The Super Mario Bros. franchise recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, which was accompanied by a series of game announcements to a new Game & Watch console. While Super Mario 64 was announced for the Switch as part of the celebration, how about playing the game on your Android device? And no, not on an emulator with performance and scalability but natively?

This is now possible thanks to the work of XDA Member VDavid003. With the effort done on rewriting the source code in the programming language C, Super Mario 64 has been ported to Android (and also as a WIP on Dreamcast). VDavid003 has created a GitHub repo that you can use to compile an APK version of the game on your PC or directly on your Android device. For it to work, you must provide your own copy of Super Mario 64. You can follow handy how-to guide from XDA developers in the source link or in the spoiler below:

Spoiler: How-to guide

1. Get Termux app from Google Play Store.
2. Install required dependencies inside Termux:
   

   pkg install git wget make python getconf zip apksigner clang

3. Clone appropriate repository with git:
   

   git clone https://github.com/VDavid003/sm64-port-android
   cd sm64-port-android

4. Copy the game's baserom with Termux. You must provide your own copy of the game.
   

   termux-setup-storage
   cp /sdcard/path/to/your/baserom.z64 ./baserom.us.z64

5. Get SDL includes:
   

   ./getSDL.sh

6. Start the build:
   

   make --jobs 4

   You can increase the value of the “jobs” parameter depending on how many CPU cores you can devote to the building process.
7. If things go well, the resulting Super Mario 64 APK should be found inside the “build” folder:
   

   ls -al build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk

SOURCE
GitHub Repo

 

[simbin]

Pregnancy Test release when?

Looks like It's-a Me, Mario!

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

It runs mario 64.

 

[MetoMeto]

Every port i have are one click away to run on each device

To run YES, to install NO.

Spoiler

This is hardly a "one click" install.

 

[zerofalcon]

It's even easier to build an apk with the AndroidBuilder for sm64 android port.
https://github.com/VDavid003/sm64AndroidBuilder/releases

 

[AmandaRose]

- its the first real fully 3D game of its kind, every 3D Platformer that came after copied it

Exept it isn't the first real fully 3D game of its kind. Jumping Flash on the PlayStation 1 is. It came out a whole year before Super Mario 64 and is actually credited in Gunness World Book of Records and the Video Game Hall of Fame as being the first fully 3d platformer.

 

[Smoker1]

@xenocard - I got the PC Ex. Works perfectly, but takes a few Seconds to Load.

As for the Android Build, the Pastebin I have Saved only shows.......
Android (https://github.com/VDavid003/sm64-port-android-base)
- Vanilla: 6d7daeee637f706a2735a9990244d757a10d32f4 (08/29/2020): *Link Removed*
- EX: 99727dc8643180839d716ec015b05f56bd7972d6 (08/21/2020): *Link Removed*
- EX_Nightly + 60FPS: 6ea2f46f6e407c96a1986357094f8c4293437f47 (08/21/2020): *Link Removed
- EX_Nightly + 60FPS + Render96 1.4.2: f330ffec12b0039e47cb074477eb6380f9192277 (09/01/2020): APK (*Link Removed*) DATA (*Link Removed*)
️ Render96 requires EXTERNAL_DATA: Extract base.zip to Internal_Storage/Android/data/com.vdavid003.sm64port/files

Now, just got to figure out how to Update the Vita Version with a different TitleID

 

[Deleted User]

Exept it isn't the first real fully 3D game of its kind. Jumping Flash on the PlayStation 1 is. It came out a whole year before Super Mario 64 and is actually credited in Gunness World Book of Records and the Video Game Hall of Fame as being the first fully 3d platformer.

That article is wrong no mater how you or the people who claim it to be
PlayStation didn't introduce analog joysticks on its controllers until the Dual Analog controllers in 1997

Mario 64 is the first to fully show the world how to play 3D games in 3d with analog Joysticks

Mario 64 = Fully 3D Game with open world controlling Mario in 3rd Person mode
Jumping Flash = Controlling a robot in First Person mode with limited move-set = Jumping and shooting, controlling the robot with a 2D D-Pad


did you play Jumping Flash 1?
i sure did on release day, i had both Mario 64, jumping flash even sega saturn Nights into dreams
jumping flash doesn't have fully rotating 3d camera or full free 3D moment
Sega included a 3D Analog Joystick Packed with Nights

if you want to say who was the first 3d game in the world we can go back to PC games or Super Nintendo Star Fox, none of them was really a full 3d experience until Mario 64 and Star Wars Shadow of the Empire existed

 

[raxadian]

and on dreamcast



Gotta love Trucker Mario

Already mentioned, Dreamcast port has a few problems. Did they fix the audio yet?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

countdown to DMCA!

They're not doing anything illegal. Without the assets, it's just a generic platformer engine. Even if it was taken down all they'd have to do is remove any reference to Nintendo or Super Mario.

 

[Gunstorm]

whoa great, praying to it run with iPega 9023


Dont build the apk here on my Xiaomi Redmi Note after make it run a lot of lines but the .apk isnt at build folder

$ ls -al build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk ls: cannot access 'build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk': No such file or directory

 

[Mythical]

Good job, yet I'll pass while it can be safe, installing APKs is risky.. I mean even some apps on google play have viruses..

it's actually more safe than almost any other apk, because you know the exact code going into it. If anything this should make you feel better not worse about it since it's all there for you to see

 

[Something whatever]

Who needs 3D allstars, if I could play Mario 64 on a pregnancy test?

 

[UltraSUPRA]

So I tried out the port. I decided to beat King Bob-Omb when I realized that the Chain Chomp one just wasn't happening, and for a good reason: the digital buttons are tiny!!

 

[Tumbleweed]

Exept it isn't the first real fully 3D game of its kind. Jumping Flash on the PlayStation 1 is. It came out a whole year before Super Mario 64 and is actually credited in Gunness World Book of Records and the Video Game Hall of Fame as being the first fully 3d platformer.

As much as you want say Mario wasn't the first 3D game, and you're kind of correct, there was no other game that pioneered the way 3D games should perform and therefore it was the first real 3D platformer which was a reference for many upcoming developers and the history is there to tell you how Mario 64 introduced a new game era.

 

[HideoKojima]

it's actually more safe than almost any other apk, because you know the exact code going into it. If anything this should make you feel better not worse about it since it's all there for you to see

That's the thing I donno anything about code even if I same some stuff about hash and all

 

[raxadian]

So I tried out the port. I decided to beat King Bob-Omb when I realized that the Chain Chomp one just wasn't happening, and for a good reason: the digital buttons are tiny!!

How small is your smartphone? Also the size of the buttons can probably be fixed... but probably on a later release.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

How small is your smartphone? Also the size of the buttons can probably be fixed... but probably on a later release.

It's a Samsung Galaxy S10e.

 

[raxadian]

It's a Samsung Galaxy S10e.
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Okay, the buttons could be bigger, and moved more to the sides.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

So has anyone got this to build on windows, cause I haven't. Been trying to for hours the sun was up before I knew it.

 

[Smoker1]

So has anyone got this to build on windows, cause I haven't. Been trying to for hours the sun was up before I knew it.

Refer to Instructions @xenocard provided. Worked, and runs great. Now just need to figure out how to Edit something on the Vita Version and figure out how to Compile it.