Need for Speed: Most Wanted for R36S

An experimental compatibility port of the 2012 Android release of Need for Speed: Most Wanted for the R36S and ArkOS.

Public alpha: races are playable with working controls and sound effects. One pre-race car-selection action still requires a timing workaround. See Known issues before installing.

This repository contains only independently written compatibility code and PortMaster packaging. It does not contain the game, an APK, an OBB, extracted Android libraries, or other Electronic Arts assets.

• ×ばつ480 OpenGL ES 2 rendering on the Mali-G31
• High visual settings at an observed 48.84 FPS average
• Smooth analog steering and D-pad menu navigation
• Race, map, garage and modification-screen controls
• Sound effects through the FMOD/OpenSL-to-SDL audio bridge
• Career saves and multiple completed races
• Clean exit back to PortMaster

Soundtrack playback is disabled because the original Android decoder enters a retry loop on Linux and substantially reduces performance.

1. Download nfsmw-r36s-v0.1.0-alpha.zip.
2. Install it through PortMaster, or extract it at the root of the ROMs card.
3. Copy your legally obtained APK and OBB to ports/nfsmw/gamedata/.
4. Launch the port. First-run setup verifies the files and extracts the five required ARMv7 libraries locally.

Files from other releases and similarly named repacks are not compatible.

On the pre-race car-selection or purchase screen, use the workaround described in KNOWN_ISSUES.md. The following modifications screen works normally with D-pad and A.

The runtime maps the original Android ARMv7 libraries, provides the required Bionic and JNI compatibility surface, translates the Android soft-float ABI, and hosts graphics, controller and audio output through Linux/SDL.

To prepare a private local test directory from your own game files:

tools/extract_nfsmw.sh \
 /path/to/your-game.apk \
 /path/to/main.1003128.com.ea.games.nfs13_row.obb \
 gamefiles

Build the hard-float ARMv7 runtime with:

make -C runtime

Create the clean PortMaster archive with:

portmaster/build_port.sh

Further technical details are in PORTING_STATUS.md and research/abi-contract.md.

Reports and focused patches are welcome. The main controller blocker is tracked in issue #1. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting logs or code.

The compatibility code and packaging are available under the MIT License. The license does not cover Need for Speed, its code, data, artwork, audio, or trademarks. Those remain the property of their respective owners.