Case study

Skate 3 Mobile: an Android ARM64 fork of Skate3Recomp

Carries the Skate3Recomp static recompilation of the Xbox 360 Skate 3 to Android: rexglue translates the configured PowerPC guest functions, and Android Clang compiles them into ARM64 libraries linked against a compatibility runtime. Runtime hooks pass the game’s meshes, textures and shader state to a native Vulkan scene renderer, and this fork adds SDL3 input and audio, a multitouch overlay and handheld performance profiles. The author calls it an experimental developer build that is playable on the Anbernic RG406V.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-10-19
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 271
Last commit: 2026-09-16
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Android 13+, ARM64 with ARMv8.2 FP16 and dot-product support, Vulkan, and about 8 GiB of free app storage. The RG406V is the verified device; the developer build has visual bugs, missing effects and device-specific problems.
Players supply an ISO dumped from their own supported USA or Europe Xbox 360 copy. The app verifies it by SHA-256 and installs Title Update 3, downloaded by default from a third-party title-update site or selected manually. Source builds require extracted default.xex, EAWebKit XEX and Title Update 3.
Source builds need Android SDK 35, NDK r27c, JDK 17+, CMake, Ninja, Clang and recursive submodules, including the Android rexglue runtime fork. Optional Adreno Turnip driver packages are user supplied.
The v2.1 release checks report eight passing automated suites, APK checks and an RG406V startup, rendering and resume test. The 60 FPS setting is a guest cap.
The fork declares no license for its own code. The rexglue runtime fork carries a BSD-3-Clause notice, libadrenotools is BSD-2-Clause, and Electronic Arts retains rights to Skate 3.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{skate3-mobile-android-recomp-case,
  title = {{Skate 3 Mobile: an Android ARM64 fork of Skate3Recomp}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Buku313/Skate3-Mobile}},
  url = {https://github.com/Buku313/Skate3-Mobile},
  urldate = {2026-10-19},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/skate3-mobile-android-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Skate 3 Mobile: an Android ARM64 fork of Skate3Recomp. https://github.com/Buku313/Skate3-Mobile (accessed 2026-10-19). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/skate3-mobile-android-recomp-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
android/README.md GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
docs/V2_1_RELEASE_CHECKS.md GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
docs/RP6_INTEGRATION.md GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
docs/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
android/app/src/main/java/chat/buku/skate3/TitleUpdateInstaller.java GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
.gitignore GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
.gitmodules GitHub · Buku313/Skate3-Mobile · Revision e1b28c1
LICENSE GitHub · Buku313/rexglue-skate3-android · Revision edd4344
https://github.com/Buku313/Skate3-Mobile/releases/tag/v2.1.0