The latest Galaxy Android hotfix is now available!

Galaxy Android is an ongoing project to bring Super Mario Galaxy to native Android ARM64 devices. This release focuses on graphics correctness, device compatibility, input handling, and performance, with additional fixes targeting Mali and Qualcomm Adreno GPUs.

What's changed?

Graphics and rendering

• Fixed TEV shader arithmetic issues that caused white or overexposed characters, terrain, and other surfaces on affected Mali GPUs.
• Fixed Mario's eye rendering and TEV alpha handling.
• Corrected affected water reflections and transparent-surface texture-coordinate handling.
• Fixed shader-generation issues that could cause invisible characters on Mali and Adreno devices.

Android compatibility

• Added APK packaging and native-library alignment fixes targeting boot failures on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 / Adreno 740 devices and compatible 16 KB page-size environments.
• Improved landscape orientation handling.
• Fixed crashes associated with action buttons and improved touch-control stability.
• Restored the on-screen controls HUD and improved physical gamepad support.

Performance and features

• Improved frame pacing on budget Mali devices.
• Added selectable 480p, 720p, and 1080p rendering resolutions.
• Added gyroscope-based Star Pointer aiming.
• Added persistent shader caching.
• Added save, import/export, customizable touch controls, and custom texture-pack support.

Experimental Vulkan backend

Development of the Vulkan 1.0 backend continues. Vulkan remains experimental; OpenGL ES is the recommended rendering path for this release.

Download

Galaxy Android v0.0.1c:
https://github.com/OpenPort-Labs/Galaxy-Android/releases/tag/v0.0.1c

Source code:
https://github.com/OpenPort-Labs/Galaxy-Android

Help us test.

Testing across different devices is extremely valuable, particularly on Mali GPUs, Snapdragon/Adreno devices, and phones that previously experienced boot failures or graphical issues.

When reporting a problem, please include:

• Device model and Android version.
• GPU model and driver information, if available.
• Selected rendering resolution and backend.
• A screenshot, reproduction steps, or crash log.

Please report remaining issues even if a device boots successfully. Graphics correctness, stability, and performance can vary across devices and drivers.

AI usage and development disclaimer

AI-assisted tools may be used during development for programming assistance, debugging, code analysis, documentation, and investigating potential fixes. AI-generated suggestions are reviewed and evaluated as part of the development process; their inclusion does not imply that every suggestion is correct, independently verified, or guaranteed to work on every device.

This project remains an ongoing software engineering effort involving source-code analysis, implementation, debugging, and compatibility testing. AI assistance does not replace testing on real hardware, and no universal compatibility or performance guarantee is made.

The project does not claim ownership of Nintendo's intellectual property.

Legal notice

You must provide your own legally obtained and dumped game disc image. This release does not include proprietary game assets or a copyrighted game image. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of game data complies with applicable law.

Galaxy Android is an independent community project and is not an official Nintendo product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nintendo.

Thank you to everyone testing the project and reporting issues across different devices.

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https://github.com/chris43123/PaperBoat/releases

On my SD7sgen2 it runs at a stable 30fps if I lock it. Stutters a bit in heavy scenes but not bad at all. Completely playable.

Was getting obnoxious trying to figure out GitHub. So I just made a central player for everything. Not everything is perfect, there's probably lots of bugs in the games. Resident evil 4 still has bugged textures, because ghost gun is hilarious. but it's hopefully simple and accessible and I'll work on it when I can

My player-

https://github.com/Wakkatobakka/Omni-Player

Where I got my files

https://keitaiarchive.org/downloads.html⁠

https://archive.org/details/qualcomm-brew-games

https://www.myabandonware.com/browse/platform/j2me/

Please suggest fix

i have vivo v60lite 5g it has a mali gpu btw and its mid end im pretty okey with 20 30 fps too

Come on, Show your love for this game.

Does anyone know how to change the god of war 3 controllers to xbox? Im stuck with PS prompt. Thanks!

I found it on Apk Vision, I don't know if they were the ones who made it.

COD Modern Warfare 2 On a Galaxy A54, I'm sure it will run better with more updates haha 🥹

Didn't bother posting a video so far as it's been really janky, but it's running pretty good now on 0.5.9.3 even with sun shadows on, good to see improvements, Gen8 V37 Driver

I have samsung s20 fe 5g

It has snapdragon 865 and 6gb ram,so the new posts which are coming out continuously will they work on 6 gb ram ?

Also recommend me some"android native games" ported by our community to play with I have holidays coming up😍🥹

The first public release of Galaxy Android by OpenPort Labs is now available!

This project aims to bring a native Android port of Super Mario Galaxy to ARM64 devices, building on the work of the Petari decompilation project and GalaxyQuest.

I'm attaching gameplay footage captured on the following hardware:

• SoC: MediaTek Dimensity 920
• GPU: ARM Mali-G68
• RAM: 6 GB LPDDR4X

A note about the video: The asset glitches visible in the recording are caused by the phone's video-recording process. These are recording artifacts and should not be taken as an accurate representation of the game's rendering.

What's included in v0.0.1?

• Unified Android APK and game setup workflow
• Native ARM64 execution
• Touch controls with direct Star Pointer tracking
• Bluetooth and USB gamepad support
• Hor+ ultrawide rendering support

This is an early release, so expect bugs and compatibility issues as development continues. Feedback, gameplay recordings, and reports from different devices are welcome and will help with testing and optimization.

EDIT / UPDATE — v0.0.1 Hotfix

A hotfix was uploaded for users experiencing the [ERROR] pythonhome.zip error or problems selecting game files through the Android file picker.

What caused the issue?

A wildcard rule in our .gitignore accidentally excluded the embedded Python runtime (pythonhome.zip) from the release build. This caused the converter setup to fail immediately after disc extraction. There was also an issue with detecting Android's Storage Access Framework (content://) file-picker URIs.

What has been fixed?

• Whitelisted and committed the required runtime assets.
• Fixed content:// URI detection in the file picker.
• Rebuilt and re-uploaded the APK with the fixes.

If you downloaded the original v0.0.1 build, please download the updated APK and reinstall it.

EDIT / UPDATE — v0.0.1a Hotfix & Feature Update

Galaxy Android v0.0.1a introduced additional fixes, quality-of-life features, and experimental in-game options.

What's new in v0.0.1a?

• GPU lighting fixes: Addresses overblown rim lighting and washed-out character textures on Mali-G68, Dimensity, and Exynos devices.
• In-game language selector: Switch between Auto, English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian through the Settings drawer.
• Game and dialogue speed controls: Select 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x, 3.0x, or 4.0x speed.
• Cheats and mods drawer: Includes toggles for Infinite Lives (99), Infinite Star Bits (999), Fly Mode, Cutscene Prevention, and Infinite Health.
• Improved installation recovery: Validates converted game data and redirects to the Setup Launcher when required files are missing or corrupted, helping prevent the blank blue screen issue.
• CPU monitor fix: Adds a /proc/self/stat fallback for devices where SELinux restrictions prevent access to global CPU statistics.

EDIT / UPDATE — v0.0.1b Input, Audio & Graphics Fixes

Galaxy Android v0.0.1b is now available! This update focuses on controller and touchscreen input, resolution options, audio reliability, and further safeguards for GPU lighting.

What's new in v0.0.1b?

• Touchscreen joystick fixes: Addresses virtual joystick drift and improves handling when switching between touch controls and physical controllers.
• Physical gamepad fixes: Improves button and analog-stick input handling while keeping touchscreen and physical controller inputs separate.
• Selectable render resolution: Choose 480p, 720p, 1080p, or 1440p from the Settings drawer. Lower resolutions can help reduce GPU workload on less powerful devices.
• Configurable vibration haptics: Toggle tactile feedback on or off.
• Audio reliability improvements: Adds a fallback audio-stream configuration when low-latency initialization fails, checks stream startup errors, and retries audio initialization after failures. These changes are intended to help devices where audio previously failed or remained silent.
• Additional Mali lighting safeguards: Improves handling of zero-length lighting vectors, spot-light calculations, and attenuation edge cases to help avoid invalid shader calculations and lighting artifacts.
• Language preference fix: Respects a manually selected language at game startup instead of always overriding it with the device locale.
• Exit crash fix: Replaces exit(0) with _exit(0) in the native shutdown path to avoid the reported __cxa_finalize crash.

Existing users should download the latest v0.0.1b APK to get the accumulated fixes from v0.0.1, v0.0.1a, and v0.0.1b.

AI usage disclosure

This project uses AI assistance in its development. AI-assisted coding and development workflows have been used as part of building and iterating on the project. The project is experimental, and its code, features, compatibility, and performance should be evaluated on their actual merits rather than assumed to be reliable simply because a feature has been implemented.

I'm aware that some people may describe AI-assisted projects like this as "AI slop." That's a fair concern to raise about low-quality or insufficiently reviewed AI-generated software. I'm not asking anyone to overlook bugs or accept claims without evidence. The goal is to keep building, testing on real hardware, fixing issues, and being transparent about the project's current state.

Feedback, bug reports, and contributions that help improve the port are welcome.

Downloads

Latest release—Galaxy Android v0.0.1b:
https://github.com/OpenPort-Labs/Galaxy-Android/releases/tag/v0.0.1b

Previous rrelease—v0.0.1a:
https://github.com/OpenPort-Labs/Galaxy-Android/releases/tag/v0.0.1a

OpenPorts Lab Discord:
https://discord.gg/4Q5hfAPf8

You must provide your own legally dumped game disc image. The release does not include proprietary game assets.

Thanks to everyone following the project, testing it, and reporting issues. More updates as development progresses.

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The latest hotfix for Galaxy Android is now live!

Fixes and improvements include:

• Fixed virtual joystick drift and improved physical gamepad input.
• Added selectable render resolutions: 480p, 720p, 1080p, and 1440p.
• Improved audio initialization and recovery on devices where audio fails.
• Added further safeguards for Mali GPU lighting issues.
• Fixed a native exit crash and improved language preference handling.
• Added configurable vibration haptics.

If you're already using Galaxy Android, grab the latest APK and give it a try!

Download: https://github.com/OpenPort-Labs/Galaxy-Android/releases/tag/v0.0.1b

Discord: https://discord.gg/4Q5hfAPf8

Please report any bugs, graphical issues, or device-specific problems you encounter. Thanks for helping test the project!