision 6a4f0fa
docs/android-port-progress.md GitHub · elliethethirdwilliamsJr/Naruto-The-Broken-Bond---Android-port · Revision 6a4f0fa