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

 

[Joom]

After i compile the apk then try to run it i just get an error message "app not installed".
Can anyone help? Im on an S10 and compiled it using termux.

You either have to patch signature checks with Lucky Patcher or some other tool (highly recommend you not go this route unless you know what you're doing and accept responsibility for the security issues this imposes), or use a signed APK.

 

[EPgrouch]

There is now a PS3 Build. LOL

I was just thinking about this the other day.

Well, I do not recommend running it in RPCS3. LOL. Will try my PS3 Tomorrow.

I would like to hear your results.

 

[jaykjay]

i am too dumb to find the pastebin, Which keywords should i use?

 

[divinebeastvahruta]

can someone please make a video tutorial? everything is going wrong when i try..

 

[raxadian]

can someone please make a video tutorial? everything is going wrong when i try..

Youtube has a search option, you know?

 

[Smoker1]

Youtube has a search option, you know?

Would it Compile for a Required Device, or is it limited to x64 Devices?

 

[raxadian]

Would it Compile for a Required Device, or is it limited to x64 Devices?

Limited to x64 devices unfortunately.

There is also a Dreamcast version, without sound, and a PS2 version with some minor slowdown problems.

 

[Smoker1]

Limited to x64 devices unfortunately.

There is also a Dreamcast version, without sound, and a PS2 version with some minor slowdown problems.

Yeah, I got a List of Devices. Wonder what's next. LOL. But hopefully there will be a x32 way to do it at some point.

 

[raxadian]

Yeah, I got a List of Devices. Wonder what's next. LOL. But hopefully there will be a x32 way to do it at some point.

32x devices are slowly dying anyway so is unlikely. Heck an old laptop I had literally died last week, the bios was damaged, the hard disk was defective and the video card refused to work so I just threw it away. Because the only things worth saving, the sound card and the DVD writer, weren't worth the hazzle.

 

[Smoker1]

32x devices are slowly dying anyway so is unlikely. Heck an old laptop I had literally died last week, the bios was damaged, the hard disk was defective and the video card refused to work so I just threw it away. Because the only things worth saving, the sound card and the DVD writer, weren't worth the hazzle.

Why did they make a MS-DOS Version????? Can't be run on current Hardware.

 

[divinebeastvahruta]

Youtube has a search option, you know?

thanks for the link man i didnt see it yesterday

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Yeah, I got a List of Devices. Wonder what's next. LOL. But hopefully there will be a x32 way to do it at some point.

What's the list?

 

[Smoker1]

What's the list?

On Pastebin, there is a List of different Builds that have been made so far, which gets Updated.

 

[raxadian]

Why did they make a MS-DOS Version????? Can't be run on current Hardware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

Thing is, Windows 10 is the current windows version and is a 64x Os.

Current versions of Android also run as 64x save perhaps the Smartphones that run Android Go, that are too underpowered to run the game anyway.

Heck my Nokia 1 lags like hell while playing SuperTuxkart.

This game, fully ported, lags on a PS2, even if just a bit.

 

[Immortallix]

Cool I broke my streak of avoiding kotaku

 

[Magnus87]

Watch Super Mario 64 get ported to ATMs, printers, and old calculators like Doom has! XD

I would have liked the source code of Mario Kart 64 to leak instead of the SM64


It would be necessary to continue polishing it to make races in SM64

 

[UltraSUPRA]

I would have liked the source code of Mario Kart 64 to leak instead of the SM64


It would be necessary to continue polishing it to make races in SM64

It was reverse-engineered, not leaked.

 

[Smoker1]

I would have liked the source code of Mario Kart 64 to leak instead of the SM64


It would be necessary to continue polishing it to make races in SM64

Mario 64 Source IS out there. along with a few others

 

[Deleted User]

deleted, wrong page

 

[AboodXD]

Whether or not you block Abood, please don't leave the rest of us in suspense. We all want to see this proof now. What code in the ports comes from the leak?

Guess we will never know.

That guy should have saved himself the embarrassment and just not make up random garbage to mislead others.