# Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks: an Android static-recompilation port

> Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks for Android translates the original Xbox game's x86 code to C++ ahead of time with XboxXBE-Recomp, then builds an arm64 app. Its Android host uses Vulkan for drawing and SDL3 for windowing, input and audio, with touch and controller support.

- 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/RanggaCasper/ShaolinMonks-Android>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/RanggaCasper/ShaolinMonks-Android/blob/2e346bcad9109b795b126ebcc558f036eeb35344/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaolin-monks-android-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaolin-monks-android-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/shaolin-monks-android-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A personally acquired Xbox game disc image or extracted default.xbe and game data are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Android 10 or newer on arm64, a Vulkan 1.1 GPU, 4 GB memory and 4 GB storage are specified.
- **Limits:** The port is a work in progress; a full device playthrough is pending, and the bonus Mortal Kombat II and demo executables cannot be launched.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/RanggaCasper/ShaolinMonks-Android/blob/2e346bcad9109b795b126ebcc558f036eeb35344/README.md>

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