Homebrew Homebrew game GTA: San Andreas - Switch port

Nagaa · Jul 13, 2026

GTA: San Andreas - Nintendo Switch port

This is a wrapper/port of the Android version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (v2.11.311).
It loads the original game binary, patches it and runs it.
It's basically as if we emulate a minimalist Android environment in which we natively run the original Android binary as is.

The performance isn't great at the moment
It's CPU-bound on draw calls, the game issues a lot of GL calls per frame and Switch mesa driver is slow per-call

Thanks to @dima353 for the improvements, including patches from the Vita port and shader optimizations

Available here :
https://github.com/NaGaa95/gtasa_nx

Antheme · Jul 13, 2026

Awesome,does it works with cleo ? I'm trying to get first person view (including while driving) for the nintendo switch so that woud l be an option

mariob0y · 2026-08-14T14:01:59+0100

Love it, thank you for the great work!

Does it mean that ports of GTA 3/ Vice City Android versions are possible too? (ignoring the fact that re3/reVC exist)

Nagaa · 2026-08-14T14:10:04+0100

mariob0y said:
Love it, thank you for the great work!

Does it mean that ports of GTA 3/ Vice City Android versions are possible too? (ignoring the fact that re3/reVC exist)

Yeah it's possible, but since re3 / reVC exist there is not much point on working on this

A new update to GTA SA should be coming soon, with upstream Mesa 26 support and GLThread added, It improves performance quite a lot compared to the current version based on Mesa 20.

Neoname · 2026-08-14T14:34:36+0100

Nagaa said:
Yeah it's possible, but since re3 / reVC exist there is not much point on working on this

A new update to GTA SA should be coming soon, with upstream Mesa 26 support and GLThread added, It improves performance quite a lot compared to the current version based on Mesa 20.

re3 and reVC are abandoned, they don't work on newer firmware.

Nagaa · 2026-08-14T14:53:21+0100

Neoname said:
re3 and reVC are abandoned, they don't work on newer firmware.

No, they’re not abandoned there are newer builds available that support newer firmware versions

Post automatically merged: Today at 12:21 AM

1.0.3 available : https://github.com/NaGaa95/gtasa_nx/releases/tag/1.0.3

Updated to Mesa 26.2 OpenGL driver.
Enabled Mesa GL threading for reduced rendering overhead.
Improved GPU submission and frame pacing using mapped completion.

This is a major performance update that makes the game significantly smoother

Jepzryo · 2026-08-15T01:01:35+0100

Nagaa said:
No, they’re not abandoned there are newer builds available that support newer firmware versions

Post automatically merged: Today at 12:21 AM

1.0.3 available : https://github.com/NaGaa95/gtasa_nx/releases/tag/1.0.3

Updated to Mesa 26.2 OpenGL driver.

Enabled Mesa GL threading for reduced rendering overhead.

Improved GPU submission and frame pacing using mapped completion.

This is a major performance update that makes the game significantly smoother

GTA SA Improved Performance !!! Ive been waiting for this Master Nagaa . Thank you for your hard work

Also just a question . A Developer worked on the Bully-nx port and its currently version .02 if im not mistaken . and i downloaded it . its great , But do you have any idea that they will update that Game too to make it run smoother like you did on your GTA SA port ? Or is there a chance that you can Make a Bully port with a much better performance ? Im not an expert . I dont know if this possible . I just know based on your GTA SA port . That you can do better . Again thanks for your Contribution

Teguh45 · 2026-08-15T05:31:32+0100

Could you add a 30 FPS cap? The game's frame limiter is only around 24 FPS.

Jepzryo · 2026-08-15T06:27:30+0100

I have a question Master , Whenever i turned OFF frame limiter , It's automatically Turning ON after some time . my Question is , Is there a way to Fix or bypass that ? With or without overclocking the Device .

Nagaa · 2026-08-15T10:53:06+0100

Jepzryo said:
GTA SA Improved Performance !!! Ive been waiting for this Master Nagaa . Thank you for your hard work Also just a question . A Developer worked on the Bully-nx port and its currently version .02 if im not mistaken . and i downloaded it . its great , But do you have any idea that they will update that Game too to make it run smoother like you did on your GTA SA port ? Or is there a chance that you can Make a Bully port with a much better performance ? Im not an expert . I dont know if this possible . I just know based on your GTA SA port . That you can do better . Again thanks for your Contribution

I may look into it later

Teguh45 said:
Could you add a 30 FPS cap? The game's frame limiter is only around 24 FPS.

I added a 30FPS Cap option to avoid using the internal in game limiter that cause this kind of issue

Jepzryo said:
I have a question Master , Whenever i turned OFF frame limiter , It's automatically Turning ON after some time . my Question is , Is there a way to Fix or bypass that ? With or without overclocking the Device .

This should be fixed in 1.0.4

https://github.com/NaGaa95/gtasa_nx/releases/tag/1.0.4

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