Android to other OS loader for native games (GTA San and Max Payne)

[rohezal]

TL DR: Some crazy playstation vita hacker wrote wrappers for android games to let them run on other arm OSes. Maybe something which could be done for regular arm32 linux. The PS Vita uses a Quadcore Cortex A9.

This is a wrapper/port of the Android version of Max Payne Mobile. It loads the original game binary, patches it and runs it. This is probably not entirely stable yet, so expect issues.

GitHub - fgsfdsfgs/max_vita

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PSVita: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas port seeing significant progress - latest builds are free of graphical glitches and performance is getting better! - Wololo.net

As reported last week, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is being ported to the PlayStation Vita thanks to work by TheFlow and Rinnegatamante. Ever since then, a noticeable amount of progress has been made...

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Max Payne ported to the PSVita thanks to TheFlow and fgsfdsfgs - Also based on the Android port & can be downloaded! - Wololo.net

After porting GTA San Andreas to the Vita, it seems that TheFlow’s interested in porting more games to the console using Android versions which ought to expand its port library quite a bit! In...

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[ingoreis]

Interresting..we had some Android Wrapper on the Pandora too but worked too complicated.
And there was never realy an Update of this.
Newer Versions are online but i did not got them to compile on the Pandora:

GitHub - thp/apkenv: A compatibility layer for applications packaged as .apk. Can run certain Android games on non-Android Linux (glibc and others).

A compatibility layer for applications packaged as .apk. Can run certain Android games on non-Android Linux (glibc and others). - thp/apkenv

github.com

Maybe this will work on the Pyra too.

 

[levi]

Yes, I think on balance apkenv is likely to provide a running environment for android games and other apps than the OPs linked work. I mean, what the OP links to is impressive work, but there's no sign he's finished with the vita port, and no indication he's willing to being this to the moving target that is linux after he's done all of that.